Exhibitions

The UWI Museum offers a semi-permanent exhibition relating to the UWI’s history and development; generally alongside a smaller featured cameo exhibition, up for a time, focused on an area, person or theme that is directly or indirectly related to the UWI in some way.

NW Manley & the UCWI: 'Our child and father to be...'

N.W. Manley described the nascent UWI as “our child and father to be” in 1950. His interest in the university was extolled in a tribute after he died in 1969, the same year he had been listed to receive an honorary degree. In 2013, 120 years after his birth and 44 years after his death, the UWI Museum acquired a plaster bust of Manley by master sculptor Alvin Marriott which became the centre of a cameo exhibition at the UWI Museum in July 2013.

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Cave Hill @ 50

In 50 years of existence, the Cave Hill campus of the UWI made huge strides: from 118 students to more than 8,690; from four full time faculty members to 221; from two active programmes to 302 that sought to meet a range of development needs. UWI Senate records show a request from the Barbados government, then not yet independent, for an Evening Institute to meet the need of adult learners. The bound volume is held in the University Archives.

A Great Day for All

Graduation Season at the four campuses of the University of the West Indies marks the university's recognition and celebration of the academic achievements of its graduates who have satisfied the requirements for Certificates, Licentiates, Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees. As part of the celebrations and in accordance with time-honoured academic traditions, academic dress is worn at all the ceremonies for the Presentation of Graduates.

CONFRONTATIONS – UWI Student Protest & the Rodney Disturbance of 1968

The exhibition offered a timeline of significant instances of protest among students of the University of the West Indies from 1960 to 2015; with a specific focus on events of October 1968 when a government ban on UWI lecturer Dr Walter Rodney sparked a student march which morphed into a riot involving a wide range of dispossessed Jamaicans and criminal elements.

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