VICE-CHANCELLOR of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Rex Nettleford will be honoured by the University of the West Indies, Mona campus and its alumni during the institution's annual commemoration celebrations and Alumni Week to be held over the period February 13 21, 2004 at Mona.
The annual celebrations commemorate the founding of the institution and are usually dedicated to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the institution.
Professor Nettleford is being recognised for his contribution to cultural development, his overall contribution to the growth and development of the UWI, his pioneering work as an educator and in particular, for his outstanding intellectual leadership at the international level which led to his being one of only four Rhodes Scholars from among thousands worldwide to be awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Laws by Oxford University, in celebration of the centenary of the establishment of the Rhodes Scholarship.
He joins other honourees who include former Vice-Chancellors Sir Philip Sherlock and Dr. Aston Preston as well as former Head of the Department of Social & Preventive Medicine (now Community Health and Psychiatry) and Community Health pioneer, Professor Sir Kenneth Standard.
