LEO-RHYNIE
PRO VICE CHANCELLOR of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Elsa Leo-Rhynie, is being tipped to replace Professor Kenneth Hall as principal of the institution.
Professor Hall, who has served as principal of the UWI since October 1996, is to be sworn in as the country's fifth Governor-General on February 15.
The Gleaner understands that current Deputy Principal Joseph Pereira was also being considered. It is understood that a high-level meeting was held among university officials last Friday to identify a successor to Professor Hall.
Professor Elsa Leo-Rhynie is an accomplished scholar and authority on gender studies and education. She was appointed pro vice chancellor for under-graduate studies in August 2002. She had previously served as deputy principal of the Mona campus.
In 1977, she lectured in the Faculty of Education at the UWI and between 1987 and 1992 she was executive director of the then Institute of Management and Production.
From 1992 to 1996 Professor Leo-Rhynie was the regional co-ordinator of the UWI's Centre for Gender and Development Studies.
