DIRECTORS
Sir Phillip Sherlock
“ The principal motive for attendance by students at... (adult education) courses is to acquire knowledge and develop independence of thought and judgement, with a view to equipping themselves to play a responsible part in the life of their community .”
1947: Sir Phillip Sherlock , the First Director of the School of Continuing Studies (then known as the Department of Extra-Mural Studies) in a 1947 report to the University Senate on the School's principal policy. The Department of Extra-Mural Studies was thus officially activated in 1947 with a report to the University College of the West Indies (as the UWI was then known) by the newly-appointed Director, Dr. Philip Sherlock . Sir Philip later went on to become the Vice-Chancellor of the UWI and was knighted in 1967 (KBE).
1958: Dr. Rawle Farley acted as Director of the Department from 1958 until 1960.
1960 : The University of Leeds kindly agreed to allow Professor S.G. Raybould , Professor of Adult Education and Director of Extra -Mural Studies, to act as Director from October 1960 to June 1961.
1961 : On 1 st July, 1961, Mr. Hector L. Wynter, formerly Senior Assistant Registrar and a former Resident Tutor, took up duties as Director.
1963 : Senator H.L. Wynter left Jamaica on 1 st July, 1963, to undertake duties as High Commissioner for Jamaica in Trinidad & Tobago. During his absence, Mr. Gladstone E. Mills of the Department of Government acted as Director.
1964: Mr. A. A. Thompson was appointed to act as Director on 1 st May 1964.
1965: Mr. Hugh Miller was appointed Director of the Department from 1 st July 1965 to 1967 with Mr. Thompson as Deputy Director.
1968: Professor Emeritus, the Hon. Rex Nettleford was appointed as Acting Director for 1968-70 and was confirmed as Director of the Department in February 1971. He stayed in this position for 26 years until he was appointed Deputy Vice -Chancellor in 1996. During his tenure as Director, Professor Nettleford lobbied for the official change of name form the Department of Extra-Mural Studies, to the School of Continuing Studies (SCS) in academic year 1989-90 to respond to the changing needs of the region. Professor Nettleford was Vice-Chancellor of the UWI from 1997-2004.
1996: Professor Lawrence Carrington was appointed as Director of the School of Continuing Studies on 1 st September 1996. Professor Carrington holds a personal professorship in Creole Linguistics and served formerly in the Faculty of Education at the St. Augustine Campus.
RESIDENT TUTORS
Resident Tutors were appointed by the Department in many of the independent and non-independent countries of the Caribbean, including Anguilla , Barbados , British Virgin Islands, British Guiana , Dominica , Grenada , Jamaica , Montserrat, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Vincent & the Grenadines , and Trinidad & Tobago. In 1963-64, British Guiana withdrew as a contributing government to the UWI, and as a consequence, closed the Extra-Mural office in that country.
Resident Tutors in the Eastern Caribbean & Belize
1960: Dr. B.A. Collins – Resident Tutor, British Guiana
Mr. Vernon Leslie – Resident Tutor, British Honduras
Miss Ruby Samlalsingh , Resident Tutor, Trinidad & Tobago
196i: Mr. John Brown , Resident Tutor in the Leewards since January 1960, was transferred to St. Luica to be Resident Tutor for St. Lucia/Dominica as from August 1 st , 1961.
1961: Mr. Victor Archer of St. Lucia was appointed Resident Tutor in Barbados from August 1 st 1961 in place of Mr. A.A> Thompson who took up duties as Resuident Tutor , Jamaica .
1961 : Ms. Margaret Blundell , Resident Tutor for Grenada/St. Lucia since August 1960, took over duties as Resident Tutor for Grenada/St. Vincent to replace Mr. James Millotte who went to take up a post-graduate scholarship in London .
1962: Mr. Leonard Shorey was appointed resident Tutor for the Leeward Islands from March, 1962.
Dr. Elizabeth Muller was seconded from the Department of Education as Resident Tutor in Dominica from August 1962.
Resident Tutors in Jamaica
1948 : Mrs. Gloria Cumper was appointed in Jamaica as the first Resident Tutor of the Extra-Mural Department of the UWI.
1961: Professor Rex Nettleford was appointed Staff Tutor in Government on August 1, 1961 after being Resident Tutor for Jamaica since 1959.
1960: Mr. A. A. Thompson was Resident Tutor in 1960.
1962: Mr. John Hearne was appointed acting Resident Tutor for Jamaica from 1 st September 1962 to 1964. He was Resident Tutor from 1964 until 1966 when he went on secondment to Leeds University as a visiting Professor in Commonwealth Literature for January to June 1967.
1967: Mr. Hopeton Gordon was Resident Tutor from 1967 to 1974.
1974: Professor Aggrey Brown was appointed Resident Tutor designate for the Eastern Division of Jamaica and assumed full duties as Resident Tutor on July 1, 1974.
1977: Mr. Kenneth Carter was appointed Resident Tutor Jamaica (Eastern) in 1979 after acting in the position since 1977.
Resident Tutors in Jamaica (Western)
During the academic year August 1, 1970 to July 31, 1971, the University's Extra-Mural programme in Jamaica was further expanded by the appointment of a Resident Tutor for the Western area and the re-activation of a Centre at Montego Bay after a lapse of three years.
1970: Miss Norma Segre , the former acting Resident Tutor for Antigua & Barbuda, was appointed the Resident Tutor for Jamaica (Western Division) in October, 1970. She was a Member, of the Board of Governors, YWCA, Montego Bay; and the Council of Voluntary Social Services, Montego Bay . Miss Segre was Resident Tutor until 1975.
1975: Dr. Elizabeth Muller assumed duties as Resident Tutor (Jamaica Western) on May 1, 1975. She was Secretary of the Ministers' Fraternal of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce; Chairman of the PTA of the Montessori School , Montego Bay; Member of the Board of the Berean Christian Schools and Orphanage; Secretary for Committee and Member of the Board of the SOS Children's Village (International), Jamaica Branch.
1980: Mr. Ken Carter , then Acting Resident Tutor of Jamaica (Eastern), also supervised the Department's administrative and programme operations in Jamaica (Western), after Dr. Elizabeth Muller went on pre-retirement leave in November 1980. Mr. Carter restructured the programmes at the Centre and introduced some new ones. He was the principal lecturer in the Centre's Management Development Programme, and also introduced a series of public lectures on Work Attitudes, the Economy and Production. During his time supervising Montego Bay from 1981-90, Mr. Carter successfully carried out a public relations effort to dispel the common perception in the Montego Bay community that the Extra-Mural Centre was a "Communist spawning ground". Skill development relating to tourism and its offshoots were emphasised in Montego Bay and its environs. At the end of his tenure of supervising the Western Region of Jamaica for the Department, Mr. Carter made a donation of books valued at over J$200,000 to the Montego Bay Centre
1990: Miss Curdella Forbes assumed duties as Resident Tutor Jamaica (Western) at the start of the 1990-91 academic year. The SCS began to streamline its offerings at the Centre to cater primarily to the business and professional communities.
1995: Miss Vilma Clarke was appointed acting Resident Tutor in 1995-96 replacing Miss Forbes, who was seconded to the Department of Literatures in English on the Mona Campus. Miss Clarke was appointed as Resident Tutor, Western Jamaica during academic year 1996-97. In Montego Bay, Miss Clarke is a member of the Scholarship Committee of the Montego Bay Community College ; Tutor at the Assemblies of God Extension Bible School; Member, International Third World Leaders Association; Member, American Society for Training & Development (ASTD); Member, Jamaican Council for Adult Education; and Member, Association of Caribbean Higher Education Administrators.
STAFF TUTORS
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