The UWI, SUNY Launch Center for Leadership and Sustainable Development
The University of the West Indies (The UWI) and The State University of New York (SUNY) have launched the SUNY UWI Center for Leadership and Sustainable Development on September 20, 2016 at the SUNY Global Center in New York. The Center will build on areas identified in previous UWI-SUNYanalyses while also including research relevant to democratic participation, leadership, and governance, with a focus on solutions to specific problems constraining the achievement of the United Nation’s sustainable development goals, and also focus on serving groups that have faced barriers to equal opportunities.
Standing left to right, are: SUNY Empire State College President Merodie A. Hancock, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The UWI Open Campus, Dr Luz Longsworth, SUNY Board of Trustees Chairman H. Carl McCall, UWI Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, SUNY Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Alexander N. Cartwright and UWI Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Affairs Richard Bernal.