The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) St. Au­gus­tine Cam­pus re­sumed op­er­a­tions to­day, 3rd Jan­u­ary 2022, al­beit in vir­tu­al mode, fol­low­ing its usu­al end-of-year clo­sure pe­ri­od from De­cem­ber 24th to Jan­u­ary 2nd.

In an In­ter­nal Com­mu­nique shared to staff and stu­dents to­day, Pro Vice-Chan­cel­lor and Cam­pus Prin­ci­pal Pro­fes­sor Bri­an Copeland con­firmed that cam­pus op­er­a­tions for Se­mes­ter 2 of aca­d­e­m­ic year 2021/22, “will look quite sim­i­lar to the last se­mes­ter as the in­sti­tu­tion will con­tin­ue to op­er­ate in a large­ly vir­tu­al mode.”

“Class­es will con­tin­ue to be de­liv­ered on­line for stu­dents and be the de­fault arrange­ment through­out the se­mes­ter,” the UWI St Au­gus­tine Prin­ci­pal con­firmed in the com­mu­nique, “and for staff, ex­ist­ing arrange­ments from last se­mes­ter will con­tin­ue to 31 Jan­u­ary 2022, in the first in­stance.”

Re­gard­ing ex­am­i­na­tions, Pro­fes­sor Copeland con­firmed that se­lect­ed in-per­son ex­am­i­na­tions, in ef­fect over the last se­mes­ter, al­so will con­tin­ue. 

Pro­fes­sor Copeland en­cour­aged the cam­pus com­mu­ni­ty to get vac­ci­nat­ed.

“If you have not done so, I en­cour­age you once again to get vac­ci­nat­ed and in­spire your friends and fam­i­ly to do the same. We know that vac­ci­na­tion, boost­ers, and mask­ing are the strongest de­fence against the virus and the most re­spon­si­ble way to pro­tect every­one in our com­mu­ni­ty,” he said, as he thanked staff and stu­dents for their con­tin­ued pa­tience in these un­cer­tain times.