According to Registrar, Dr Nigel Gravesande “This symbolic Ceremony will coincide with the hosting of the inaugural Diaspora Engagement Conference which is being convened during the period July 23-28, 2017”. A reception at the recently opened lecture theatre on the campus will immediately follow the ceremony.
Professor Griffith Professor Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith was appointed the Tenth Principal and Vice Chancellor of The University of Guyana in June 2016, having served earlier as Executive-in-Residence at The University at Albany, State University of New York, and the Ninth President of Fort Valley State University in Georgia, where he led the right-sizing of the educational and economic enterprise, focusing on growing enrollment, enhancing the academic profile, controlling spending, launching Honors and Undergraduate Research programs, and initiating a feasibility study to establish a School of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation. A tenured professor of political science, he served from 2007 to 2013 provost and senior vice president at York College in New York where notable achievements included growing the full-time faculty by 30 percent, re-organizing Academic Affairs into Schools of Business and Information Systems, Arts & Sciences, and Health Sciences and Professional Programs, and enhancing research and scholarship by creating the Provost Lectures, the Distinguished Scholars Lectures, and the Undergraduate Research Program. He also established Discovery to celebrate and incentivize faculty excellence in research and service. Earlier, he was provost at Radford University in Virginia, budget dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida International University (FIU), and dean of The Honors College at FIU, all while holding his professorship. Turkeyen Campus, Greater Georgetown Tel #: 222-5402 Email: publicrelations@uog.edu.gy NEWS RELEASE A UG alumnus, he was the first person to graduate with distinction in political science. He also holds a Master of Arts from Long Island University, New York, and both a Master of Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Political Science from The City University of New York Graduate School. As well, he graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s program in educational leadership. An expert on Caribbean and hemispheric security, drugs and crime, he originated the concept called Geonarcotics in the early 1990s as a way to study the complex relationship involving drugs, geography, power and politics, outlining it first in Canada’s leading international affairs scholarly magazine: “From Cold War Geopolitics to Post-Cold War Geonarcotics," International Journal Vol. 49 (Winter) 1993-94, 1-36. Recipient of the 2015 William J. Perry Award for Excellence in Security and Defense Education named in honor of former United States Defense Secretary Dr. William J. Perry, he has published seven books, including Strategy and Security in the Caribbean (1991), the highly-acclaimed Drugs and Security in the Caribbean (1997, the research for which was funded by the MacArthur Foundation), The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean (2000), and Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror (2004). As well, he has published more than 50 academic and policy articles, and has been quoted in numerous media, including New York Times, Jamaican Gleaner, BBC World Service, Washington Post, Barbados Nation, and Miami Herald. Ivelaw has been a consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat (UK), USAID, Canada’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and other agencies, he has testified before the U.S. Congress on security issues, and in March 2016 he delivered the Spring 2016 Global Studies Lecture at Wenzhou-Kean University in China. Once a visiting scholar at the Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies in Washington, DC., the Royal Military College of Canada, and the George Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany, in 2012-2013 he was one of the 45 experts from across the Americas commissioned by the OAS Secretary General to review hemispheric drug policies and practices and offer anti-drug scenarios through 2025. A former President of the Caribbean Studies Association, Professor Griffith also has served on the Vestry of his church, St. George’s Episcopal Church in New York, and headed their Ambassador Program and Education Committee. He also was a trustee of the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning in New York, and a member of the Centerville Rotary Club in Georgia. He also led the academic component of Guyana’s Golden Jubilee independence celebrations, which held symposia in Georgetown and New York. He and his wife of almost three decades, Francille, a registered nurse, have two adult children. UG IN BRIEF With a current enrollment of some 8,000 students, The University of Guyana (UG) has graduated more than 20,000 students who have gone on to successful careers locally, regionally and internationally. The University is also a major contributor to the national economy and to business and industry. Established in 1963 on a part-time basis with shared space at Queens College, UG moved to its own campus at Turkeyen in 1970 and expanded in 2000 with the addition of the Tain Campus. It now offers more than 60 Undergraduate and Post-graduate Programmes including Engineering, Environmental Studies, Forestry, Urban Planning and Management, Tourism Studies, Education, Creative Arts, Economics, Law, Medicine, Optometry and Nursing. Several online programmes are available and The UG also offers extra-mural classes at four locations through its Institute of Distance and Continuing Education (IDCE). The UG also offers the opportunity for student engagement in debating, sports, and cultural, religious and professional activities.
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