The University of the West Indies (The UWI) and the University of Miami (UM) have teamed up as partners within in a Hemispheric University Consortium (HUC).
The second meeting of the Consortium was held at The UWI’s Regional Headquarters in Jamaica, in October and co-chaired by Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles and Dr Julio Frenk, President of the University of Miami.
A year ago, Frenk reached out to Beckles — among other University presidents — with a visionary idea for the Consortium and since then the two have been working steadfastly to bring the project to maturity. Details of the Consortium’s governance were ironed out and agreed to in a Memorandum of understanding (MOU), signed during the meeting.
The HUC comprises 14 universities across Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States.
Partnerships such as this Consortium are imperative to tackle some of the hemisphere’s most pressing problems, such as public health, climate change, sustainability and resilience issues.
HUC Member universities are pursuing a higher level of integration and, with a spirit of co-operation, have agreed to share knowledge, discovery, and understanding.
