Core Values

• The University of the West Indies cherishes and is determined to preserve its core value system which has been moulded by generations of staff and students for more than 50 years.

  This value system is characterized by the following strongly held ideals:

  • Maintaining a commitment to the pursuit of excellence
  • Assisting students to develop a capacity for independent thought and critical analysis
  • Stimulating self-awareness and social awareness
  • Nurturing a keen sense of individual and social responsibility
  • Building respect for cultural diversity and the rule of law
  • Promoting Caribbean identity and sovereignty, together with the development and protection of nationhood
  • Cultivating multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration
  • Preserving a climate of intellectual freedom
  • Engendering in students a commitment to personal growth
  • Fostering ethical values, attitudes and approaches
  • Encouraging community service and involvement and dedication to development of the region