The Vision and Fortitude programme is the brainchild of the Principal of The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles and was initiated in September 2006 as a means of enhancing the holistic approach to education. It focuses on student empowerment and its overall aim is to help students develop life skills to facilitate their personal success. This programme seeks to administer to the mental, emotional and spiritual needs of students and to reach out to the wider community.

It is intended to help students begin to explore their value system, personal resourcefulness and to examine how these values either facilitate or militate against their success.  Vision and Fortitude is also intended to help students develop more functional ways of creating personal success and taking personal responsibility for their growth and development.

• One’s Purpose in Life
• Civic Responsibility
• Perseverance and Success
• Resiliency
• Vision and Fortitude
• Integrity
• Service

Students will be encouraged to express their thoughts and feelings through open discussions and the arts; such as poetry and music, and other art forms.

Students will begin to:

• Reflect on and explore their purpose in life
• Cultivate a sense of civic responsibility
• Better understand ways in which they could take responsibility for their own success
• Cultivate a mind set of success
• Tap into their personal resourcefulness
• Appreciate, build and maintain their resiliency
• Embrace and proactively meet personal challenges
• Develop a mindset of perseverance in time of adversity