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<h3>PROF. PALOMA MOHAMED MARTIN<br />
<em><small>PhD, MS AA</small></em></h3>

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<p>Paloma Mohamed is a Ph. D and full Professor of strategic behavior and communications at the University of Guyana. She has also been an adjunct Professor of Cultural Diplomatics at Trent University. She is currently the eleventh Vice Chancellor and first woman to lead the University in its 60-year history. She is also the first women Vice Chancellor to be appointed in the Anglophone-Caribbean. Before becoming Vice Chancellor, Prof Mohamed led the University of Guyana’s Transitional Management Committee as its 2 nd Chair from Aug 2019 to July 2020 carefully and successfully shepherding the University through one of its most challenging periods. She has been Deputy Vice Chancellor for Philanthropy, Alumni and Civic Engagement known as PACE, a department which she founded and developed from 2016 to present.</p>

<p>A scholar with an international footprint, Prof Mohamed returned to Guyana in 2007 to help resuscitate her undergraduate alma mater the then failing Centre for Communication Studies. Despite being poised for an international career, she remained with the University of Guyana becoming the first Director of the Centre for Communication Studies, second female Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, first Deputy Vice Chancellor for PACE and Chair of the TMC.</p>

<p>In committing to UG becoming a regionally relevant top ranking international University for the past 15 years, she has brought her special capabilities and network as a world class academic and researcher to the University while still managing to function as a beloved and inspirational teacher as well as a dedicated and courageous servant leader.</p>

<p>As an academic Prof. Mohamed has studied at the University of Guyana, The University of the West Indies, Harvard University (HIES) and CAMH in Canada. Her area of focus is on strategy and change and she is a specialist in human behavior and human communications. She supervised scores of graduate research theses, produced over 20 Ph.Ds., produced and co-produced over 22 films and documentaries.</p>

<p>She has also written and edited 11 books and several academic journal papers including the noteworthy book “Communication, Power and Change in the Caribbean” and “Guyana’s Oil Odessey- 1796 -2022”. She is the current Chair of the Research Advisory Board (RAC) of the Caribbean Examinations Council and a member of the governing Board of the Commonwealth of Learning. Additionally, Prof. Paloma Mohamed Martin has served pro bono on several local and international boards including for the IADB and UNESCO to name a few. She has also served in a technical advisory capacity to various governments and international organizations as a communications strategist and change specialist. She currently serves on CXC’s governing Council, and on several high level Caricom Committees such as COSOD and CREE.</p>

<p>Prof Paloma Mohamed has worked on several multi-million-dollar multi-university research projects. Additionally, as Vice Chancellor and former Deputy Vice Chancellor, she has been highly successful in raising over US$45 million over the last 8 years for the University of Guyana in philanthropic gifts and grants, having developed specialties in dealing with Energy issues, negotiating large financial projects and collaborating with multi-national organizations.</p>

<p>She has also been successful internationally in supporting the creation of 4 international alumni chapters in Toronto, London, New York and Guyana as well as the internationally based University of Guyana Foundation with operations in Washington D.C, Toronto and London.</p>

<p>Before becoming Vice Chancellor XI, Prof. Paloma Mohamed was awarded a Presidential Medal of Service in 2012 and the City of New York Award for Culture in 2013. She became the first woman Caribbean Laureate for Excellence in Arts and Letters in 2015 and was again recognized with a National Arrow of Achievement in May 2015. In 2014 she was named one of Guyana’s top 5 most influential women by the United States Embassy in Guyana.</p>

<p>During the past 5 years (2019 to 2023), Prof. Paloma has collaborated and led an amazing team of the University’s top administrators through one of the most delicate and turbulent periods in its recent history. Under her steady, visionary and people sensitive leadership the University has moved several hundred places in regional and international ranking and has been enjoying a growing positive regional and international profile benefitting the University, Guyana and the institutions graduates, partners and associates.</p>

<p>Prof. Mohamed has taught and still occasionally teaches Communication, Health behavior, psychology as well as research and academic ethics.</p>

<p>She has been the visionary and driving force behind the University’s rapid innovations during Covid19 and for the University’s BluePrint 2040 – which is set to leapfrog the University into a future driven citizen success dynamo. The short period of her tenure has seen the University change rapidly and significantly from being a fully face to face University to a blended one, regaining accreditation and registration in some areas and rising in world ranking 200 places, being named #5 in the world for places to study climate and the environment, growing student numbers by over 700 students a year since 2019 , increasing the number of pedigreed Faculty while balancing the University budgets, avoiding fiscal deficits despite enormous challenges , and boosting UG’s policy and research capacity three-hundred fold with the addition of 6 new research institutes in Energy, Green Economics, Resilience and Strategic Security, Migration and Diaspora and Marine Studies. Under her leadership the University was able to support these programmed through 3 funded research chairs.</p>

<p>Prof Paloma is becoming a respected Caribbean Futurist thinker who is meaningfully inflecting the growing global conversation on the future of higher education, work and humanity on this planet.</p>

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<h3>Commencement Message for the Academic Year 2020-2021</h3>

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<p>Our dear new students joining the University community this academic year, continuing students from previous years, new faculty and staff as well as those who are continuing this journey, I bid you all welcome to the commencement of academic year 2020-2021.</p>

<p>I do this on behalf of the 10, 000 plus students and 1000 staff of the University of Guyana, and our more than 40,000 alumni all over this planet. I do this on behalf of the University’s Chancellor, Pro Chancellor, and Council members and the scores of partners and well-wishers of the University across Guyana and the world who are all contributing to and rooting for your success.</p>

<p>Students, today will mark the beginning of one of the most significant journeys of your adult life, one which you would have worked tirelessly to embark upon. No doubt it will change your life, your life’s trajectory, and your life’s chances ...we plan to work with you to ensure that these changes are for the better.</p>

<p>A University education makes a difference. Studies worldwide indicate that a University education is one of the best indicators of future economic and social mobility not only for the graduate but also for their families. This is why, as part of UG’s Blueprint2020, our first aspirational goal is ensuring at least 1 graduate per household by the year 2040.</p>

<p>Getting into University is a competitive process anywhere in the world; it is no different in Guyana. Therefore, we wish to encourage you to take every opportunity that this journey provides for it is undoubtedly a privilege to be amongst the top 10% of this year’s graduates from feeder institutions across Guyana who have made it into the University.</p>

<p>We are commencing this academic year in a way that none of us would have envisaged or could have wanted to imagine last year. It is a fateful, challenging, and completely unpredictable time. It is also a clarifying and telling moment in which we can reflect upon what is important individually, as a country, and as a planet. It is also a moment in which human resiliency and courage shine brightly. This is a time in which the University of Guyana has stood up and fulfilled its national mandate. Whether we sprinted, jogged, or dragged ourselves forward to do so, we have valiantly - as a community, brought about this commencement. If you are new to University life you may not yet realize just how much work and how many people and complex processes it takes to make the teaching possible. Hopefully, you will avail yourself to learning about this so that you might be led to a nuanced understanding of your alma mater.</p>

<p>For all they do and for this commencement in particular, I wish to thank all the men and women of this University from the Vice Chancellery to the guards and custodial staff who keep us safe and clean. I wish to especially thank PACE and DECC, the Registrar and Registry Staff, CoETAL, TOSS, EDOSS, the Deans, Heads and lecturers, Librarian and Library staff, and support staff in personnel and the Bursary for the countless extra hours spent re-designing and putting systems and courses online in the shortest possible time. I wish to thank the University Chancellor, Pro Chancellor, and Council for hours spent deliberating over policy decisions which were necessary in this year. To the MOE – MoF of the GoG for their guidance and support. To the Senior Management Team (SMT) thank you and special thanks to DVCs Dr Emanuel Cummings and Dr Mellissa Ifill who, though they have only been on the job for two months have been exceptional in their diligent attention paid to the needs of this commencement. Also, special thanks to the 17 students from UGSS and other student clubs on campus who have worked on a help desk to support students through this process.</p>

<p>However, let me return to you the students, the reason why this great institution was established 57 years ago, even before Guyana became independent and long before many of us were born. The founders envisaged a sophisticated, well-educated, and socially proficient human emerging from this University. We intend to work with you to fulfill that mission. And just so we are pellucid and clear – your mission is to succeed in realizing your own personal goals and potential.</p>

<p>The University itself is in a state of transition and change like the country and many other parts of the world. You are all part of those beginnings to perfect our systems, redefine our priorities, design for the future, manage for the present, and account for the past. A main pillar of this change is student and staff success and satisfaction. To do this, we aim to improve the standard of service, delivery, and support in every one of our systems and departments. This is why, the second of our five aspirational goals is to make UG the choice place to work and study in the near future.</p>

<p>Further, while we know that some cultures are difficult to change, we also appreciate that it is not impossible if we have the will, context, and good reason. Covid-19 has demonstrated that accelerated change and adaptation are completely possible.</p>

<p>So, reach out in a respectful manner if there is anything you need to support you on this path to evolving to your better selves. We know each of us faces varied personal and professional realties and so we urge you to take advantage of the many services and opportunities available at UG -, from our counselling and psychological support services, free human relations courses, conferences and seminars, research projects, work on campus, cultural and other clubs, local, national and international work and study opportunities, as you savor University life, find time to make friends, develop and test ideas, create your chosen family, find your voice, your talent, your purpose, and your path. That future of possibilities commences today. Welcome and welcome back, we thank you for entrusting your higher education to UG. May we all be blessed to overcome all challenges and to succeed. Here’s to one Guyana and one UG!</p>

<p>Prof. Paloma Mohamed Martin, PhD<br />
Vice Chancellor, Xi<br />
The University of Guyana<br />
October 25, 2020</p>
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