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7/3/2020

Celebrating Paloma Mohamed Martin: 11th Vice Chancellor of University of Guyana

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​This week GOFAD shines its light on Professor  Paloma Mohamed Martin and offer warmest congratulations  on her recent appointment as the 11th Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana. The new Vice Chancellor brings to the position some spectacular attributes as an academic and a proponent of the dynamics of  the arts and culture of the Caribbean. She was educated at the University of Guyana, Harvard and the University of the West Indies and has published extensively in the fields of social and behavioral change, communications strategy, and education policy and practice. Her 11 books and numerous  articles in academic journals in addition to a wide range of children’s books and collections of poetry fully demonstrate her  talents and productivity.  What is more, she comes to the position with a  highly rated reputation of academic leadership at the University of Guyana:  as Director of the Centre of Communications Studies,  Dean of the Faculty of Social  Sciences, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Philanthropy, Alumni and Civic Engagement  and over the past year, Chair of UG’s  Transitional Management Team. She is also Adjunct Professor of Cultural Diplomatics at Trent University, Canada.
 
Professor Mohamed Martin has also made significant contributions to the film and theatre industries, especially in Guyana, but also in the Caribbean region and the Diaspora.  Her playwriting prowess and theatre productions are highly acclaimed.  They include such recognition as a three-time winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature, the City of New York Award for Culture in 2013 and the first woman Caribbean Laurette  for Excellence in the Arts and Letters in 2015.
 
 
GOFAD is grateful the ANSA Caribbean Awards for Excellence Committee for allowing us to  use its video biography to provide a glimpse of the abounding creative talent of UG’s first woman Vice Chancellor.

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Hermayne Gordon
7/3/2020 09:52:33 am

Heartiest congratulations to Dr. Paloma Mohamed Martin undoubtedly a great choice for the next Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana and the first woman chosen to serve in this role!

Reading about her accomplishments is another reminder to me as a Guyanese living in the diaspora how much I don't know about the achievements of many of my fellow Guyanese. I must do better at keeping up with many like Dr. Mohamed Martin, who continue to contribute to the richness of life in Guyana and the Caribbean.

I salute the committee who worked on choosing the new Vice Chancellor for a job well done. I am confident that the University of Guyana will thrive under her day-to-day leadership as well as the leadership of our intrepid Chancellor, Dr. Edward Greene.

I am grateful to GOFAD for bringing this information to readers. Thank you, Eddie.

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Jaipaul Singh
7/4/2020 04:22:38 am

Congratulation to Paloma, the first Woman to hold the position of Vice Chancellor at UK. As a candidate like you for the job, I strongly feel that you deserve it. You are young, talented, knowing the general running of the University, understanding the friendly student and staff and others, you will be there for more than a decade just like Professor Earp, Professor Denis Ervine and Professor Denis Craig, three stalwarts of UG.
Hope I can join you in any way helping at least to build the graduate school and to raise funding for UG with my 54 years in academia.
Wish you Paloma, the best. Just keep your stress level at low at all time and do not forget to spend precious time with your family.
Prof Jai

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Winston Anderson
7/4/2020 04:48:31 am

Fabulous! Congrats!!!

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Elsie Croal
7/4/2020 06:03:48 am

Thanks for this. I remember Paloma as a young woman involved in the Arts but I had no idea that she has done so much!

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Lucien Govaard
7/4/2020 07:57:42 am

Congratulations on the appointment of Dr. Paloma Mohamed Martin, whom I met during the Justice for All Programme years ago (2013/2014).

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Carol Jacobs
7/8/2020 01:30:37 pm

Thank you for sharing this. What an impressive lady.
I can see that she will add new dimensions to the post of Vice Chancellor.
I am sure that you couldn’t ask for a greater partner in your journey as Chancellor.

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Meshink link
8/13/2021 07:32:20 am

I admire your unique way of writing especially the style of using the idioms and phrases which is mind-blowing. I hope you will not mind if I adopt this style of your. Many thanks.

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