Edna Manley College Visual and Performing Arts

Board of Management

Overview

The College Board of Directors comprises fifteen members appointed by the Minister of Education and is mandated to function in accordance to the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts Scheme Order of 2004 – section 3.1. The Chairman is appointed by the Minister of Education to serve for a period of three years but may be re-appointed to the position for a second term.

The standing committees of the Board are:

  • Executive Committee
  • Academic Board
  • Finance and Investment
  • Appointments, Promotions, Policies and Procedures Committee
  • Assets and Property

Our Board Members

Deiwght Peters

Chairman

Donahue Martin

Vice Chairman

Beverly Williamson

Vintoria Bernard

Ann Dawn Young Sang

Michael Bonnick

Victor Henry

Vaughn McDonald

Dr Tamika Benjamin

Professor Shermaine Barrett

Dr Orville Beckford

Christene Coote

DorrettRCampbell

Claudia Woon Chin

Dorraine Reid

Mission

To enrich the aesthetic sensibilities and promote the cultural diversity of the Caribbean through the highest quality education and training in the Visual and Performing Arts.

Vision

Our Core Values

The Edna Manley College is committed to the following as an essential part of its purpose as an institution of higher learning:

  • Diversity

    We value diversity as part of our commitment to academic and aesthetic freedom and respect diverse opinions among faculty, staff and students

  • Service

    We value service as a divine gift to humanity and seek to make it a natural part of our duty to offer the highest quality to all our clients

  • Innovation

    We value innovation as the key to original thoughts and seek to bring new and innovative ideas to enhance the work of the College, as well as to create new knowledge in the visual and performing arts.

  • Transparency

    We value transparency as essential to open and accountable governance by seeking to operate in an egalitarian environment that involves all stakeholders in our decision-making.

  • Commitment

    We value commitment as vital to institutional and administrative loyalty and pledge to be committed to the ideals, mission and objectives of the College, as well as to the services in which we are engaged.

  • Partnership

    We value partnership as an important condition for stakeholders’ participation and seek to forge alliances to facilitate the development and progress of the College.

  • Lifelong Learning

    We value lifelong learning as a basic philosophy of self-renewal, scholarship and institutional growth and seek to encourage this as essential for all.

  • Integrity & Ethics

    We value personal and institutional integrity, and are committed to consistent, justifiable moral and ethical principles.

  • Truth

    We value truth as the fundamental gateway to enlightenment and human dignity, and seek to express this in our lives and imparting it to others.

  • Respect

    We value respect for self, others and the environment as a critical self-defining element, and a source for building and maintaining good relationships and achieving success, and seek to exercise this at all times.

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