Edna Manley College Visual and Performing Arts
Edna Manley College Visual and Performing Arts
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.
Chairman
Vice Chairman
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.
The Edna Manley College is committed to the following as an essential part of its purpose as an institution of higher learning:
We value diversity as part of our commitment to academic and aesthetic freedom and respect diverse opinions among faculty, staff and students
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
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.
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.
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.
We value partnership as an important condition for stakeholders’ participation and seek to forge alliances to facilitate the development and progress of the College.
We value lifelong learning as a basic philosophy of self-renewal, scholarship and institutional growth and seek to encourage this as essential for all.
We value personal and institutional integrity, and are committed to consistent, justifiable moral and ethical principles.
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.
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.
