Day 5: University of Belize

Another full, but exciting day!





Vision Statement



Mission Statement

We started the day at the University of Belize.  We met with Cynthia, the Assistant Provost, Sharon, Student Services Coordinator, and Ethel with Quality Assurance.  The majority of this meeting was spent with the three administrators identifying challenges they are encountering and areas that we could possibly be of assistance.  A couple of the key ideas that came out are:  non-academic policies of the student handbook need to be revamped and/or rewritten, substance abuse, course evaluations, continuing education course development and sustainability.  Cynthia is going to send us the current student handbook to review and we discussed many options for course evaluation. They have updated academic policies but the non-academic policies have not been revamped.  Some of the policies they want revisited does not seem to be policies they really want to address.  They spoke of alcohol and embezzlement issues.  They take a learning experience approach to discipline but at the same time seem very hesitant to enforce or maybe even how to enforce policies that are in place.  Hopefully, we will be able to help them out in some manner. 

After we left the University of Belize, we had lunch at Amigo's.  I was so happy!! Fresh brewed iced tea!!

The Belize Zoo was our next stop.  The zoo was interesting in that only animals indigenous to Belize.  I am so grateful for the couple days we have had to learn about the culture of Belize.

 


National Animal



 

 


National Bird