UG signs agreement with Ohio University for further collaboration

The University of Guyana Centre for Communication Studies (UGCCS) and Ohio University Scripps College of Communication on Friday signed an activity agreement to build on their existing relations.
CCS Director Carolyn Walcott said the partnership is significant as it takes the relationship the UGCCS enjoys with Ohio University to a new level.

“About three or four years ago, the University of Guyana Centre for Communication Studies signed a three-year agreement with the Ohio University for the strengthening of journalism and mass communication in Guyana. That was a very successful project and we have since enlarged or expanded our relations with OU to include partnership or relationships so to speak with other faculties at Ohio University.”
Ohio University School of Media Arts and Studies, Professor Emeritus Dr Vibert Cambridge said the agreement forms a new phase of relationships between the two universities.
“This agreement speaks to human resource development in terms of organising a special doctoral programme, a special PhD programme for members for the Centre for Communication Studies and the Faculty of Social Sciences at UG, special masters’ programme, it speaks to arrangements in curriculum development and it speaks to opportunity for faculty and student mobility,” he explained.
The model agreement is expected to be instituted in other faculties at UG, as the relationships develop. He noted that colleagues from the College of Fine Arts at Ohio University are currently in conversation with their counterparts in the Faculty of Education and Humanities and the medical school. As such, UG anticipates intensified relationships throughout this year.
Meanwhile, UG Vice Chancellor Dr Jacob Opadeyi said since being appointed to his current position, he has been looking forward to such opportunities.
“In July… I will be visiting Ohio University to sign the head agreement that will fully link the two universities in all the faculties and all departments,” he said.
“Following this, we’re looking at joint appointments between Ohio and UG where we can appoint the faculty as visiting professors and this will give the students the opportunity to be able to contact professors that we cannot retain here, but who are at Ohio University and they can get benefits of such nature from them.”