University of Guyana

The University of Guyana, in Georgetown, Guyana, was established in 1963 by the Guyanese government. Its first chancellor was Edgar Mortimer Duke and its first Principal and Vice-Chancellor was a white mathematician, Lancelot Hogben.

Faculties

* Faculty of Arts
* Faculty of Natural Sciences
* Faculty of Social Sciences
* Faculty of Education and Humanities
* Faculty of Health Sciences
* Faculty of Technology
* Institute of Distance and Continuing Education
* Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry
* School of Professional Development

Notable alumni

* Mahadai Das, Guyanese writer
* M. Jamal Deen, FRSC FCAE FINAE, Professor and Senior Canada Research Chair, McMaster University, Canada
* Odeen Ishmael, Guyanese ambassador Venezuela, formerly to the United States and the Organization of American States
* Freddie Kissoon, Guyanese columnist
* Denis Williams, Guyanese painter and archaeologist

Notable faculty and administrators

* Joyce Sparer Adler, American critic, playwright, and teacher, as well as a founding faculty of the University in 1963
* Joel Benjamin, former deputy Librarian and archivist at the University
* Derek Bickerton, former lecturer, now Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at University of Hawai'i, Honolulu
* Janette Bulkan, Guyanese professor and activist of international environmental human rights; visiting professor at Colby College
* Michael Gilkes, Guyanese writer and academic
* Stanley Greaves, Guyanese painter, former head of Creative Arts at the University
* Richard Hart, Jamaican lawyer and politician
* Lancelot Hogben, English zoologist and geneticist
* Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson, Guyanese writer and professor at the University (1966-1968)
* Basdeo Mangru, Guyanese historian; current faculty of City University of New York, York
* Ali Mazrui, renowned African and Islamic studies academic
* Dr Mark Pelling, Reader in Human Geography, King's College, London
* Clem Seecharan, Guyanese writer
* Bertrand Ramcharan, current Channcellor of the University
* Shridath Ramphal, former Guyanese foreign minister (1972-1975) and the second Commonwealth Secreteary General (1975-1990)
* Walter Rodney, renowned Pan-African writer and political theorist
* Rupert Roopnaraine, Guyanese writer, politician and academic

External links

* [http://www.uog.edu.gy/ University of Guyana] official website
* [http://www.guyana.org/features/guyanastory/chapter167.html Establishment of the University of Guyana] (guyana.org)
* [http://www.mittelholzer.org/forum/index.php The Mittelholzer Foundation]