{"title":"A Brief Look at the History and Future of the School of Mathematics, Physics and Technology","authors":"Ll.R. Curling, M. Oriakhi, G. Kemp","doi":"10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.231","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a brief history and overview of the development of the School of Mathematics, Physics and Technology at the College of The Bahamas from the College’s inception in 1974 to 2014. It charts the evolution of the School out of two major departments within the College, highlighting the development of the School’s academic courses, programs and research facilities, in the context of the College’s overall strategic plan toward attaining university status. The paper also chronicles the present and past chairpersons and discusses briefly the significance of Mathematics, Physics and Technology in the context of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education within the grander framework of the role of COB in providing widespread tertiary education in The Bahamas. The paper celebrates and analyzes the progress of the School in its various earlier incarnations, and its programs over the past 40 years, and provides some thoughts about the directions in which it should go in helping to fulfill the College’s mandate to transition to a university in 2015.","PeriodicalId":421957,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bahamian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116636639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Publishing Research at the College of The Bahamas","authors":"V. Ballance","doi":"10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.227","url":null,"abstract":"The College of The Bahamas has published 20 volumes of a research journal since 1980. The journal has had a stop-and-start history, undergone three name changes, and in 2008 made a major move from a print to an online environment. This overview of publishing a research journal at the College of The Bahamas traces its history and evolution through the years from a print journal to an open access electronic journal and to the International Journal of Bahamian Studies.","PeriodicalId":421957,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bahamian Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134053405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The College of The Bahamas in Research: A Process in Motion","authors":"Berthamae L. Walker","doi":"10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.238","url":null,"abstract":"Though not previously thought of as a “research” institution, much has been written or published about the College of the Bahamas by past and present faculty and students as well as scholars not associated with the institution. To what extent, though, are researchers publishing about the College of The Bahamas and what percentage are published in the College’s research journals as opposed to elsewhere? The focus of this article is on a select body of research published over the past 40 years by the College of The Bahamas research journals and publications as noted in the ProQuest database in which the college is the subject of the research.","PeriodicalId":421957,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bahamian Studies","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124251538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Student Life at the College of The Bahamas: The Role of COBUS","authors":"DeAndra V. Cartwright","doi":"10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.244","url":null,"abstract":"Student government and student activities at the College of The Bahamas have helped to define the growth and development of the institution. The College of the Bahamas Union of Students or COBUS as it is better known, has been a crucible for civic and professional leaders. Many COBUS Presidents have gone on to become leaders in the community, well-known forerunners in their respective fields of endeavour and have become household names in the Bahamas.","PeriodicalId":421957,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bahamian Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131608734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of College Graduates on Bahamian Society: With Emphasis on Graduates from The College of The Bahamas","authors":"W. Fielding","doi":"10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.209","url":null,"abstract":"Society at large, both government and residents, invests in education, a process which is considered to reach its apex with a university qualification. Economically, education is typically seen to be both a private and public good, and so it is useful to determine the benefits to both the individual and society arising from this investment. This paper examines the economic contributions of university-educated Bahamians to society. Using information obtained from The College of The Bahamas and other official sources, the study demonstrates that having a populace with higher education has a beneficial impact upon the Bahamian economy.","PeriodicalId":421957,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bahamian Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129265883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Gerace Research Center, San Salvador, Bahamas, 1971-2007","authors":"D. Gerace","doi":"10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.218","url":null,"abstract":"The Gerace Research Center on San Salvador is the College of The Bahamas’s center for the study of archaeology, biology, geology and the marine sciences. Founded on an abandoned United States naval base in 1971, the field station served as a point of convergence for scientists from a number of academic institutions, and became an institute of COB in 2001. The Center offers courses in archaeology, tropical botany, ornithology, oceanography, marine biology, and geology at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctorate levels and has produced well respected research that has been shared with fellow scientists, government agencies, and the Bahamian community through publications in scholarly journals; participation in and hosting of research conferences and symposia; and the production of field guides, as well as local and regional resources. Through the facilitation of field research for students and scientists from around the world, the Gerace Research Center continues to make a substantial contribution to the ecological, archaeological, and geological sciences and to the preservation of Bahamian ecosystems.","PeriodicalId":421957,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bahamian Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121687703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christina Rahming-Nwosa, Lorraine Bastian-Jones, E. Bethel, Alta Munroe, D. Sherman
{"title":"The Centre for Continuing Education and Extension Services: A Legacy of Excellence and Access to Life-long Learning","authors":"Christina Rahming-Nwosa, Lorraine Bastian-Jones, E. Bethel, Alta Munroe, D. Sherman","doi":"10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.219","url":null,"abstract":"A review of the history and evolution of the Centre for Continuing Education and Extension Services and the various programmes it has developed to support the work of the College of The Bahamas.","PeriodicalId":421957,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bahamian Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131961622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The School of Education: Leading the Way for Future Generations of Teachers in The Bahamas","authors":"S. Seymour, Janice Munnings, Beulah G Farquharson","doi":"10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.233","url":null,"abstract":"To present our achievements in the School of Education over the past 40 years we must keep in focus where we came from. We must ask ourselves ‘What did we achieve?” The information presented below gives basic highlights or milestones of our progress in the preparation and training of the nation’s teachers under the umbrella of the Teacher’s Training College then the Division of Teacher Education and now the School of Education, the College of The Bahamas.","PeriodicalId":421957,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bahamian Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129747683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The College of The Bahamas’ Graduate Programmes and Collaborative Partnerships: 2003 to The Present","authors":"K. Woolward","doi":"10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.221","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides a brief overview of the College of The Bahamas’ graduate degree offerings since the establishment of the Office of Graduate Programmes in 2003. It maps the various articulation agreements, Memoranda of Understanding, and collaborations that the College has entered into with universities in North America, Great Britain and elsewhere, to facilitate a range of graduate degree programmes in diverse disciplines, such as Health Care Administration, Reading, Library and Information Science, Early Childhood and Elementary Teaching, School Counselling, and Business Administration, among others. The Office of Graduate Studies acknowledges the important connection between graduate studies and the College’s research agenda and seeks to bring coherence to programme development and the research initiatives of the institution.","PeriodicalId":421957,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bahamian Studies","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133600710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Educating Nurses at The College of The Bahamas","authors":"V. Ballance, Yvonne McKenzie","doi":"10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15362/IJBS.V20I2.220","url":null,"abstract":"In the first decade following Bahamian Independence in 1973, registered nurse education transformed from a professional training programme offered by the Ministry of Health’s Department of Nursing Education into an academic discipline offered at The College of The Bahamas. The College of The Bahamas began offering an Associate of Arts degree in Nursing in the early 80s, with its first class graduating at the 1986/87 commencement. The diploma and degree programmes operated in tandem, sharing a campus until the Ministry of Health nursing diploma programme was phased out. Its last graduation ceremony was held in 1993. The nursing programme offered by COB evolved from an Associate of Arts to an Associate of Science in Nursing degree and later, in the 2000s, to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. This paper will trace the development of nurse education programmes in the Bahamas from their beginnings to date, highlighting the milestones and achievements.","PeriodicalId":421957,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Bahamian Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121935197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}