Student Excellence at Centre of UB’s Impact on New Generation of Learners

10^th October 2025

Nassau, THE BAHAMAS — University of The Bahamas (UB) has prioritized student success-focused excellence as it strengths capacity and mobilizes the entire university community to create a new generation of learners who are intellectually curious, courageous, and service minded.

That’s the commitment that UB President Dr. Robert Blaine, III, shared as he recently addressed the Rotary Club of Nassau’s meeting in celebration of Education and Literacy Month. President Blaine said nurturing a collective ownership by faculty and staff of UB’s progress is an important factor in this new, transformative era.

“How are we, as an institution, focusing on the success of every single student in the institution, and how are we bringing a lens of excellence to that conversation?” said President Blaine. “We’ve built a framework that we call ‘We Are All Educators’. Everyone in this institution is an educator.

“Whether you are a professor in the classroom, whether you are working in admissions, whether you are cutting grass or in facilities, we are all about the educational mission of our students, and how we’re all working together to actually create the bridge that we need to move our students from their current state to their future state.”

UB has been growing. The university has embraced continuous improvement as it pursues national and international accreditation. Total student enrolment, buoyed by new student admissions figures, has surged to approximately 5,200, a record. UB North in Freeport Grand Bahama is operational and the university continues to foster new relationships with the public and private sector for deeper community and economic impact.

On this growth trajectory, UB is focused on proactivity, accountability, collaboration, and innovation as the behavioral anchors to ensure student and institutional success, according to President Blaine.

The ultimate goal is to create a new cadre of learners who are intellectually curious and can thrive in any environment, President Blaine said.

“We have myriad examples of ways that we are thinking about retooling and reexamining the learning environment so that we are creating a new kind of learner for a new century,” said President Blaine. “What I love about young people nowadays is that they are not limited to the ways that people thought back in the Stone Ages when I went to school. They have a whole new framework. And one of the questions is that, when you have the entire recorded history of man in the palm of your hand, how is learning just not about access to information, but using information to create new knowledge?

“That’s the way that we’re thinking about UB. And the goal is that we create a learner that goes out into the world and is identifiable. You can tell by the kinds of questions they ask, you can tell by the way they comport themselves, you can tell by the kind of seriousness they approach issues with, and you can tell by the kind of compassion they have for their community, that they must be a UB grad.”

As it increases accreditation readiness, and expands support for student success, the institution is preparing to create a deeper impact on national development.

Department of Communications

University of The Bahamas

2^nd Floor, Michael H. Eldon Complex

Oakes Field Campus

P.O. Box N-4912

Nassau, The Bahamas

Tel: (242) 302-4355/4354/4365

Chartered on 10th November 2016, University of The Bahamas (UB) is a beacon for national transformation. Approximately 5,000 students are enrolled in the University of The Bahamas system which includes campuses and centres on New Providence, Grand Bahama, San Salvador and Abaco, as well as UB online education. UB’s diverse academic programmes, research engagements, athletics and leadership development experiences equip our students to become global citizens in a dynamic world.