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UCCI ANNOUNCES BIG PLANS FOR ITS 2023 COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY
UCCI has today announced exciting plans for its commencement ceremony, which will take place on the evening of 29 June, to commemorate its graduating class of 2023.
Firstly, this year’s commencement ceremony will include a special, one-off award named the ‘Health City Outstanding UCCI School of Nursing Alumni Award,’ kindly sponsored by valued partner Health City Cayman Islands. The special award has been created to celebrate UCCI School of Nursing’s 10th year of offering the Bachelor of Science Nursing Programme, a flagship programme of the Cayman Islands.
It will be awarded to a graduate of the UCCI School of Nursing, who is practicing in the Cayman Islands and who consistently demonstrates excellence in the delivery of patient care.
Health City Cayman Islands, a medically advanced tertiary hospital, has supported the advancement of medical education and opportunities for Caymanians for many years and is a stalwart supporter of UCCI. In addition to sponsoring this important award, Health City supports UCCI with the annual Health City Need-Based STEM Grant of CI$10,000 to provide financial assistance to UCCI’s STEM students. Heath City also presents the Mary J. Seacole Award to the UCCI School of Nursing first-year student with the highest GPA at the School of Nursing’s annual Capping & Pinning Ceremony and is the Headline Sponsor of the School of Nursing’s 10th Anniversary Celebrations. At a practical level, Health City’s consultants regularly give career talks to dual-enrollment students.
Shomari Scott, Chief Business Officer at Health City , commented, “We are committed to nurturing and supporting homegrown talent in the healthcare sector, and we are proud to have been a rotation site for School of Nursing students since our inception. As the only tertiary care and only privately-owned JCI-accredited hospital in the Cayman Islands, this has had a direct impact on the high quality of nurses prepared by the School of Nursing and entering the medical field in the Cayman Islands. We cannot wait to welcome this year’s graduates into the workforce.”
Next, UCCI has announced that serial entrepreneur and lifelong learner, Dr. James Dever will be the keynote speaker at the annual commencement ceremony.
Dr. James Dever is an entrepreneur who retired at 41 before returning to education at 50 to obtain the bachelor's degree he never completed in the 1960s. In July of 2009, he completed the requirements for his Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He brings a wealth of practical entrepreneurial experience to Florida State University, having owned, and operated many successful businesses during his 20-year entrepreneurial career. Those businesses included trucking companies, motels, restaurants, a construction company, and other assorted ventures.
