CHMI has a Cacique
Award Winner
 For its finale to its week of
 events, the Ministry of Tourism
 hosted the presentations of the
 2005 Cacique Awards on the
 evening of January 13th and it
 proved of particular interest for
 the COB family. Lecturer in
 the School of Hospitality and
 Tourism Studies, Dr. Sophia
 Rolle (photo at right), achieved
 recognition among tourism's finest
 by taking the award for Human
 Resources Development.
 Dr. Rolle, well known in
tourism circles and to the general
public through her weekly
column, "Sophia's Choice", in
The Nassau Guardian, won the
coveted award after just missing
out in 2004. She sees the prize
as a reflection of her eleven years
work at the college in laying the
foundation of management skills


for successive groups of students.
 Dr. Rolle regards her work
 at COB as training in its purest
 form in developing managers
 and strategists for the tourism
 industry. For her the most
 important aspect of human
 resource development is being
 able to witness the successful
 outcome of the four years training
 as the students embody the
 essentials of the training she
 instills in them.
 Dr. Rolle's next project
is to write a book on tourism
management. She is planning to
do the groundwork for it during
the summer and will apply for a
sabbatical year to complete the
writing.
 With Sophia Rolle's award,
COB now has two Cacique
honourees. In 1996 Patricia
Glinton-Meicholas, now Council
Secretary at The College, became


the first person to win the
Cacique Award for Writing. N


Culinary & HosDitalitv Manaaement Institute


School of Education


 This year School of Education
students on teaching practice
have a new resource to assist
them in their quest for exciting
and meaningful materials to
enhance the lessons they prepare.
Education majors can now access
an online teaching tool called
"Blackboard", to which the
students are introduced during
one of their regular computer
courses. The programme is one of
the latest innovations the Office
of Academic Affairs and


the School of Education have
introduced in their drive to
produce better, more resourceful
teachers.
 Ever increasing numbers
of students aspiring to become
teachers have meant two teaching
practices this academic year, one
in the Fall Semester and the other
in the Spring. This year education
officers from the Ministry of
Education are involved as internal
moderators providing welcome
partnership for those lecturers


trom ditterent departments
within the college who act as
supervisors and examiners.
 There is also a new course in
the school called "Professional
Seminars" for first-year students;
in this course students are
introduced to the teaching
profession and visit schools
regularly so they can understand
more readily day-to-day
organization of a teacher's life and
what it means to be a member of
a school faculty and the teaching
profession. E


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