Dibie Speaks on Environmental Ethics in Jamaica
October 16, 2007
Robert Dibie, Ph.D., Professor of Public Affairs and Assistant Dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, has been invited by the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica to give a series of lectures on environmental policy and ethics, October 15-17, 2007.
UWI is a public university and the Caribbean region’s premier educational institution. It serves students from 16 nations of the Caribbean Commonwealth. It offers a wide range of undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs.
Dibie was invited due to his expertise in environmental policy. In early 2007, Dibie helped to initiate the partnership between IU Kokomo and UWI after delivering the keynote address at the institution’s Environmental Policy forum in October 2006. Since 2006, Dibie has served as external examiner to the Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health (OESH) Program of UWI. He has also chaired dissertation committees for graduate students in the OESH program.
Participants in the ethics workshop include master’s and doctoral students in the Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health program, officials of the Jamaican Ministry of Health, and Managerial staff of the nation’s National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA). Dibie sees this as a wonderful opportunity and looks forward to sharing the experience in the SPEA Master of Public Management (M.P.M.) courses.
