Senator Floyd Morris has become the first visually impaired person to be appointed a full professor at The University of the West Indies (UWI).
Morris, who was advised of his promotion yesterday by the UWI Appointment Committee, will be professor of disability studies at The UWI.
This is the first such appointment of a visibly impaired person to a full professorship in the 75-year history of The UWI and is believed to be the first such appointment in the Caribbean and Latin America.
“This is a significant achievement,” Morris told The Gleaner when contacted yesterday. “This is indeed seismic and a smashing of the academic glass ceiling by a person with disability in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.”