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NCU Appoints New President

 codecDr. Trevor Gardner, who currently serves as president of the Adventist-owned University of the Southern (USC) in Trinidad and Tobago, has been appointed president of Northern Caribbean University (NCU). His appointment was confirmed during a meeting of the University’s Board of Governors on Sunday, August 21, 2011 at the headquarters of the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in Mandeville, Jamaica. He replaces Dr. Herbert Thompson who retired on June 13, 2011.

Dr. Gardner is a Jamaican educator who has more than forty years of academic, managerial and administrative experience, having served in several secondary and tertiary institutions in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. His last ten years has been in Seventh-day Adventist tertiary institutions in the Caribbean. He is no stranger to NCU having served as Vice President for Academic Affairs during its transition to University status between 1999 and 2003. As president of USC, he spearheaded its transition from Caribbean Union College to University status in 2006.

“He will be sadly missed by the USE family, said He is a diligent a visionary professional committed to his vision. Loyal 1200 – 4,000. Advance academic offering and infrastructural development of USE, residents hall. He sadly missed.

Quote from Dr. Gardner
Dr. Gardner is married to Dr. Patricia Gardner, a medical doctor, who currently serves as Director of University Heath Services at USC. Four adult children, Trevor 11, twin boys Keith Kevann and daughter Jayna.

Hobbies football and lawn tennis.

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