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The University of Guyana, in Georgetown, Guyana, was established in 1963 by the PPP administration. Its first chancellor was Edgar Mortimer Duke and its first Principal and Vice-Chancellor was British mathematician Lancelot Hogben.
[edit] Faculties
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Faculty of Technology
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Institute of Distance and Continuing Education
- Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry
- School of Professional Development
[edit] Notable alumni
[edit] Notable faculty and administrators
- Joel Benjamin, former deputy Librarian and archivist at the University
- Derek Bickerton, former lecturer, now Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at University of Hawai'i, Honolulu
- Michael Gilkes, Guyanese writer and academic
- Stanley Greaves, Guyanese painter, former head of Creative Arts at the University
- Richard Hart, Jamaican lawyer and politician
- Lancelot Hogben, English zoologist and geneticist
- Basdeo Mangru, Guyanese historian; current faculty of City University of New York, York
- Ali Mazrui, renowned African and Islamic studies academic
- Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson, Guyanese writer and professor at the University (1966-1968)
- Clem Seecharan, Guyanese writer
- Joyce Sparer Adler, American critic, playwright, and teacher, as well as a founding faculty of the University in 1963
- Bertrand Ramcharan, current Channcellor of the University
- Shridath Ramphal, former Guyanese foreign minister (1972-1975) and the second Commonwealth Secreteary General (1975-1990)
- Walter Rodney, renowned Pan-African writer and political theorist
- Rupert Roopnaraine, Guyanese writer, politician and academic
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