A BRIEF HISTORY AND CAMPUS TOUR

Bog Walk,
Riversdale
The Advent message was preached in
Troy, Trelawney about 1907

The Peart family accepted the message

And wanted their daughter Maud Peart

out of the Government Teachers
College

Miss Peart wrote the then Educational

Secretary of the General Conference
of Seventh-day Adventist about setting
up a school in Jamaica

Pastor Beckner and Peart went in

search of lands and a 96-acre was
bought at Willowdene near Bog walk
in St Catherine
In 1907 a 507 acre was bought at
Riversdale with the land at
Willowdene sold to help finance the
Riversdale property
The school closed because of
ill-health of staff and students
Miss Peart continued a
Church School after the
principal returned to the
United states

Mrs Peart-Goulbourne died in

Nov 1976
First graduates in1923 from the 12th grade
In 1926 the school was upgraded to a 14 th grade and
included subjects like Ministry, Nursing, Teaching,
Secretarial Science and Bible study
In 1936 it gained Junior college status and its name
was changed to West Indian Training College
Senior College status was obtained in when the
institution started its first four yr degree program,
Bachelor of Theology and the name was again
changed to West Indies College
June 24, 1999, Charter Day, the name
Northern Caribbean University was conferred on
the institution
THE MANDEVILLE CAMPUS
 WEST INDIAN
TRAINING
SCHOOL
Unfortunately the school closed and the
then principal returned to the USA,
while Maud Peart continued to hold a
church school
1918 under the leadership of Elder G.A.
Roberts Chairman of the Board the 181-
acre Coolsworthy property, two miles
south of Mandeville was bought
School began in January of 1919 with
five (5) boarding students at a rented
property on Caledonia Rd in Mandeville
Began August of 1919 at its present
location
The buildings at Riversdale were
dismantled and the wooden structure
opposite Sorenson Hall and the wooden
cafeteria at the time were made from
lumber from Riversdale
G.A. Roberts,
first board
Chairman and
whose influence
acquired the
Coolsworthy
property
THE WHITE HOUSE:
PRESIDENT’S OFFICE

Dr. Lincoln Edwards in

conversation with Most Hon.
Holiness
MAIN
AUDITORIUM/
CHAPEL
STUDENT
FINANCE
 THE BELL
• Located at the top of the stairs leading to Student Finance and Records
(“Don’t ring the bell”)
Sorenson Hall –Cafeteria
Cafe Basement (CB)
Classrooms

Engineering Lab-north side

Former Location of
classrooms for WIC High
School
•Chapel
•Admissions
•Records
•Finance
•Pastor’s
Office
•Math and
Engineering
Department
•Medical
Technology
Department
•Early Childhood
Lab
•Hiram S. Walters
Resource Centre (the
Library)
•Ellen G. White Resource
Centre-right side
•Distance Education-Left
side upstairs
Communication
Department-left side down
stairs
•Seat of the Scornful
•University
Information
Systems Services
(UNISS)
•Ellen G. White
Resource Centre
PRAYER GARDEN
•Robinson Hall

•5th floor English and Modern Languages

Dept -RH501-509 class rooms

•4th floor road level- Business and

Hospitality Dept

•RH400 class rooms

•3rd floor below road

•College of Humanities Behavioral &

Social Sciences

• Depart. of Religion and Theology

•300 classrooms

•NR1&NR11 classrooms

•2nd floor two levels below road

•Teacher Ed and Business Comp Lab

ONE OF THE HANG-OUT SPOTS
•Solomon Harriott
Lecture room
•Business Block-BB
classrooms upstairs
•Communication
Studies Dept
•Visual Art Dpt
•Cedar Hall (Male
residence)
LEILA REID HALL
• This is the residence hall for mostly female freshmen
MAIN GATE
(UNIVERSITY PRESS & MUSIC
BUILDING)
WATER FOUNTAIN
THE CIRCLE OF KNOWLEDGE
Computer
Science
Department
(Main Parking
lot)
CLOCK “TOWER”
•Field view
Classrooms &
Conference
room
•Steps to Christ
•Bio and Chem.
& Med. Tech
Labs and
Lecture Rooms
CAMPBELL’S SPORTS
COMPLEX AND PLAY FIELD
•Gymnatorium
•Career Services
•NCU Fitness Centre
Student Lounge
•United Student
Movement Office
HILL RUN
(ROBINSON HALL & LIBRARY
Micro
Computer
Labs
TAI CENTRE
Hill Top Hotel

Four Points Café

BookStore

Superette

Laundrymat
NCU MEDIA GROUP BUILDING
• Home of NCU F.M. and NCU T.V
NCU HEALTH AND WELLNESS
DEPARTMENT
NUTRITION AND DENTAL LABS
HYACINTH CHEN SCHOOL OF
NURSING
EXTENSION CAMPUSES
• NCU also has Satellite (Regional) campuses in St. James, St. Ann and
Kingston.
 ALMA MATER: HISTORY
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