The Department of Government was created in the University of the West Indies fifty years ago with a full-time staff of four: Professor Brian Chapman, on secondment from the United Kingdom's University of Manchester, as Head and Director of Training in Public Administration, Francis Mark moving from the Department of Economics, where he had been teaching Politics and Political Institutions, Ogilvie Buchan (Scotland) Political Theorist, and Gladstone Mills (Jamaica), recruited from the senior civil service as Associate Director of Training in Public Administration . This small staff was supported by a group of distinguished part-time lecturers, which included G. Arthur Brown at that time Director of the Central Planning Unit and Dr. Gladstone Bonnick (teaching Public Finance), Dr. Lloyd Barnett and H. Carberry (Law) Simultaneously, the year 1960 also saw the establishment of the Faculty of Social Sciences with Departments of Economics and Government and the older Institute of Social and Economic Research; and Sociology joining in 1961.
