Our Mission

To provide engaging, cutting-edge and transdisciplinary learning through forward-looking academic training, research and public engagement. — Our Mission
To be the leading university college in the Caribbean that promotes sustainable development, innovation and entrepreneurship. — Our Vision

The Three Pillars
of Sir Arthur Lewis Community College

Sustainability, Innovation and Entrepreneurship are the core values of the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College.

They form the basis of our academic programmes, future goals and all of our other endeavours as an institution.

Sustainability
Innovation
Entrepreneurship

Our Beginnings

The Sir Arthur Lewis Community College sits on St. Lucia’s “Hill of Good Luck”, Morne Fortune.

One of the island'd most historic sites, the "Hill of Good Luck" was the scene of many battles between the British and the French who fought for St. Lucia.

The Sir Arthur Lewis Community College began as an idea. A solution to the overcrowding of the L’Anse road Teachers College, and the response to the need for bigger and better educational facilities.

For this dream to become a reality a ruined and desolate garrison had to be reconstructed and revitalized.

The idea of creating a complex of tertiary institutions on the ruins of an old military site was officially endorsed and the decision taken in 1966 to reserve for educational purposes certain buildings and adjoining lands on the crest of Morne Fortune (Hill of Good Luck).

With substantial support from the British Ministry of Overseas Development, five nineteenth century military buildings were refurbished to lay the foundation of the Morne Educational complex. In October 1979 the Cabinet of Ministers appointed the first committee to consider the integration of the Morne Education Complex.

The institution to be designed was again described not just as a place but as an idea. It was meant to become the nation’s premier educational institution and in keeping with the status which the Government accorded it was named after the eminent local economist, academic and 1979 Nobel Laureate Sir Arthur Lewis.

On June 1st,1986 the idea became a reality with the enactment of the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College Act. And in September 1986, the SALCC commenced operations with the Division of Arts, Science and General Studies, the Division Teacher Education and Educational Administration and the Division of Technical Education and management Studies.

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About Sir Arthur Lewis

Sir William Arthur Lewis is recognized worldwide as a leading scholar in Economics, for which he won The Nobel Prize in 1979.

He became the first black professor at an Ivy League University in the United States, and was also the first black professor in the British tertiary education system.

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