Best Practices
Best Practice 1: ACE (Academic and Career Enrichment)
Objectives
- To nurture life skills to grow academically and build opportunities for a good career
- To ensure Student Placements and Career Development
- To inspire students to develop skills to befit market
- To develop leadership skills
- To facilitate students to feel academically confident
The Context
The Institution being a landmark in the vicinity, many students join the Institution with a hope of academic and career advancement. In this regard, the Institution makes every effort to strengthen the academic activities of the students in addition to the regular class room teaching. This practice aims to meet the expectations of the stake holders (mainly students and parents). The practice ACE paves way for students to grow academically while also eventually building a career for themselves.
The Practice
Various programs are conducted that help students to enrich their academic skills and also that help them to focus towards building a prospective career. This practice aims to map academic learning plans to enable students to learn and also earn for their lives. The academic support provided to students, through various activities of the college apart from regular teaching of curriculum, bolsters this practice. The training for students begins right from the Orientation, where the new comers are welcomed to the system.
The Students are provided training from subject experts through Guest Lectures, Value Added Classes are conducted that aim to enrich communication, aptitude, logical reasoning, problem solving techniques, case study analysis, etc. The hands on workshops conducted through various departments provides an opportunity to the students to bridge the industry academic space. Certified Courses like Excel, Stock Market, Python, Spoken Tutorial through IIT Bombay and others are value additions to students’ resume.
Career and Placement Training to students are provided in order to ensure that students are placed in good companies. Those students who want to pursue higher education are also encouraged through proper guidance given by faculty. In all, this practice focuses to buttress the students’ academic experience that would help them build a better career.
Evidence of Success
- The number of placements have increased over the years.
- Some of our alumni have become entrepreneurs.
- Considerable number of students have also pursued their higher education
- Rural and Semi-urban students are also now facing interviews more confidently to bag their dream jobs.
Problems Encountered and Resources Required
Matching students’ skills to corporate needs.
Financial problems of students to take up courses (that may not be provided through college) to build their career.
Resources Required
- Programs that enrich the skills of students as expected by industries
- Certificate programs that will add on values
Best Practice 2: VBAG (Vivekananda, Basavanna, Ambedkar, Gandhi) Virtues
Objectives
- To familiarize the students towards the lives and messages of the four great leaders.
- To motivate students to instil their values and to propagate the same.
The Context
Learning and Leadership are indispensable to each other. It becomes all the more easier for one to inculcate the ideologies of a great leader when one knows about or studies a Leader’s life. Through the four Study Centres: VBAG (Vivekananda, Basavanna, Ambedkar, Gandhi) we aim to disseminate the virtues and ideologies of these great leaders. All the four personalities have been leaders of world repute and have contributed to enrich the lives of people of their societies. The Institution believes in creating leaders who would follow the ideologies of these leaders to create an equitable society.
The Practice
The four Study Centres VBAG (Vivekananda, Basavanna, Ambedkar, Gandhi) have been proactive to conduct various awareness programs for the students. The Gandhian Study Centre organizes exams about Gandhiji and every year students take the exams, wherein an effort is made to spread the message about the life and ideologies of Gandhiji. Students are made to visit Ramakrishna Ashram every year in order to attend discourses about the life and values of Swami Vivekananda. They are also made to visit Ramakrishna Matts at different places where they attend sessions on Personality Development and Character Building. Ambedkar and Basava Study Centres also conduct various programs to proliferate messages about the lives and ideologies of Dr. BR Ambedkar and Basavanna. A series of online lecture sessions by students ‘SALTBO’: Study A Leader To Become One were organized by the Study Centres where the students presented papers on various topics related to the four great personalities. These sessions were handled by students where every class made groups to do the presentation and made all the arrangements to present the topics. The class teachers guided and facilitated the students to do their best. The papers presented by students have been published in a book bearing the ISBN No. 978-93-340-3743-2. Through the Study Centres a platform is provided to students to build various leadership skills like communication, writing, confidence building, managing etc.
Evidence of Success
- Students have learnt to write academic papers.
- Many students who otherwise shy away from stage have attempted to present papers online
- The college has received appreciation certificates for sending students to participate in different study centre events.
Problems encountered and Resources required
As students come from diverse religious, socio-cultural and economic backgrounds, it is a challenge to unify different points of views.
- Resources Required:
- MoUs with external organizations related to the four leaders
- Certificate courses/exams about each of the four leaders