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*Community Engagement –
 The Joseph‘s Outreach Centre was set up to enhance the extension activities and
community development. It aims to produce knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary
for developing social concern.
 A research and community centre has been established in Solur to adopt 15
villages to engage in community development.
 The College plans to adopt a Panchayat.
 It plans to enhance the ongoing engagement with government schools by providing
pedagogic support in order to minimize the dropout rate.
 Plans are on to bring together the various entities such as Joseph‘s Outreach
Centre, NSS, NCC, CSC, CSA, Department of Social Work and other individual
departments.

*Human Resource Planning & Development–
 The College provides continuous training to its staff to become competent teachers
with necessary soft skills to mentor students effectively.
 The new recruitment policy helps identify teachers with aptitude for academics and
attitudes that match with the Mission of the College.
 Human Resource Planning is being worked out in a systematic way keeping in
mind the challenges, related to the superannuation of senior staff, the freezing of
grant-in aid recruitment and the arrival of self-financed courses.
 The new recruitment/promotion policy matches staff expectations, particularly
with regard to salary-structure, tenure-approvals and promotions.

*Industry Interaction –
 Through our BOS and Academic Council, we engage with local industries which
have opened up avenues of collaboration.
 This engagement has resulted in a few fruitful collaborations. For example, TCS,
under its Corporate Social Responsibility program, has initiated a postgraduate course
in Big Data Analytics and an industry-integrated B. Com. course.
 TCS has committed to a grant of Rs. 1,00,00,000 to the College for setting up
laboratory and videoconferencing facilities in addition to payment of staff salaries for
two years.
 The College is looking to co-opt Industry into collaborating with the College in
meaningful community development programs.
 The inculcation of values within students is aimed at creating industry leaders of
tomorrow who are deeply concerned and actively engaged with the social issues of
the day.

*Internationalization –
Education has always been international even before the advent of globalization. St.
Joseph‘s College has always benchmarked itself with universities of international
repute both at home and abroad. Therefore, the College has sought to remain on par
with international standards despite local constraints. In a truly global system, the
College proposes to be a world class institution. As a part of this process:
 MoUs with universities abroad have been signed in order to share academic
resources, including student and faculty exchange programs and experiential learning
exercises.
 A few of these MoUs are operational and more are being sought.

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