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IV. Institutional Opportunities:
Introduction of new UG/PG courses and programmes and through choice based credit
system
It has already been introduced and has been mentioned in the last section of this report
Received permission from Bangalore University to start research (PhD) in English
and physics.
Development of vocational courses namely B-Voc in Digital Media and Animation
and BVoc in Film making has been introduced.
Introduced two industry-oriented courses namely EJP (English –Journalism and
Psychology) and CPE –communicative English Political Science And Economics
Introduced two industry-integrated courses namely M.Sc in Big data analysis and
B.Com-BPS Business Processing Services. These courses are offered by Tata
Consultancy Services (TCS) in the college
Discussions are on for collaborative work with a few foreign universities. Discussions
are on with Seattle University for faculty exchange and research collaborations.
The college has set up the Josephite Research Forum- a platform to encourage and
undertake multi-disciplinary and collaborative research projects among students and
faculty.
The college has set up a Research Committee and it has funded research project
among its faculty
DBT Star project has seen multidisciplinary approach to teaching and research

V. Institutional Challenges:
Improving consultancy system
Since the last NAAC peer team visit, teachers have engaged in providing more
consultancy services, however academic and administrative workload continues to
pose a challenge to take up consultancy.
Resource mobilization for financial independence
The good will of the college has helped college to get many philanthropists to donate
to the college. Renting out college infrastructure especially the new auditorium
complex has helped college get resources. The faculty have been granted for research
projects grants and for conducting seminars and workshops by various national
agencies and this helped college get resources. The college has also received grants
from the UGC for CPE and CE during the post third cycle period.
Attracting and retaining quality teachers
The college is in the process of recruiting talented and quality young teachers under
the management tenure as many of the senior UGC aided teachers are retiring in the
next couple of years. The college has upgraded the salary structure which is currently
close to the UGC scale and increased the tenure of management teachers.
Advertisements are put up in local news papers and applicants from different parts of
the country apply for teaching and also attend interviews. The response has been
good. However with increased job opportunities in the city of Bangalore, retaining
staff for some discipline continues to pose challenge.

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