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Chart 2.5: Diversity of Faculty

2.4.6. Does the College have the required number of qualified and competent
teachers to handle all the courses for all departments? If not, how do you cope
with the requirements? How many faculty members were appointed during the
last four years?
The College has always had the required number of qualified faculty to handle
courses. Care is taken during recruitment to ensure that only teachers with required
qualifications are taken. Preference is given to candidates with PhD, followed by
those possessing NET/SLET qualifications, and it is only when a suitable candidate is
not available that those with only a postgraduate degree are taken. The College has
not had much difficulty in attracting qualified candidates as the salary paid is close to
the UGC scales. However, one of the challenges the College faces is that after the
Karnataka government stopped appointment of teachers in private aided Colleges, the
attrition among management-paid faculty has been rather high as better job prospects,
both in private universities and in the corporate sector, are available in Bangalore.
Almost all departments have had to make recruitments somewhat more frequently due
to this attrition. The table below explains the reasons for appointment with
abbreviations explained in the footnote.
Table 2.13: New Faculty Members Appointed
1. Big Data Analytics 1(N) Industrial 0

Relations
2. Biotechnology 0 Kannada 2(A)

3. Botany 4(S+A) Library Staff 1(N)
4. Chemistry 5(R+A) Mathematics 7(N)

5. Commerce 9(N) Microbiology 2(A)
6. Communications and 8(A+N) Physical Education 1(N)

B.Voc.
7. Computer Science and 4(A) Physics 6(R+A)

BCA

8. Economics 3(A+R+N) Political Science 3(A+N)

9. Electronics 2(R+A) Psychology 4(N)
10. English 11(A+N) Sanskrit 1(R)

11. Environmental Science 0 Social Work 7(A)

12. French 1(A) Sociology 1(R)

13. German 1(N) Statistics 1(A)
14. Hindi 1(A) Tamil 1(R)

15. History 2(R) Zoology 4(R+A)

Note: A-attrition, N-new course, R-retirement

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