Academic Staff College

Vision

Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education and making Education a powerful tool for National, Global, & Societal transformation.

Mission

• Understand significance of Education in Global and Indian context

• Understand the linkages between Education and Economic, Social, and Cultural Development

• Acquire and improve basic skills of teaching at the College/University levels to achieve the goals of Higher Education

• Keep abreast of the latest developments in specific subjects

• Development of personality, communication skills, inter personal skills, leadership skills, managerial skills and promoting initiative and creativity

• Provide training so that technology is used optimally for benefit of all

• Contribute towards the empowerment and learning of non-teaching staff of Universities/Colleges

Objective of Academic Staff College

Academic Staff Colleges (ASC) were established in Dr MGR Educational and Research Institute (Deemed to be University) for organizing Faculty Development program. The main objective of Academic Staff Colleges is to provide adequate opportunities for the professional development of Faculties.

Functions of Academic Staff College

The functions of ASC are

• Formulate orientation programme /Refresher courses

• Identify resource persons in various fields of specializations for conducting the Orientation Programme and Refresher Courses.

• Organize, Monitor and evaluate the Programme.

• Organize orientation programme for senior administrators, heads of departments, principals, deans and other decision makers to facilitate reforms in higher education through appropriate modification of the management system at various levels.

• Provide opportunities for Faculties to exchange experience with their peers and to mutually learn from one another.

Quest for Excellence

• Provide a forum for serving Faculties to keep abreast of the latest advances in each subject of their interest.

• Provide opportunities to further widen their knowledge and to pursue research studies.

• Introduce the Faculties to new methods and innovations in higher Education - delivery, so that the participants in turn can develop their own innovative methods of instruction.

• Enhancing the Teaching and Research capabilities of Faculties.

• Conduct enhancement program for Non-Academic Staff.

• Academic Staff College Program

The following programs offered for staff every year by Dr MGR Educational and Research Institute through Academic Staff College

• Orientation program.

• Refresher courses.

• Research Methodology.

• Professional Development Course for Administrators.

• Non-teaching Staff Training Program.

Program Objectives

The objectives of the ASC program are

• To understand the significance of education in general and higher education in Particular to global and Indian contexts.

• Acquire and improve the basic skills of teaching with the aid of educational technology to achieve the goals of higher education.

• Keep abreast of the latest developments in the subjects.

• Provide opportunities for research scholars.

Quest for Excellence

Infrastructure and Learning Resources

• Conference Hall/ Seminar Hall/lecture Hall

• Administrative Space

• Hostel/Guesthouse Facility

• Discussion Room/Lounge

• Equipment

Curricular Aspects

Design & Development of Orientation Program

Orientation Course was conducted for the following Departments in the University

Engineering and Technology/ Humanities and Sciences/Architecture. Medical/Dental/Physiotherapy/Nursing.

• Course material (Handout, CDs, etc.,) provided to the participants.

• 50 Participants registered for each program

• Feedback on the curricula from the Resource Persons and Participants.

• Changes in curricula is based on feedback.

Development of Refresher Courses

Refresher Course conducted for the following Departments in the University

Engineering and Technology/ Humanities and Sciences/Architecture. Medical/Dental/Physiotherapy/Nursing.

• Course material (Handout, CD etc.,) provided to the participants.

• 50 Participants registered for each program

• Feedback on the curricula from resource persons and participants.

• Changes in curricula is based on feedback.

Interactive Program for Research Scholars

• Workshops were conducted for Research Scholars from

• Engineering and Technology/ Humanities and Sciences/Architecture. Medical/Dental/Physiotherapy/Nursing.

• Course material (Handout, CD etc.,) provided to the participants.

• 50 Participants registration for each program.

• Feedback on the curricula from resource persons and participants were taken and changes were implemented.

Program Organization, Delivery and Evaluation

• Organized different types of programs for the year 2016 till date

• Themes of the program were in relevance to ASC objectives

• Program strategies adopted to facilitate, initiative and creativity

• The Programs were Schedule as per the Academic calendar of ASCs

• E-learning program organized

Program Delivery

• Imparting knowledge of ICT and its uses in teaching and learning methodology

• Spectrum of tools and methodologies were used in program delivery

• Programs were organized to provide experiential learning

• Structure of program delivery were in terms of lecturers and other experiential methodology.

• Diversity and appropriateness of Resource persons were involved for all programs and innovative methods were adopted in program by resource persons

Program Evaluation

• Feedback from resource persons

• Feedback from participants and its program wise analysis were recorded

Officials

Dr. Malini Pande Addl Registrar

Director Academic Staff College

Dr. K.Gomathi

Dean Academic Staff College

Dr.Ponsekar

Dean Academic Staff College

(Medical/Dental/ Physio/Nursing/AHS)

Ms.K.Vasanthi

Deputy Dean

Dr.S.Karthikeyan