Faculty should involve in research and community service'

Nitte, November 21: Besides teaching, faculty should involve in research and community service. Universities should see that, the result of the research should reach the people of the society. The government of India should take necessary steps in this regard, said Dr.Mukund S. Kulkarni, Chancellor, PennState Harrisburg University,USA.

He was delivering Silver Jubilee first endowment lecture at NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte on Saturday after signing MoU between NMAM Institute of Technology and PennState Harrisberg for higher education.

He said “we are impressed by the vision and values of Nitte Education Trust and also its effort towards the quality education and health care for the rural people”.

In India, private investment made only in selected disciplines such as Engineering, Medicine, Management and other professional courses but not in courses leading to create good dancers, play writers, artists and so on, who make the society vibrant. But it does not happen in American Universities, where budget allocation is uniform irrespective of disciplines.

As a part of MoU, NMAMIT & PennState Harrisberg University have planned to introduce 2+2 Engineering course, in which, first two years, the students will study the basics of engineering here in India and remaining two years, they study in Harrisberg where the students are also being exposed to the course on confidence of values and ability to think, to make their future bright.

In giving quality education, IITs and IIMs are successful in India because they get cream layered students whose percentage is very less. Rest of the students has to go to the college for higher education where they are deprived of quality education. It can be rectified with such kind of MoUs between the Universities within the country or abroad. MoU also helps in exchange of ideas in teaching, research and administration, Exchange of delivery methodology and demonstration process said the Chancellor of PennState Harrisberg, Dr.Mukund Kulkarni.

Nitte University chancellor Sri N.Vinaya Hegde in his presidential speech said, intelligent students, when they go abroad for higher studies, instead of staying there after their studies, they should come back and serve the community with the capacity, they earned through their education and educationists should be included in the governing body of the institutes to suggest the proper delivery system of education. He also urged the intelligent students to take up teaching as the profession to provide quality education to the student community.

During this occasion the book entitled 'Redefining the roles of Business, NGOs and Government's Mission for a better global society' edited by M.S.Moodithaya, Dr.N.K.Thingalaya, Dr.N.S.Shetty and Dr.G.V.Joshi was released. The principal of the institute Dr.S.Y kulkarni welcomed the gathering. Dr.M.S Modithaya gave introductory remarks. Dr.N.K.Thingalaya was the guest of honour. Dr.Niranjan N Chiplunkar proposed the vote of thanks and Dr.Srinivas Pai compeered the programme.