Self Study Report

SELF STUDY REPORT SUBMITTED FOR RE-ACCREDITATION TO NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL BANGALORE – 560 072 BY SREE NARAYANA COLLEGE ALATHUR PALAKKAD-678682 2014 Self Study Report (SSR) – Sree Narayana College, Alathur, 2014 1 NAAC RE-ACCREDITATION COMMITTEE SREE NARAYANA COLLEGE, ALATHUR NAAC Steering Committee: 1. Chairman:– Dr. G. Hariprakash – Principal 2. Coordinator - Dr. A.R. Sandhya, Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of English 3. Members: a. Smt. Uma Govind, Associate Professor, Dept. of English b. Sri. K.K. Sankaran, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Statistics c. Sri. N.S. Rajendran, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry d. Dr. Sajith S.J. Sasi, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Hindi Criteria-wise coordinators: 1. Smt. G. Bindu, Assistant Professor and Head, Dept. of Commerce 2. Dr. A.A. Haseena Beevi, Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of Economics 3. Dr. R. Nishi, Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of Zoology 4. Smt. K.G. Valsala, Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics 5. Dr. R. Bindu, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Botany 6. Smt. Uma Govind, Associate Professor, Dept. of English 7. Dr. M.A. Suraj, Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of Botany Self Study Report (SSR) – Sree Narayana College, Alathur, 2014 2 Table of Contents PART A ........................................................................................................................................................ 4 PREFACE .................................................................................................................................................... 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................. 6 I CURRICULAR ASPECTS ........................................................................................................................ 7 II TEACHING, LEARNING AND EVALUATION .......................................................................................... 8 III RESEARCH, CONSULTANCY AND EXTENSION .................................................................................. 8 IV INFRASTRUCTURE AND LEARNING RESOURCES ............................................................................... 9 V STUDENT SUPPORT AND PROGRESSION ......................................................................................... 10 VI GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP .................................................................................................... 10 VII INNOVATIONS AND BEST PRACTICES............................................................................................. 11 SWOT ANALYSIS ...................................................................................................................................... 12 PART B ....................................................................................................................................................... 14 PROFILE OF THE COLLEGE .............................................................................................................. 15 PART C: ..................................................................................................................................................... 22 CRITERIA-WISE EVALUATION ............................................................................................................ 22 CRITERION I: CURRICULAR ASPECTS ........................................................................................... 23 CRITERION II: TEACHING-LEARNING AND EVALUATION ...................................................... 44 CRITERION III: RESEARCH, CONSULTANCY AND EXTENSION ............................................... 84 CRITERION IV: INFRA STRUCTURE AND LEARNING RESOURCE ......................................... 120 CRITERION V: STUDENT SUPPORT & PROGRESSION .............................................................. 148 CRITERION VI: GOVERNANCE, LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT ..................................... 169 CRITERION VII: INNOVATIONS AND BEST PRACTICES .......................................................... 192 PART D: EVALUATIVE REPORT OF DEPARTMENTS .............................................................. 198 POST ACCREDITATION INITIATIVES ............................................................................................... 240 Self Study Report (SSR) – Sree Narayana College, Alathur, 2014 3 PART A Self Study Report (SSR) – Sree Narayana College, Alathur, 2014 4 PREFACE Sree Narayana College, Alathur is one of the sixteen higher education institutions managed by Sree Narayana Trusts, an educational agency founded by Sri. R. Sankar, one of the former Chief Ministers of Kerala. It was conceived with the objective of accomplishing Sree Narayana Guru’s vision of bringing social reforms through education. The College is situated at Erattakulam, an educationally backward area, 30 kilometers from Palakkad town, in a placid and idyllic learning environment. Since its inception in 1970, occasioned by the relentless efforts taken under the leadership of noted philanthropists in the area like Sri K.C. Pazhanimala, Sri. C.V. Muthuvelan and many others, the College has striven to provide the best possible education to thousands of students in the area dreaming of pursuing higher studies. It is still the only government-aided, co-educational College in Alathur Taluk capable of providing holistic education to a deprived society that needs to be empowered. The eventful journey of the institution has been characterized by a few significant milestones. It had its modest beginnings as a junior College with only pre-degree batches. It was later upgraded to a degree College in 1977 with the commencement of B.Sc. Zoology course and further into a first grade College in 1984 with the introduction of Post-Graduate course in Mathematics. The College is affiliated to the University of Calicut and at present offers eight UG Courses and four PG courses with student strength of around 900. The College was accredited with “B” grade by NAAC in 2005 which has spurred our resolve to strive for further improvement in quality standards. The College has cruised forth constructively for the past four decades, upholding Gurudevan’s slogan “Emancipation through Education”. In this endeavour, the institution receives the resolute support and encouragement from our management and citizens in the locality and also the unswerving commitment and untiring efforts taken by our teaching and non-teaching staff of today as well as those who served the institution in the past. This Self Study Report is yet another outcome of the joint effort made by the entire academic community of our institution. In this context I express my profound gratitude to our Manager, Sri Vellapally Natesan for the unstinted help and cooperation rendered from the preparatory stage onwards. I also extend my sincere thanks to the representatives of Regional Development Committee, the NAAC steering committee and all our teaching and non-teaching staff for the productive services extended to the full at every stage. It is a matter of great satisfaction and pleasure to forward the SSR of our College for your kind perusal for reaccreditation to the second cycle. We are all spruced up for the peer team visit and eagerly looking forward to it. Principal Self Study Report (SSR) – Sree Narayana College, Alathur, 2014 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Our institution is steered forward by the vision of Sree Narayana Guru, one of the leading lights of socio-spiritual reforms in Kerala, who made an evocative call to bring radical social changes through education. Accordingly, our mission is to uplift the children belonging to the educationally disadvantaged sections of society and bring them on par with their counterparts elsewhere in the country. Initiatives are, therefore, taken with the objective of addressing the specificities of their disadvantages so as to improve their educational and employability prospects. We consider it our responsibility to cater to the needs of the largely first generation students hailing from the backward areas of the district and to equip them with the required knowledge and skills in order to enable them contribute to the development of the nation. It is with such a view that parallel to the curricular instruction, the institution also provides sufficient opportunities for the students to empower and gain confidence in their skills and talents, to acquire socially relevant values like civic consciousness, environmental awareness, dignity of labour, tolerance, patriotism etc. and to imbibe a sense of responsibility towards themselves, their families and the nation at large. Alathur is an educationally backward area in Palakkad district. More than 95 % of our students are the first generation learners of their family. Most of the parents are daily wage labourers with an average monthly income of less than five thousand Rupees. More than 85% of our students are females. The parents and students have no access to the proliferating multitudes of educational and developmental facilities outside their thaluk. The intensity of their backwardness is increased by the lack of access to the modern communication facilities like internet. It is in this context that the significance of this College, as the only beacon of light in the area of higher education, increases. The nearest Arts and Science college with a similar status is at a distance of more than 20 kilometers. Therefore the only ray of hope for the students passing

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