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SELF STUDY REPORT SUBMITTED TO NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL (NAAC) VIDYASAGAR EVENING COLLEGE 39, Sankar Ghosh Lane, Kolkata – 700006. Telephone: +91-33-22419508; +91-33-64597118 Website: www.vec.ac.in Email: [email protected] SELF STUDY REPORT VIDYASAGAR EVENING COLLEGE 39, Sankar Ghosh Lane, Kolkata – 700006. Telephone: +91-33-22419508; +91-33-64597118 Website: www.vec.ac.in Email: [email protected] Submitted to NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL (NAAC) BANGALORE - 560072 PREFACE It gives us immense pleasure to present the Self Study Report (SSR) for assessment and accreditation by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council. Vidyasagar Evening College aspires to contribute in a very effective way to the cause of academic excellence and character-building. Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar remains our inspiration and his ideals give us the impetus to nurture our College and to make it an academic institution par excellence. The College has travelled a little more than half a century since its birth in the year 1961. In the initial stages of our journey we faced considerable hurdles trying to run a co- educational College in a common building along with Vidyasagar College and Vidyasagar College for Women. It was observed that compared to the two other sister Colleges, our College enjoyed only 1/6 th of space and time. This situation has been significantly remedied from last year by the construction of a new building. This has been possible due to the concerted and determined effort of the faculty members and supporting staff. Thus we can proudly affirm that the College is now in a position to compete on an equal footing with other peer institutions. This improvement is the fruit of the tireless effort spanning for over two decades by the stakeholders. The new building, constructed in the heart of the city with our own accumulated funds, we believe, is a beginning, that will set us on track to fulfil our quality plan of “Gyan, Tyag, Seva”. This is just the beginning and we have to traverse miles before we realize the ideals of Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and make our Institution an epitome of its lofty academic ideals and its character-building curriculum. Our perspective plan is still to be realized in its entirety and there are also other hurdles that need to be overcome. We welcome the peer team to visit our College and are desirous to receive their criticism/feedback as well as suggestions for accelerated growth in near future. CONTENTS Item Page no. A. Executive summary 1 B. Profile of the College 8 C. SWOC Analysis 18 D: Criterion-wise inputs 19 Criterion I: Curricular Aspects 20 Criterion II: Teaching, Learning and Evaluation 39 Criterion III: Research, Consultancy and Extension 67 Criterion IV: Infrastructure and Learning Resources 88 Criterion V: Student Support and Progression 101 Criterion VI: Governance, Leadership and Management 117 Criterion VII: Innovations and Best Practices 137 E. Evaluative Report of the Departments 143 1. Bengali 144 2. Botany 149 3. Chemistry 153 4. Commerce 157 5. Economics 161 6. English 165 7. Environmental Studies 169 8. Geography 173 9. Hindi 178 10. History 182 11. Mathematics 186 12. Physics 191 13. Physiology 196 14. Political Science 201 15. Sociology 205 16. Statistics 209 17. Zoology 213 F. Annexures 217 Annexure 1: Letter of Recognition from UGC 218 Annexure 2: Certificate of affiliation by the University of Calcutta 219 Annexure 3: Admission criteria for 2015 – ’16. 220 Annexure 4: Comparison of results between University and VEC 223 Annexure 5: List of Publication by the Faculty members during 2010–’15 225 Annexure 6: Plan of the Satellite Campus 242 Annexure 7: Layout of the College Library 243 Annexure 8: Students’ feedback forms 244 Annexure 9: Receipt-payment statements 247 Annexure 10: IEQA application 255 Annexure 11: Certificates for uploading AISHE information 258 G. Declaration by the Head of the Institution 263 List of Tables Table no. and Description Page no. Table 1.1: Subject combination in B. A. (Honours) 31 Table 1.2: Subject combination in B. Sc. (Honours) 31 Table 1.3: Subject combination in B. Com. (Honours) 31 Table 1.4: Subject combination in B. A. (General) 32 Table 1.5: Subject combination in B. Sc. (General) 32 Table 1.6: Subjects offered in B. Com. (General) 32 Table 2.1: Range of percentage of marks of the applicants 40 Table 2.2: Details of the programs offered by the College 42 Table 2.3: Highest qualifications of the faculty members 57 Table 2.4: Number of nominated faculties in Staff Development Programs 57 Table 2.5: Result of feedback analysis of Faculty members 60 Table 3.1: Areas of interest in research of the faculty members 71 Table 3.2: Details of on-going research projects 74 Table 3.3: Details of completed research projects 74 Table 3.4: Details of publications of the faculty members during the last 5 years 76 Table 3.5: Collaborative seminars organized during the last four years 85 Table 3.6: Non-collaborative Seminars organized during the last four years 87 Table 4.1: Amount spent in augmentation of facilities 91 Table 4.2: Amount spent for the Library during the last four years 94 Table 4.3: Computers and their configurations 96 Table 4.4: Budget allocated for computers during the last four years 97 Table 4.5: Budget allocated for maintenance of facilities 99 Table 5.1: Students’ progression to higher education 111 Table 5.2: Comparison of results of the College 111 Executive Summary Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar became the President of the Managing Committee of the Calcutta Training School in 1859, and subsequently it paved the way for the Metropolitan Institution, established in 1860. The growth of the Institution led to its affiliation to Calcutta University for Arts only on January 1st, 1872. In 1917 it was renamed Vidyasagar College and since then the College has witnessed a rapid growth. Subsequently its academic curriculum expanded with the formal beginning of the Commerce Department in 1922 and the Morning Section for Women in 1931. The Commerce Department of the College has the distinction of being the oldest commerce teaching Department in India. In 1928 it acquired the affiliation to the B. Com. Course (under the University of Calcutta). In 1951 a separate wing of the College, devoted to Commerce teaching in the evening shift, was established owing to the rapid growth of the Department in terms of faculty and student strength. The evening section emerged as an independent entity with a separate Governing Body in 1961 bearing the name Vidyasagar Evening College and since then the College is being run with the mission of disseminating knowledge to a cross section of students. The College is especially a boon to those who are constrained to work during the day to support themselves and their families but are desirous of acquiring a Graduate degree. In pursuit of this mission the College has gone through an uninterrupted surge of expansion. Vidyasagar Evening College is a co-educational Institution affiliated to the University of Calcutta, and it shares a long and illustrious history with two of its sister Institutions: Vidyasagar College and Vidyasagar College for Women. True to the philanthropic spirit of Vidyasagar, the founder of the College, the teaching and the non- teaching staff are tireless in exploring new avenues of growth and making the functioning of the College more responsive to the needs of the student. But limitation of space resulting from the utilization of the main Campus by the three Colleges on a time sharing basis, has so far kept the expansion of its academic activity rather modest. However with the recent construction of separate buildings for Vidyasagar Evening College and Vidyasagar College for Women (by the acquisition of a plot of land adjacent to the main building of the College), the Institution is favourably poised for the fulfilment of quite a few of its plans. Today the College offers Under Graduate courses with Honours in Bengali, English, Political Science, Geography, Mathematics, Physics and Physiology. Besides, the College has become a study centre of Post Graduate courses in Geography and Dietetics & Community Nutrition Management under the affiliation of the Directorate of Distance Education, Vidyasagar University from the 2014-‘15 academic session. 1 Criterion-I: Curricular Aspects Since its inception, the College has been actively involved in educating the youth and extending the parameters of education beyond mere classroom teaching. The College administration incorporates all the resources at its disposal to build a system of education that is value-based on the one hand and on the other emphasizes the need for innovation and creativity. The College never loses sight of the fact that an awareness of social issues is crucial to building an ideal learning environment. The Governing Body, IQAC, Academic Sub Committee, Finance Sub Committee, Building Sub Committee and the Teachers’ Council, Non-teaching Staff Council as well as the non-statutory Committees that look into matters related to admission, examination, the library, routine, cultural activities, students’ election, prize distribution, etc. strive to provide every necessary opportunity required for the perfect management of the College. The Academic Calendar along with a list of holidays is published through the College website. Students are informed about the rules, regulations, codes of conduct, infrastructure, the courses offered, fee structure, prizes and scholarships and other facilities in the form of an Orientation Programme. Relevant information related to the various activities of the College is also regularly communicated to all the stakeholders through the official website. Workshops, seminars and extension lectures with eminent experts as invited speakers are regularly held to keep the teachers abreast of the recent developments in their respective subject areas and to upgrade the teaching quality.