Rev.Dr. K. Amal, SJ Administrator Xavier Institute of Business Administration St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous) Palayamkottai , Tirunelveli - 627 002 [email protected] https://www.xibasxc.com/

WORK EXPERIENCE

2019 July to September : Diploma in Counselling Psychology offered by Loyola Academy Degree and PG College (Autonomous - Secunderabad)

June 2013- : Superior and Vice-President of Arul Anandar College, Karumathur, Tamil Nadu. Dean and Professor of Foundation Courses

May 2007 - May 2013 : Rector and Vice-President of Loyola College, . Dean and Professor of Foundation Courses & Human Excellence

September 2003 – May 2007 : Superior of Indian Social Institute, Bangalore Head of Teaching and Human Rights Units

January 2003 – Dec. 2007 Part time Asia Pacific Chaplain of International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS –PAX ROMANA)

April 1996 – August 2003 : National Advisor/Director of All Catholic University Federation AICUF – an Official body approved by the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) (Affiliated to IMCS-Pax Romana). April 1989 – July 2003 : Director of the National Secretariat of AICUF, Chennai : Advisor/Director of Tamil Nadu AICUF, Chennai

May 1988 – March 1989 : An Assistant Pastor in a Rural Parish, Malligapuram, Chingleput Diocese., Tamil Nadu

May 1982- April 1983 : Full-time Worker: Tamil Nadu State Animator of University College students

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Degree Subject Place/Institution

*PUC Maths, Physics, Chemistry Pre-University Course, St. Joseph’s College, Trichy, Tamil Nadu.

B.Sc Mathematics (1973-77) St. Joseph’s College, Trichy, Tamil Nadu

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B. A. Philosophy (1980-82) Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth, De Nobili College in , Maharashtra.

M.Sc Mathematics (1983-85) Loyola College, Chennai

B.Th Theology (1985-88) Vidyajyoti College of Jesuit Theology,

M. A. Sociology (1993-95) Chidambaram University, Tamil Nadu

Ph. D. PhD (2008-2013) Doctor of Philosophy Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, In Mathematics Tami Nadu, India Major: Mathematics Minor: Sociology (An inter-disciplinary thesis) Thesis: A New Approach to Fuzzy Analysis of Problems of Underprivileged Rural Students in city Colleges

* PUC: Pre-University Course

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP Held

. Chaplains Team – Asia Pacific region of IMCS-PAX ROMANA, Regional office in Manila . Vice-President - Loyola College of Excellence, Chennai, Tamil Nadu . Vice-President - Arul Anandar College, Madurai, Tamil Nadu . Member – Governing Body of Sacred Heart College of Arts and Science, Thiruvallur University . Member – Governing Body of Jayaraj Annapackiam Women College of Arts and Science, Mother Theresa University – Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu . Member – Consult of Jesuit Chennai Mission Area . Member – Indian Coord: ‘World Youth Day’, Rome and France Ignatian Youth Network

TEACHING, TRAINING & RESEARCH AREAS

(for University college students and teachers)

 Social Justice  Human Rights  Social Analysis  Personality Development  Training the Rural and Urban Youth in City colleges  Leadership Training with special reference to college/university youth  Capacity building for the college/university youth  Leadership/Capacity building and Organising skills (School and College students and teachers, NGOs)  Bio-Ethics, Environment and Ecology

2 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES & PAPER PRESENTATIONS Keynote Addresses: 1. Pan Asia Pacific Assembly, a 7 day workshop “Towards an Alternate to Globalization’, organized by IMCS – PAX ROMANA, Jok Jakarta, Indonesia, 2004 2. Convocation of Bachelor of Education - Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary- Pondicherry, August, 2010 3. Annual Day – Parisutham Institute of Technology and Science-Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, April 2011 4. A fortnight seminar on ‘Socio-Cultural Analysis’ of the Indian situation in a world context, 2005, 2006 & 2007 at Indian Social Institute, Bangalore, India 5. University of Technology – Special address on “ Indian context, it’s emerging challenges and the response of Indian youth”, 2002 - Sydney, Australia Resource Person: 6. Five Theatre workshops for University college students – Tamil Nadu State Level– Between 1990- 1996, held in Madurai, Trichy and Chennai cities in India 7. Five Day Puppetry workshop for University college students – Trichy, India 8. National level Street Theatre workshop – Towards Social and Political concientization of College/University students – Chennai, Gujarat, Trichy 9. A fortnight seminar on ‘Socio-Cultural Analysis’ of the Indian situation in a world context, 2005, 2006 & 2007 – Indian Social Institute, Bangalore, India 10. Organising Team: International conference on Towards a New World order and Our collective responses ‘A World wide Chaplains conference’ held in 2002 Brisbane, Australia.

11. A week long seminar on ‘ Human Rights and the Indian Constitution’ in a globalized context, 2005, 2006 & 2007 12. Five day workshop on ‘Indian Women and their Rights’ in a context of religious fundamentalism and globalization 13. Pax Romana – IMCS Pan Asia General Assembly, held in Malaysia, 2007 14. National Council of All India Catholic University Federation of India – 1996 to 2003, Chennai 15. National Seminar ‘Catholic students and Leadership’, organized by Young Catholic Students/Young Students Movement, CITADAL, Saleisians headquarters, 1998 , Chennai 16. National Convention of Catholic/Christian Youth convention on ‘Emerging Realities of Globalisation and Liberalisation – Challenges before the youth’ A critical outlook, 1998, Delhi. 17. Asia Pacific Chaplain’s Training Program: Pastoral Centre, Madurai Archdiocese, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, 1994 18. State Council of All India Catholic University Federation of India, Madurai, TNadu, 1990 to 1996 19. Tamil Nadu AICUF – State convention, Paper presented on ‘ Present day Educational system and its Relevance in India’ , a critical view of the scenario, 1990, Moovandar Arangam, Salem 3 PUBLICATIONS (Selection)

a) Chief Editor – ‘THE RALLY’ – a National Monthly Student Magazine published by All India University of Catholic Federation (AICUF), Chennai, (From August 1996- August 2003). Contributed many articles, editorials, etc. b) Books/ Co-authored:

1) Super Fuzzy Matrices and Super Fuzzy Models for Social Scientists, INFOLERNQUEST, Ann Arbor, USA 2008 2) Fuzzy Linguistic Topological Spaces, ZIP Publishing, Ohio, USA, 2012 3) Fuzzy Analysis of School Dropouts and Their Life After, Educational Publisher Inc. Ohio, USA, 2013

c) Research Articles in Peer-reviewed International Journals and Books: (Given below are some of the papers published in journals and proceedings of the international conferences and the contents, portion of it, is part of my PhD thesis completed in August 2013) 1. Analysis of the problems and prospects faced by poor rural students studying in Chennai City Colleges using FCM Models, Ultra Scientist, Vol. 24(I)A, (2012), 27-34. 2. Fuzzy Linguistic Cognitive Maps and its Applications to Psychological Problems faced by Rural Students Studying in Tamil Nadu City Colleges, Ultra Scientist, Vol. 24(I)A, (2012), 192-198. 3. Fuzzy Relational Maps (FRMs) to Analyse the Interrelation Between Teachers and Poor Rural Students in city colleges, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science (2010), 640-644. 4. Analysis of the problems faced by poor rural students studying in Chennai City Colleges using FCM Models, Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on the Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition- IPCV 2011,Vol. II, Las Vegas Neveda, USA. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WELFARE OUTREACH PROJECTS FOR THE POOR and the Needy

1. African students project (Refugee students Association - RSA) – Networking with JRS 2. Member in the creation of a funding projects: ‘For Young Jesuits from African Jesuit Provinces who come for their studies in India’ 3. One of the founding Members in the making of Jesuit Youth Ministry in South Asia Assistancy level (JYMSA) 4. Collaborated with Fr. Pierre Ceyrac SJ – a Jesuit missionary in his work of rehabilitation of homeless children in Tamil Nadu and a community college for rural young women who were poor and semi-orphaned.

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