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Bishop Cotton Women's Christian College Annual BISHOP COTTON WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT 2018 – 2019 Good Evening honoured guests, ladies and gentlemen and the Graduating Class of 2019. It is an absolute honour to welcome you to share in this celebration of achievement and accomplishment. We have come to honour the Graduating Students who have spent three or five years in this Green Campus. Institutions of higher education all over the world have ushered in the knowledge revolution in the present century to shape the destiny of our youth. This requires a phenomenal expansion in terms of quality education and we have responded to the need by strengthening the curriculum through a sound support system in terms of co-curricular and extra curricular activities, which aim at the overall development of our students through holistic education. Being a college of higher learning, we are forever trying to handle changing scenarios with expertise and attempting to go beyond the ordinary. Bishop Cotton Women’s Christian College, an offshoot of the hundred and fifty year old Bishop Cotton Girls’ School was founded by the Karnataka Central Diocese, Church of South India in 1987. The college is located in the heart of Bengaluru comprises of classrooms with LCD facilities, laboratories, a well-furnished administrative office, library, staff rooms, canteen, infirmary, chapel and a seminar hall. Being a Self –Financed College, affiliated to the Bangalore University, we have the advantage of providing good Infrastructure to meet the growing needs of the increasing student strength. It houses the Undergraduate Commerce, Humanities, Science, Management and Post-Graduate blocks. It is considered as a little oasis in the middle of a bustling city with tall concrete structures. The Bishop Cotton Women’s Christian College has the privilege of an illustrious legacy of over a century in the arena of education. Being a Christian minority women’s college, we adorn a secular outlook that attracts students from all religious and socio economic backgrounds. A team of committed and qualified faculty are engaged in continuous Research and Consultation activity. The commitment of the faculty ensures good results, University Ranks and Gold medals. Remedial classes for the academically weak and constant upgrades are endeavored in to teach a digital generation. It is with pride that we announce the Twinning Programme with Concordia University, USA and 19 value-added course imparting transferable and life skill offered in the College. The Management gives fee concession to CSI Christian students, academically meritorious students and sports achievers. The United Board Team visited the College during February 2018. The members were Dr. Marcus Boominathan, former Principal, Bishop Heber College, Trichy and Dr. M Jezer Jebanesan, Former Principal, Scott Christian College, Nagercoil were deputed by Madras Christian College as an external academic audit team. The NAAC Peer Team Visit was on 29th and 30th March 2019. It consisted of eminent academicians viz., Dr. Arun Diwaker Nath Bajpai, Vice Chancellor, Dr. Jyoti Bansal, Registrar, OP Jindal Global University and Dr. Jayashree Ghosh, Principal, Anna Adarsh College, Chennai. The Peer Team members had excellent reviews and rated the College at a 5 star level. The College has been re accredited. We are proud to announce that as per the Education World India Higher Education Rankings 2018- 2019, our College has been ranked 9th among the best colleges in Bengaluru City and 55th among rd India’s top 100 Arts, Science and Commerce Colleges on 23 June 2018. DEMISE It is with a heavy heart that we place on record the passing away of Dr. Muniraja G, Head, Department of Mathematics – Degree. He served the college faithfully for 27 years until his untimely demise. We appreciate and remember his contribution to our institution. We pray that his soul may rest in peace and that God may grant comfort to the bereaved family and friends. He has indeed left a void in our hearts that will take a long time to fill. STUDENT STRENGTH (UG 3 Years & PG 2 Years) RESULT (FINAL YEAR ONLY) Arts 170 Arts 71% Science 156 Science 84% Commerce 592 Commerce 84% BBA 146 BBA 89% BCA 102 BCA 91% M.Com. 46 M.Com. 100% M.Sc. Psychology – I Yr Only - 19 HIGHLIGHTS OF FACULTY HONOURS Completion of Ph.D.: Mrs. Harshini Esther G – Faculty Member, Dept. of Post Graduate Studies (M.Com.) – “A study on Work Life Balance among Academicians in B-Schools with special reference to Woman in Bangalore” - Tumkur University Mrs. Syeda Saria Musheer – Faculty Member, Dept. of Commerce (PUC) – “Financial Performance Analysis Of Select Information Technology (IT) Companies In India” – Annamalai University. Mrs. Pauline V N – Faculty Member, Dept. of English (PUC) – “ Diasporic Elements in Select Novels of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni” – Bharathiar University. Completion of MBA Mrs. Yamini R – Faculty Member – Dept. of Commerce (PUC) – Master Of Business Administration (Financial Management) – Annamalai University. AWARDS RECEIVED BY FACULTY Prof. Esther Prasanakumar, Principal, Prof. Vinay Kumar Yadav, Head Dept. of Hindi, Prof. Renuka Paul, Faculty, Dept. of Psychology and Dr. Marie Kavitha Jayakaran, Faculty, Dept. of Home Science were honoured by Presidency College on 14.12.2018 – Outstanding Teacher Award. Dr. Amitha Santiago, Prof., Dept. of English Indo-China-Indonesia (ICI) Asian Senior Research Fellowship. Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hong Kong (2017-19). Awarded Membership into the European Association for South East Asian Studies, Paris, France. ECSAS conferences are organized by the Centre d’Etudes de L’Indeet de L’Asia du Sud. The largest French Social Sciences Institute whose focus is the South Asian sphere. 2018 - 2020. Dr. Marie Kavitha Jayakaran, Prof., Department of Home Science Awarded the Best Faculty Co-ordinator by the Rotaract District Council for the Rota year 2017- 18 at the Rotaract District Council Awards in July 2018. STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS BANGALORE UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION Ms. Noor E Saba – Smt. Saroja Bai Keshava Vittal Gold Medal to a girl student in Home Science for securing highest marks in Home Science in B.Sc./B.A. – Degree Examination for the year 2017-2018. Ms. Samreen Firdose – Smt. B Susheela Lingaiah – Gold Medal for having secured highest marks in B.Sc in Degree Examination held during May 2017. Ms. Kavya Shree M – Dr. S. Nijalingappa’s 68th Birthday commemoration Gold Medal – SC/ST of Home Science. Multi-Disciplinary Colloquium: III BA Students of SPE actively participated in an International Colloquium on the theme “Gender Equality and Inequality on 10th August 2018 organized by Gloucester Diocese. DEPARTMENT REPORTS ENGLISH: The department conducted a Literary Workshop on Story Writing on 1st February 2019. Ms. Devanshi Sharma was the Guest Speaker. Two students Ms. Fatema Kapadia and Ms. Cecelia Juanita, III B.A., presented a paper on ‘Gendered Spaces in the Public Sphere’, a micro study of Bangalore’s Mall, Airports, Railways and Educational Institutes in an International Interdisciplinary Joint Conference on ‘Multispecialty of Spaces, Religion, Culture and Urbanity’ in India organised by the Department of English at Chennai in collaboration with Madras University’s Department of Women’s Studies and Department of Christian Studies on 21st and 22nd February 2019. Dr. Amitha Santiago, Prof. Recent Research papers published: “BayitzeIsha: Housing the Body of the Woman through Spatializing Metaphors.” Chapter in “Culture, Religion and Home-Making in and Beyond South Asia.” Ed. Dr James Ponniah. Fortress Press International.Netherlands.2018. “Homes and Spaces under Transformation”. Foreword to the book: Culture, Religion and Home- Making in and BeyondSouth Asia. Editor Dr James Ponniah. Fortress Press International, Netherlands. 2018. Nurturing Abstractions of the Nation in Religio-cultural Identity Assertions and Spaces of Generosity in Sufi Darghas of Karnataka. e-ISSN: 2654-2706 International Journal of Interreligious and Intercultural Studies (IJIIS). Published by Universitas Hindu Indonesia. 2018. https://www.neliti.com/journals/ijiis. Recent Research Papers Presented: (In detail) Interpreting the Political in the Infrastructural Body of Christ: the Church Union Movement of South India.” Conference Theme: Issues, Questions and Debates on Christianity Past and Contemporary in Asia: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Hosted by the International Journal of Asian Christianity. January 2018. “Literary Canon Formation and Religion in Colonial and Postcolonial India: Situating the Crisis in English Studies”. Literature and Religion: Re-reading the Classics Today. Interdisciplinary Joint Conference. Madras University, Chennai. December, 2018. “Married to Gods and Goddesses: Sacred Feminine Bodies of Vachanakaras and Yellamma’s Jogappas and Jogatis of Karnataka”. Indo-China-Indonesia Senior Research Fellowship with Hong Kong University. Work- in-Progress Presentation. Chennai, May 2018. Workshop Facilitator: 1.Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World: Dalit Narratives of Witness in a Multi – Religious Context 2. Mission From and At the Margins: Dalits and Christianity in India. Conference on “Moving in the Spirit: Transforming Discipleship.” World Mission and Evangelism (CWME), Arusha, Tanzania, March 2018, World Council of Churches 2018. “Spatializing Religio-Racio-Cultural Identities: Karnataka’s Indo-Iranian Muslims and Afro- Indian Siddis”. International Symposium on Religious Life (ISRL). Theme: “Religion in a Divided, Multicultural World: Moderation,
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