JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA Self Study Report for Assessment and Accreditation January, 2015 Submitted to NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar MarG Jamia NaGar, New Delhi-110025, India. http://jmi.ac.in TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................. 2 PROFILE OF JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA ........................................................................................ 11 CRITERIA WISE INPUTS ........................................................................................................... 21 CRITERION I : CURRICULAR ASPECTS ............................................................................. 21 CRITERION II : TEACHING-LEARNING AND EVALUATION ................................................. 33 CRITERION III : RESEARCH, CONSULTANCY AND EXTENSION ............................................ 49 CRITERION IV : INFRASTRUCTURE AND LEARNING RESOURCES ....................................... 68 CRITERION V : STUDENT SUPPORT AND PROGRESSION ................................................ 102 CRITERION VI : GOVERNANCE, LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT ................................. 121 CRITERION VII : INNOVATIONS AND BEST PRACTICES ..................................................... 135 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Preface Jamia Millia Islamia derives its name from Urdu language in which ‘Jamia’ means University and ‘Millia’ means National. This University, born of the Indian National Movement and patriotic fervour, was founded in response to a call by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920 to boycott the Government-supported institutions. The story of Jamia is that of commitment and sacrifices by its founders. This continued to inspire commitment and sincerity of the teachers associated with this institution right from its inception to the present day. The university is striving for excellence in teaching, research and all round development of its students while inching towards completing a century of its existence in 2020. As per the Act and Statutes of the University, “The objects of the University shall be to disseminate and advance knowledge by providing instructional, research and extension facilities in such branches of learning as it may deem fit and the university shall endeavour to provide to students and teachers the necessary atmosphere and facilities for the promotion of:- • Innovations in education leading to restructuring of courses, new methods of teaching and learning, and integral development of personality; • Studies in various disciplines; • Inter-disciplinary studies; • National integration, secularism and international understanding. The Jamia Millia Islamia conducts Undergraduate, Postgraduate, M. Phil. and Ph.D. as well as Diploma and Certificate programmes. The number of students in the university is 16,427 of which 7,844 are enrolled in undergraduate programmes, 3,439 in postgraduate, and 354 in M. Phil. /M. Tech. 1,805 in Ph. D and 2985 in Diploma/Certificate programmes. Jamia Millia Islamia, as before, continues to cater to the interests of students from all communities, but also aims to meet the particular needs of the disadvantaged sections of the Muslim society. True to the legacy of its founders, it continues to support measures for affirmative action and strives to foster the goals of building a secular and modern system of integrated education. Thus, Jamia Millia Islamia is constantly learning from its history to negotiate the new and emerging challenges facing a nation of the twenty first century. Self Study Report for Assessment & Accreditation Page 2 Curricular Aspects The university offers 243 programs covering the continua of knowledge disciplines starting from, Fine Arts, Mass Communication, Humanities, Languages, Social Sciences, Law, Education, Management, Natural Sciences, Dentistry, and Engineering & Technology to Nanotechnology and many interdisciplinary programs. These programs are offered through 9 Faculties, 38 Departments and 33 Centres. The university has a distinction of offering education from nursery school to doctoral level. The university centres also offer variety of multi-disciplinary programs. The Area Study Programs have distinct features and cover studies like North East studies, International studies, Pakistan studies and Afghanistan studies. Every academic Department of the University has a Board of Studies and every Centre of learning has a Committee of Studies. These bodies are responsible for all academic developments in the respective departments and centres. Curriculum design &development is one of the important items, thus updating of the syllabi is done appropriately, as and when needed. All the departments follow the model curricula of UGC/ Statutory Regulatory Bodies and update them regularly keeping in view the requirements of the upcoming needs and new developments. The Board of Studies/ Committee of Studies also have external members from other universities/ institutions/ industries, which helps in designing course structure best suited from national and international perspective. Such bodies have the full freedom to develop new courses and to revise the existing courses and programs as and when required.. Apart from this, some prestigious programs as in Mass Communication and Media Studies have been developed in collaboration with foreign universities. Under inter-mobility program, the students of Jamia can study in some other universities and earn credit. In Jamia there is a close interaction of the students with the faculty and with the industry. Thus, through such interactions teachers get feed-back from the students and industry which helps not only in improving the syllabi but also helps improve the teaching pedagogy. With the advancement of new educational technique and availability of Open Educational Resources (OER’s) faculty members use such resources in the classes. Self Study Report for Assessment & Accreditation Page 3 Teaching, Learning and Evaluation Keeping in view the students coming from diverse backgrounds and from various states of India as well as from abroad, the university, since 1993 has been conducting national level entrance tests for admissions to all programs in the university. Realizing the diversity of students and their knowledge and language, there is flexibility in the medium of instruction in Faculties like Humanities & Languages and Social Sciences where instructions are imparted in English, Hindi and Urdu. Also the university has identified programs/ courses where question papers are set up in two or three languages. Jamia is one of the institutions in the country which tries to bring students from Madarasa background to its mainstream and offers them admission in undergraduate courses in Humanities and Languages, Social Sciences and Education. The university has a reservation policy catering to the needs of women and for this purpose 10% seats have been reserved for Muslim Women under the 50% quota given to Muslim students, since Jamia has been declared a Minority Institution a few years back. The university has introduced credit based semester system in all programs at the Post Graduate level since 2010 and Under Graduate level since 2012, except those regulated by Statutory Regulatory Authorities. University has also adopted CBCS in some programs and has plans to implement this from the coming session To make learning student-centric, many pedagogical techniques are followed such as lectures, tutorials, case studies, field studies, individual & group presentations, seminars, symposia, conferences, assignments etc. The university website provides useful links to vast educational resources available nationally as well as internationally, such as NPTEL, SAKSHAT, MIT Open Courseware, EdeX, Khan Academy, educational Videos from Yale University etc. The university website is very informative and also provides extensive software support to all departments, Jamia E-content Management System (JEMS). The University also has a set-up of Knowledge Gate Server where PPTs and lectures are available for the use of the students and faculty through university intranet. Apart from providing email services to all regular teaching and major administrative staff it also provides Email Ids to all its regular students for educational communication and related engagement. The university is facilitating setting up 24 smart classrooms in various departments of the university. Internet connectivity through optical fiber backbone is available throughout the university, including hostel rooms and cafeterias so that the students can get maximum benefit from available resources. Self Study Report for Assessment & Accreditation Page 4 The university has well qualified, dedicated permanent teaching faculty strength of more than 689 at the level of Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors who have been recruited as per the UGC guidelines through open selection committees which are widely publicized. The university also has certain subject specialized guest faculties hired from reputed academic institutions as well as from industries that help in improving the quality of learning. There are a number of chair professors and visiting professors in a number of departments and centres of the university. In addition to good quality classrooms with ICT facility, the university encourages the teachers and students to participate in and organize national and international events like, workshops, symposia, conferences, extension