Relentlessly towards Excellence VOLUME 8 NUMBER 29 JULY - SEPTEMBER 2016 RAJAGIRI H I G H L I G H T S VOLUME 2 An IQAC Initiative NUMBER 42 JULY - SEPTEMBER 2020 NEWLY ELECTED PROVINCIAL TEAM Congratulations Provincial Fr. Varghese Kachapilly CMI Fr. Saju Madavanakkadu CMI Fr. Joy Kilikkunnel CMI Fr. Mejo Gracevilla CMI Fr. Paul Nedumchalil CMI Fr. Benny Nalkara CMI Vcar Provincial Concillor for Councillor For Education and Councillor For Finance Auditor Councillor For Social Evangelization and Pastoral Communication Media Apostolate Ministry INSTITUTIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous) in association with Rajagiri outREACH had participated in AICTE – Utkrisht Sansthan Viswakarma Award - 2020 (“India Fights Corona”) and was awarded Certificate of Excellence on 17.09.2020 winning Third Rank for its significant contributions in Category 1 – Awareness program Conducted for nearby locality against the spread of COVID-19 across India. · Rajagiri has been awarded the Education Excellence Award 2020 for consistent performance in BBA Education. Source: GHRDC BBA Colleges Survey 2020 · OUTLOOK- India's top Professional Colleges ranking 2020 * MSW – Ranked Second Best in India and First in Kerala * BBA – Ranked 20th Best in India and First in Kerala * BCom - Ranked 40th Best in India and 3rd in Kerala Relentlessly towards Excellence VOLUME-2 NUMBER-42 JULY - SEPTEMBER - 2020 INAUGURAL CEREMONY OF RAJAGIRI E-MARATHON The inaugural ceremony of India's First global E-Marathon, Rajagiri e-Marathon was held on 28th September 2020. Honourable Minister of State for External Affairs & Parliamentary Affairs, Shri V. Muraleedharan graced the occasion virtually and inaugurated the event. VALLEY CAMPUS Finance Workshop on 'Data Management and Webinar on 'Beyond the Pandemic - Opportunities for Analysis with STATA' the FMCG sector' th Finance Workshop was held in Valley Campus from 8 July to Marketing Area organized a webinar on 24th July 2020 titled th 9 July 2020, on the topic "Data management and analysis “Beyond the Pandemic - Opportunities for the FMCG sector” with STATA". Dr. Ronny Thomas was the resource person, in which was sponsored by Foodlocker Food Packs. Key which 19 faculty members have given their participation. Speakers were Mr. Aishwarya Pratap Singh (Head of Marketing –Snacks, Noodles, Pasta ITC Limited) and Mr. Vivek Mani (Founder & CEO, Foodlocker Food packs). Dr. Smitha Siji, was the moderator. There were around 250 participants for the webinar Webinar on 'Stress Management through Yoga' It's really a challenge to maintain a healthy and calm lifestyle amid a crisis like this. While feeling worried, we should definitely find ways to improve our resilience. To help and to take care of your social and emotional well-being, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences & Rajagiri Business School organized a Webinar for all Students and Faculty titled “Stress Management through Yoga” on 25th July, 2020. Resource Person was Smt. Chethana Badekar, Academic Director, Webinar on 'Personal Mastery' YOGACHETHANA, College of Yoga and Research, Karnataka. Rajagiri College of Social Sciences & Rajagiri Business School organized a Webinar for all Students and Faculty on the topic “Personal Mastery” on 10th July 2020. The resource person was Dr. Lissy Shajahan - Psychologist, Life Coach & Author. The topics covered were “How to maintain a powerful mindset for Success, Identifying yourself and Life Skills”. Pre Management Programme Pre Management Programme for AY: 2020-22 was conducted from 15th July to 31st July 2020. 2 Relentlessly towards Excellence VOLUME-2 NUMBER-42 JULY - SEPTEMBER - 2020 Deeksharambham - the initiation ceremony for the Induction for Management Freshers new batches of Rajagiri Valley Dr. Ushy Mohan Das CEO & Chief Coach of Dr. Ushy's Wisdom rd Works conducted a virtual session titled “Dare to be You”- Deeksharambham, was held on 3 August.2020 and the th 'Induction Programme' was on 4th August, 2020. The Guest of Potential Redefined for the Management Freshers on 4 August 2020. Honour for Deeksharambham was Mr. Srinivasan K Swamy, MD & CEO of RK Swamy Hansa Group, Chairman and World Webinar on 'Shift to Hybrid Learning Model: The New President of International Advertising Association. Normal for Education in association with FICCI' Rajagiri School of Management organized a webinar in association with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) titled Shift to Hybrid Learning Model: The New Normal for Education on 6th August 2020. Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe – Chairman AICTE, Mr. Ajay Bohora – Co-founder – HDFC Credila Financial services, Mr. Amit Goyal – Country Head – India and SE Asia, Edx, Mr. Ayush Gupta – CGM-GAIL and Ms. Shobha Mishra Ghosh – Asst. Gen Secretary FICCI were the speakers apart from Dr. Binoy Joseph, Dr. Sunil Puliyakot and Fr. Francis Manavalan. There were more than 1660 participants which included various Vice-Chancellors of Universities and Directors of IIMs and premier B-schools of the country. HILL CAMPUS DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK Webinar on 'Current Practices, Strategies and Challenges in Social Work Education' The Department of Social Work, organized a three-day webinar on the theme 'Current Practices, Strategies, and Challenges in Social Work Education' from July 22 to 24, 2020. The main themes for the Webinar were: * Day 1: "Evidence-Based Practice; Relevance and Scope in Social Work Education" * Day 2: "Practice Research in Social Work: Research in Action" * Day3: "Evidence-Based Policy and Practice: Practice Research Models in Specific Populations" The Webinar was hosted on Google meet platform and a total of 252 participants registered for the programme. Among the registered participants, 33 participants submitted abstracts and full papers and presented papers at the Webinar. National Webinar on “The Role of Youth in the Prevention of Cyber Crime with a focus on Human Trafficking” The Department of Social Work in association with OYSTER (Organization of Yester Year Students of Rajagiri College of Social Sciences) and International Justice Mission jointly organized a National Webinar on July 25, 2020, on the topic, “The Role of Youth in the Prevention of Cyber Crime with a focus on Human Trafficking with 258 participants 3 Relentlessly towards Excellence VOLUME-2 NUMBER-42 JULY - SEPTEMBER - 2020 Relief Activity DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND As part of Chellanam relief, the volunteers of youth red cross, INFORMATION SCIENCE Rajagiri College of Social sciences mobilized 1000 Cloth face Online training session on 'J-Gate as a Search & masks and 30 liters of hand wash for Chellanam Flood Discovery Tool for Accessing Scholarly Journal affected Victims handed over the same to Red Cross Bhavan, Literature", 17th September 2020' Kakkanad on August 24, 2020. Department of Library and Information Science and Fr. Moses Library jointly organized an online training session on "J-Gate as a Search & Discovery Tool for Accessing Scholarly Journal Literature" on 17th September 2020 through Microsoft Teams. Mr. Ravishankar B, J-Gate Informatics was the Resource person. The session was informative and interactive. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY Webinar on the topic 'Dementia-Identification, Assessment and Management' Prabhodini - Wisdom Talks The Department of Psychology organized a webinar on the First talk in the series of 'Prabhodini - Wisdom Talks', on the topic “Dementia-Identification, Assessment and topic “Social work during social distancing-Opportunities and challenges in the development sector” was held on Management" in celebration of World Senior Citizens day. Dr. September 10, 2020. 190 participants including Social Work Sudhir Kumar M.D. (IMHANS) and Dr. Sen Kallumpuram students, faculty members, and social work practitioners (N.H.S.; UK) were the speakers. attended the programme. Mr. Kochouseph Thomas Webinar on the Topic: Psycho-Vaccine for COVID-19" As Part Chittilappilly, Chairman - K Chittilappilly Foundation was the of World Mental Health Day invited speaker. On the occasion of World mental Health Day, the Department DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE of Psychology organized a WEBINAR on the topic: Psycho- Faculty Development Programme on "Data Science Vaccine for COVID-19" in association with Care of Minds. Dr. using Python, R, and Orange". Sanju George (MBBS, FRCP, Psych UK), Fr. Dr. Rajeev Michael The Department of Computer Science conducted Six days (NIMHANS), Dr. Roshin Kunnel (Unibas, Switzerland) were the online Faculty Development Programme on "Data Science resource persons for the Webinar. using Python, R and Orange" from 10th to 15th August 2020. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND The FDP will be using an online platform and the timings are from 6:30 PM to 08:00 PM. This programme is aimed at PROFESSIONAL STUDIES providing hands-on training and rich technical knowledge on Webinar on 'Business Analytics as a career for Non- Data Science. The resource persons for this FDP are Mr. Bastin Tech Graduate' Robins. J, Dr. Dhaval Maheta and Dr.Hitesh Parmar. The Department of Commerce and Professional Studies in association with Miles Education, organized a Webinar on “Business Analytics as a career for Non-Tech Graduate” (an IQAC initiative) for the students of third semester B.Com Model 1 Computer Applications and BBA. The Scheduled date for the webinar was 27 August 2020, from 2 PM onwards. Amit Choudhary was the resource persons for the webinar. Assistant Professors Mahesh K.M and Dr Ayana Johny New Joinee to the Department of Computer Science coordinated the program.