Yale to groom faculty with IIT, IIM
Sources told The Indian Express that the university will sign an MoU with IIT Kanpur and IIM Kozhikode on October 28 to set up two Centers of Excellence in Academic Leadership (CEEAL) — one at IIT Kanpur's Extension Centre in Noida and the other on IIM Kozhikode campus — and launch a series of collaborative exchange programmes in academic leadership.
The MoU will be signed by president of Yale University Richard Levin, Director of IIT Kanpur S G Dhande and IIM Kozhikode Director Debasis Chatterjee and will come into effect from January 1, 2011.
According to the proposed agreement, each institute will appoint two members to a Joint Management Committee to supervise the collaborative efforts. The committee will meet "as and when necessary to review progress in implementation of activities, define new areas and programmes of collaboration and other aspects of the MoU, like funding issues".
Yale, the IIT and the IIM will share scientific, academic and technical information and academic materials related to academic leadership, collaborate to identify opportunities for exchanges and cooperation and conduct joint workshops, seminars, courses and conferences on academic leadership and management.
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"The centres will serve to groom excellent academic leadership in view of the expansion in the education sector in India. The idea is to posit it as a top-notch academic centre, which will have international academics flying down to help develop and conduct programmes for Indian academia," said an official.
The proposed agreement is significant in view of the urgent need to address the issues of quality of faculty as well as the fact that finding a good vice-chancellor is no longer an easy task. So, officials said, there is a pressing need to groom faculty and academic leadership to take on bigger roles.
Source: Indian Express
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