Internal Quality Assurance Cell
- IQAC
A. INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL
Establishment
The Institution has an effective and efficient Internal Quality Assurance Cell. The IQAC of the college was established in the year 2012-13.
Coordinators
The present coordinators of the IQAC of the college are as mentioned below
| S.No. | Name | Department and Designation | Position Held |
| 1 | Sojan K G | Associate Professor, Department of English | Coordinator |
| 2 | Dr Umesh Maiya | Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce | Co Coordinator |
Major Duties Performed by IQAC
- Data and documentation through Monthly Reports
- Collection and Analysis of Stakeholders’ feedback
- Publication of E News Letter Chiguru
- Coordination of the activities of the various committees, cells and forums
- Overall supervision of the Institutional Best Practice
- Initiating new healthy practices in the college
- Conduct of periodic external audit
- Annual preparation and submission of AQAR
- Organize seminars, workshops, training programmes etc
- Monitoring of social media platforms - FaceBook and YouTube Channel
B. Committee Composition, CoE, etc.
C. Two best practices of the college in NAAC format
Best Practice 1
Title of the Practice: Swachch Self-Reliant Woman (SSRW – 1)
Objectives of the Practice
- To teach basic fashion designing skills to students
- To inculcate job-oriented skills to students
- To provide scope for self-employment after graduation
- To teach the values of self-dependence
- To create an ambience of knowledge coupled with skills
The Context
The institution has strived to give maximum academic flexibility to students in terms of choice of courses. While the college has catered to the knowledge component, it has been observed that the students need skill component as much as the former. As stated in the ive, the institution sought to create an ambience of knowledge coupled with skills. Swachch Self-Reliant Woman (SSRW – 1) is the institutional best practice that intends to create a self-employment platform to students. Along with their graduation, students can be trained in the skills of basic fashion designing. An SSRW Centre has been designated for the purpose in the portals of the institution with around fifteen tailoring units. The institution aspires to increase the units by five units in each successive year. Along with elementary fashion designing, the best practice also envisages various self employment skills training like embroidery, mehendi designing, beautician courses, knitting, saree kuchchu design, artificial jewellery designing, candle making etc, albeit in a phased manner.
The Practice
Interested students from any class can enroll in the training skills offered under the SSRW. The institution has made provision for necessary instructors to impart the training. Priority in enrollment is however provided to the students in the final year of their course. It has been carefully studied that girls who pass out of the institution are not prepared to go to far off places in quest of jobs or higher education. Imparting job-oriented skills provides our students, who are exclusively girls, the option to work from the safe confines of their homes and thence take steady steps towards self-reliance.
Evidence of Success
The practice is still in its nascent stage and at present it has exuded immense enthusiasm from the various stakeholders involved in the best practice. In due course, we as an institution are optimistic of producing a generation of students who are not only enriched by knowledge but equipped with skills for self reliant living.
Best Practice 2
Title of the Practice: Swachch Self-Reliant Woman (SSRW – 2)
Objectives of the Practice
- To promote and maintain cleanliness in and around the campus
- To produce the best out of waste (Compost/manure)
- To develop a botanical garden for the use of Botany students
- To improve aesthetic ambience of the college
The Context
It is said that “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.” SSRW 2, in many ways, proceeds from this maxim. Swachch Bharat is also now a national mission, with each and every organization chipping in whatever way it can. The institution believes that young minds can be moulded to make cleanliness a part of their life and character. Therefore as our Best Practice 2, the institution has focused ennobling vision of Swachch Woman. The essential context of the practice is to make cleanliness a habit and thereby ensure a clean, hygienic campus. The best practice also envisages a context wherein the bio-degradable waste can be used to produce compost/manure. The same can be used to develop a botanical garden within the space available in the campus and thereby enhance the aesthetic ambience of the college.
The Practice
To encourage students to involve in activities to keep the campus clean following S5 APPROACH.
Students should compulsorily
SORT - (segregate) dry and wet waste. For which every class should be provided 2 d (green and yellow). Wet waste should be used to produce compost (manure) which can be used for plants in the college.
SET IN ORDER - Specific space for everything
SHINE - Every class should have teams to keep the class room clean/waste management
STANDARDIZE - Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). Assigning the responsibilities to teams and monitoring.
SUSTAIN - Monitoring by teachers
Evidence of Success
The practice is still in its nascent stage and at present it has exuded immense enthusiasm from the various stakeholders involved in the best practice. In due course, we as an institution are optimistic of producing a generation of students who are not only enriched by knowledge but equipped with skills for self reliant living.
D. Green Campus Initiatives
- Minimal use of plastic in college
- Replacement of fluorescent lights/bulbs with LED lights in a phased manner
- A small garden within the college premise
- Rain water harvesting unit in the PG Block
- Paperless documentation via Google Drive
- Active participation in Swachch Bharat Campaign through various Extension Activities
E. Institutional Distinctiveness
“Throw away the servility of imitation and rise to…originality.” - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Institutions, like individuals, have their own character. Ideally, the character of institutions ought to be unique and distinctive. Dr G Shankar Government Women’s First Grade College & PG Study Centre, Ajjarkadu, Udupi was founded in the year 2003-04 with a vision to “empower women so as to achieve excellence and imbibe virtues of discipline, commitment to social values and willingness to contribute to the well-being of society.” The institutional distinctiveness of the college could be enunciated under a three-fold aspiration – empowerment, public-private participation and knowledge-skill platform.
Empowerment
The professed vision of the institution is women empowerment. We have heard the age-old adage that “knowledge is power.” Dr G Shankar Government Women’s First Grade College & PG Study Centre is the only women’s government college in the district and the institution is also first-choice educational hub of the rural and economically disadvantaged students. The strength has been consistently above 2000 in the last few years. With five Under-Graduate and five Post Graduate Courses on offer, the institution provides ample and smooth transitional scope to students from UG to PG in the same academic ambience. In addition, being a recognized IGNOU Study Centre and NPTEL-Local Chapter, the institution offers plethora of certificate courses to add to their vistas of knowledge. Truly, the institution is a forerunner of female empowerment through education.
Public-Private Participation (PPP)
The college is named after Dr. G. Shankar, entrepreneur and philanthropist who has donated a substantial amount for the construction of classrooms at the time of its inception. This umbilical cord between a government college and a private entrepreneur has only grown stronger and stronger. The college is an excellent example of Private Participation in the development of the college.
Enriched by knowledge; equipped with skills
The institution has great awareness of the requirement of the skill quotient in the competitive modern world. In collaboration with Unnathi Foundation, Bangalore, and Ramakrishna Hegde Skill Development Centre, Udupi, the institution imparts Soft Skills and Communicative Skills Training Programme to students. In addition, while the college has catered to the knowledge component, it has been observed that the students need skill component as much as the former. As stated in the ive, the institution sought to create an ambience of knowledge coupled with skills. Swachch Self-Reliant Woman (SSRW – 1) is the institutional best practice that intends to create a self-employment platform to students.
F. IQAC E-Newsletter: Chiguru
G. IQAC Initiatives
TOWARDS PAPERLESS DOCUMENTATION
Drive-based documentation: One of the functions of IQAC is also the process of documentation. One of the major initiatives of IQAC is the concept of Google Drive Documentation. In the days of high speed information and communication technology, Google Drive can be a major tool for recording information. The IQAC realized this advantage and decided to use the Google Drive as our documentation tool.
Steps involved: We opened a Gmail account for the IQAC. In this IQAC Gmail Account we created a Google Drive (mother drive) named IQAC 2013.
In the next stage all HODs and Committee/Cell Conveners and Coordinators were requested to create a Department/Committee Email Account. They were also asked to open a Google Drive account under their department/committee and share it to the mother drive IQAC 2013.
The s of the mother drive and all department/committee drives were shared.
From then on, all teachers were trained on how to upload files and folders on to their Google Drive and share it with the mother drive IQAC 2013.
Subsequently all HODs and Committee/Forum Conveners started uploading all files and folder to their respective department/committee drive and shared with IQAC 2013.
This sharing enabled preservation of all data in digital form and it also ensured that shared data was accessible to all other departments.
An example of files and folders in Department Drive: English Department
In the single Google Drive titled English Department we have uploaded nine folders/files. They are time tables, question papers, syllabus, personal profiles, Department files, action plans, Department PPT for NAAC Visit, publication details and e-content.
In total we have 30 Google Drives including the English Department Google Drive. In each drive there are sub-files and sub-folders. Information is shared among all shared s.
Nature of documents uploaded: We have uploaded word files, excel files, images, PPTs, short video clippings, news paper cuttings, movies and so on. There is enormous possibility in what one can upload in the Google Drive.
Novel initiatives: In Google Drive we have one folder reserved for students called the Student Corner. Recorded student achievements like photos, news paper clipping etc are uploaded by HODs and Conveners after collecting the necessary achievement document from the student.
Strength: The strength of this practice is that this method is paperless and data can be updated as and when required. By making the uploaded document Read-Only we can also prevent tampering of data uploaded. In addition, updating in the department drive ensures automatic updating in the mother drive also.
H. Feedback and Action Taken Reports