Faculty Meeting of South Zone – Management Institutes

Faculty Meeting of South Zone – Management Institutes

GTU Innovation Council Centre, Gandhi College of Engineering, Surat

Date : 04/08/2018, 17 :30 to 20 :00 hours

 

A faculty meeting of all the faculty members from GTU South Zone Management Institutes was held at GTU Innovation Council Centre, Gandhi College of Engineering, Surat.  Below mentioned faculty members attended.

• Dr. S Kumar, Ex – Professor and Head, DBIM. VNSGU, SURAT,  (Invited Guest)
• Dr. Trupti S Almoula, Dean, Faculty of Management, GTU and Director, NCM
• Dr. Jimmy Kapadia, Director, SRLIM, Surat
• Dr. Chetan Lad, Director, Naran Lala Institute of Management, Navsari
• Dr. Sham Sachinwala, Director, S S Agarwal Institute of Management, Navsari
• Dr. Snehal Mistry, Director, Bhagwan Mahaveer Institute of Management, Surat
• Dr. Seema Kadam,  MES Institute of Business Management, Mandvi
• Dr. Hiren Patel, SRLIM, Surat
• Prof. Delnaz Variava, SRLIM, Surat
• Prof. Parinaz Bharucha, SRLIM, Surat
• Prof. Rupal Khambhati, SRLIM, Surat
• Prof. Harshesh Patel, SRLIM, Surat
• Prof. Paresh Dave, SRLIM, Surat
• Prof. Pratiksinh, S Vaghela, SRLIM, Surat
• Prof. Drashti Shah, SRLIM, Surat
• Prof. Ashish Patil, SRLIM, Surat
• Prof. Nandish Upadhyay, SRLIM, Surat
• Prof. Rahul Soni, M H Kadakia Insitute of Management, Ankleshwar
• Prof. Ankit Shah, M H Kadakia Insitute of Management, Ankleshwar
• Prof. Subhash Yadav, Narmada College of Management, Bharuch

The meeting began with a welcome address by the Dean, Faculty of Management, GTU, Dr. Trupti S Almoula,  who outlined the objective of this initiative and the results that were expected from the deliberations.

Dr. S Kumar, as a mentor and invited guest addressed all the faculty members by giving a perspective of management education and its evolution in South Gujarat, challenges faced and how the teaching fraternity was able to overcome them. He outlined the importance of re instituting the dignity and relevance of the MBA degree by making changes in teaching learning process of Management education.

All the Directors of the institute discussed their concern about some structural problems in the admission process due to which there is an acute shortfall of applicants for the program. Among the suggestions floated were advancing the admissions process by ACPC by at least two months, and starting Gujarat Common Entrance Test for MBA, once again.

Based on the discussions with faculty members and directors, a schedule of two day Faculty Development Programme was finalized on 11^th and 26^th August at the same venue for first semester subjects. Mentors and Resource persons for the same were decided by mutual consent.

A student orientation programme in the last week of August was also finalized in which two teams of resource persons will orient the students at all the institutes of south zone in the form on an intense half day workshop on the horizons of Management education.

The meeting ended with a vote of thanks by Prof. Parinaz Bharucha.