HIMGIRI VOICE

ISSUE 12

JULY

2018

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Prof. D. P. Kothari, a veteran educationist who has held leadership

positions at engineering institutions in India including IIT Delhi,

VNIT Nagpur and VIT University Vellore delivered a special

lecture on “Indian Higher Education Scenario: Challenges &

Future Prospects” on July 20, 2018. Prof. Rakesh Ranjan, Vice

Chancellor, Himgiri Zee University, introduced Dr. Kothari and

his achievements to Indian higher education. In his lecture, Prof.

Kothari highlighted how Indian higher education is going to face

unprecedented transformations in the coming decade. Government

plans are in place to transform the sector over the next five years.

Every aspect of higher education is being reorganized and

remodeled: funding, leadership and management, quality

assurance, accountability, relationships with industry,

international collaboration, and the way research and teaching are

conducted. He also highlighted the way premier higher education

institutions such as IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee and

BITS Pilani were established. He also explain the relevance of

quality research, academic rigour and quality of teachers in higher

education institutions. He also explained the emerging challenges

and future prospects for University teachers. Faculty members

raised several questions and Prof. Kothari answered the queries

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India must transform its ailing Higher Education System: Prof. Kothari

with proper justifications. He also suggested some valuable

suggestions to faculty members. The lecture was inspiring and

motivational for all the faculty members. Mr. Anter Deep

Singh, Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Vishnu Mathur, Senior

Administrative Officer, Heads and faculty members of all the

departments attended the session. At the end, Prof. Rakesh

Ranjan thanked Prof. Kothari for his valuable thoughts.

A Research Degree Committee meeting was organized on July

16, 2018. Prof. S.P. Kala (Ex-Dean, Faculty of Management,

Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar

Garhwal was the external expert for the RDC. The Internal

Committee members were Dr. Dalbir Singh Gariya, Head –

Department of Education, Dr. Sharad Pandey, Head -

Department of Agriculture, Dr. Parikshit Kala, Assistant

Professor, Department of Management. This meeting was also

attended by Md. Saifullah Khalid, Head - Department of

Management, Ms. Abha Sharma, Dr. Anup Pokhriyal and Ms.

Charu Sharma. Mr. Rakesh Arya, Head—Department of CS&IT

also rendered his technical help for smooth conduct of research

presentations. Research scholars of various departments

presented their synopsis proposal to the committee. RDC

members Prof. S.P. Kala, Dr. Sharad Pandey, Dr. Dalbir Gariya

and Dr. Praikshit Kala guided and approved the synopsis of

Research Degree Committee guided scholars for quality Doctoral work

research scholars with necessary changes. Prof. Kala also

provided valuable feedback on improving the novelty of

research proposals. He instructed research scholars to read

quality research papers and to make efforts to publish papers

in reputed research journals.

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Faculty Development Program on Effective

Teaching Skills

An Intra-Department Faculty Development Program was conducted

from 5th to 19th July in the Department of Agriculture. This FDP was

organized by Dr. Sharad Pandey, Associate Dean and Head,

Department of Agriculture, with a view to develop Effective Teaching

Skills focusing on ‘Innovations in Teaching’. The program focused on

the key areas of academic delivery such as plan of lecture, board

management, handwriting, voice clarity, pitch, art of explanation, body

language, movement, classroom management strategies and effective

teaching. Mock lectures were also held in lecture theatre with all real

classroom situations. Dr. Sharad Pandey delivered the demo lecture

and shared his teaching experiences along with ways and means for

effective teaching. All the participants also delivered mock lectures.

Each mock lecture was followed by a round of questions and feedback,

where participants were able to realize their strengths and weaknesses

and the specific area of improvement. It was a great learning

experience and skill development exercise for all the faculty members.

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Student Coordinators: Mohammad Sami, Sagar Dwivedi, Amar Kumar Yadav

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CONGRATULATIONS

HZU Faculty Members at Professional

Development Activities

Ms. Manju Verma and Ms. Deepika Joshi, Department of

CS&IT attended 5 days Faculty Development Program on

“AI and Machine Learning” from 4th-8th June, jointly

organized by Electronics & ICT Academies at- IIT

Roorkee, NIT Warangal, NIT Patna, MNIT Jaipur &

IIITDM Jabalpur.

Ms. Suchita, Assistant Professor, Department of

Management attended one week Quality Improvement

Program on “Capacity Building Program on

Entrepreneurship Education” from 11th-15th June

organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

Mr. Chandra Dev Bhatt and Ms. Nirupama Chauhan,

Department of Management published a research paper

titled “Demonetization – Its role and impact on our

society” in ANWESH – International Journal of

Management and Information Technology.

Dr. Jai Jayant joined as Assistant Professor in Faculty of Management. He

earned his Ph.D. degree in 2016 from Banaras Hindu University in finance.

Dr. Tarun Nawani joined as Assistant Professor , Department of Management.

He received his doctorate degree in 2017 from HNB Garhwal Central University,

Uttarakhand. He has over 10 years of experience working in various institutions.

Ar. Ramanjyot Shrivastava joined as Associate Professor in Faculty of

Architecture. Ar. Ramanjyot has done M. Arch (Landscape) and presently pursuing

PhD. She has a rich experience of 10 years as a Private Practitioner and 9 years of

teaching experience in various Architecture colleges.

Mr. Atul Kumar joined in the Depar tment of Forestry and Fisher ies. He holds

B.Sc. Forestry from College of Forestry, Ranichauri. VCSG UUHF Bharsar and

M.Sc. Forestry (Specialization in Wood Science & Technology) from FRI

Dehradun.

Ms. Archana Naganyal joined in the Department of Forestry and Fisher ies as

Teaching Associate. She has done BFSc and MFSc (Fisheries science).

Editorial Team of Himgiri Voice wish them all the success in their new roles.

Welcome to HZU Family

Dr. Charu Sharma,

Assistant Professor,

Department of

Education has been

awarded Doctorate of

Philosophy (Ph.D) in

Education. Title of her doctoral work was

“Ucchtar Madhyamik Vidhayalaon mein

addhyanrat kishor evm kishoriyon ke naitik

mulyon evm unme manavadhikaron ke

prati jagrukta ka ek vishleshnatmak

addhyan.”

Mr. Ashish Dhyani,

Assistant Professor,

Department of Hotel

Management &

Tourism qualified

National Eligibility

Test (NET) 2018 in

Tourism Administration & Management .