VEDANTA UNIVERSITY WILL FOCUS ON LEBERAL ARTS
Jibanendra Mahanty
Dear Readers,
Please find attached Page 57 of the Time Magazine (Asian edition) dated the 14th May Issue, which has a brief News Item on Anil Agarwal.
The Time Magazine has named Anil Agarwal, as one of the 12 top Power Givers of the World, for his pledge of $1 billion to establish a World Class, need-blind University in Orissa, Eastern India.
The News item further reads that the University to be called "Vedanta", will focus on " Liberal Arts" in contrast to India's many technically oriented Schools.
From the Letter of the CEO, Vedanta University, it was understood that the University will provide World Class faculty and facilities for Higher Education and Research in not only in Humanities, but also in Pure Science, Life Science, Bio-technology,Nano-technology, Health Science, Law, etc.
But the report in Time Magazine does not support the statement of the CEO of VU.
OTN Group may refer the point to CEO, VU for clarification.
Thanks,
J.N.Mahanty
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chitta
Dear Jibanendra babu:
I think Time may have meant that it won't be an
one dimensional institute like IIT, or IIM or AIIMS.
Its good that Time wrote about him. Now it will get
harder for him to back out, unless we Oriyas create problems.
Vedanta Univ's web page at
http://vedanta.edu.in/page.php?id=6&sid=20
gives the list of all the depts it plans to have.
They already said clearly that the hospital which they had
initially planned to be not in the phase 1 will now be
in phase1. I think they will have engg and management and
some other professional disciplines in phase 1 also,
as those will fetch them paying students.
Here is a copy-n-paste of their relevant web page.
cheers
Chitta
The University would be administered through academic units organized
as decentralized schools focused by area of discipline.
College of Arts and Sciences
The main tenet of the college of Arts and Sciences will be the
undegraduate program. The Bachelor's Programme would not merely
provide a broad based education and help in the disciplining of the
mind, but also prepare students to become useful citizens of
democratic societies and give them the analytical tools needed for the
pursuit of a profession.
The College of Arts and Sciences will consist of Bachelor's, Master's
and Doctoral students and faculty in the following areas and organized
in various divisions, both at the undegraduate and graduate levels:
* Humanities and Languages
* Social and Behavioral Sciences
* Biological & Environmental Sciences
* Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Graduate Schools
Graduate SchoolsThe University's Master's programmes will instill an
ethos of public service in its students and prepare leaders who will
make a significat impact as public servants, entrepreneurs, civil
society activists, educationists, and researchers. In addition
tograduate programs in the core disciplines of the College of Arts and
Sciences, Vedanta University proposes graduate schools in the
following disciplines:
* Education
* Sustainable Development
* Public Health
* Government, Leadership, and Public Policy
All undergraduate and graduate education in Social Sciences,
Humanities, and Natural Sciences would be administered through the
College of Arts & Sciences. The College's undergraduate curriculum
will allow students to make choices related to their own education,
develop individual interests, build their own perspectives and views
by positing them vis-à-vis those of their peer and the rest of the
world, learn about themselves and those around them in society,
sharpen their ability to think critically and creatively, explore
diversity in learning as well while focusing on few disciplines to
build deep knowledge. The College will also develop shared values and
a diverse base of common knowledge which would help build an
appreciation of arts and culture, natural and social sciences,
qualitative and quantitative analytical abilities, languages, and
written and spoken abilities along with specific skills irrespective
of the area of specialization.
Graduate schools will administer mostly non-professional graduate
programmes in areas of social and intellectual importance. However,
the schools of Education and Public Health may offer professional
diplomas.
Professional SchoolsProfessional Schools
The professional schools will administer programmes in a variety of
disciplines that provide skilled talent for essential industries and
emerging sectors of the economy. The currenty proposed professional
programmes are:
* Agriculture
* Engineering & Applied Sciences
* Computer Sciences
* Business/Management
* Media, Design, and Performing Arts
* Law
* Medicine (Medicine, Dental, Nursing, Pharmacy)
* Architecture & Urban Planning
* Communications
Cross-disciplinary Centres of Excellence
Various issues and problems cannot be understood or solved through the
lens of one or two particular disciplines. The success of the 'post
disciplinary' approach will require visionary effort to identify
emerging challenges and anticipated cross-disciplinary human resource
needs. These centres of excellence will incubate and catalyse cutting-
edge multi-disciplinary research that organises around those issues,
and attempts to understand and address them. For example, centres of
excellence may include:
* Health Sciences
* Manufacturing Sciences
* Agricultural Research
* Rural Economics
* Information & Communication Technology
* Pharmaceutical Research
* Urban Planning
* Nanotechnology
* Biotechnology
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