Overview of the Faculty Development Program: The Colloquy - 19th July to 31st July
At the commencement of the new academic year, Jagran Lakecity University brings for its members of the faculty a one of its kind orientation program. This orientation line up will see 10 distinguished speakers, over a span of 10 days, deliver expert and inspiring sessions from the area of teaching, learning and research, and interact with the members of the wider JLU academic fraternity.
The resource persons are achievers in their fields and have a vast experience of engagement in the processes of teaching, learning and research in their respective domains. They have all mentored generations of faculty members and researchers over the past decades and will now share their expertise at the University.
The programme is intended as a series of reflective sessions where all the eminent resource persons will share their insights and best practices, and present to our members of the faculty a distinctive prospect to learn more and more from proficient practitioners in academics.
Speakers
Prof. S. N. Sridhar
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, State University of New York, Stonybrook, USA
Prof. Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, USA
Prof. Stephen Sumida
Professor emeritus, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Prof. P. Balaram
Former Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Prof. S. Sadagopan
Director, IIIT, Bangalore
Prof. G. K. Karanth
Prof (retd) of Sociology, ISEC and Former Director, Karnataka Labour Institute
Prof. Sheela Masters
Former Principal, MD College, Mumbai
Dr. Nirmala Rao
Vice Chancellor, Asian Women’s University, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Dr. K. Kondal Reddy
The Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Bolton, UK
Dr. Kavita Krtishnamurti Subramniam
Co-Founder of Subramaniam Academy of Performing Arts and well known playback and classical singer
Dr. L. Subramaniam
Founder of Subramaniam Academy for Performing Arts and a renowned Indian violinist, composer and conductor
Dr. Tyler Sepher
Director, Honors Cohort, Program Academic Director, Master of Human Resource Management Program, Ohio State University
Schedule
| Date | Date | Speaker | Chair | Theme | Time |
| Week One | |||||
| Monday | 19-July | Dr. P. Balaram | Dr. Sandeep Shastri | Reflections on Research in the Midst of a Pandemic | We will begin at 4pm |
| Tuesday | 20-July | Dr. Nirmala Rao | Dr. Vivek Khare | Private Lives, Public Worlds: Reflections of an Indian Academic | 4.30 pm - 6.00 pm |
| Wednesday | 21-July | Dr. Stephen Sumida | Prof. Diwakar Shukla | A Poetics of Learning, Teaching, Aikido, and Experience | 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm |
| Thursday | 22-July | Dr. Sadagopan | Dr. Nilesh Khare | What my students have taught me in the past 40 years - in 10 stories | 4.30 pm - 6.00 pm |
| Friday | 23-July | Prof. Sheila Masters | Dr. Shailaja Shastri | Reflecting on four decades of learning | 4.30 pm - 6.00 pm |
| Saturday | 24-July | Dr. Larry Diamond | Dr. Nachiketa Mittal | Teaching About Comparative Politics and Democracy | 10.00 am -11.30 am |
| Saturday | 24-July | - | - | Concluding discussions - 1 | 3.00 pm- 4.30 pm |
| Week Two | |||||
| Monday | 26-July | Dr. G. K. Karanth | Dr. Vinay Joshi | If I were to Start All Over Again...? | 4.30 pm-6.00 pm |
| Tuesday | 27-July | Dr. Reddy | Dr. Gupta | Academic Leadership in Higher education | 4.30 pm - 6.00 pm |
| Wednesday | 28-July | Dr. Tyler Sepher | Dr. Ashish Kumar | Implementing action-based learning into the classroom environment to drive student engagement in learning | 4.30 pm - 6.00 pm |
| Thursday | 29-July | Dr. S. N. Sridhar | Dr. Sandeep Shastri | What I learnt from my teachers | 4.30 pm - 6.00 pm |
| Friday | 30-July | Dr. Kavita Krishnamurty | Dr. L. Subramaniam | My journey of life seen through the prism of music | 4.30 pm - 6.00 pm |
| Saturday | 31-July | - | - | Concluding discussions - 2 | 3.00 pm- 4.30 pm |