TISS-Mumbai Holds Alumni Meet

TISS-Mumbai Holds Alumni Meet

This was followed by the Director's address in which he spoke about the various new courses that the institute is about to start this year - two new M.A. programs and the certification programs in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Ladakh. Prof. Armaity Desai shared her experience with the institute as ex-Director.

Mr. R. K. Krishna Kumar spoke of the paradox of the rising prosperous India and the other invisible India, which has turned out to be a social failure. The challenge is to bridge the gap.

A walk down the memory lane followed this with Mrs. Grace Mathew re-calling her days at TISS as a student. Praseenjit Chatterjee and Dr. Kalyani Sen also shared their experiences with TISS as students.

Mr. P. Vijayan, VP-HR, Mahindra Gesco, Dr. Avinash Supe and Ms. Mary D'Souza facilitated post-lunch, second plenary session titled TISS-Alumni Interface. The need for alumni contributing in ways other than economical, to the college was stressed. Ms. D'Souza took the session forward by asking the alumni gathered to jot down 2 to 5 areas of concern that they had. Further, she asked them to identify the dimensions within each area, which they felt most strongly about.

After this exercise was over, the alumni were given a chance to voice their most important concern in public. Ten such concerns came to the fore. The entire lot of people then grouped themselves into ten groups and brain-stormed on a concern and came up with suggestions in terms of what needs to be done and how TISS can do something about it. The increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, electoral reforms, rights of the disabled people, cause of dalits and adivasis were some of the issues that were discussed.

The second day of the Alumni Meet was a school-wise meeting of the alumni. The alumni belonging to schools of social work, personnel management, health studies, lifelong learning and Ph.D., M.Phil. met in separate venues and discussed aspects related to their own schools. In general, alumni gave a feedback of the courses, their content and also discussed what needs to be changed to have a better curriculum in place.

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Contributed by -
Sreeram V.,
Batch of 2006-08,
School of Management & Labour Studies,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.

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