Strategy Development and Deployment

As Vision and Mission Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Solapur University, has its strategic plan in practice with goals, gap analysis and monitoring the progress.

Being an 16 years old university and wide scope for various developments our smart goals are-

• To encourage local and global research projects and action plans for development of the society.
• To support student’s passion, aptitude, interest, skills, etc with skill development activities courses and programmes for employability.
•  To generate interest in self employment and professional activities amongst students.
• To develop confidence, better communications, ethics, etc amongst stakeholders.

Gap analysis-

• The student need for Higher education is to enrich them with quality. Hence understanding research, teaching methods, participation and training. Skills accomplishments were needed.
• Increase in life skills expected, to deal with challenges, demands of daily lives, managing emotions, decision making powers, capacity development for quality life etc.
• Progress monitored by different ways writing, preseting, patience, good temper, copes in an organizing event, interviews, etc.

 The Strategic Plan of PAH SUS has followed various activities for regular and special growth. The regular areas for growth are Admissions, Academic Excellence, Accreditation and Ranking, Research & Innovations, Collaborations, Industry Integration, Faculty Development, Student Support & Progression, Infrastructure & Learning Resources, Placements, Extension Activities, Knowledge Resource Centre

 Promotion of Research, Innovation and Product design and transfer technology to Industry-

Is the successfully implemented activity in last few years.

The University has faculties active in research and innovations.

The Collective leadership non-hierarchical functioning and decentralized decision making has led to considerable innovations in Multidisciplinary Research, allows PAHSUS to stay at the frontier of Knowledge production and dissemination in Science and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences. The University has a progressive incubation center helping conceptualize and initialize several start-ups. The Centre has been recognized by the Govt. of Maharashtra.

Excelled research infrastructure has been created both through extramural sources as DST, DAE-BRNS, CSIR, UGC, RUSA, ICSSR, ICHR and RGSTC.

A dedicated IPR Cell is at the University to provide IPR Services to all the students, researchers and faculty, the University covers all expenses of organizing, consultations as well as filing patents.

Access to academic and research resource is very crucial for looking for the advance input in one’s own areas of interest elsewhere as reported in journals, book chapters, new articles, designs, developments and models-all accessible at the Science Park.

 Local and global research activities have always worked out with optimism at our University PAHSUS has established International Cell. The International Cell is responsible in promoting and facilitating leading edge research, including collaborative interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research, building and providing sufficient support for a community of innovative researchers to enhance research capacity at the University and to increase internal and external research opportunities for faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students, developing networks between the research Centre and researchers in the field of nationally and internationally.

Quality Assurance Strategies and Processes

1.Teaching Learning Process: In last five years, especially in last two years participatory teaching methods were used to engage student’s activity at class rooms through different ways of communication. Instead of being “Teacher” in usual sense, the faculty have started to work as a “facilitator”. As a result, students have experienced a positive learning atmosphere. It is reflected in positive and encouraging feedback from students. For example, in School of Computational Sciences shy students were hesitant in giving seminars and participating in question answer sessions. Now they are proactive and participate in various activities. Learning from excavation at AIHC Department was of a high understanding. School of Physical and Chemical Sciences takes efforts for learning practices through handling (hands-on) and observations (brains-on). Students found it easier to thread the connection between actions and observations.

 2. Structures: Quality based policy was designed by IQAC for development of research, teaching, learning, skill courses, involvement of stakeholders at various levels. One semester is incorporated as internship during the final semester. During 2015-2020, 130 students of MCA program have undergone internship. In order to have better understanding of theory, programs from Science discipline uses Project work in syllabus e.g. every year, around 10 students of M. Sc. II from School of Chemical Sciences complete their projects from industries or institutes of national repute such as Balaji Amines, Smruthi Organics, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, C-MET, Pune etc.

3. Methodologies of operations: For arranging participatory methods, Hon. Vice Chancellor has conducted two hours training program cum lecture on “Participatory Methods for Online Teaching and Learning” on 15th June 2020 with 66 faculty members, 14 inclusive activities for the students involvement was informed and examples given for students learning capacities. Such methods were used by almost all the Departments in University Campus.

           In order to make learning experiential more interesting, study tours are included as a part of the syllabus for programs. Programs in the School of Earth Sciences have arranged study tours to different places/Institutes during the last five years. Students of M. Sc. (Applied Geology) and M. Sc. (Geoinformatics) have visited Regional Remote Sensing Centre, Jodhpur, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (2016-17), Iron Ore Mine, Drung (2017-18), JN University (2018-19), Mahrangarth fort, Jodhpure (2019-20) along with many other sites. Students of M. Sc. (Environmental Science) have also visited different places such as Gir National Park, Kas Plateau, Satatra, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar etc.

Learning Outcomes at Periodic Intervals:

             It was observed that advance learners have vertically moved in short period of time. They were more vocal and ready to present in their own views in self ways. The slow learners have also showed zeal as they are exposed to presentation and participatory methods. The group activities were more interactive. In a semester pattern the periodic intervals are set by the teachers. Normally three times learning methods are discussed and asserted.