Faculty Development


Prof. B. Eswara Reddy
Director of Faculty Development i/c
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The Directorate of Faculty Development (D FD)

Established in the year 2018

Activities:

  • To upgrade the knowledge and skills of faculty members in the institutions of higher education.
  • To develop interpersonal skills and communication skills of the faculty.
  • To orient the faculty toward the competitive curriculum design and use of latest technology for teaching and learning process.
  • To provide the skills set to the faculty for knowledge acquisition, knowledge dissemination, knowledge evaluation, knowledge creation, knowledge preservation and knowledge application.
  • To inculcate the organizational skills, ethical values, professional skills to fulfill the multi-tasking needs of the faculty.
  • To provide a platform to interact with reputed industries and organizations This may promote research and consultancy projects and IPR generation.
  • To abreast the faculty with advances in their respective fields.
  • To keep the faculty engaged with the cutting edge technologies and continuous leaning processes.
  • To produce skilled manpower of high quality comparable to the best in the world and inadequate numbers to meet the complex technological needs of the country.
  • To develop the entrepreneurship development skills to the faculty and in turn to the students.
  • Facilitating the creation of a learner-centric environment conducive for quality education and faculty maturation to adopt the required knowledge and technology for participatory teaching and learning process.
  • Dissemination of information on the various quality parameters of higher education.
  • Development of Quality Culture in University.
  • To develop a quality system for conscious, consistent and catalytic programmed action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the University.
  • To promote measures for institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices.

Achievements:

  • Framing of guidelines and on-line application to sponsor Faculty Development Programmes in constituent and affiliated Institutions.
  • Sanction of AICTE Training & Learning (ATAL) Academy Programmes to the University.
  • AICTE sponsored Faculty Development Programme for Student Induction.
  • Faculty Development Programme under CSR by reputed organizations like Google.
  • AICTE, NCC-IP sponsored on-line Workshops related to “Universal Human Values”.
  • Planning and organising Short Term Training Programmes for Teachers in association with Faculty Development Cell, AICTE.
  • Planning and organising Workshops/Faculty Development Programmes /Webinars in association with various Colleges.