Walk With a Scholar Programme (WWS)
Walk-with-a-Scholar (WWS) programme has been designed to arrange specialized mentoring programmes for students in Under Graduate Programs in Arts, Science and Commerce streams. The scheme originally introduced the idea of mentoring, building on the concept of mentor as a “Guide and Friend”. Mentoring is a process where a mentor with greater experience and wisdom guides the mentee to develop both personally and professionally.
The two main components of the programme are internal and external mentoring sessions. The Scheme aims at giving necessary orientation to needy students, to prepare them for employment and give them necessary guidance, motivation and necessary mental support to identify appropriate areas for higher study as well as employment. The mentoring scheme is planned to identify the opportunities available for the scholars, the areas suitable for them, the manner in which the scholar should proceed before them and evolve ways by which they can be acquired.
The outcomes expected are increased self-confidence, improved communication skills, better academic performance, increased awareness regarding higher studies and career options in one’s academic field and improved interpersonal functioning.
Activities of WWS (2019-20)
Internal mentors-First Year
The following faculties From Different Department were selected as internal mentors
No. | Name | Designation | Department |
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1 | Seema Gopinathan | Assistant Professor | Home Science |
2 | Dr.Nithya.U.S | Assistant Professor | Commerce |
3 | Dr.Remya.R | Assistant Professor | Malayalam |
4 | Dr.S.K.Subhash | Assistant Professor | Industrial Microbiology & Biochemistry |
5 | Dr.DeepakNand | Assistant Professor | Physics |
Internal mentors-Second Year
The following faculties From Different Department were selected as internal mentors:
No. | Name | Designation | Department |
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1 | Hima.S.S | Assistant Professor | English |
2 | Renjini.S | Assistant Professor | Chemistry |
3 | Dr.Nileena.C.B | Assistant Professor | Botany |
4 | Pavitha.P.A | Assistant Professor | Chemistry |
5 | Krishnasree.R.S | Assistant Professor | Physics |
Internal mentors-Third Year
The following faculties From Different Department were selected as internal mentors:
No. | Name | Designation | Department |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Jisha.S | Assistant Professor | Zoology |
2 | Indu Suresh | Assistant Professor | Home Science |
3 | Jayalekshmi.S | Assistant Professor | English |
4 | Dr.Veena.J | Assistant Professor | Hindi |
5 | Sona G. Krishnan | Assistant Professor | Physics |
Selection of Scholars
The scholars for this programme were selected on the basis of merit and interest. The features of this Programme was given to the students of each Department by the Co-ordinator personally and after receiving the Bio data, students were selected on the basis of merit of qualifying Examination of Degree Course. Thirty students who scored at least 60% marks in the Qualifying examination were selected from Various Departments. They were grouped in to five and assigned to the internal mentors.
Selection of External mentors
The External mentors for this programme identified and they were from different discipline and fields. List of available Resource persons was submitted to the principal by the Co-ordinator and after having discussion with staff council external mentors were selected Priority for the selection was merit and Experience. Due to the inconvenience of some selected person alternative arrangement has been made later and new persons were appointed as external mentors.
LIST OF EXTERNAL MENTORS & MENTORING SESSIONS
No. | Name | Designation | Date | Topic of Mentoring Session |
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1 | Dr.Aparna Vincent | Assistant Prof. Political Science, Sacred Heart College, Kochi | 25-01-2020 | Review and Research |
(6 hour) | ||||
First year | ||||
2 | Harishma.L | SDE, ASAP | 25-01-2020 | Skill Development |
5 Hours | ||||
Second year | ||||
3 | Kalamandalam Rajeevan Namboothiri | Kathakali Artist & Scholar | 26-01-2020 | Kathakali class with Demonstration |
5 Hour | ||||
First Year | ||||
4 | K.S.Jyothi | ACF, Social Forestry Extension, Kollam | 26-01-2020 | Environmental studies |
4 Hour | ||||
Second Year | ||||
5 | Venkitesh.K.N | Parivarthan Foundation, Trainer | 08-02-2020 | Attitude for re-engineering |
4 Hour | ||||
First year | ||||
6 | Dr.L.Vinayakumar | Rtd.Prof. Political Science, | 09-02-2020 | Democratic values |
SN College, Kollam | 3 Hour | |||
First Year |