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Monday, August 08, 2005

Udupi-Brahmavar: National Conference at Crossland College from Aug 11

The Crossland College will organize a national conference from Thursday to Saturday at the college premises.

The theme of the conference is ‘College to Community-Emerging Trends in Extension and Outreach Activities in Colleges’. The UGC-sponsored conference will be held in the college auditorium, The Annexe, on Thursday.

Former vice-chancellor of MAHE, M S Valiathan will inaugurate and deliver the keynote address. MLA Jaya Prakash Hegde and correspondent Roy Philip will be the guests of honour.

The conference will have seven technical sessions by resource persons. Manasa, Shimoga’s director Dr Ashok Pai, Little Rock Indian School, Brahmavar principal Prof Mathew C Ninan, KMC, Mangalore clinical psychologist Dr Elizabeth Daniel, Sri Devi Education Trust Colleges, Mangalore dean Dr Padmini Pai, MCMT, Kerala Director Dr Rajan Varghese, Bishop Cotton Women's College, Bangalore former principal Dr. Elizabeth Thomas and Ganesh Somayaji of Goa University are the resource persons.
Dr R P Pai, Sudhir Kumar I P, Vijay Ramanan, Prof Sam Daniel, Fr Fred Mascarehnas, Dinesh Kini, Prof K Narayanan, Jayakumar Shetty, and James Varghese will chair the sessions.

A special feature of the conference will be the Interface with the NGOs. The papers on different topics will be presented by the delegates. MAHE, Manipal former vice-chancellor Prof B M Hegde will deliver the valedictory address on Saturday. Managing trustee Prof Mathew C Ninan will be the guest of honour.

About 80 teachers and 20 MSW students from different colleges are expected to participate.

Crossland College has adopted Chanthar village and 17 toilets were constructed for the villagers in addition to running a village library and reading room. Self-employment training, consumer awareness and sanitary programmes are some of the projects undertaken by the college. Syndicate Bank, Apurva Agencies, Bangalore, Manipal Power Press, Vibrant Solutions, Udupi, YMCA, Brahmavar and Abharana Motors, Udupi are the sponsors of the conference.

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