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Best Practices

Best Practices

2020 - 2021

7.2 Best Practices

 7.2.1 QlM Describe at least two institutional best practices

 Title of the Practice: Madras Christian College Research Colloquium

Objective / Best Practice:  The scope of MCCRC is to (i) equip each other by enriching the research skills, (ii) expand interdisciplinary collaborations across the departments, (iii) redefining pedagogy through research-based methods (iv) brainstorm domain specific administrative issues through crowd resourcing v) solicit innovative ideations from students as human resources.

The Context:

The informal act of discussions accompanied by lectures among peers gave way to the formation of Madras Christian College Research Colloquium (MCCRC), a formalized virtual Community Learning on the campus during the lockdown, paving the way for capacity building among faculty group that is heterogenous in nature.  MCCRC has worked to create awareness on the nuances of publishing the research outcomes in reputed journals among our college teacher during the lockdown.

The Practice: MCCRC, a virtual research colloquium, has been conceptualized in Madras Christian College redeeming the lockdown period during Covid-19 Pandemic to create awareness on research metrics which in turn to enhance the research skills of our college teachers. This initiative plays a vital role in enriching knowledge, skills and competencies in research and teaching/learning areas which are shared between the faculties from across academic disciplines. Fifty seven technical sessions covering a broad spectrum of topics between 12th May 2020 to 9th December 2020 in MCCRC.

Senior Faculty :  >10 yrs experience; Mid-career:5-10 yrs experience, Young: <5 yrs experience

Evidence of Success:

  • Our MCCRC contributed to the wholesome development of our faculties not only in the direction of research, but also in teaching, learning, collaboration, consultancy and sustainable development.
  • Awareness on the journal selection is created among our faculty members and the art of writing research articles of our faculty members is refined further.
  • MCCRC has changed the way in which our faculty members perceived research and has enabled them to break their barriers in communicating across the domain.
  • Positive attitudes towards learning, by way of breaking traditional mindsets have been achieved.
  • The process of collaboration begins when the forum has clarified the minute difference between inter-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary. This actually helps our teachers to volunteer themselves for collaborations across disciplines. The fruit of this would be seen in the years to come.

Problems encountered and resources required:

Bringing together highly learned academicians to a learning forum that is meant to change the perception of research or what has been understood of research and to break barriers between academic disciplines is not an easy task. However, due to Covid-19 lockdown and this program is conducted in a virtual mode, our faculty members responded to this call and actively participated in the discussions.

  1. Title of the Practice: MCC – COVID TASK FORCE

Objective / Best Practice: 

Ø As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and in resonance with Madras Christian College’s guiding principle of social relevance, we decided to set up on campus, ‘COVID CARE CENTRE’

Ø Approval for establishment of ‘MCC-COVID CARE CENTRE’ was obtained from the Government..

The Context:

As a response to the escalating Covid-19 casualties and in resonance with Madras Christian College’s guiding principle of social relevance, we propose to set up on campus, a 15 bedded ISOLATION FACILITY for mild Covid patients, a 5 bedded facility for primary contacts and an ambulance service with / without oxygen. This service will be implemented by THE COLLEGE INFIRMARY in association with the College Union Society, Department of Social Work, NSS, SCM, Counseling Centre, Alumni Association, Chaplaincy and SWAWSA (Staff Wives and Women Staff Association) of the College. The facility is preferably open to all MCC faculty and their families, Staff members of MCC Group of Institutions, MCC Alumni, MCC students and their parents and to the general public on authentic referrals depending on the vacancy.

The Practice: 

  1. 24/7 on-call support for doctor’s appointment.
  2. Availability of free isolation facility, counselling, prayer support, food, nursing and referral services. (Expenses for clinical investigation and treatment not included)
  3. Availability of ambulance services up to a radius of 15 kms from MCC.
  4. 24/7 exclusive online medical consultation.
  5. It would be the responsibility of the patient / care takers to find hospitals in case of emergency. However, MCC Covid Task Force may assist in this process.
  6. The patients who are clinically assigned to be mild/asymptomatic and recommended for accommodation by the campus doctor after assessment
  7. The asymptomatic cases (laboratory confirmed cases) not experiencing any severe symptoms and having oxygen saturation at room air of more than 95%.
  8. Patients with upper respiratory tract symptoms (&/or fever less than 100-degree F) without shortness of breath and having oxygen saturation at ambient conditions of more than 95% and lung involvement of less than 5% by CT.                                                                     

Evidence of Success:

  1. 55 patients with mild COVID symptoms were treated
  2. 88 people used our Ambulance Service and 17 patients used the oxygen concentrators/cylinders
  3. Around 120 people were provided food
  4. Around 100 people were benefited through our prayer and counselling team
  5. Vaccination Drive’ was organized at our College Infirmary
  6. 21 camps were organized at MCC Campus and 3100 people got vaccinated.
  7. The Chengalpattu District Collectorate granted permission to run the Tele-counseling centre at Madras Christian College Campus.30 professionally trained volunteers consisting of our faculty, counsellors and students were identified. Two training sessions were conducted, one by the expert team from the tele-counseling project of Chennai Corporation exclusively on COVID Management
  8. Madras Christian College has been awarded the ‘IMA Tambaram Doctors Day 2021 Award’ by the Indian Medical Association, Tambaram Branch, on 25th July 2021 for outstanding work carried out during COVID Pandemic

Problems encountered and resources required:

  1. Only basic ambulance and isolation services are provided. If complications arise, patients will be referred for special treatment of their choice. MCC will not be responsible for any casualty.
  2. Elderly patients aged above 60 years and those with co-morbid conditions such as Hypertension, Diabetes, Heart disease, Chronic lung / liver / kidney disease, Cerebro-vascular disease etc. shall not be accommodated at the facility as they may require hospitalization.
  3. Patients suffering from immune compromised status (HIV, Transplant recipients, Cancer therapy etc.) will not be isolated at the facility.
  4. It would be the responsibility of the patient / care takers to find hospitals in case of emergency 

2021-2022

7.2 Best Practices (2020-21)

 

  • QlM Describe at least two institutional best practices

 

  1. Title of the Practice: (a) Entrepreneurship Development Cell

                                      (b) Innovation Contest – Open House displays

 

  1. Objective / Best Practice:

Ø To provide space for the MCC student community to discuss their ideas, metamorphose them into innovative proposals, generate IP, and finally execute their business plans through incubation.

Ø To offer training and mentoring for the students to help hone their entrepreneurship skills.

 

The Context:

Entrepreneurship has become the order of the day as a part of reviving global economy and sustaining global economic and social development. To develop entrepreneurship, innovative ideas and application of latest business concepts are essential. Thus, ideas that encourage entrepreneurship serve as the basis for a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem. In the Indian scenario, start-up ecosystem has its growth story only during the last two decades. Start-ups started evolving from the early 2000s, when there were very few investors who were active and the number of support organizations such as incubators and accelerators were very limited. However, there was a spur in the development of innovative ecosystem in the last decade, when the government declared 2010-20 as ‘India’s Decade of Innovation’. After 2010, the number of Indian start-ups increased and support from the ecosystem became available in all dimensions. In spite of global slowdown in economy, India still remains one of the fastest growing economies of the world. This makes the Indian market capable of offering abundant opportunities for start-ups. In this context, Madras Christian College has come with an initiative of ED Cell in its campus during September 2020. Young innovative minds, students in particular, are a quintessential part of the entrepreneurship ecosystem development, and hence utilizing the student resources is of paramount importance. Thus providing an environment conducive for student entrepreneurs is the need of the hour, particularly for a vibrant student community of Madras Christian College.

 The Practice: 

  1. ED Cell of MCC has been registered with TN-EDII, IEDP HUB, CED Anna University.

 

  1. Programmes attended by the students: Online Awareness Programme on TN Students’ 

                                                                            Innovator Award by TN-EDII (October 2020)

  1.             Online awareness session on Innovation Voucher

                                                                         Programme by TN-EDII (October 2020)

  1. MCC ideation club was formed during October 2020 to foster innovation among students.
  2. Eight student teams participated in the Tamil Nadu Student Innovators conducted by TNEDII held from November 2020.
  3. Survey on students’ ideation areas (Dec 2020): Identification of students’ ideation interests was carried out for pooling various resources and talents. In order to identify specific areas of interest/strength, facilitate with the inputs and to provide creative environment, an online survey was conducted. More than 150 students were part of the survey and the students’ interests were identified across 13 categories.
  4. Official inauguration of Ideation Club (29th of Jan 2021): Steven Manuels, Talent Manager, Ford delivered the inaugural address, during which he talked about design thinking and innovation.
  5. MCC Innovation Contest 2020-21 was conducted during February-March 2021.

Evidence of Success:

  1. As part of entrepreneurship development, MCC students’ bakery took Christmas and New Year bakery orders and supplied the same.
  2. Promo videos were created on ED Cell of MCC, and on students’ exhibition of other specific talents, and were circulated among the student community (January 2021).
  3. After four rounds in the Tamil Nadu Student Innovators conducted by TNEDII, one team from Madras Christian College has reached the final pitch.
  4. Presentations from the students of MCC as a part of MCC Innovation Contest 2020-21 were adjudicated by the jury from IIT-B, which was a great learning for our student innovators.

Problems encountered and resources required:

 The EDC of Madras Christian College is a recent initiative and it requires lots of external resources and expertise in order to equip with the current student needs. In this connection,

  1. Few faculty members visited IIT-M Research Park (January 2021) and SRM Innovation and Incubation Centre (February 2021) to have a glimpse of their innovation and ED cells.
  2. An interactive session was held with EDC faculty of IIT-B on 14th of December 2020.
  3. b) Objectives of the Practice:
  • To identify early Entrepreneurs among students.
  • To provide students with an opportunity to present their innovative proposals and ideas beyond their subject domains, before the Industrial experts and investors.
  • To identify innovative proposals of students and help them build their ideas to sellable products by connecting them with Innovation Park Capacity Building programs.

The Context:

  • Conduct of the Innovation contest – Open House Display among the various disciplines of the college is a real challenge. It is overcome by categorizing the projects proposals in general themes.
  • Also, the final year students prefer going for higher education and settling in jobs than building their prototypes to products and becoming Entrepreneurs.

The Practice:

The invite to participate in Innovation Contest is sent to the departments and by careful examination of proposals received, the best proposals from the departments are given an opportunity to participate in Open House Display where in Industrial experts and Investors judge the student presentations.

The best proposals are given cash awards as seed money grants to work on their proposals and also the marks (if applicable to the respective semester subject) is considered for one of the Internal continuous assessment marks.

Evidence of Success:

No. of student’s Innovation/prototypes developed – details.

Student Prototypes: 7

  1. Karthick Jothi, III B. Sc. Physics -Talking Gloves,
  2. Mugil Vanjinathan, III BA Journalism- Software App – Yeat,
  3. Balakrishnan, II B.Sc. Physics – Instyrolls & Thermal t-shirt,
  4. Smrithi Wilson, III B.Sc. Zoology – Assistive cart for Dogs,
  5. Vidhya, II B.Sc. Physics- High Magnifications/resolution DIY telescope,
  6. Evangeline, II B.Sc. Microbiology -Spicabytes,
  7. Varsha, II M.Sc. Chemistry- Edible Paper

Problems Encountered and Resources Required:

  • The final year students prefer going for higher education and settling in jobs than building their prototypes to products and becoming Entrepreneurs.

 

The following are the two best practices implemented in the Student Counselling Services apart from its regular counselling services.

 

  1. Webinar Series on Psychological Wellbeing for students during lockdown
  2. Mental Health First Aid Skills training for Department Class Representatives

 

  1. WEBINAR SERIES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING DURING LOCKDOWN

 

   Title of the Practice:  Webinar Series on Psychological Wellbeing

   Objectives: 

  1. To address the psychological wellbeing of the students during this lockdown
  2. To create a safe place to discuss their questions related to Mental Health
  3. . To Promote Mental Health Dialogue
  4. To create awareness about the mental health and how it can be cared well.

   The Context:

During the unprecedented situation due to Covid, number of students registered for tele-counselling was increasing every day and the self-reported acute mental health disorders were common. To cater the rising need for Mental Health, Student Counselling Services had planned a webinar series on Psychological Wellbeing.

   The Practice:

The webinar focussed on the promotion of psychological wellbeing through facilitating Mental Health dialogue and discussion. The webinar had Mental Health talk for 40 Minutes and 40 Minutes of group discussion. This created a platform for the students to clarify their doubts and at the same time helped student counselling services to identify the felt psychological needs of the students. The topic for the webinar was based on the felt need of the students.

This practice encouraged the students to discuss their real-time concerns on psychological issues and seek help thereafter for their distress. Feedback that was collected after every session through Google Form gave us data about the psychological crisis that students were going through and plan the forthcoming sessions. All sessions were uploaded in the Student Counselling Services official Youtube Channel – MCCSCS for the student to listen at their convenience.

  Evidence of success:

 Every week Google Form was circulated for Registration and Feedback separately to collect the data of the students who have participated. The session was streamed live in the YouTube for the convenience of the viewers.

Duration: 8 weeks

Timing: 1: 30 Minutes shared by Mental Health Talk and Group Discussion

YouTube Link: MCCSCS