Universities and colleges must actively engage with their alumni for the welfare of students, said Governor R.N. Ravi.
At an event organised on Wednesday to felicitate 20 institutions for their performance in the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2023, Mr. Ravi said higher educational institutions must tap into the strength of the alumni. Universities and colleges must have meaningful exchanges with each other instead of working in silos, he said.
“Each of our universities have produced a large number of students who have achieved excellence in life, and they are located in different parts of the world,’ he said calling for an “institutionalised approach” to engage the alumni and enhance the capacity of the institution. “They must be invited to visit the institutions and address the students as this would motivate the students,” he said, adding that in research the alumni could chip in by investing in the institution in the form of seed money.
