Ravenshaw faculty recruitment in full swing

The faculty recruitment process for filling up vacancies of teaching posts in various departments of Ravenshaw University is going on in full swing with recruitment for various posts in the departments of Sociology, Geology and English already over.

As a University, Ravenshaw has received Government’s approval for creating 153 faculty positions comprising 17 posts of Professors, 45 posts of Readers and 91 posts of Lecturers. The Government has advised the University to process the recruitments as per UGC norms, provisions of Orissa Universities First Statutes (OUFS) and directions of Executive Council of the University. Vice Chancellor Mr. Devdas Chhotray has stressed on maintaining high standards while selecting candidates.

The Selection Committee included subject experts and eminent scholars from outside Orissa like Vice Chairman, Kerala State Planning Board, Prof. Prabhat Patnaik, Prof. S. Tripathy and Prof. M.K. Panigrahi of IIT Kharagpur, Prof. Pulin B. Nayak of Delhi School of Economics, Prof. Sumanyu Satpathy of Delhi University, Prof. G.J.V. Prasad and Prof. Satish Jain of JNU, Professor A Karuppiah of University of Madras and many academicians of international repute, who interviewed the candidates.

Ravenshaw University has taken up this mammoth recruitment enterprise by global advertisement for all 153 faculty positions. In response, more than 7,000 applications have been received. For just and fair recruitment, with required competence, the task of verification of eligibility of applicants and short-listing of eligible candidates has been outsourced to XIMB, Bhubaneswar.

Priority was accorded for selection of candidates for the Departments of Geology, Sociology, English and Economics where the shortage of faculty is acute.  

Lecture on civil aspects of Aviation Management 

Professor Ludwig Weber of Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada delivered a lecture on the topic “Legal aspects of Aviation Management” on 31st October, 2009 at PLT, Ravenshaw University. He is an eminent international authority on aviation law and teaches in the Institute of Air and Space Law, Mc Gill University and other reputed institutes as a guest faculty.

Students of Ravenshaw Management Centre (RMC) and some BBA students attended the lecture. It is planned to start Aviation Management as an elective course from the next academic session. The lecture was intended to sensitize students on the subject which is gaining momentum.

Ravenshaw University and University of Malaya extend academic link

Prof. Nihar Ranjan Patnaik, Dean, School of Social Sciences and Professor and Head, Department of History, Ravenshaw University visited the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on August 3, 2009 for discussion and understanding regarding academic link between Ravenshaw University and University of Malaya. The discussions were focused on exploring the possibilities of academic collaboration between the two Universities. Possibilities of collaborative activities in various areas such as academic exchange programmes, short-term visits for research, field studies and conferences were also explored.  

He described the rich academic heritage and glorious history of Ravenshaw University and informed about the future plans of the University under the dynamic leadership of Vice Chancellor Mr. Devdas Chhotray. He proposed for exchange of faculty, research scholars, university publications, and library, documentation and research materials between the two institutions and called for promoting joint research activities through student exchange programmes, departmental links and conferences, seminars and cultural cooperation programmes.

Prof. Patnaik also delivered a talk on the topic ‘Human Sacrifice among the Kandh Tribe in India’ which was highly appreciated by the students as well as teaching staff of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Indian Studies, University of Malaya.

Earlier, Prof. Patnaik presented a paper and chaired a session in the 16th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES 2009) held at Kunming in China during 27-31 July, 2009. His research paper, ‘Marriage Rites: Changes and Continuities among the Kandh Tribe’, was widely acclaimed in the conference. He chaired the session ‘Changing Rites of Passage and Marginalization’ in the panel, ‘Diverse Ethnic Rites of Passage’. 

RU joins hands with NUS for academic linkage

Dr. Nihar Ranjan Patnaik, Chairman, Council of Deans, Dean of School of Social Sciences and Professor and Head of the Department of History of Ravenshaw University visited the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore on June 8, 2009 to discuss the possibility of academic linkage and collaboration between the institutions.

Dr. Patnaik also visited the prestigious Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), Singapore under NUS. He informed that ISAS has agreed to provide assistance to researchers and post-doctoral students from the Advanced Centre for South Asian Studies, Ravenshaw University by allowing the use of ISAS/ NUS library and meeting with ISAS researchers.

In his acknowledgement letter, Vice Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS, John Richardson encouraged leading researchers of Ravenshaw University to contact researchers at ISAS/ NUS with common interests. 

Dr. Patnaik also delivered a talk on the topic “Cultural Contacts of Kalinga (Orissa) with South-East Asia: A Case Study of Bali” at the Institute of South-East Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore which was widely acclaimed. There was a discussion regarding access of Ravenshaw University’s research students and colleagues to the ISEAS library and the possibility of inter-library exchange of books.

He also participated and presented a paper in SSEASR Conference held at Denpasar, Indonesia.