Dr. Stephen Mavely (left) with Prof. Sivannapan Kumar.
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Prof. Sivanappan Kumar.Dr. Mavely stated that besides the Unified program, Don Bosco
University is also looking towards faculty and staff exchange, and
joint research collaboration. He added that while Don Bosco
institutions are functional in 132 countries, the Don Bosco University
in Assam is the first to have English as its instructional language.
Other universities among the Don Bosco institutions use Spanish and
Portuguese as instructional languages. The Assam campus will be moving
to a new 500-acre area, and is already fostering collaborations with
universities in the United States, Italy and Germany.
Prof. Kumar, while welcoming the delegation provided an overview of
AIT, and suggested that besides academic programs, the two could work
together in research projects from India’s Department of Science and
Technology among others. He suggested that DBU could also collaborate
with AIT’s outreach activities. DBU has 124 technical schools all over
India, where it offers diploma and certificate courses to over 20,000
students every year.
Also participating in the signing ceremony were Dr. Weerakon Ongsakul,
Dean, School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD); Dr.
Amararatne Yakupitiyage of SERD; Prof. Nazrul Islam of School of
Management (SOM); Dr. Sangam Shrestha of School of Engineering and
Technology (SET); Mr. Ahmed Amjad Ali, Head, External Relations and
Communications Office (ERCO); and Mr. Tenzin Rabgyal, Senior Program
Officer, ERCO.
Accompanying the delegation was Dr. Sunandan Baruah, Head of
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, DBU. Earlier
the delegation from DBU also met Dr. Anil Kumar Anal of SERD where they
discussed possible collaboration in the field of food processing and
biotechnology.
More details about Don Bosco University are available at this
link: http://dbuniversity.ac.in
