Loyola Master Plan

Your Contribution towards Loyola Development

ORIGIN

Loyola Development Office (LDO) is the fruit of deliberations and discussions held at many levels in the last three years. Recently, during the academic year of 2008-2009 Jesuits at Loyola Chennai thought through a way of envisioning what they would want Loyola to be and become; the ways we would teach, the ways our students would learn and the ways in which we would organize them by faculty and staff of quality and efficiency. That resulted in Loyola Master Plan 2025. Plan remains merely a plan unless the plan is realized by effective strategies and efficient personnel. Therefore, an office was evolved to function as a strategic help that drives the actualization of the Plan. This office will have specific terms and conditions and it would function within the structure of administration. The following points will give a template on which LDO will gradually develop as it faces different areas of expansion and improvement towards making Loyola College into a temple of learning of international standard.

VISION

LDO focuses on the ways in which it could provide support in terms of evolving fraternal relationship with people and organizations outside. Inside the college, it helps the administration to create conducive atmosphere for effective work by providing support in training and developing human resources. And it helps procure finance/funds for developing the type of infrastructure/buildings, for doing research and for staff development that are needed to realize the Master Plan. In addition, the Office builds links with outside the college with a constant flow of communication about the college's activities and research.

MISSION

Development is less an office than a performance. Loyola Development Office (LDO) intends to perform at three levels. It develops human resources. It networks with outside. It procures funds for the college.

•  It functions at the level of human resource development. It helps the college administration to train, develop skills and knowledge of the human resources (teaching and non-teaching faculty) to provide quality teaching and research that measure up to international standard. In course of time, LDO would evolve a system and structure for a staff development college with the resources available within the college - The College of Education - and outside.

•  LDO assists the college administration to network with world class institutions and universities in terms of student and teacher exchange and conducting joint programmes. This would infuse an impetus to enhance the quality in the ways Loyola provides education. In addition, LDO would have a wing in its structure that liaison with governmental and nongovernmental offices and institutions to advance the interests of Loyola College.

•  It would locate financial resources within India and attract them into the college for building state of the art facilities and infrastructure that facilitates quality education. It would approach Loyola alumni/ae and other foundations and individuals bring in funds that would be used for building infrastructure, developing human resources, and funding research initiatives.

Rev Dr Joe Arun SJ
Dean, External Affairs & Development
Loyola College,
Chennai - 600 034.
Tel: 91 44 28178200 Ext. 446
Email : cjarun@gmail.com