Hiring for Dean Academics

The Dean shall—

1. be responsible for academic planning and academic audit of the programmes and implementation of academic policies approved by the Academic Council in respect of academic development, maintenance of quality of education including standards of teaching and research and training of teachers within his faculty. He shall work directly under the superintendence, direction and control of the Vice-Chancellor;
2. Be responsible for development and application of quality benchmarks or parameters for various academic and administrative activities of higher education;
3. Facilitate the creation of a learner-centric environment conducive for quality education;
4. Arrange for feedback responses from the students, the teachers, non-teaching staff, the parents and the other stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes;
5. Ensure appropriate actions, as are needed for maintenance of quality of teach- ing spelt out by the Internal Quality Assurance Cell;
6. Ensure that the teachers' appraisal by students is carried out and the reports thereof are sent to the university authorities concerned;
7. Be responsible for dissemination of information on the various quality parameters of higher education, as may be defined by various national level bodies dealing with assessment and accreditation of quality in educational institutions;
8. Organize inter-institutional and intra-institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles;
9. Co-ordinate quality-related activities, including adoption and dissemination of good practices, development and maintenance of institutional database, through management information system for the purposes of maintaining or enhancing the institutional quality;
10. Be responsible for development of quality culture in higher education;
11. Prepare Annual Quality Assurance Report of programmes within his faculty, based on the quality parameters or assessment criteria, developed by the relevant quality assurance bodies, in the prescribed format;
12. Be responsible for bi-annual development of quality parameters and ranking of integral units of higher education based on the Annual Quality Assurance Report;
13. Interact with State Quality Assurance Cell in the pre-accreditation and post-accreditation quality assessment, sustenance and enhancement endeavours;
14. Recommend to the Management Council proposals for the institution of fellowship, travelling fellowship, scholarship, studentship, medals and prizes and making Regulations for their award;
15. Recommend to the Management Council through the Academic Council, proposals for the conduct of inter-faculty and area or regional studies, common facilities, such as instrumentation centers, knowledge resource centers, Science and Technology Parks, entrepreneurship development and industry incubation center, intellectual property rights center, workshops, hobby centers, museums, etc.;