Major university initiatives to be announced at SRM AP board meeting

NEW DELHI, JANUARY 22: SRM University AP, Amaravati is all set to have its annual board meeting and a landmark university conference which is scheduled on January 24 at its campus. The VC advisory board will hold a meeting to strategize the competitive vision and future for the university.

“We aspire to stand apart and distinguish ourselves with programs that are academically outstanding, student-centric and globally connected” quoted VC Jamshed Bharucha.

The conference will witness the participation of the board members including P. Sathyanarayanan, President, SRM AP, Jamshed Bharucha, Vice Chancellor, SRM AP, Elizabeth Bradley, President, Vassar College, Nicholas Dirks, Emeritus Chairman, UC Berkeley, Pradeep Khosla, Chancellor, UC San Diego, Prasant Mohapatra, Vice Chancellor Research, University of California -Davis, Kerry Healey, President, Babson College, and Damodar Acharya, Former Director, IIT Kharagpur.

Participants from the Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Board leading the conference include leading academics from Tufts, Dartmouth, UC Berkeley, Cooper Union, Brown University, Georgia State, Olin College of Engineering, Vassar, University of California, San Diego, University of Massachusetts, Harvard, Syracuse University, and Babson College.

Few names among these like Teresa Dahlberg, Dean of Engineering, Syracuse, Patricia Jackson, VP Development, Brown, Margaret Newell, Deputy Provost, Harvard, Rajini Srikanth, Dean, Liberal Arts School, University of Massachusetts, and Niranjan Bose, Senior Advisor, Bill Gates foundation are the renowned leaders in their fields.

SRM AP offers degree programs in Engineering and Liberal Arts and has collaborations with MIT and UC Berkeley.