The Principal and the IQAC Coordinator participated in the Executive Development Program.
The Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Periyar University, Salem, conducted a one-day executive development program titled “Leadership Excellence: Empowering Higher Education Administrators” on June 25, 2024, held at the campus of Periyar University, Salem.
This program was conducted for the benefit of the chairman, correspondent, and secretary of higher educational institutions, as well as the principal, vice principal and administrative officers.
Dr. V. Yoganandan, Director, Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Periyar University, Salem, welcomed the gathering. Dr. R. Jagannathan, Honourable Vice-Chancellor of Periyar University, Salem, presided over the program.
Prof. Dr. N. Panchanathan, Honourable Vice Chancellor, The Gandhigram Rural Institute, Deemed to be University, Chinnalapatti, Dindigul District, was the special invitee. Leadership is all about you. It is not a leader who investigates only one side and decides. A good leader is one who faces all problems and solves them successfully, he said.
The other resource person was Dr. S. Kadhiravan, Professor and Head, Department of Psychology and Controller of Examinations (FAC), Periyar University, who spoke about the importance of leadership in this current scenario. The five C’s are important for the leader: character, commitment, conviction, courtliness, and courage. Each and every leader should face all the problems. These are inevitable. A leader should not make decisions based on what someone else says. Reading or doing something just for the sake of having in-depth knowledge, he denoted. The 6 R’s are very important for leadership qualities: role, right, reality, responsibility, relationship, and respect. Besides that, he emphasized the significance of the 6 P’s for a good leader. These are passion, punctuality, performance, perfection, purpose, and promotion.
Dr. A. Murugan, Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology; Dr. S. Kannan, Professor and Head, Department of Zoology; Dr. K. Jayaraman, Professor and Head, Department of Economics; Dr. C. Murugan, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science; Dr. C. Gobalakrishnan, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Sociology; Dr. N. Radhakrishnan, Professor, Department of Library and Information Science; and Dr. M. Pachamuthu, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Dr. P. Maadeswaran, Assistant Professor of Energy Science and Technology, Periyar University, Periyar Palakalai Nagar, Salem, took part in that occasion. Dr. S. Boopathy, Assistant Professor in English, Periyar University, Salem, proposed the vote of thanks.
On behalf of Trinity College for Women, Namakkal, Dr. M.R. Lakshiminarayanan, Principal, and Dr. N. Elamathi, Coordinator, IQAC, attended that program. Nearly 150 people, including the management of various Colleges, Head of the Institutions (Principals) of various institutions and the senior faculty members in and around the region of Periyar University Affiliated Colleges in the districts of Salem, Namakkal, Dharmapuri, and Krishnagiri, participated in that executive development program.
