Best Practices and Institutional Distinctiveness

  1. Title of the practice: Best outgoing student and Student of the Year award
  2. Objectives of the practice: To improve academic performance as well as impart healthy competitive attitude amongst the students.
  3. The context: Every human being loves appreciation and when you are being appreciated in front of number of people in form of some reward, it is an icing on the cake.  In student life, it has been seen that every student will work hard onto curricular co-curricular and  extra-curricular areas if they have been motivated with one unique goal. If students find an objective worth working upon, then they will put hard efforts behind it, and these efforts will surely bear laudable fruits.  Students, while leaving campus after completion of their studies, if rewarded for their achievements in curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular areas put together, will have an emotional bond with campus forever. This will also help us to achieve our Gurukul Sanskruti.
  4. The practice:  The class teacher and the faculties teaching to that class are involved in the process of selecting the student of the year. The criteria for selection of students for this award involve his regularity, punctuality, obedience, sincerity and academic as well as co-curricular performances during the academic year. This also involves participation in activities such as Ashvamedha, youth festivals, avishkar participation, sports activity, NSS, NPW, and BSW activities.  All heads of departments and class teachers are involved in the selection process of the best outgoing student. Here the objective of selection focuses upon the student's overall performance throughout his/her days of studies in the college, which includes his/her curricular as well as co-curricular and extra-curricular achievements and his/her through professional development. The students involved in the activities in the betterment of environment and society and helping poor and needy carries additional weightage in the selection process.
  5. Evidence of Success:  The overall performance of students into university exams was observed to be on the rise, as was the participation into various co-curricular and professional activities, which were found to be increased to greater extent. This fact has proved the said objective of implementing this practice.  The significant change leading to healthy and professional competitive attitude amongst students was the proof of the concept.
  6. Problems encountered and Resources required: Selection sis being done by internal stakeholders and hence we wish to involve external stakeholders in this selection process. As selection is being done on the basis of overall performance for best outgoing student it will be prudent to involve domain specific experts in selection panel.
  7. Contact details:  The principal SNJB’s Shriman Sureshdada Jain college of Pharmacy, Chandwad.

  1. Title of the practice: Reciting the Vision and Mission statement everyday by one of students after national anthem.
  2. Objectives of the practice: To impart awareness about the institutes vision and mission so that students can align their activities in order to achieve the same.
  3. The context: Every individual who is part of the organization, from student to head of the institute, must know Vision and Mission of the Institute so that he/she can plan and work in such a way that the vision and mission of the organization is achieved and we can move ahead setting up new goals and challenges for ourselves in order to seek higher purpose in life. 
  4. The practice: Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practice everyday. We, being Jain Minority Institute named Jain Gurukul, try to inculcate value-based education to every student of ours. We feel that every individual must be patriotic and hence we start college schedule everyday by national anthem. All teaching, non-teaching staff members, along with the students, gather at the college gate at 10.28 am and national anthem is held at 10.30 am. We have made a practice that one of students will recite the Vision and Mission of the college in front of all teaching and non-teaching staff, as well as diploma, UG and PG students. It is being said that reminding oneself everyday with the purpose of life can lead to achievement of it one fine day. This helps us to remind all the individuals working with or studying in our organization about the vision and mission of the college so that everyone can put in their sincere efforts and dedicate themselves to try to achieve the same. We need to align our activity and strive hard in their endeavour to see the finishing line.
  5. Evidence of Success: Practice makes man perfect goes the saying and it is being proved right in this case as well. Every individual in our college knows Vision and Mission of our college by heart and this helps him/her to strive meticulously to ensure that we are able to achieve what we say in vision and mission. Our college has received Best Professional (Rural) College Award from University of Pune and it means that we could establish our centre as centre of excellence in rural area. Many of our alumni are working in reputed pharmaceutical industries as well as in academics in India and Abroad in different capacities. We have number of students coming meritorious in university exams and this gives us a sense of satisfaction of reaching towards our vision and mission every passing day.
  6. Problems encountered and Resources required: Systematic evaluation plan to know the extent of achievement of the desired and proposed vision and mission is required and external evaluation will help us to know ourselves in true sense.
  7. Contact details:  The principal SNJB’s Shriman Sureshdada Jain college of Pharmacy, Chandwad.

 


                                                 

SNJB’s Shriman Sureshdada Jain College of Pharmacy, a Jain minority institute run by the philanthropic Jain trust. College is catering to the educational needs of the students by providing quality education in pharmaceutical sciences. Trust has recruited highly qualified and quality staff to nurture the students from the rural areas of Chandwad tehsil in Nashik district. The Institute has maintained its distinctiveness by following Jain philosophy of "Samyak Gyan, Samyak Darshan, Samyak Charitra". Faculty member of our college from each department (Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy) is member of Board of Studies in Savitribai Phule Pune University and all of them actively contribute in the improvement of curricular aspect related to pharmacy. The principal of our college is academic council member and is actively involved in the administrative work of the university.

Our college is known for hosting SNJB PharmaCon- our Annual technical feast since 2017. World renowned scientist and Ex dean of NIPER, Mohali, Dr. Saranjeet Singh always keeps himself available for this conference and has visited our institute every year since 2017. He has always acted as Keynote speaker and motivator for SNJB PhramaCon and has always praised us for our hospitality and professional and ethical conduct of this conference. We consider him as a brand ambassador of SNJB PharmaCon as the theme and speakers of every SNJB PharmaCon is being decided and finalized by him. Many esteemed speakers from different parts of the world have either visited our campus or made themselves available online to deliver expert session in SNJB PharmaCon. Many researchers and UG & PG students from various colleges in Maharashtra and India wait eagerly for the announcement of the date of this conference. We organize technical presentation competition in oral and poster format and three winners selected by the referees are being felicitated with cash prize and a memento every year.  

Our college received approval as PhD research center from Savitribai Phule University, Pune in 2011 and since then highest number of PhD scholars (82) have enrolled with our research center throughout the university. Almost all our faculty members are approved as PG teachers by the university and few of us are approved as Ph.D. guide as well. Till date 22 students have been awarded with PhD degree whereas 60 research scholars are working on their doctoral research in our research center. Ours is the only institute where the PhD guide receives honorarium of Rs. 25000 on successful completion of the PhD of his/ her research scholar. Many of our staff members have patents granted or published to their credit and have also written reference and text books in pharmaceutical sciences and contributed many book chapters in the edited books. Our institute has a start-up and innovation cell and the ideation competition is being held in our campus every year to encourage the budding entrepreneur. Our students have received accolades every year with cash prizes as well.

College examination department follows strict and impartial policies and every staff has to follow it meticulously. We have system of drawing two sets of question papers and they need to be submitted along with answer key and CO-PO mappings to the exam department well in advance. On the day of exam, exam in charge ask HOD to select one set of the paper for internal exam, in presence of student representative and this information is well documented. The assessment of the answer sheets of internal exam is strictly done in the strong room. Faculty is not allowed to take the answer papers out of the designated area and is asked to make an entry in the log book provided in strong room to know the in time and out time of that faculty. Assessed answer sheets are then shown to the students by subject in charge before finalizing the internal marks and then faculty has to incorporate final marks in the mother register and get it signed from respective student before sending it to university. This practice has made our exam system error free.

To increase fluency in professional language, we have introduced one Add-On course on English Communication and Vocabulary Development for first year B. Pharm students and along with this course we have practice of writing word of the day on the display board kept near the entrance of the college. This practice ensures that every student read the word daily and try to understand the application of that word in daily life. We have strong alumni database and our students are doing extremely well in their professional life. To motivate our current students and to develop the link between alumni and current students, we have initiated activity called as Alumni of the Week. We display the poster related to the information of an alumni, with his/her current organization, Designation, year of graduation from college and his/her message of gratitude for college and teacher. This activity has not only helped us to develop strong connect between our Alma matter but also to increase the professional and industrial opportunities for our students.

The institute encourages the faculty to participate in various national and international conferences as well as faculty development programs