Making of a CEO by Sandeep K Krishnan

Author:Sandeep K Krishnan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789386815941
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Published: 2017-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

Another example of a visionary educational leader is Achyuta Samanta, founder of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT University) and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) that host more than 50,000 students. Started in 1992 with a funding of just Rs 5000, these institutions made a large social impact. In the case of KISS, Samanta was able to bring in 25,000 young children from interior Orissa and transform their lives through education. KISS was also granted a deemed university status in 2017 and is the first tribal university to be granted the status.5 KIIT hosts close to 30,000 students from streams like engineering, management, law and nursing. Samanta is an excellent example of how a person’s vision led to building an educational institution. He went on to serve KIIT University as its first vice chancellor and is the youngest chancellor of any Indian university.

A successful vice chancellor/head of a university should be able to see the trends of higher education and steer the levers of change to enhance effectiveness. With globalization, education has a global canvas and extends beyond national boundaries. The global factors are: influence of technology on education, international standards of research excellence, extension of boundaries of knowledge, and even movement of students and faculty beyond boundaries. Dr Vinod Bhat of Manipal University, in his interview, explains how having a strategic view and an understanding of parameters that influence the global rating of a university can help educational leaders have clarity on the strategy to achieve their vision. Local constraints on infrastructure, regulatory bodies, operational nuances and local job market expectations are here to stay. A successful leader should be able to balance local and global factors to run his/her institution successfully.

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