Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)

The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) Commitee is re-constituted with the following members, until further orders vide the latest proceedings (Click)


Prof.G.L. Narayanappa Director	Dr. Lokanatha Valluru Deputy Director

1	Prof.G.Lokanadha Reddy Vice-Chancellor	Chairman
2	Prof. D. Srinivas Kumar Dean, Academic Affairs	Member
3	Prof. C. Lokanatha Reddy Dept. of Computer Science	Member
4	Prof.Ch.A Rajendra Prasad Dept. of English & Communications	Member
5	Prof. K. Sharada Dept. of Kannada & Translation Studies	Member
6	Prof. T.Anuradha Registrar	Member
7	Dr. K.Shyamala, Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of Folklore & Tribal Studies	Member
8	Dr. V. Lokanatha Associate Professor Deputy Director, IQAC Dept. of Biotechnology	Member
9	Dr. S. Vijaya Vardhini Head, Dept. of Education	Member
10	Dr. M. Prasad Naik Assistant Professor Dept. of Computational Linguistics	Member
11	Prof. K. Nagendra Prasad (Formerly Registrar, Vikrama Simhapuri University, Nellore) Professor of Civil Engineering, SVU College of Engineering, Tirupati.	Member (External Expert)
12	Prof. B. Krishna Reddy (Retd.) Dept. of Folklore & Tribal Studies	Member (External Expert)
13	Sri M. Venkataramana Reddy Business Operations Leader IBM, Bangalore.	Member (External Expert)
14	Sri Chakrapani Reddy Former Chairman RESCO, Kuppam	Member (External Expert)
15	Prof.G.L. Narayanappa Dean, School of Commerce & Management Director, IQAC.	Member Secretary

  Formation and Activities of the IQAC:
  The IQAC has been established in the Dravidian University in the year 2009 for developing quality enhancement and its maintenance.
The IQAC has been constituted with distinguished academicians drawn from within the university and also from other sister universities besides enthusiastic and dynamic entrepreneurs from industry.

  Periodical Meetings of the Body:
  As of now, four meetings of the IQAC have been organized under the Chairpersonship of the Vice-Chancellor. Prof.E.Sathyanarayana, Vice-Chancellor is the guiding force behind the dynamic functioning of the IQAC.

  Workshops for Quality:
  The IQAC has conducted four workshops for the faculty, Heads and Deans indicating the importance of quality benchmarking, maintenance and continuous monitoring through the internal quality assurance system. Eminent academicians like Prof.T.V.Krishna Reddy and Prof.Chandrasekhara Reddy have delivered talks in this regard.

  Training for the non-teaching staff:
  Dravidian University has organized a few training programmes for the improvement of the various functional skills such as, drafting, working on computers etc., among the office staff.

  Feedback from the Students:
  The IQAC undertakes periodic feedback from the students for assessment of teacher’s performance and also on different facilities provided by the university.

  CBCS pattern of Curriculum:
  The Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) has been adopted with effect from the academic year 2013-14 for all Postgraduate Programmes Curricula thereby getting linkage across the wide canvas of programmes curricula.

I. VARIOUS POLICIES OF DRAVIDIAN UNIVERSITY
a) Dravidian University Research Policy