Prof. Dr. Sulbha Raorane is the Director at St. Francis Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai. Having vast experience in academic teaching and management, she has been awarded with ‘Rashtriya Gaurav Award’ from IIFS Delhi in 2009 and ‘Bharat Jyoti Award’ from Best Citizen Publishing House, New Delhi in 2018. A keen researcher and well known author, Dr. Sulbha Raorane has authored 7 books and has published around 50 research papers and articles in various national and international journals. 

SFIMAR Mumbai

What are the key factors that keep you connected with the education sector?

“Learning from practicing”

Practice while you learn. In this modern world, we have come up with so many tools and techniques that make learning far more easy and fun than it was during our times. Being a professor, I enjoy learning while teaching. I practice the things that go around with modern developments and celebrate this development as an integral part of my life. 

What is the philosophy of your leadership? How would you describe your leadership style?

“Learn, Innovate, Perform and Adapt”

Higher education nowadays necessitates new forms of challenges and concerns that calls for a superior level of leadership solutions. Those who consider these challenges as an opportunity to learn & grow and perform & adapt accordingly are the one who succeed. Considering the importance of leaders in an organization, capitalizing on their ideas and ideals is necessary to get beneficial outcomes. 

What are your roles and responsibilities towards the college and the students?

“Establishment of coordination among students and staff”

Adapting good learning practice is as important as establishing ultra-modern infrastructure in this new world of changing consents and interests. To work in a systematic and rhythmic way, we all need to coordinate accordingly. Getting best productive outputs along with good and responsible citizens are a primary concern for our organization. We follow a more customized and professional methodology to keep everything ongoing in the best possible way testing our students with much honesty and calmness.

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What would you like people to know about the college they may not know?

“Quality based approaches”

Information literacy, equal access to education, high learning productivity, new quality assessments and learning from best practices are our primary concerns when it comes to shaping the future of young students. With an extensive environment to learn and groom, we lay emphasis on leader-centric development and managerial competencies that helps students to perform leadership roles as well. Industry Benchmark placements and comprehensive learning experience with top notch leaders and mentors is a way out to lead the world that our institute provides to our budding youths.

What do you think should be the top priority of your institute over the next 10 years?

“Easy access to opportunities and facilities”

Education system in our country has undergone considerable changes in the past few years. With approximately 600 million people in India under 25 years of age, the system is under tremendous pressure to expand. Institutional collaboration for teaching and learning, research collaboration, multi-dimensional systems, wide support for higher education reform, enterprise education, entrepreneurship, leadership and management, vocational skills, digital learning technologies, establishing innovative hubs for teaching and learning are a priority for us. We emphasize quality over quantity so that there is an even growth and access opportunities for all of our students. 

How does the curriculum of your college show the best practice of industry?

“Thoughtfully balanced mix of teaching and training pedagogy”

Supplementing lectures and lessons with case studies, Project-Based Learning, Regular industry interaction with experts, Functional and Sectoral focused electives, International industry visits, Certification courses offered in collaboration with premier institutes, global universities and esteemed organizations are a day to day commotion in our institute. Mentors assess strengths and areas of growth for students, understand their career development expectations and support them to achieve the goal. Workshops on different domains are conducted on a regular basis to equip the students with necessary skills as per the demand of the industry. Management games, group discussion, debates, role play, team building activities, leadership activities, and vocabulary building activities are adopted for holistic development of students. 

At SFIMAR, we firmly believe that International Industrial Visits are necessary for enriching students with practical insights of different Global companies. Every IIV provides an ideal platform for students to get first-hand experience of the issues and experiences of the employees working in a real industry scenario. 

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