Symbiosis Committees - Education Liberal Arts

For advice and information on all committees and campus complaints you can mail the campus disciplinary officer Swati Sharma (swati.sharma@ssla.edu.in)

Academic Review Committee

The ARC has been set up to deal with any violation of academic policy/integrity/dishonesty. Based on the severity of the offense, the ARC will decide the penalties for the violation. The students’ interests are represented by two nominated members from the Student Body who will form part of the Academic Review Committee (ARC). The Academic Review Committee is headed by the Director of SSLA with two permanent faculty members along with a legal advisor of SSLA representing both, the interests of the students and the School.

For complaints to the ARC please email arc@ssla.edu.in

Academic Review Committee 2019-2020
S.No	Name	Designation	Email ID
1	Anita Patankar	Chairperson	director@ssla.edu.in
2	Dr. Shweta Deshpande	Member	deputydirector@ssla.edu.in
3	Dr. Manjari Jonnalagadda	IQAC Coordinator	manjari.jonnalagadda@ssla.edu.in
4	Dr. Vaidyanatha Gundlupeth	Member	vaidya.gundlupeth@ssla.edu.in
5	Swati Sharma	Member	swati.sharam@ssla.edu.in
6	Anju Badhe	Member	adminofficer@ssla.edu.in
7	Shreya Prasanna Kumar	Student Representative	shreya.prasannakumar@ssla.edu.in
8	Mahima Vidya Srikanth	Student Representative	mahima.srikanth@ssla.edu.in

Anti-Ragging

The UGC anti ragging regulation of 2009 is fully recognized and supported at SSLA. In case of a complaint regarding ragging, anti-ragging committee is in place for approach. In case of an official complaint regarding ragging filed at institute level, this committee would conduct inquiry and take appropriate action.

What Constitutes Ragging:

Any conduct by a student or students whether by words spoken or written or by act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness a fresher or any other student
Indulging in rowdy or indisciplined activities by a student or students which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship, physical or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in any fresher or any other student
Asking any student to do any act which such student will not, in the ordinary course, do and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame, or torment or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of such fresher or any other student
Any act by a senior student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of any other student or a fresher
Exploiting the service of a fresher or any other student for completing the academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of students
Any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or any other student by students
Any act of physical abuse including all variants of it: sexual abuse, homosexual assaults, stripping, forcing obscene and lewd acts, gestures, causing bodily harm or any other danger to health or person
Any act or abuse by spoken words, email, post, public insults which would also include deriving perverted pleasure, vicarious or sadistic thrill from activity or passively participating in the discomfiture to fresher or any other student
Any act that affects the mental health and self- confidence of a fresher or any other student with or without an intent to derive a sadistic pleasure or showing off power, authority or superiority by a student over any fresher or any other student.

Mentoring Cell

The student mentoring program at SSLA ensures a smooth adjustment and acclimatization process for the new students.This program involves one senior student volunteer who is incharge of six new students. These volunteers help newcomers in familiarizing themselves to the new environment. It is overlooked by the senior faculty members at SSLA.

Anti Ragging Squad

The Anti-Ragging Squad is a committee devoted to maintaining the harmony between the students of the college. Not only are they involved in looking out for and preventing what traditionally constitutes ragging, they also take up the task of constantly coming up with better notions of what ragging involves, trying to involve the subtleties of the same. They run frequent campaigns to raise awareness about the necessity to report and thus put an end to all forms of ragging. They can be easily approached with any queries or complaints.

Anti-Ragging Squad- 2016-2019

Following are the Anti Ragging Squad at Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts (SSLA). Term of the committee will be for the period of three years i.e., 2016-19:

Internal Complaints Committee

All grievances and complaints brought forward by students, staff, and faculty with regard to sexual harassment are overseen by the ICC. The constitution and working of the committee is in consonance with the UGC (Prevention, prohibition, and redressal of sexual harassment of women employees and students in higher educational institutions) which is updated from time to time.

Note: The committee shall take cognizance of sexual harassment complaints irrespective of gender, as notified by UGC.

Campus Health Advisory Committee [CHAC]

The CHAC’s aim is to establish and review the students’ communication strategy for health care services. It also reviews all the health care policies and makes suitable recommendations to the management about it.

Crisis Management Committee

Is devoted to rectifying issues which acquire attention from the administration. The committee consists of not only students, but also members of the faculty, as well as the Director, Mrs. Anita Patankar. The discussions in this committee are usually with regards to the management of academic issues, as well as non-academic issues such as matters involving the campus, peer conflicts, etc.

Crisis Management Committee 2019-2020
S.No	Name	Designation	Email ID
1	Anita Patankar	Chairperson	director@ssla.edu.in
2	Dr. Shweta Deshpande	Member	deputydirector@ssla.edu.in
3	Swati Sharma	Member	swati.sharam@ssla.edu.in
4	Mr. Nikhil Thorat	Member	nikhil.thorat@ssla.edu.in
5	Dr. Vaidyanatha Gundlupeth	Member	vaidya.gundlupeth@ssla.edu.in
6	Dr. Rahul Naik	Medical Officer In-Charge	mo.svc@schcpune.org
7	Col G.S. Radkar (Retd)	Nodal Officer	campusadmin.newsvc@symbiosis.ac.in
8	Anju Badhe	Member	adminofficer@ssla.edu.in
9	Shivani Singh	Student Representative	shivangi.singh@ssla.edu.in
10	Yash Pahwa	Student Representative	yash.pahwa@ssla.edu.in

Food Committee

The food committee is a part of the hostel life. It is responsible for setting up the menu for the hostel mess. It also ensures that the quality of the food is up to the mark.

Social Conduct Review Committee (SCRC)

The SCRC will work to review, investigate and appropriately manage / deal with any violation of the Social Conduct Policies followed by SSLA and the SI(DU). This committee is headed by the director of SSLA along with two/three permanent faculty members representing both the interests of the students and and also of the institute. Representing both the interests of the students and of the institute.

For complaints to the SCRC please email scrc@ssla.edu.in

Social Conduct Review Committe 2019-2020
S.No	Name	Designation	Email ID
1	Anita Patankar	Chairperson	director@ssla.edu.in
2	Dr. Shweta Deshpande	Member	deputydirector@ssla.edu.in
3	Dr. Suchetana Banerjee	Member	suchetana.banerjee@ssla.edu.in
4	Swati Sharma	Member	swati.sharam@ssla.edu.in
5	Dr. Sumithra Surendralal	Member	sumithra.surendralal@ssla.edu.in
6	Anju Badhe	Member	adminofficer@ssla.edu.in
7	Joya Tyagi	Student Representative	joya.tyagi@ssla.edu.in
8	Shivangi Singh	Student Representative	Shivangi.singh@ssla.edu.in

SSLA Grievance Redressal Committee

The SSLA Grievance Redressal Committee is a committee set up specifically to address the grievances of students in a speedy and efficient manner. The committee recognizes that students are better equipped to understand the problems of other students, and would also be more easily approachable by the other students. Grievances are dealt with under the policies of Symbiosis International University and resolved according to the procedures laid down, which are designed to “identify, resolve, and compensate”, as opposed to something as unproductive as simply “punish”.

SSLA Library Advisory Committee

The Library Advisory Committee is a reporting committee of the SSLA Faculty Council that provides advice to the Library concerning material and services needed by faculty and students in their teaching and research endeavors.

The duties and functions of the Committee shall be as under:-

To look into day to day problems of the Library clientele and staff as well as send recommendations to the SSLA Council and Board for the desired decision.
To consider and put forward the views of faculty members regarding books/journals’ selection, ordering process etc.
To consider and put forward the views of students and Research Scholars regarding their problems and solutions sought thereof.

Internal Quality Assurance Committee

Internal Quality Assurance Committe 2019-2020
S.No	Name	Designation	Email ID
1	Anita Patankar	Chairperson	director@ssla.edu.in
2	Dr. Manjari Jonnalagadda	IQAC Coordinator	manjari.jonnalagadda@ssla.edu.in
3	Dr. Shweta Deshpande	Member	deputydirector@ssla.edu.in
4	Ms. Sonia Sathe	Member	sonia.sathe@ssla.edu.in
5	Mr. Nikil Thorat	Member	nikhil.thorat@ssla.edu.in
6	Ms. Atiya Fathima	Member	atiya.fathima@ssla.edu.in
7	Ms. Gayatri Mendanha	Member	gayatri@ssla.edu.in
8	Mrs. Sanjeevani Patil	Management Member	patil.rohan03@gmail.com
9	Mr. Ashutosh Parasnis	Industry Member	a_parasnis@hotmail.com
10	Ms. Aena Asif	Student Member	aena.asif@ssla.edu.in

Campus Disciplinary Committee

Campus Disciplinary Committee 2019-2020
S.No	Name	Designation	Email ID
1	Swati Sharma	Member	swati.sharam@ssla.edu.in