IUS South Asia Continental Conference & Workshop for IUS Rectors, Principals and Directors
The assembly cum workshop seeks that the rectors, principals and directors and those who play executive positions can count on basic concepts, instruments and experiences that contribute in their formation for the leadership and management of higher education institutions with Catholic and Salesian identity.
The programme is organized from two perspectives that complement each other: understanding and reflecting on the nature and organization of higher education, and leadership and management of the identity of a Catholic and Salesian institution. The conference calls the Management councils of the Salesian Institutions from India for a powwow to have a dialogue with expertise to address the following themes implicitly.
IUS South Asia Continental Conference & Workshop for IUS Rectors, Principals and Directors
The assembly cum workshop seeks that the rectors, principals and directors and those who play executive positions can count on basic concepts, instruments and experiences that contribute in their formation for the leadership and management of higher education institutions with Catholic and Salesian identity.
The programme is organized from two perspectives that complement each other: understanding and reflecting on the nature and organization of higher education, and leadership and management of the identity of a Catholic and Salesian institution. The conference calls the Management councils of the Salesian Institutions from India for a powwow to have a dialogue with expertise to address the following themes implicitly.
General Objective
To guarantee in each Institution a significant Salesian presence, quantitatively and qualitatively, constituted by religious and lay, capable of guiding and animating a cultural, scientific and educative-pastoral project.
General Objective
To guarantee in each Institution a significant Salesian presence, quantitatively and qualitatively, constituted by religious and lay, capable of guiding and animating a cultural, scientific and educative-pastoral project.
Specific Objectives
Offering a global perspective of the opportunities and challenges that the actual context of higher education poses to the IUS.
Proposing knowledge, criteria and basic instruments that help in leading and managing institutions of higher education with Catholic and Salesian identity.
Strengthening cooperative relationships as an IUS network through the exchange of leadership experiences and management of the directors of the Salesian Institutions of Higher Education.
Specific Objectives
• Offering a global perspective of the opportunities and challenges that the actual context
of higher education poses to the IUS.
• Proposing knowledge, criteria and basic instruments that help in leading and managing
institutions of higher education with Catholic and Salesian identity.
• Strengthening cooperative relationships as an IUS network through the exchange of
leadership experiences and management of the directors of the Salesian Institutions of
Higher Education.
Content of the Workshop
The assembly cum workshop seeks that the rectors, principals and those who play executive positions can count on basic concepts, instruments and experiences that contribute in their formation for the leadership and management of higher education institutions with Catholic and Salesian identity.
The programme is organized from two perspectives that complement each other: understanding and reflecting on the nature and organization of higher education, and leadership and management of the identity of a Catholic and Salesian institution.
Competencies to develop
• Lead and govern institutions of higher education with strategic vision.
• Manage administrative and academic functions as an institution of higher education.
• Organize, Plan and Support processes for institutional management through appropriate tools.
• Integrate the Catholic and Salesian mission and identity into the leadership and management.
• Experience the Preventive System through higher education.
• Guarantee the centrality of the option for young people, especially the poorest and the working classes.
• Ensure pastoral ministry dimension of the institution with campus ministry.
Competencies to Develop
• Lead and govern institutions of higher education with strategic vision.
• Manage administrative and academic functions as an institution of higher education.
• Organize, Plan and Support processes for institutional management through appropriate tools.
• Integrate the Catholic and Salesian mission and identity into the leadership and management.
• Experience the Preventive System through higher education.
• Guarantee the centrality of the option for young people, especially the poorest and the working classes.
• Ensure pastoral ministry dimension of the institution with campus ministry.
Thematic Lines
Global context and higher education
What does it mean to be a Higher Education institution [college or university] in the current context? Changes and socio-cultural challenges for educational work according to higher education.
Technological-digital, global and competitive scenario: the 4th industrial revolution, the future of today’s technological development, the careers of the future and work, employment and productivity, the impacts of the digital revolution, the challenges for professionals.
Identity and mission of a Catholic Higher Identity and mission of the Church in The Church: tradition, ecclesial teaching and Education Institution
What does it mean to be a Catholic Higher Education Institution? Identity and mission of the Church in Higher Education Institutions
The Church: tradition, ecclesial teaching and guiding principles.
Specific functions related to the knowledge and management of the Institution.
What does it mean to lead and manage the functions of an institution of higher education? Academic and Administrative functions: teaching, research and extension: industry-institute interface, alumni engagement, faculty development, student support and progression, innovation, catering to diversity.
Manage or Excel?
Teaching management: Institution focused on teaching or learning. An integral teaching (formative dimensions), inclusive, intercultural and interreligious
Research management: Typology of institutions in terms of research, scope and limits of research in a college, conditions for research, priority lines and impact.
Management of the third mission (relationship between university / State-companycommunity): connection with the environment, services, technology transfer, continuing education, impact on public policies.
Salesian Leadership in Higher Education
How to develop leadership with Salesian identity for institutions of higher education? Competences of a Salesian Rector / Principal / Vice Principal / Director.
Interpersonal and institutional communication-Decision-making process-Skills and tools of personal organization-Don Bosco and a leadership inspired by a style of relationships.
The Preventive System in Salesian higher education
How do the values of the spirit and Salesian pedagogy inherited from Don Bosco express themselves in higher education? The understanding of the Preventive System in Salesian Higher Education.
Digital Transformation in Post-Covid Era
Digital Technology as a Strategic tool for academic, administrative and networking purposes.
Impact and adoption of Digital Technology for teaching-learning-evaluation, industry collaboration, alumni engagement, faculty development and student support
The academic community as a subject of the Salesian mission at the IUS.
How to explain the components of the Salesian identity in the educational community? Elements that characterize an academic community with Salesian identity. Community that educates and evangelizes – Identity and preparation of the educator: teacher, student, administrative, support staff. – Environment and quality of relationships. – Dynamic academic community in relation and in dialogue with the context.
The Institutional Development Plan
What are the processes and tools that ensure efficient and identity management in a Salesian higher education institution? Strategic processes and tools in Governance, Leadership and management.
The Institutional Development Plan-Elaboration process-Management of human resourcesEfficient administrative-financial management -Management of institutional communication, networks, inter-institutional relations and technology- Quality management -Institutional evaluation and identity impact.
Salesian leadership and project management: General framework for higher education institutions.
Don Bosco’s leadership style, virtues of a Salesian leader, project management in a Salesian way: transformational, communitarian, co-responsable, systemic – attentive to environment creation, effective.
Resources: pages 144-284 from “Reviving Don Bosco’s Oratory: Salesian Youth Ministry, Leadership and Innovative Project Management” in https://www.academia.edu/35144145
The option for young people, especially for the poorest in the IUS.
How to understand the centrality of the option for young people and especially the poorest in Salesian higher education? The centrality of young people, especially the poorest in the animation and management of a Salesian institution of higher education.
Why the youngest and especially the poorest? Sensitivity and willingness to be with young people. The option for poor young people and the understanding of higher education functions. Criteria and operative options: to know the reality of the young, accessibility, continuity, accompaniment, youth leadership.
The Preventive System in Salesian higher education
How do the values of the spirit and Salesian pedagogy inherited from Don Bosco express themselves in higher education? The understanding of the Preventive System in Salesian Higher Education.
The Salesian Campus Ministry
What is the original Salesian contribution to the evangelization and education of young people? Sources for understanding, processes and tools for ministry at IUS.
Ministry in higher education- Purpose, features, presence among young people, subjects, dimensions-Ministry management tools.
Salesian Leadership in Higher Education
How to develop leadership with Salesian identity for institutions of higher education? Competences of a Salesian Rector / Principal / Vice Principal / Director.
Interpersonal and institutional communication-Decision-making process-Skills and tools of personal organization-Don Bosco and a leadership inspired by a style of relationships.
The Preventive System in Salesian higher education
How do the values of the spirit and Salesian pedagogy inherited from Don Bosco express themselves in higher education? The understanding of the Preventive System in Salesian Higher Education.
The Salesian Campus Ministry
What is the original Salesian contribution to the evangelization and education of young people? Sources for understanding, processes and tools for ministry at IUS.
Ministry in higher education- Purpose, features, presence among young people, subjects, dimensions-Ministry management tools.
Themes & Content
Global context and higher education
What does it mean to be a Higher Education institution [college or university] in the current context? Changes and socio-cultural challenges for educational work according to higher education.
Technological-digital, global and competitive scenario: the 4th industrial revolution, the future of today’s technological development, the careers of the future and work, employment and productivity, the impacts of the digital revolution, the challenges for professionals.
Identity and mission of a Catholic Higher Identity and mission of the Church in The Church: tradition, ecclesial teaching and Education Institution
What does it mean to be a Catholic Higher Education Institution? Identity and mission of the Church in Higher Education Institutions
The Church: tradition, ecclesial teaching and guiding principles.
Specific functions related to the knowledge and management of the Institution.
What does it mean to lead and manage the functions of an institution of higher education? Academic and Administrative functions: teaching, research and extension: industry-institute interface, alumni engagement, faculty development, student support and progression, innovation, catering to diversity.
Manage or Excel?
Teaching management: Institution focused on teaching or learning. An integral teaching (formative dimensions), inclusive, intercultural and interreligious
Research management: Typology of institutions in terms of research, scope and limits of research in a college, conditions for research, priority lines and impact.
Management of the third mission (relationship between university / State-companycommunity): connection with the environment, services, technology transfer, continuing education, impact on public policies
The academic community as a subject of the Salesian mission at the IUS.
How to explain the components of the Salesian identity in the educational community?
Elements that characterize an academic community with Salesian identity. Community that educates and evangelizes – Identity and preparation of the educator: teacher, student, administrative, support staff. – Environment and quality of relationships. – Dynamic academic community in relation and in dialogue with the context.
The Institutional Development Plan
What are the processes and tools that ensure efficient and identity management in a Salesian higher education institution? Strategic processes and tools in Governance, Leadership and management.
The Institutional Development Plan-Elaboration process-Management of human resourcesEfficient administrative-financial management -Management of institutional communication, networks, inter-institutional relations and technology- Quality management -Institutional evaluation and identity impact.
Salesian leadership and project management: General framework for higher education institutions".
Don Bosco’s leadership style, virtues of a Salesian leader, project management in a Salesian way: transformational, communitarian, co-responsable, systemic – attentive to environment creation, effective.
Resources: pages 144-284 from “Reviving Don Bosco’s Oratory: Salesian Youth Ministry, Leadership and Innovative Project Management” in https://www.academia.edu/35144145
The option for young people, especially for the poorest in the IUS.
How to understand the centrality of the option for young people and especially the poorest in Salesian higher education? The centrality of young people, especially the poorest in the animation and management of a Salesian institution of higher education.
Why the youngest and especially the poorest? Sensitivity and willingness to be with young people. The option for poor young people and the understanding of higher education functions. Criteria and operative options: to know the reality of the young, accessibility, continuity, accompaniment, youth leadership.
The Preventive System in Salesian higher education.
How do the values of the spirit and Salesian pedagogy inherited from Don Bosco express themselves in higher education? The understanding of the Preventive System in Salesian Higher Education.
The Salesian Campus Ministry
What is the original Salesian contribution to the evangelization and education of young people? Sources for understanding, processes and tools for ministry at IUS. Ministry in higher education- Purpose, features, presence among young people, subjects, dimensions-Ministry management tools.
Salesian Leadership in Higher Education
How to develop leadership with Salesian identity for institutions of higher education? Competences of a Salesian Rector / Principal / Vice Principal / Director.
Interpersonal and institutional communication-Decision-making process-Skills and tools of personal organization-Don Bosco and a leadership inspired by a style of relationships.
Digital Transformation in Post-Covid Era
Digital Technology as a Strategic tool for academic, administrative and networking purposes.
Impact and adoption of Digital Technology for teaching-learning-evaluation, industry collaboration, alumni engagement, faculty development and student support.
👤 Fr. Oscar Lozano SDB
IUS General Coordinator
👤 Dr. Michal Vojtas, SDB
Professor, Salesian Pontifical University
👤 Fr. Robert Simon, SDB
Vice President & Director DBYA-SA
👤 Fr. Joe Arun SJ
LIBA, Director
👤 Dr. John Alexander, SDB
Rector, Sacred Heart College, Tirupattur
👤 Fr. Joe Andrew SDB
Rector, Beatitudes, Vyarsarpadi, Chennai
👤 Dr. T. Arumugam
Vice Chancellor, Thiruvalluar University
👤 Dr. Edwin George SDB
Rector, Don Bosco College, Dharmapuri
👤 Dr. Francis P. Xavier, SJ
Rector, Loyola College, Chennai
👤 Professor. Samuel Johnson K
Centre for Teaching and Learning, VIT – AP University
👤 Dr. B. S. Ponmudiraj
Adviser, NAAC
👤 Dr. Francis P. Xavier, SJ
Rector, Loyola College, Chennai
👤 Dr. Henry Rosario
Director, Exodus Consulting
National Executive Committee
👤 Fr. Januarius S Sangma SDB
President & Provincial i/c Higher Education, Provincial, Salesian Province of Guwahati
👤 Fr. Thaddeus Singarayan SDB
DBHEI Secretary/ Principal Don Bosco College (Co-Ed), Yelagiri Hills
👤 Dr. Joy Ullattil SDB
Principal Don Bosco College, Mannuthy
👤 Fr. Wilfred Fernandes SDB
Salesian province of Panjim
👤 Fr. Sebastian Karottupuram SDB
Principal, Don Bosco College, Maram
👤 Fr. Bivan Mukhim SDB
Principal, Don Bosco College, Tura
Registration Fee
Account Details
Account Name: All India Don Bosco Education Society (DBHEI)
A/C Number: 0398053000015520
Account Type: Savings
Bank: The South Indian Bank LTD.
Branch/Place: Dwarka, Sector 10, New Delhi
Branch Code: 0398
IFSC Code: SIBL0000398
PAN No: AAATT5004F
Participants are asked to bring a copy of the paid amount details at the time of registration or send the details to the above mentioned DBHEI Help-line WhatsApp Number or mail to dbheinetwork@gmail.com. Note: Only online payment is available at the DBHEI official website. https://dbhei.org/
Target Audience: Rectors, Principals, Directors, Management Council Members of the Salesian Institutions from India.
DBHEI - Help Desk
For more information contact the following emails:
👤 Mr. Valan Peter, Assistant Professor, Don Bosco College, Yelagiri Hills
📱 7867004188
Organising Secretary
👤 Dr. Maria Antony SDB, Principal, Sacred Heart College, Tirupattur
📱 9443438658
Event Coordinator
👤 Dr. Praveen Peter SDB, Don Bosco Arts & Science College, Chennai
📱 9443271038
