Universities for Women : Challenges and Perspectives
Contents: Prolegomena. Women\'s universities--a case for formation of consortium/Veena Noble Dass and T.V. Subba Rao. 1. The role of universities in gender mainstreaming and women\'s empowerment/Amelou Benitez Reyes. 2. Moving beyond academics gender positive initiatives in pace setting women\'s institutions in India/Jaya Indiresan. 3. Strategies for empowering women in higher education/K.T. Sunitha Byrappa. 4. Academic excellence in women\'s universities--significant strategies/S.C. Jhansi. 5. Issues in higher education form women/Alka Sharma, Rekha Govil and Diwakar Shastri. 6. Globalisation and higher education in India: with reference to women universities/D.M. Mamatha, P.B. Madhuri and B.V. Muralidhar. 7. Expanding tradition: launching the picker engineering program at Smith College/Donna Riley. 8. Application of technology in educational organizations a new paradigm of learning and teaching/D. Bhanusree Reddy. 9. Indian women in science and technology/S. Alya, V.S. Sherin and Nagalakshmi. 10. Women in agriculture, agricultural research and extension activities/Shakunthala Sridhara. 11. Role of information technology in women\'s universities/Vijaya Deshmukh and Anjana Bhatnagar. 12. Role of women\'s universities in dealing with women\'s health problems/V. Kalarani. 13. Women\'s nutritional status and some remedies/A. Jyothi. 14. Nutrition and health education for women and children through women\'s universities--perspectives/Aruna M., Violet A. and Vijaya Jyothi S. 15. Networking of women\'s universities-challenge/Padmaja, B.J. and Annie Neeraja. 16. Women in information technology and law/N.B. Chandrakala. 17. Human rights education in women\'s universities : issues and strategies/N. Rajeswari. 18. Extension, the third dimension and women\'s universities/Renuka Narang. 19. Extension activities in university/N.V. Pushpabai. 20. Networking teacher education and school education in the context of changing social scenario/Shakuntala Nagpal. 21. Managing communication for strategic brand positioning of women universities/B.K. Kuthiala. 22. Campus community radio for women\'s universities: challenging the mainstream media discourse/Kiran Prasad. 23. Need for innovative practices in media education with focus on sandwich programmes and training and work experience schemes/V. Durga Bhavani and T. Vijayalakshmi. 24. Grassroot media for women\'s development : universities intervention/D.B. Krishna Kumari and C.V. Vani. 25. Need for effective media use in women\'s universities/T. Tripura Sundari and P. Vijayalakshmi. 26. Women\'s universities and corporate social responsibility: role of media/M.V. Ramanamma and B.N. Neelima. 27. Women\'s universities , crisis communication and the media/B.N. Neelima. 28. Academic needs of students in women universities : a study in SPMVV - Tirupati/M. Rama Devi. 29. Industry institute interaction cell for women\'s universities/N. Sree Rajani. 30. Career opportunities for Indian women in the age of convergence/K. Suguna. 31. Universities for women challenges and perspectives/Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam.
International Conference on Universities for Women : Challenges and Perspectives was held between 1-3 February 2006. The Director of the conference and the Vice-Chancellor of Sri Padmavati Women\'s University, Dr. Veena Noble Dass visualized this conference out of which emerged a consortium of women\'s universities of which Prof. Dass was nominated the chairperson.
The conference was attended by a large number of academicians, administrators as well as those interested in women\'s education.
This volume, the first of its kind, contains highly academic and intellectual presentations made at the conference. The papers presented cover a variety of areas like (a) Role of women\'s universities in science and technology (b) Women\'s universities and media relation (c) Outreach program and community service in women\'s universities (d) Curriculum challenge in women\'s universities (e) Students needs and solutions (f) role of women\'s studies in women\'s universities and (g) Women\'s universities: promotion of entrepreneurship.
Thus the volume will be useful to students, teachers, academicians and administrators who are interested in women\'s education. (jacket)
International Conference on Universities for Women : Challenges and Perspectives was held between 1-3 February 2006. The Director of the conference and the Vice-Chancellor of Sri Padmavati Women\'s University, Dr. Veena Noble Dass visualized this conference out of which emerged a consortium of women\'s universities of which Prof. Dass was nominated the chairperson.
The conference was attended by a large number of academicians, administrators as well as those interested in women\'s education.
This volume, the first of its kind, contains highly academic and intellectual presentations made at the conference. The papers presented cover a variety of areas like (a) Role of women\'s universities in science and technology (b) Women\'s universities and media relation (c) Outreach program and community service in women\'s universities (d) Curriculum challenge in women\'s universities (e) Students needs and solutions (f) role of women\'s studies in women\'s universities and (g) Women\'s universities: promotion of entrepreneurship.
Thus the volume will be useful to students, teachers, academicians and administrators who are interested in women\'s education. (jacket)
