Student-centered multifaceted learning: beyond curriculum

INM PG College was founded 62 years ago at Budhana Gate Meerut with the vision and mission of educating, inspiring, transforming, and empowering young women in the community. Today's society has a higher demand for self-awareness and more specialized skills. Education is most powerful when it has significance beyond the academic curriculum. INM PG College, Meerut, prioritizes student-centered education to foster relationships between students, society and the environment through multidisciplinary education beyond the curriculum.

Ismail National I D Model

Empirical learning (EL): INM PG College's unique approach to experiential learning fosters holistic development through hands-on activities, communication, soft skills, confidence building, decision-making, computer skills, professional training, and personality development.

• Students are exposed to a number of skill development programs, such as newspaper art, Watse material craft, flower making and arranging, fashion designing, and textile designing.
• Programs like computer skills, communication skills, listening skills, speech delivery, writing, and enrichment programs transformative assessment-based learning, life skills, and leadership are conducted for the soft skills development of students.
• Students are encouraged to make presentations, face interviews, group discussions, public speaking, and workplace etiquette through the college forum. All these programs help boost the self-confidence of the students.

Learning outcomes

• It developed in them critical thinking and problem-solving capacity and raised their self-confidence to do a better job.
• Students organized a talent-hunt program, seminar, feast, fair, and exhibition, which provided engaging experiences to develop teamwork, leadership, and accountability.

• Environment-focused Learning (EFL): It's important for college students to realize that education isn't just about sitting on four walls. They need to be aware of the social situation and the environment. The college works in every way to create a conducive environment to create environmental awareness and sustainability among students and neighbours through a distinctive approach.

• Environmental activities enable classroom students to interact with the environment for adaptation and learning. The institute has taken up sanitation initiatives to work in the fields of cleanliness and greenery to create an environmentally friendly and sustainable environment.
• The NSS unit of the college organized a cleanliness drive inside and outside the institution. Students and staff enthusiastically initiate and participate in tree plantation drives outside the campus.
• During Van Mahotsav week, a tree plantation drive was organized by the National Service Scheme. The volunteers planted 1000 shady, long lived and fruitful trees like Peepal, Guava, Rosewood, Mango, Neem, Jamun, and Gulmohar in the Gymkhana and Women's Garden located near the college.
• INM PG College organized and participated in rallies like environment conservation, water conservation rally, ban on plastic awareness, etc

Learning outcomes

• Developing eco-centric attitudes in students will help preserve the earth’s environment for future generations.                        

Service Learning (SL): Students at INM PG College go through experiential education through community engagement. In the process, students link personal and social development with academic and cognitive development. It helps students mold themselves into responsible citizens with empathy.

• Students voluntarily donate blood every year.
• During the COVID-19 pandemic, students distributed masks and sanitizers to the needy.
• Students are involved in community development activities in slum areas, such as cleaning drives and distributing free meals and clothing. During this time, students learn about the harsh realities of life, develop social skills, and become responsible.
• NSS volunteers organize awareness programs on such issues as “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao” child ratio, women empowerment, AIDS, cancer awareness through rallies, competitions, street plays, lectures in villages like Kaanshiram Slum Lohianagra, Fafunda, etc.

Learning outcomes

Real-world learning enhanced students' ability to apply knowledge, improved academic outcomes, and promoted understanding, problem analysis, critical thinking, and cognitive development.

Innovative Learning (IL): Incubation and Start-Up Cells, The Industry-Academia Integration and skill development Cells in the college provided platforms to ignite the innovative skills of students. Through innovation, students not only present their creative ideas but also learn to advance their innovative skills.

• The innovation club organized a training program on preparing eco-friendly bags by using old dresses, waste paper, etc.
• On various themes, students drew wall paintings.
• The student prepared organic incense sticks from waste flowers.
• Literary works by budding college students are published in college magazine.

Learning outcomes

• Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor Prof. Sangeeta Shukla C. C. S. University, Meerut, confers a cash award of Rs. five thousand to Ms. Ariba and other students of INM PG College as an ‘Encouragement Award’ in recognition of their innovative idea, titled ‘Paper Bouquet.’
• Ishika, of INM PG College, went to the governor’s house Lucknow, to present the bags in front of the honorable governor, “Anandi Ben Patel and 13 country ambassadors.  

In the last five years (2018-2023) 7,020 thousand students, out of 13468 participated in multifaceted learning beyond the curriculum, which shown in percentage with Fg.1 and Fg.2

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Fulfilling the vision of the college and increasing the participation of students in learning beyond the curriculum, played an important role in the personal, social and emotional development of students.