To become educated is not the main goal of a liberal arts education. Rather, the main goal is to become educated to live a life of purpose, joy, generosity, and wisdom. At VIPS, education is for life and begins with the First Year Experience Programs, which provide
freshers with a road map of academic and extracurricular opportunities and with encouragement to make a full life on campus.
But most artistic, cultural, social, and volunteer opportunities run on the ambitions and energies of the students themselves and the club they lead. The interests represented by these club are as vast and as varied as students interests. But a full life is made up of gifts that are given as well as received. VIPS College students are encouraged to be, in the Jesuit phrase, "men and women for others," and to give of themselves through a wide range of volunteer service programs, from tutoring underprivileged children, to giving clothes in rural
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November 6 2004 |
Topic: Media agenda Setting: Of Whom? For Whom? By Whom? |
Media has emerged as an information processor in this high tech era. Agenda setting describes the very powerful influence of the media- the ability to tell what issues are important. It is the creation of public awareness and concern of salient issues by the news media.
There are some questions that agitated the minds of BJ(MC) students:
Do the media have an agenda-setting function?
Why do the media have an agenda-setting function, if it does?
Is that consistent with democracy?
Is there something in the technology that changes the traditional structure of the media's sense of entitlement to set agenda?
If the media is not to be the prime agenda-setter in the society, where is the driving force to set agenda towards the public interest?
The desire to get answers to these questions lead to the inception of the seminar on this issue. |
| Seminar Panelists |
| Prof. B. P. Sanjay |
Director, Indian Institute of Mass Communication |
| Ms. Chitra Mudgal |
Eminent writer and Member, Prasar Bharti |
| Dr. Ram Mohan Pathak |
Director, MMM Hindi Patrakarita Sansthan, Kashi Vidyapeeth |
| Dr. Sanjeev Bhanavat |
Head, Sanchar Kendra, University of Rajasthan |
| Dr. Surender J. Sharma |
Former Principal, Kamla Nehru College |
| Mr. Alok Verma |
Executive Producer, Aaj Tak |
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March 18, 2004 |
| Topic : A Seminar on Women Issues and Media Sensitivity |
The patriarchal patterns present in the society, where females have been exploited for ages, shows cracks as women have realized their potential and started inculcating it towards their success. Without losing her traditional perspectives- mother, daughter and dedicated homemaker- she has proved her mettle in each and every sphere of life- business, hospitality, entertainment and media.
In the same context, journalism students of VIPS and Kamala Nehru College held a seminar on “women Issues and Media Sensitivity” on March 18.
The highlight of the occasion was the felicitation of Ms. Alka Saxena, a prominent journalist of the year
2003. The honour was bestowed on her by veteran journalist Ms Mrinal Pandey, editor Hindustan .
Dr. surinder J Sharma, Principal, Kamla Nehru College welcomed the distinguished guests and Sri Sunit Vats, Vice Chairman, VIPS chaired the function.
The panelists of the seminar included Mrs. Veena Nayyar, a noted woman activist and director of the NGO, Woman Political Watch, and Mrs. Ramola Kumar, Dean, Delhi School of Communication. |
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