1925
National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), National Institutional Ranking Framework(NIRF), Internal Quality Assurance Cell(IQAC)
Autonomous
NAAC A ++
Female
About
us
St.
Teresa’s College, Autonomous is committed to enriching the lives of our
students by empowering them. We provide holistic education that enables them to
actively participate in community life. Womens’ education is a crucial factor
that contributes to nation building and for the past ninety years we have been
educating young women from different strata of our society.
The
concept of education needs to change keeping in mind the needs of the present
generation of learners and we strive to equip them with the necessary skill
sets to meet the different challenges that they may be required to meet.
The
college is named after St. Teresa of Avila. Though a saint of the 16th Century,
St. Teresa is a model for youth in any age and time. Her teachings form the
basis of Catholic Spirituality. She lived the life of a contemplative nun and
later was named as the “Doctor of the Church”. Allison Peers, who translated
her life said, “Her purely human qualities and gifts, the saintliness of her
life, the naturalness and candour of her manner and style, these are some of
the reasons why her name is not only graven upon the enduring marble of history
but taken on the lips of generation after generation with reverence and love”
St.
Teresa’s College is the result of a vision, the seeds of which was planted by
Mother Teresa of St. Rose of Lima, when she started St. Teresa’s School in
1887. She was a great educationalist and a humane social worker. Her
remarkable contribution to the society was empowering women through education.
In education, her vision went beyond her times, aiming for the formation of a complete
human person with a sense of responsibility to the society and to the nation.
She focused on faith formation through education: “Now in India if you want to
work for the soul you must begin by training the mind. When their minds are
raised and enlightened by education then only will we have true Catholics in
heart and mind. Gradual and daily instruction in the truths of our holy faith
alone will bear seed”.
OUR
VISION
St.Teresa’s
College envisions a life-oriented education that empowers women through a
humanizing and liberative process, to be agents of transformation and
development at different levels of life. They are empowered to respond actively
to concerns and conflicts inherent in today’s world. Our thrust is in the
creation of a civilization of love as envisaged and promoted by our Foundress,
Mother Teresa of St. Rose of Lima.
OUR
MISSION
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To
promote a College/Community/Society/Nation where spiritual, moral and genuine
values are lived and witnessed.
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To
contribute to the transformation of society through an openness to reality and
living the challenges of being socially conscious and socially responsible.
·
To
synergize women and those prevented from exercising their right to be human,
through enlightening them regarding their basic human rights and helping them
to achieve the same.
·
To
promote inter-cultural and inter-religious harmony and communion through
promoting genuine dialogue, whereby we work together for the common good of the
human family.
·
To
facilitate leadership among the students enabling them to be genuinely other
centred, proactively enthusiastic, and spiritually and socially motivated
towards personal, group and social liberation.
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To
provide quality, integral education which is life, vocation and career
oriented.
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To
work towards the integrity of creation through being conscious of and alert to
the state of devastation and destruction of creation and serious perils that
humankind is plunged into. We promote programmes/movements that foster
inter-connectedness, kinship and eco-justice.
·
To
recognize the advantage of using modern tools and technological innovations for
teaching- learning and governance and its visible impact in empowering
students.
OUR
GOALS
·
St.
Teresa’s, a premier Catholic Institution of higher education for women,
provides university education in a Christian atmosphere. The College aims at
the integral formation of “Intellectually creative, emotionally mature, morally
responsible, spiritually enlightened, socially committed and truly liberated”
young women who will reposition themselves as self-reliant and responsible
individuals, who would transform society.
·
The
mutual trust and cordial relationship of the college community contributes to
the effective realisation of our goal – an “empowered woman” who would
fearlessly chart the journey of her life.
CORE
VALUES
The
distinctive characteristics of the institution are defined in the Mission
statement with regard to the core values mentioned below:
Addressing
the needs of society
·
Preference
for the economically challenged and marginalized
·
Transforming
the self and society
·
Inculcating
inter-religious harmony
·
Knowledge
sharing with community and effective social interventions
·
The
students it seeks to serve
Holistic
Education
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Value
Education and Character Formation
·
Academic
excellence
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Inculcating
intellectual curiosity and aptitude for research
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Impart
life skills such as decision making, conflict resolution and team work
Institution’s
Traditions and Value Orientation
·
Upholding
an inclusive culture and broad vision for creating a “Civilization of Love”
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Pursuit
of Excellence & Maintenance of Quality
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Inculcating
Gospel values – truth, love, justice, peace, integrity and faith
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Facilitating
interdependence and collaboration between the Management & Staff
Vision
for the future
·
Open
new gateways for transforming the institution into an excellent Women’s
University
·
Develop
new strategies to work together to ensure that the education offered maintains
the highest quality
·
Offer
an excellent grounding to the students that will equip them as highly
sought-after graduates/post graduates and researchers
·
Empower
Teresians to become the voice of truth and light with the power to change the
world
