Vision & Mission
V. O. Chidambaram College was started by Kulapathi A. P. C. Veerabahu with a missionary zeal of throwing open the portals of Higher Education to all, irrespective of their caste, creed and gender. His firm belief was that education alone can ensure the development of an individual, a society and a nation. He advocated the kind of education which contributes to the holistic development of an individual who in turn will contribute to the material and moral development of the society and the well being of the entire humanity. Kulapathi's aspiration was that the college should create a just and humane society where dignity of human beings is respected, unjust social structures are challenged, the national legacy of diversity, secularism, non-violence and national integration are upheld and where the poor and the marginalized are taken care of.
About V.O.Chidambaram College
Motto
"Love, Knowledge and Virtue"
Vision
"Education for All"
Watchword
"Educating the Unreached"
Mission
- To provide quality, relevant and inclusive education that caters to the needs of the contemporary knowledge society and globalized world.
- To make the individual meet the challenges of life individually, and socially.
- To foster values, behaviour and a lifestyle towards a sustainable future.
- To enable the student community to understand and facilitate the cross cultural, cross disciplinary and global networking of knowledge that facilitates and builds interdependence of economy and society.
- To cultivate a spirit of inquiry, research and entrepreneurship.
- To empower women and the marginalized sections of the society and enable them to participate in nation building.
Goals
- To provide the youth, particularly the under privileged of Thoothukudi and its neighbouring villages, an opportunity to pursue higher education.
- To promote the spirit of nationalism and secularism among students.
- To facilitate and promote the acquisition and diversification of knowledge and skills that has not only local relevance, but also the potentiality to generate, enrich and enlarge human resources for the national and global demands.
- To nurture an all-round development of students by providing an intellectually stimulating and emotionally soothing environment.
- To create and actively promote a culture of growth and human welfare - i.e., growth of the institution, both quantitative and qualitative, as well as the welfare of teaching, non-teaching staff and students.
How do we attain our goals?
Our mission statement reflects our institution’s distinctive characteristics in terms of addressing the needs of the society and the student community it seeks to serve. We achieve our goals by:
- We introduce courses that have immediate relevance to the neighbouring society.
- We admit students and recruit teachers beyond the barriers of religion, caste, region and language.
- We facilitate the growth of a composite culture through practices that promote goodwill and understanding among students, teachers and other employees belonging to different sociocultural backgrounds.
- We give priority to students from disadvantaged backgrounds during admission.
- We encourage female students to pursue higher education.
- Girls constitute nearly 30 % in Undergraduate admission and they outnumber boys in Postgraduation.
- We follow the principle of equity both community wise and gender wise.
- We organise various programmes to ensure an all-round personality development of students.
- Co-curricular activities in our college contribute more to the community and natural development.
- We offer courses that promote environmental awareness and social values as part of the curriculum.
- We develop the employability skills of our students through the placement and training cell.
- We ensuring the academic improvement and success of students from socially disadvantaged section through remedial programmes.
- We offer financial assistance/concession to the aforesaid students to enable them to complete their studies successfully.
- We inculcate a willingness and readiness in students to respond to the needs of the neighbouring community.
- We provide opportunities and facilities for the professional growth of teachers in terms of teaching and research.
- We foster activities that promote understanding and healthy interaction between the college and the community at large.