Horrifying Conduct for an Academic Institute
Pros
1. A good and secluded place for nature lovers (Lavasa Campus) 2. The management will spend money on marketing the courses and beautifying the infrastructure of the campus because they need students to enroll in their programs. 3. The pay scale is at par with those of other universities in India.
Cons
1. No respect for the teaching faculty and they are constantly demeaned which ultimately makes the teachers lose their morale. 2. The approach towards work for the CMI Fathers who manage the University is authoritarian and heavily partial. 3. High levels of nepotism and partiality where they entertain/appoint/retain only Malayalees (Keralites) and alumni of CHRIST University at all costs irrespective of the huge imbalance in terms of their qualifications and experience as opposed to non-Keralites. 4. Teachers are made to slog for almost 12 hours per day and most Sundays they are allotted duties which they cannot refuse. 5. In order to get their PhD students (who also happen to teach there as assistant profs) to complete their PhDs, they make other novice professors (young professors who have recently joined, especially from the dept of languages) to write research papers in the specific topics related to these PhD students, steal the credits and publish the papers under the PhD students' names in the required journals. The management and other senior professors are in on it but act as if it is a norm. 6. The Director and his cohorts steal the research papers of MBA/MSc students and publish them under his name. The contribution towards those articles from the part of the Director and his cohorts is next to nil. In some cases, they give credits to the students as third or fourth author. 7. The management is highly patriarchal. Women professors have a very strict dress code wherein they are not allowed to wear anything other than formal suits and sarees. They are also not allowed wear big Jhumkas or other heavy accessories. Students are not allowed to wear anything other than salwar kameez (dupatta is mandatory) and formals. 8. The Uni fines students for all sorts of strange reasons: a. INR 1000/- for using mobiles during the class b. INR 5000/- for not informing the relevant authorities to go out on Saturdays and Sundays (Pune is two hours away from the campus and all the students in this Uni live in hostels and private villas). d. INR 3000/- for attendance below 85% e. INR 5000/- for attendance below 80% f. INR 8000/- for attendance below 78% g. INR 5000/- if caught cutting birthday cake within the campus or inside the hostels and private villas. 9. The work culture is very toxic as the demands on the teachers to promote the courses are out of their JDs plus many other things. 10. The Director listens to only specific employees of his and illtreats the other employees based on the narratives of these specific tattlers who obviously tattle for their own benefits. This has led to a very prejudiced and lopsided management that treats the sincere, hardworking and experienced employees unfairly and disrespectfully. 11. Due to the toxicity among both the management and the professors, the attrition rate is very high. 12. The courses are designed in a very haphazard manner (mostly by semi and unqualified profs), especially, the MBA courses. Students are not given enough time to complete their internships, neither is the course conducted within the expected teaching hours. They are very rushed and chaotic. Students find themselves at a loss since there is improper guidance and inadequate exposure to industries and jobs.
