COLLEGE WITH POTENTIAL FOR EXCELLENCE STATUS
FOR ST.XAVIER'S COLLEGE, GOA.

The University Grants Commission announced recently the list of 47 colleges from all over India which have been selected under the new scheme entitled "Colleges with Potential for Excellence (C.P.E)"during the Tenth Plan. According to U.G.C., these colleges are doing excellent work in teaching and have potential to carry on doing excellent work in teaching.

During the Tenth Plan period, the U.G.C. has taken several initiatives to assist the colleges and C.P.E. is one of them. The U.G.C has been also promoting the scheme of autonomy to the colleges to enable them introduce innovations in the field of curriculum designing, teaching and evaluation and it is planned to cover 10% of the colleges under this scheme.

There are altogether 15,000 colleges in India and it was desired by U.G.C. that 1% of the colleges (155) may be identified so as to promote excellence in teaching. Each college which is awarded with C.P.E status will be eligible for financial assistance ranging from Rs. 35 lakhs to Rs. 100 lakhs, depending upon whether it is affiliated only, autonomous and / or accredited college. If the college is not autonomous, it will miss the chance of getting a grant of Rs. 40 lakhs.

At the first level of selection, the Vice Chancellors of the Universities were requested to screen the proposals of the colleges and recommend the names of 3 colleges only to the U.G.C. after necessary screening at the University level. As per this provision, the Goa University sent names of 3 selected colleges to the U.G.C. In response to this, 84 universities spread over 27 states and union territories, had recommended 239 proposals of the colleges.

At the second level of selection, a standing committee on C.P.E. was constituted by the U.G.C. to process the proposals received from the colleges. The standing committee approved a scoring scale based on 70 parameters to evaluate the proposals of the colleges. These scores awarded to the proposals and the analysis thus made was considered by the standing committee which subsequently recommended that in the first round 47 colleges spread over 14 states / union territories and 32 universities may be awarded the C.P.E. status. The U.G.C. in its meeting held recently accepted the recommendations of the standing committee.

St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa was established in the year 1063 by the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman and has recently completed its Ruby Jubilee. This year, the Goa University First Ranks in Arts, Science and Commerce, were secured by St. Xavier's College students