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6. Extended Curricular Engagements

Faculty orientation deck · draft / consultation marks
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Criterion 6

Criterion 6 | Extended Curricular Engagements

Understanding the metrics · Preparing the institution

Meaning • Documents • Responsibilities • Measurement
6 baseline metrics + 1 supplementary topics

Orientation to the proposed ten-attribute reform framework. Consultation/draft marks are not final official scoring rules.

Faculty orientation edition • 23 October 2026

Metric 6.1 | Technical / Domain-related Clubs and Festivals

25 marks

Explain how discipline-related clubs extend learning beyond the classroom through regular student participation and expert/professional engagement.

Documents to prepare and maintain

  • Club details in prospectus.
  • constitution/calendar.
  • event reports, photographs and certified participant lists. • Geo tagged Photos
  • Resume of resource person.
  • Feed back analysis report.
  • certificate sample copies,

Who is responsible?

  • Club faculty coordinators and student office-bearers.
  • HoDs.
  • Student Affairs. Staff advisor
  • No. of Technical/Domain Clubs with no. of students
  • Total number of Activities club-wise
  • No. of institutions participated in the Domain related festivals
  • Involvement of industry bodies involved
  • Number of professional bodies involved
  • Number of Hackathons/workshops conducted

Technical / Domain-related Clubs and Festivals | measurement, weightage and interpretation

How the metric is understood or measured

Record clubs, activities, participating institutions and professional/industry bodies; keep event counts distinct from unique participants.

Draft weightage / source maximum

25 marks

Consultation metric 6.1

Not a verified final allocation or score-conversion rule.

Strategic planning & Discussion

How do club activities extend disciplinary learning beyond the classroom?

How can we sustain participation beyond one annual festival?

What skills or outputs will demonstrate students’ learning?

  • Establish discipline-related clubs with student leadership and faculty mentoring.
  • Plan regular workshops, demonstrations, competitions and subject festivals.
  • Involve experts, alumni and professional bodies in club activities.
  • Encourage student-led projects connecting classroom concepts with practical applications.

Metric 6.2/ 6.1(Merged) | Hackathons and Ideation Workshops

No separate allocation established

Explain structured problem-solving and idea development that produces proposals, prototypes or tested solutions. Not every workshop is a hackathon.

Documents to prepare and maintain

  • Problem statement and programme.
  • team registration/mentoring records.
  • jury rubrics, outputs and follow-up reports.

Who is responsible?

  • Innovation/Technical Club coordinators.
  • faculty mentors.
  • external experts.

Hackathons and Ideation Workshops | measurement, weightage and interpretation

How the metric is understood or measured

Record events, teams, outputs and follow-up; avoid double counting the same event under domain-club totals.

Draft weightage / source maximum

No separate allocation established

Strategic planning & Discussion

Organise problem-focused ideation workshops and hackathons.

Invite challenges from industry, communities and institutional stakeholders.

Facilitate interdisciplinary student teams and expert mentoring.

Support promising ideas through prototyping, further testing or incubation

Hackathons included within consultation metric 6.1; do not duplicate its 25 Not a verified final allocation or score-conversion rule.

Metric 6.3/ 6.2 | Cultural Clubs, Activities and Festivals

25 marks

Explain opportunities for artistic participation, cultural expression and engagement with diversity. Show continuity and student involvement.

Documents to prepare and maintain

  • Cultural club details and calendar.
  • event reports and photographs.
  • certified participants and participating-institution lists.

Who is responsible?

  • Cultural Committee and club coordinators.
  • student representatives.
  • Student Affairs.
  • No. of Cultural Clubs with no. of students,
  • Total number of Activities club-wise,
  • No. of institutions participated in the cultural festivals,
  • Number of activities to celebrate diversity (such as Ek Bharat Shreshta Bharat programme)

Cultural Clubs, Activities and Festivals | measurement, weightage and interpretation

How the metric is understood or measured

Record clubs, activities, institutional participation and diversity-focused programmes; distinguish participation from awards.

Draft weightage / source maximum

25 marks

Consultation metric 6.2

Not a verified final allocation or score-conversion rule.

Strategic planning & Discussion

How can cultural activities develop creativity, confidence and teamwork?

How can we ensure inclusive participation beyond established performers?

How do we sustain club engagement beyond annual festivals?

  1. Strengthen student-led literary, music, dance, theatre and fine arts clubs.
  2. Plan regular creative workshops, performances and cultural festivals.
  3. Engage artists, writers, alumni and cultural organisations.
  4. Encourage activities celebrating regional traditions and cultural diversity

Metric 6.4 / 6.5 | Mental Health Clubs and Wellness Activities

15 marks

Explain preventive wellbeing activities, mentoring, professional counselling access and faculty awareness. Counselling is a confidential professional service.

Documents to prepare and maintain

  • Wellbeing activity reports.
  • counsellor credentials and schedules.
  • anonymised service statistics and faculty-training records.

Who is responsible?

  • Student Welfare and wellbeing coordinators.
  • qualified counsellors.
  • faculty mentors.

(A) No. of activities or clubs involved in promoting mental wellbeing such as Yoga, counselling, Meditation etc. (B) Student Mentoring activities include –

  • Students counselling
  • Training the faculty to identify student psychological issues
  • Availability of trained counsellors

Mental Health Clubs and Wellness Activities | measurement, weightage and interpretation

How the metric is understood or measured

Use aggregate service evidence; never circulate individual counselling notes or diagnoses in any orientation records.

Draft weightage / source maximum

15 marks

Consultation metric 6.3

Not a verified final allocation or score-conversion rule.

Strategic planning & Discussion

How can we create a supportive, non-stigmatising campus environment?

What barriers prevent students from seeking support?

How can faculty support students while respecting privacy and professional boundaries?

  1. Organise mental-health awareness, stress-management and wellness activities.
  2. Encourage student-led clubs promoting inclusion, belonging and help-seeking.
  3. Arrange interactions with qualified counsellors and mental-health professionals.
  4. Communicate available counselling services and support channels.

Metric 6.5 | Sports Clubs / Teams and Activities

20 marks

Explain organised sports participation and institutional support, including representation at external events.

Documents to prepare and maintain

  • Sports calendar and team records.
  • certified external participant lists.
  • event/participation certificates.

Who is responsible?

  • Physical Education Department and Sports Committee.
  • team coaches.
  • Student Affairs.
  • No. of students participated in the sports events organized by other institutions at the state, national and international levels,
  • Percentage of students participated in the sports eventsorganised by other institutions at the state, national and international levels

Sports Clubs / Teams and Activities | measurement, weightage and interpretation

How the metric is understood or measured

Students participating in eligible external sports events ÷ total eligible students × 100; define the period and deduplicate participants.

Draft weightage / source maximum

20 marks

Consultation metric 6.5

Not a verified final allocation or score-conversion rule.

Strategic planning & Discussion

Illustration only: 90 unique eligible sports participants ÷ 1,000 students × 100 = 9%

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A student attending several events remains one unique participant for a student-based percentage. Single entry only for team events

Metric 6.6 | Community Engagement and UBA Participation

25 marks

Explain sustained engagement with community needs through outreach, village adoption and health, literacy, environment or social-awareness work.

Documents to prepare and maintain

  • Adopted-village/partner records.
  • activity reports and participant lists.
  • UBA reports and community feedback.

Who is responsible?

  • NSS/NCC/UBA and extension coordinators.
  • faculty volunteers.
  • community partners.

(I) The social awareness activities conducted by the institution on communities can be illustrated through:

  • Improved gender ratio
  • Improved GER
  • Clean Village activity/drive
  • Disease free village
  • Awareness on fitness of resources
  • Constitutional awareness
  • Eco-friendly communities/village
  • Improved literacy levels
  • Empowered women communities
  • School reach-out programs
  • Energy literacy awareness
  • Any other to be specified (Social awareness and impact level to be added);(II) Health and Hygiene related activities
  • Medical Camps,
  • Blood Donation Camps,
  • Promoting Village Sports,
  • Educating Rural Students, etc.

(III) Adoption of village under UBA (Unnat Bharat Abhiyan)

Community Engagement and UBA Participation | measurement, weightage and interpretation

How the metric is understood or measured

Show needs, activity, participation and community benefit. An event photograph alone does not demonstrate impact.

Draft weightage / source maximum

25 marks

Consultation metric 6.6

Not a verified final allocation or score-conversion rule.

Strategic planning & Discussion

Are our activities responding to community-identified needs?

How can departments contribute their expertise beyond one-day programmes?

What evidence will show meaningful community benefit?

  • Students and a village partner identify a literacy need, run a sustained programme and review participation and learning.
  • Identify community needs through consultation and village-level interaction.
  • Plan sustained activities on education, health, hygiene, constitutional awareness and environmental wellbeing.

Do not infer long-term community impact from one event photograph.

Supplementary/ Metric 6. 4 • Value Education

15 marksSupplementary coverage · not an additional confirmed scored metric

Explain structured education in values, ethics and responsible citizenship through courses and academic activities, not only observance-day events.

Documents to prepare and maintain

  • Certified credit/non-credit course list and syllabi.
  • lecture/seminar notices and reports.
  • participant lists and assessed reflections.

Who is responsible?

  • Ethic Committee coordinator and departments.
  • course teachers.
  • Academic Council.

Activities which focus on inculcating values, ethics, morals, etc.

  • Number of courses on value education (credit/non-credit)
  • Number of lectures/seminars on value education

Value Education | measurement, weightage and interpretation

How the metric is understood or measured

Report approved courses and lectures/seminars separately; show content, participation and learning.

Draft weightage / source maximum

15 marks

Consultation metric 6.4

Not a verified final allocation or score-conversion rule.

Strategic planning & Discussion

How can we move beyond lectures to practising values?

What ethical dilemmas can students explore within their disciplines?

How can student reflections demonstrate meaningful engagement?

Offer credit/non-credit courses on values, ethics and moral reasoning. Organise lectures and seminars on integrity, respect, responsibility and ethical conduct. Use case discussions and reflective activities to connect values with everyday decisions.

Weightage reference

  • Technical / Domain-related Clubs and Festivals25 marks.
  • Hackathons and Ideation WorkshopsNo separate allocation established.
  • Cultural Clubs, Activities and Festivals25 marks.
  • Mental Health Clubs and Wellness Activities15 marks.
  • Sports Clubs / Teams and Activities20 marks.
  • Community Engagement and UBA Participation25 marks.
  • Value Education15 marks.

Faculty preparation checklist

Prepare the evidence

  • Use approved, dated and signed academic/administrative records.
  • Prepare a concise explanation supported by the relevant primary records.
  • State the period, cohort, unit and counting method for numerical claims.
  • Use source-specified periods only where confirmed; verify the final applicable window.

Coordinate responsibility

  • Lead coordinator consolidates the criterion; departments supply subject records.
  • HoDs verify academic claims; relevant offices verify finance, HR, exams and admissions.
  • Academic Council/Board of Studies approvals support curriculum decisions.
  • Protect personal data and use anonymised summaries for sensitive records.

Orientation discussion and immediate institutional actions

Questions for faculty and departments

  • Which existing activity demonstrates this criterion most convincingly?.
  • Which claim currently lacks an approved document or primary record?.
  • Where are counts inconsistent between departments and central offices?.
  • Which improvement needs an academic or administrative decision?.

Actions after the orientation

  • Nominate criterion and metric-level faculty/office leads.
  • Prepare a document inventory and identify genuine gaps.
  • Correct the academic/administrative practice—not just the report wording.
  • Ask IQAC to confirm the applicable framework, periods and scoring source before submission.