The Stanford Declaration

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The Stanford Declaration

• June 30, 2010

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Timely efforts could make Bhubaneswar the
Knowledge Hub of the country the time is NOW

• Chitta Baral, Arizona State University
• (helped by Nihar Nayak, Stanford University)

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• Preparing for and Getting the
• Innovation University in Bhubaneswar

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Current Status

• Two concept papers are made available in MHRD web
  page
• Mr. Kapil Sibal has gone around various countries
  (US, Singapore, UK, Australia) asking for their
  help in setting up these universities.
• No one-on-one mentoring help has been offered.
• Yale has offered to provide training to the
  administrators (VC, Deans etc.) of these
  universities
• The innovation university bill may come up in the
  upcoming parliament draft not available yet

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How an innovation university may come to Odisha
quickly

• Create a small campus (say the size of XIMB 20
  acres and with all amenities for student size of
  1000 and faculty size of 150) immediately.
• This can house the Innovation university for
  first 3-4 years i.e. until its own campus comes
  up
• After that it can be used as an initial plans for
  new institutes/universities that will be
  established in Odisha
• One every 3-4 years.
• Some Odisha connected academics may propose a
  plan to MHRD
• Nihar and I have some plan in mind for which we
  may be able to rope in Stanford and Arizona State
  as mentors.
• A key question for me is
• Will the Innovation University have resources to
  offer faculty salary that will attract non-Indian
  Ph.Ds from western countries (say USA)
• If not, then I dont see how it will become a top
  university quickly (in 10-15 years)
• Model example to follow Hong Kong Univ of Sc and
  Tech.

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Timely effort needed. The time is NOW.

• Making Bhubaneswar THE Knowledge Hub of India (by
  2015-20), Asia (2020) and the World (2030).

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What to pursue (besides Vedanta Univ.) -1
Knowledge Disciplines Top 20 Now/soon Top 40 Now Others What to pursue
Technology/ Engineering IIT Bhubaneswar NIT Rourkela CIPET, VSSUT, IIIT Bhubaneswar Get BITS-Pilani Campus, IIEST, IIIT BAM
Science NISER, BBS Xavier U, Ravenshaw U
Management XIM, BBS BIMTECH, IMI IIM, ISB, Birla
Public Health IIPH, BBS AIPH-Ravenshaw Nebraska USA
Law NLUO, CTC Xavier U
Medicine AIIIMS-like, BBS
Fashion Technology NIFT, BBS
Education RIE, BBS RIE ? NIE
Social Work NISWASS, BBS Tata (TISS), Xavier U
Journalism IIMC, Dhenkanal Upgrade IIMC (more land)
Tourism Travel Management IITTM, BBS Upgrade IITTM (more land)
Hotel Mgmt IHM Bhubaneswar
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What to pursue (besides Vedanta) -2
Disciplines Top 20 Top 40 Others Comments
Arts Ravenshaw Xavier U
Commerce Ravenshaw Xavier U
Design NID, IIT BBS
Architecture SPA, IIT BBS
Pharmacy NIPER
Sanskrit Sri Jagannath U Upgrade Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthaan
Languages ERLC of CIIL Upgrade (more land)
Statistics ISI branch
Maritime Paradeep Branch of Maritime U
Music SPICMACAY Univ
Construction Branch of Constr. Academy
Paramedical Sc Nationa/Regional IPS
Drama NSD
Fine Arts
Sports PE A sports institute
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Vedanta U and Xavier U will play very important
role
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Ranking of Arts Colleges None in Odisha
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Ranking of Commerce Colleges None in Odisha
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Ranking of Science Colleges NISER will come in
top 10
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Ranking of Business Schools XIMB at 13
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Ranking of Engineering Colleges NIT RKL at 21
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Research Ranking of Technical Institutes NIT RKL
at 20
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Top 25 Research Universities None in Odisha
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Why Xavier University will play an important role?

• Only institute from Odisha ranked in top 15 (some
  times top 10) in any field in all rankings.
• Its sister institution XLRI is ranked in top 5.
• Arts 4 out of top 5 are Jesuit Institutions
  (1. Loyola Chennai 3. St Stephens Delhi 4. St
  Xaviers Mumbai 5. St Xaviers Kolkata)
• Commerce 3 out of top 5 are Christian
  Institutions (2. St. Xaviers Kolkata 3. Loyola
  Chennai 5. Christ College Bangalore)
• Science Top 4 are Jesuit Institutions (1.
  Loyola Chennai 2. St Stephens Delhi 3. St
  Xaviers Kolkata 4. St Xaviers Mumbai)
• Xavier University can leap over all these in Arts
  Commerce.
• Other areas that Xavier can be pushed Law,
  Social Sciences/Social Work, some day may be even
  Medical (remember CMC Vellore)
• Xavier has an international brand name (VERY
  important)
• There are 30 Jesuit Universities in the US and
  many more in other countries in the world

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Odisha government partnering with Xavier
University

• Make sure they start programs in Arts and
  Commerce
• Push them to start programs in Law, Social
  Sciences/Social Work, Government and possibly
  Medicine (remember CMC Vellore)
• Help build a Xavier International Center
• Visit and Invite Jesuit Universities and
  Institutions across the world to set up their
  academic units in that center
• Similar to multi-university campuses in China and
  the Middle East

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Comparing Indian and Foreign Universities/Institut
ions

• Annual expenditure
• Arizona State University
• 1.785 Billion USD.8211 crores INR at One
  USD46 INR rate.
• 3000 crores INR using the purchasing power
  parity (PPP)
• Harvard with 20,000 students
• 3.756 Billion USD
• 6385 crores INR using PPP.
• Stanford with 18,500 students
• 3.65 Billion USD  
• IISc Bangalore in 2010-11 budget 221 Crores INR
  
• Total 2010-2011 budget for the seven older IITs
  is 1600 crores.
• Vedanta University (5000 crore INR from Anil A
  15000 crore total)
• Could afford an annual budget 1000-1500 crores

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Initiation cost for Indian and Foreign
Universities/Institutions

• A new IIT 760 crores
• A new IIM 210 crores
• A central university 300 crores
• A central university with medical school 720
  crores
• An IISER 500 crores NISER
• An AIIMS 850 crores.
• Vedanta University 5,000 crores from AA and
  15,000 crores total
• IIT IIM CU CU-MS IISER AIIMS 3340
  crores

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Salary comparison of Indian and Foreign
Universities/Institutions

• IIM-Ahmedabad Assistant Professor 5.5
  lakhs/year
• Indian School of Business (ISB) Assistant
  Professor 20 lakhs/year.
• Harvard University Assistant Professor
  130K/year 60 lakhs INR/year 22 lakhs INR in
  terms of purchasing power parity (PPP)
• ISB pays close to Harvard if we take PPP into
  account.
• So ISB pays much higher than IIMs, close to what
  Harvard pays in PPP terms. How is it ranked?

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Comparing Foreign Indian Universities
(Institutes)

• The budgets and salary for Indian Institutes
  (IITs, IIMs etc.) is normally much smaller than
  foreign ones, even when one takes into account
  PPP
• But when they are close (as in case of ISB) even
  taking into account PPP, the Indian institutes do
  pretty good globally.
• Vedantas budget is more in line with budgets of
  foreign universities and institutes
• Vedanta can pay salary at the level of ISB
• The innovation universities need to gather funds
  to be able to pay at the level of ISB Otherwise
  they would be hard pressed to achieve their goal
  of being world class.

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Vedanta University

• Vedanta University School of Engineering
• Vedanta University School of Medicine
• Vedanta University School of Business
• Vedanta University College of Science
• Vedanta University College of Liberal Arts
• Vedanta University College of Design
• Vedanta University College of Architecture

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What should Odisha urgently do vis-à-vis Vedanta
University

• Unfreeze the current deadlock
• CM must meet PM and HR Minister and talk about
  the importance of Vedanta University and solicit
  his help
• CM (and PM) must ask Anil Agarwal to
• Establish 2-3 graduate schools temporarily in
  Bhubaneswar immediately so as to address peoples
  skepticism. Some possible areas of need
• Mathematics (India produces too few PhDs A lot
  of demand easy to hire top PhDs from abroad
  PhDs from Stanford/Berkeley join 4 year colleges
  and sometimes 2 yr community colleges)
• Computing (India produces too few PhDs A lot of
  demand Not clear how easy it will be to recruit
  from abroad will be a test case)
• Take some additional steps as outlined in the
  bill
• Hire a Pro-vice Chancellor or Chief Operating
  Officer etc.

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Why urgently?

• Internal sources in Vedanta have conveyed that
  they have now stopped focusing on the university
• They will focus on their mining and industry
  goals
• So unless we take the earlier mentioned steps
  urgently, this once in a century opportunity for
  Bhubaneswar/Puri and Odisha may be lost.

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What next?

• To achieve the goal of Making Bhubaneswar THE
  Knowledge Hub of India (by 2015-20), Asia (2020)
  and the World (2030).
• We need to think out of the box and be extremely
  creative and proactive
• Like What?

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Two big ideas

• Pursue SPICMACAY University
• SPICMACAY Society for promotion of Indian
  Culture, Music and
• CM should approach SPICMACAY, offer them free
  land and an initial start up of say 10-15 crores
  for establishing a university with similar aims
  as SPICMACY
• This has a high chance of becoming the top
  Music/Culture University in India.
• Lord Jagannath World University

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Lord Jagannath World University

• Why
• Brand Name Jagannath and Odissi are most well
  known globally
• Like the Jesuit Universities like the
  Venkateswara University (in Tirupati) the best
  way to propagate Jagannath culture is through a
  university
• Lord Jagannath has a lot of assets (lands, etc.)
  all over India.
• A university will put the assets in good use
• Because of the association with Lord Jagannath
  huge funds can be raised for the university
• How
• Hire someone globally known say Lalit Mansingh
  and put him in charge to raise 500-1000 crores
  for this university
• Goal would be to establish a university that
  would have all branches (engineering, medicine,
  management, Culture, Liberal arts, music etc.)
• Initially at some location near Puri (say
  Satyavadi) later branches can be established
  across Odisha and even outside Odisha.
• Create hype from Day 1 (similar to the hype
  created for Nalanda University in Bihar) have
  well known people from all over the world in the
  executive board of this university.
• The hype is needed to attract top faculty.

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• Other proactive steps

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Pursuing Indian Billionaires

• BITS Piliani campus (currently they have campuses
  in Pilani, Goal, Hyderabad, Dubai), perhaps near
  Bhubaneswar
• BITS Management School (Late Sir Birla had talked
  about his goal to establish an IIM type school)
• BIT Mesra type institute in Jharsuguda (they
  also have a BIT Patna) - from a different Birla
  family
• Reliance University (Mukesh and Nita Ambani
  Approach them and offer 2000 acres as opposed to
  100-200 acres that they can get in Mumbai/Delhi)
• Should Rabi Bastia be approached Perhaps direct
  CM letter would be best
• Ajim Premji University He has established one in
  Bangalore
• Jindal University He has one in Haryana
• Pursue with Tatas After their Kalinganagar plant
  is commissioned

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From Mineral Resources to Human Resources

• Mineral resources will be eventually gone
• Saudi Arabia realized it and has focused on
• Infrastructure
• Universities and higher education
• KAUST (King Abdullah Univ of Sc and Tech) - 8
  Billion
• Branches of many foreign universities
• Odisha must link mineral use by companies with
  HRD at all levels

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Pursuing Industries (from mineral resources to
human resources) Private Ones

• Birla, Jindal, Tata, Mukesh Ambani already
  mentioned.
• POSCO an institute like POSTECH in South Korea
• Postech is among the top 2 universities in South
  Korea

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Pursuing Industries (from mineral resources to
human resources) Public Sector ones

• NALCO Medical, Engineering and Management
  colleges
• NTPC Medical, Engineering and Management
  colleges
• SAIL Medical, Engineering and Management
  colleges
• MCL Already promised medical college. Should
  also establish Engineering and Management colleges

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Pursuing successful Indian Societies

• Amrita University (already being pursued)
• Pursue Sai Baba
• DAV Society
• DAV College Chandigarh and Hans Raj College Delhi
  are top DAV colleges
• DAV Business school in Bhubaneswar offers BBA
  (their students get top ranks) and has applied to
  AICTE to offer MBA.
• Get in touch with the DAV society and help them
  make a good college and then grow into a
  university
• Loyola They have a school Encourage them to
  make a college with the help of Loyola College
  Chennai
• St. Josephs - They have a school Encourage them
  to make a college with the help of St. Josephs
  College in Bangalore
• ISB Hyderabad they are making a campus in
  Chandigarh
• IIM Kolkata IIM Ahmedabad is making a campus in
  Hyderabad

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Pursuing the Central Government

• TIFR east Original one in Mumbai Recently a
  branch in Hyderabad at the cost of Rs 2500 crores
  (over 12-15 years) has been approved.
• IIM
• Upgrade VSSUT Burla to an IIEST
• National Institute of Design
• SPA School of Planning Architecture
• National School of Drama
• Rural engineering institute Like SLIET (Punjab),
  ABA Gani Khan Choudhury IET (West Bengal)
• Upgrade one of the medical college to AIIMS level
  (besides the new AIIMs-like institute in
  Bhubaneswar)
• Regional/National Institute of Paramedical
  Sciences
• ESI Medical College in Rourkela (in addition to
  one in Bhubaneswar)
• Medical College as part of CUO Koraput
• ECOR Medical College
• NIPER (National Institute of Pharmaceutical
  Education Research)

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Pursuing Central Government-2

• Upgrade Regional Institute of Education to
  National Institute of Education
• Upgrade IIMC Dhenkanal
• Upgrade IITTM Bhubaneswar
• Upgrade ERLC in Bhubaneswar (part of CIIL
  Mysore)
• Upgrade Rashtriya Sanskri t Sansthan campus in
  Puri
• Upgrade BPNSI Puri
• A Sports institute like NSI Patiala
• CDAC Center
• Branch of Indian Statistical Institute
• Branch of Workers technological university
• Branch of Maritime University
• Branch of National Academy of Construction
• National Library
• National Archive

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Attracting Foreign Universities to Odisha

• Jesuit Universities Complex adjacent to Xavier
  University
• Specifically pursue Georgetown University
• University of Nebraska Medical School
• Already connected to Asian Institute of Public
  Health and through them to Ravenshaw University
• Stanford/Arizona-State-University mentorship of
  the Innovation University
• POSTECH South Korea
• Through POSCO pursue other Korean Universities to
  set up campus
• Be in the lookout for opportunities
• Have facilities ready and available
• Have private/industrial partners ready

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Additional State efforts beyond the HETF report

• Comprehensive Universities
• Utkal Add CET and Capital Medical College to
  create a comprehensive university
• Ravenshaw Add SCB and an engineering college
  (upgrade BOSE to an engineering college)
• Berhampur Add MKCG and Parla Maharaj Engineering
  College
• Sambalpur Add VSS Medical College
• Upgrading the research in the state universities
• Ask each department to compare itself with the
  top 10 in India and aim to be in the top 20. (see
  the ranking based on publications in quality
  venues)
• Metropolitan University
• Bhubaneswar Combine government colleges in
  Bhubaneswar, Cuttack area.
• Aim to be like Delhi University
• Rourkela (mentioned in HETF report)

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Some state private universities

• NIST Berhampur (Among top 2 private colleges
  caters to backward south Orissa)
• GIET Gunupur (Among top 10 private colleges
  largest engineering college in Eastern India
  caters to backward Rayagada district)
• Silicon Bhubaneswar (Top private college of the
  state)
• CV Raman Bhubaneswar (if they make a medical
  college)
• Hi-Tech (Because they made medical college)
• KISS
• CEB/Koustuv (If they make medical college)
• Krupajal (if they make medical college)
• See notes below on how to decide on private
  universities.

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Conclusion