CENTRE FOR HUMAN VALUES AND ETHICS
CENTRE FOR HUMAN VALUES AND ETHICS
Vision: Create a positive atmosphere amongst the students and faculty wherein they can flourish themselves by engaging into creative, innovative and productive deliberations and discussions.
Mission:
- Moulding the academic community into responsible and trustworthy citizens by making them think in an unprejudiced manner and show compassion to fellow beings and nature
- Play a positive role in encouraging students to rise above differences in rites, rituals and beliefs and adopt the core values of humanity
Incharge : Prof Vaishali Singh
Centre was established in 2011 to provide a platform for both students and faculty to engage actively with free ideas and to cultivate a culture of deliberations, discussions and independent thinking.
OBJECTIVES
The objective of the Centre for Human Values and Ethics is to inculcate proper sense of values and ethics in young professionals. Education is not confined to imparting of information or providing the requisite skills to the students to venture out in the world. When knowledge and learning are associated solely with economics and development and 'are amputated from ethics, then an overarching conception of human good and violence against humanity becomes banal. Moral choices are not always black and white, but they still have to be made.
Universities are spaces where free dialogue and exchange of ideas takes place. In order to make the students and faculty of the university engage with ideas of high learning, it is pertinent that they should be given orientation and training for critical and independent thinking. Instilling a sense of professional ethics, with deep commitments to the cause of society and humanity has to be ingrained side by side. A socially sensitive individual with a strong sense of purpose and self-discipline is an essential pre-requisite for a nation constantly trying to strengthen its democratic traditions. Ethics and values like integrity, trusteeship, harmony, accountability, inclusiveness, commitment, responsibility, resourcefulness, belongingness, and sustainability are essential indices.
With these objectives in mind, the Centre undertakes various activities like Workshops, Symposium, Extension Lectures, Debates, Seminars, and Film screenings with discussions. In the past, the Centre organised an interactive session with Bhanwari Devi and Kavita Srivastava, an in-house workshop on Challenges before Higher Education and an International Conference on Identity Assertions in South Asia.
Activities during 2020-2021
- Organised poster making competition on 28th of January, 2020. The thought of the framers of constitution behind Article 51 A(f) was sketched on canvases by talented artists. While outlining the rich Indian heritage, the students mingled it with their aspirations from the future.
- 5-day Faculty Development Program (FDP) for incorporating Human Values in Education conducted by Assistant Director, Skill Development Cell, (AICTE), All India Council for Technical Education AICTE were conducted during 8 -12 March, 15-19 March & 22-26 March 2021
- A 2-credit course entitiled, 'Research and Publication Ethics (RPE)' has been introduced in the course work of Ph.D students,as per UGC guidelines. This course is being taught under the umbrella of Centre for Human Values and Ethics, to all admitted Ph.D students of the University School of Studies.
- The Center has also introduced a 2- credit course on 'Human Values and Ethics' for all Post Graduate University Programmes. This is going to be a NEUS course and will be a part of curriculum from the academic Session 2021.