The management of the College has taken all steps to fulfill one of its objectives in the establishment of the Institution, that is, providing quality infrastructure and facilities for the rural and backward students in and around the area where the College is established.
Many of these students who are enrolled in the College may lose the opportunity for higher education, if the College was not available in their neighbourhood. Many families do not wish to provide higher education to young girls as they feel that they would marry them off and that their daughters will have to leave their homes and be responsible family makers in the homes they are married to.
We strongly believe that the rural and poor students who enroll in the College should not feel that they have lost out on quality infrastructure, facilities and education that their peers are provided with in towns and cities.
Keeping this in mind, the distinctive feature of the Institution is its infrastructure and facilities. The College boasts of excellent infrastructure facilities such as classrooms, multimedia hall, library, playground, etc. The very view of the campus is an attractive element for all who enter the College.
The College constantly upgrades the infrastructure facilities in order to provide a good teaching – learning environment. Even though the College is situated in the rural area it aims to provide a better teaching – learning atmosphere to the students of the College.
The College has a clean, eco-friendly, tranquil, and green campus with a good air quality providing an ideal environment for learning and research activities.
The College has an adequate number of very lighted and ventilated classrooms for all batches and courses. The classrooms are equipped with high quality individual wooden study desks and chairs for the students.
The College Library, named as Aquinas Library has centralized AC system installed for the comfort of the faculty and students while engaging themselves in academic enrichment activities. The library has two computer systems with touch screens for online search and access, ordering of books, etc. The library has a reading room, reference room, stack room and e-Library with N-List subscription. The library is fully automated with KOHA. ILMS software koha provides a very user-friendly interface for searching documents in the library.
A State of the art Multimedia Hall with centralized AC has seating capacity of over 100 persons. It is also provided with Wi-Fi internet facilities where the teachers can take the students to share meaningful and engaging learning experiences. The Multimedia Hall is used for the organisation of academic events such as conferences and seminars, guest lectures and talks.
The College has a Multipurpose Hall which is used for various functions and cultural events. The College has a Conference-cum-Seminar Hall which is being used for paper presentations and seminars for the advanced learners and for the purpose of holding some meetings and programs.
The personal cabins for individual faculty members of all the six departments of the College help the teachers to prepare peacefully for the academic activities as well as the research activities. Every block of teachers’ cabins are attached with washrooms and washing places for the comfort of the teachers.
Moreover, each department is provided with one each computer system that helps the teachers to search digitally the resource materials for their academic purposes and also helps in preparing activities for the departments and the College. Wi-Fi internet facilities are available in all the cabins and the College office.
The College takes pride in being a differently-abled friendly campus with a ramp and separate and special washrooms added to the building. The College is endowed with spacious playground for various sporting events. Indoor games facilities are also available in the College.
The Science departments have well-equipped laboratories to conduct practical and experiments as per the curriculum and syllabi. Separate lab facility is provided for UG and PG students to enhance their experimental knowledge through experiential learning.
The digital knowledge of the rural students is lower than that of urban students due to their lack of digital awareness. Therefore, St. Alphonsa College of Arts and Science situated in a rural area has adopted various measures to raise the level of digital competency among the rural students.
With this objective, the College has created facilities for ICT based teaching – learning systems. Thus provision for modern teaching tools and techniques are available in six classrooms, one each in every department, which would enhance the skills and knowledge of the rural students. The classrooms within a particular department are swapped according to the allotment of the smart classrooms for a particular class.
Providing importance to development of a value system among the students, the College has a prayer room for the students to reflect and discern their lives with positivity and righteousness.
Spacious parking facilities are available amidst a green lawn and environment for the students and as well for the staff for the College buses.
High security is available right from the entrance of the College with CCTV installed wherever necessary.
The College provides an eco-friendly environment to its students with the latest initiatives of solar light, LED, and other green initiatives.
Overall, we do believe that the staff and students are blessed with such excellent infrastructure and facilities which creates an environment for joyous teaching – learning process.
