St. Joseph’s College of Commerce (Autonomous) came into existence
in 1972 as an independent institution acquiring the status of Autonomy
in the year 2005. It was reaccredited with ‘A’ grade by NAAC in
the year 2006, and recognized as “College with Potential for Excellence”
in 2010. The 40 fruitful years has seen SJCC excelling in various streams
from strengthening student intake to achieving academic excellence in
curriculum development to meet industrial requirements. Academic excellence
of staff in obtaining higher professional degrees, undertaking research
work and conducting seminars
and workshops are other hallmarks of the College.
The commemoration of the 40th year Celebrations included
a programme exclusively for the present students and staff on 30th
July 2012. Mr. Mohandas Pai of the batch of 1974 was the Chief
Guest. His reminences included incidents from his student life,
teachers who had an impact on him and the benefit of the formation that
he received through the College. Snack boxes were distributed
to staff and students and attender Mr. Siddaiah was honoured on completion
of 40 years of service at St. Joseph’s
College of Commerce (Autonomous).
On 15th September 2012 another celebration was organized
to felicitate past
Principals and retired teaching faculty and administrative staff.
Mr. Rahul Dravid former captain of the Indian Cricket Team and from
the Batch of 1994 was the Chief Guest.
In a thoughtful speech, Dravid recounted his memories as a student,
his cricketing days and passion for cricket and the values that he had
learnt from the Jesuits and the teaching faculty of the college.
''The most outstanding feature of SJCC in particular and almost all
educational institutions run by the Jesuits was academic studies as
well as sports were given equal importance. In addition, emphasis was
given to helping students to actively participate in cocurricular and
extracurricular activities, especially social work and helping the poor
and needy,” he said pointing out that the end result was the total
development of the students as exemplary role models.
Prof G K Govinda Rao, spoke on behalf of the retired teachers and
regaled the audience with interesting and amusing anecdotes of his experiences
in the classroom.
Leading Chartered Account Padam Chand Khincha, an Alumnus of SJCC,
said that his experience as a student with the teachers will be remembered
as a learning for life. Looking ahead into the future, he stressed that
areas like curriculum development, research and entrepreneurship development
should have more focus. All the past Principals and retired staff members
were honoured with a silver memento and a purse from the Alumni.
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