II.VISION Preparing young minds to contribute to the betterment of the global society MISSION Creating an environment that encourages students having diverse backgrounds to achieve excellence in the field of their choice, thru holistic, functional and relevant education. An educational process that promotes ethics, critical inquiry, creativity and originality, emphasizing interdisciplinary approach and lays foundation for life long learning. VALUES Spirit of inquiry Intellectual freedom Integrity Data based decision making Spirit of collaboration Ability to work in and to lead a team Being socially responsive and responsible An ethical behaviour OUR BELIEF Learnings from Salmi, Philip Altbach, and our own experiences and thinking, sets the pathway for IIM Trichy: Get high concentration of talent (faculty and students) Abundant resources to offer a rich learning environment and to conduct theoretical and industry relevant research Favourable governance features that encourage strategic vision, innovation, and flexibility and enable people to make decisions andmanage resources, that is, appropriate mix of accountability and autonomy. Truly meritocratic hiring and promotion policies for the faculty and staff, similarly rigorous and honest recruitment, selection, and learning of students A global curriculum and method focusing on creation of knowledge, not only dissemination of knowledge Picking up local wisdom, local context and integrating it with new learning for societal benefit. System consisting credit, non-credit based courses with larger pool of electives, thus students have core, concentration and free elective courses. Emphasis on experiential learning, team work and leadership, each semester to have sessions for integration of knowledge. Seek active support of visiting faculty from industry right from selection of students, curriculum design, teaching, assessment, mentoring and placement Process labs for enhanced self-awareness and Capstone project OUR OBJECTIVES To spread education amongst all – students, executive students and corporates To provide facilities for acquisition of knowledge, information and advancement of culture and Indian values To undertake and make available facilities for research in all branches of knowledge, and to establish institutions / centres for this purpose III.Location Started from the academic year 2011-2012, the institute will temporarily function from National Institute of Technology campus until the permanent building is in place. The students, therefore, inherit all the facilities offered by NIT – access to established hostels, mess, students’ recreation facilities like, Gym, swimming pool, cricket ground, etc.. Most importantly, it offers an excellent academic environment which will facilitate better learning. We have fully air-conditioned class-rooms with the state of the art infrastructure. The current campus is located in Thuvakudi on the Trichy-Tanjore national highway, 17 km from Trichy Railway Junction. The permanent campus for the institute will be on 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land between Bharathidasan University and Anna University of Technology on the Trichy-Pudukottai highway,17 km south-east of the city centre and 12 km from Tiruchirapalli International Airport