Appeal to Vice-Chancellors, Founders, and Leaders of Higher Education Institutions

Dear Leaders of Higher Education Institutions

Greetings!

I would like to take a few minutes of your valuable time. This is in the context of HEIs Vision Accomplishment beyond Education, Engagement and Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

How HEIs Philosophy can be further Blossomed?

In the new age of learning, Higher Education Institutes are no more for Teaching, to be Designed for Inspiring! The Future Institutions are meant to create a “Mindset”, not a ‘Group of Teachers’, ‘a Tool Kit’ nor a ‘Technology’.

Many HEIs are already providing seamless access to excellent teaching, infrastructure, eco-system, and learning culture. At the same time, in this digital age, Students have access to online learning resources from the world class faculty, digital infrastructure including simulated space for individual/like-minded team driven research and skill development, co-working space and co-founding experience from anywhere, anyplace and anytime.

Today, every resource and cultural experience which HEIs have developed and provided to the students over a period of time, is available outside the campus, on-click, if not in 360-degree perspective, but in fragmented view! Within No-Time, these opportunities are going to be anytime and anywhere.

What is one FACTOR that the Digital Infrastructure in isolation can never transform student?

The True Answer is Inspiration! Inspired to Learn.

How do we accomplish?

· Inspire through Storytelling. Imagine through Design Thinking.

· These are the two tools systematically offered to every student for a period of 1 year and beyond.

· Inspired and Imagined student gets ready for mentoring!

· They are offered 3 paths- Heads-On, Hands-On and Hearts-On.

· Students get access to their choice of path, mentoring, resources for a period of 1 year and beyond

· Students vet their path for another one year before finalizing their career!

· This process is promising and sustainable.

· This process is complementary to the existing academic and skill-development programs

How I can help HEIs?

I am happy to help incubating this process in HEIs as needed by the University/Institution and according to the norms, without touching the existing process. Please find attached broad thought process below. 

About Myself

This is Dr.Ravi Saripalle. Started Inspire to Innovative (I2I) Storytelling Movement. Goal of this initiative is to inspire students through storytelling & design thinking philosophy. I am having 23 years of experience Consulting, Program Management, Training and Mentoring, Technology Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development Process. Currently I am working as Director, Centre for Innovation and Incubation and Mentor, Centre for Career Planning for one of the premium engineering colleges of Andhra Pradesh.

Prior to this, worked with Wipro Technologies for more than 12 years. During my stint at Wipro, Worked with customers across globe like Microsoft, Nokia, Ericsson, FedEx, JP Morgan, Charles Schwab, EMC, Avaya, OKI-Data etc. Visited global customer offices on various offshoring consulting assignments.

Delivered Guest Talks at various national/international forums like FICCI-DST India R&D Conference, ISB Innovators conference, Panel member at conferences held at IIT Chennai, IIT Delhi etc, and also invited for Indo-Japan Summit as Speaker.

Regards

Dr.Ravi Saripalle