Director's Message
IIT Kanpur is organizing a two-week Leadership for Academicians Program (LEAP-2020) at IIT Kanpur, Lucknow, and Delhi, which will be followed by a week-long training program at Oxford University, UK for 30 potential future Academic administrators. This training program will include lectures, demonstrations, group discussions, special evening talks and problem-solving sessions by top academicians, entrepreneurs and bureaucrats. In addition, there will be a workshops for experiential learning and business etiquettes.
This program will impart required leadership skills to the participants for pursuit of excellence in academics and research, faculty and student management, team building, infrastructure development, new educational pedagogy, institution building, financial planning, innovation and incubation, addressing gender related/ diversity issues, understanding the governance structure, alumni and international relationships, general administration and handling interpersonal relationship.
We would like to welcome the participation of potential bright future administrators in this program.
Prof. Abhay Karandikar
Director