Prominent examples of this are the introduction of vocational courses (Faculty of ASC) that support the youth in meeting the job market’s needs and was a crying need in the local society and in setting up the Bicentenary Centre for Integrated Studies. During his tenure, various social outreach programmes also bear this commitment to society. Thus, during the pandemic, the college community ran a community kitchen for all needy people in the area twice and organised relief camps in the aftermath of Amphan (also 2020).

Dr. Vansanglura had, earlier in his academic career, achieved the difficult dual feat of securing doctorates in both secular and theological education. During his post-doctoral research at Teachers’ College, Columbia University, New York, he focused on Gifted Education. This allowed him to bring a very different perspective to the needs and challenges of an academic institution as special as Serampore College. Further, as someone with an INTJ personality type, commonly known as the ‘Mastermind’ or the ‘Strategist’, he brings to administrative matters an analytical, intuitive and logical mind that sees solutions where others might only see problem.