Change or Disappear
“Academic institutions must find new ways to engage with society or they will not survive” These were the inaugural words of Prof. S.K. Pandey, Vice-Chancellor of Pandit Ravi Shankar Shukla University in Raipur, Chhattisgarh on April 20, 2016 at the Raipur workshop on learning Community Based Research (CBR). The Raipur four-day course on CBR is part of the UNESCO Chair’s ‘Festival of Learning’ which involves a learning road show from New Delhi, to Hyderabad, to Raipur, to Jaipur and back to New Delhi.