Class Counselling

The institute has a mentoring system in the name of Class Counselling. In CEC-CGC, Landran, Mohali each class is divided into groups of 25-35 students, and each group is assigned with a faculty member to act as Class Counselor (CC), also referred as Mentor.

Number of faculty mentors:Most of faculty members of departments
Number of Faculty mentors per group: 01
Number of students per mentor:25-35 number of students
Frequency of meeting:Weekly (Schedule duly enlisted in Time Table)

Role of Class Counselor:

Class Counselor (Mentor) monitors academic performance of students.
Class Counselor maintains a file to track student activities like academic, curricular, co-curricular extracurricular, achievements, social activities and the details of parent meetings.
Class Counselor keeps parents updated about a student's academic performance, attendance, events and university results etc. telephonically, and through mails & WhatsApp.
Class Counselor selects Class Representative (CR) from section. These Class Representatives act as a vital link between the institute, department, CCs and students.
Class Counselor conducts meetings with students periodically, to ensure good academic performance as well as to address personal grievances of the students.
Class counselors also motivate and guide weak students for improvement in academics and overall growth. Course reference material (CRM) is also provided to students along with previous year university solved question papers.

Description of Mentoring System:

Key points of mentoring system	Functions
Academic Guidance	CCs share academic calendar and e-learning resources to enhance their knowledge database. CCs, faculty members and HODs guide students to improve their academic performance
Personal development	Empower students to counter and cope with physical, emotional, mental, social and environmental challenges through student-counselor interaction.
All round development	CCs, faculty members and HODs motivate students to take parts in various inter college, intra college events to enhance their confidence, technical and leadership skills for overall development.
Professional guidance and Career advancement	The CCs, HODs and CRC guide students to choose their career in different national and multinational companies coming for placement drives in the campus. Looking at their interest and expertise, class counselors advise them the companies that would fit for their professional career growth. CRC (Training & Placement Cell) provides career guidance and other training apart from arranging campus recruitment drives

Efficacy of the Mentoring System:

The mentoring/counselling system developed by the college has proved to be effective.

By using a mentoring system student’s attendance in classes and other activities improved.
Improvement in involvement of students in academics, co-curricular and extra-curricular.
Significant improvement in results of critical as well as placement-oriented subjects.
By using this system individual student’s talents/skills are identified which helps them to improve further.
By mentoring a student's self-confidence has improved, thus developing the ability to cope better in an external professional environment and successfully tackling the external challenges.
Some of the key deliverables recorded in students are: developed capacity to appear in job interviews / speaking in public / making presentations / extra activities