Yale looks for mentors from corporate India
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 26 October 2010, 19:11 IST
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Mumbai: Yale University is looking for Indian industry honchos to play the role of gurus. A delegation from the University is currently in the country to expand the number of Indian experts who could who could take up lecturing assignments as well as meet its alumni and potential donors. The University is also looking to groom faculty with IITs and IIMs. As part of this, the Ivy League institution will ink an agreement with Indian institutes to launch the Yale India Leadership programme to groom academic leadership. Yale University, which has wellknown economist Rakesh Mohan at the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and Rajendra Pachauri of Teri heading the university’s climate and energy institute, believes that Indian leadership has lot to offer to its students hailing from 120 countries. In fact, while India has for long been seen as a young country with its students wanting to sign up for an education at the top American University, Yale president Richard Levin , said that the country must now look at allowing the private sector to build institutions that will promote excellence. "Government funding will be biased towards access and there will be great tension between access and excellence," he said. The University has recently conferred the "Legend in Leadership award" to Ratan Tata.

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