The Board of Governors of IIT Kanpur has approved the creation of "Department Excellence Fund" inwards each subdivision of the Institute.
Now whatever alumnus giving a gift to the Institute would induce got to a greater extent than options to specify for the role of his/her funds. Till now, an alumnus could specify the role of funds solely if the gift was substantial, similar setting upward of a scholarship, or a chair, etc., or could contribute to the batch fund, or to a really pocket-size divulge of opened upward campaigns at whatever signal inwards fourth dimension (like Prof. Sampath Chair). Most of the contributions went to the mutual puddle of undesignated funds, which were used for excellence related projects across the Institute. Many alumni felt that an selection to contribute to a specific subdivision should last there, though 1 could nonetheless brand an undesignated contribution to the Institute mutual pool.
This is too an endeavour to involve departments inwards alumni relations. Departments typically induce got a closer as well as to a greater extent than personal contacts amongst alumni (through BTP/thesis supervisor, as well as other faculty members equally well), as well as encouraging departments to role those contacts to construct a rigid human relationship amongst alumni is sure enough a ask of the hour.
Whether this motility volition actually select alumni as well as found closer, it volition depend on both stake holders. If departments don't outset reaching out to alumni to create fund-raising, alumni aren't going to designate their gifts for the departments. And if alumni conk on to post their contributions to the mutual pool, departments won't experience encouraged to achieve out to alumni. Some of us who induce got interacted amongst alumni inwards the yesteryear know how useful such interactions tin be, non merely for fund-raising but a large multifariousness of back upward that these alumni tin render to us. And the Institute sure enough understands that it needs to give this regard a rigid push. And therefore it has too promised to the departments that initial funds gifted yesteryear alumni to the Department Excellence Fund volition last matched yesteryear the Institute (the fourth dimension restrain as well as coin restrain has non been specified, but nonetheless it is a practiced idea).
I strongly encourage all alumni to designate their gifts to the Institute for Department Excellence Fund of whatever subdivision that they desire to support.