The document provides information from the February 2019 issue of the Computer Science Faculty newsletter. It discusses upcoming NTA NET exams in June 2019 and conferences faculty participated in. It also summarizes an article about choosing passion over job security and promotions. Pongal celebrations on campuses and an upcoming book donation program are mentioned.

1. Computer Science
Faculty
in this issue >>>
Greetings.. “February - the month of
love, No wonder the shortest one in
the calendar too…as usual I enjoyed
compiling this month too with colorful
pongal celebrations at campuses and
few conferences and workshops.. and
as usual the idea of this issues article
sparked only from our discussion in
the forum…. NTA NET celebration too
begins this month among our facul-
ties..
ICDMAI 2019 in collaboration with Lincoln university Data
science and Analytics conference held between 18th to 20th
January 2019.
Dr A Prema,Dr Booba and Dr Renugadevi participated
and presented two research papers and won third position under
grid computing category.487 papers were selected and only 87
were selected for oral presentation.
Volume II, issue 7
P A G E 1
 NTA NET June 2019 announcement
 Department Events
 Article: Chase your Passion not Pay,
Position, Promotion or Pension
 Pongal Celebrations at campuses
 Book Review
 Anniyappa Lions Club Book Bank
NTA NET June 2019 Exam
Registration Dates 1 = 30 March 2019
Downloading of Admit Carts 15 May 2019
Date of Examinations 20, 21, 24-28 June‘19
Date of Announcing Results 9th July 2019
Mrs.J.Mary Catherine, Head department of Computer Science,
CTTE college for women has secured top 1% in Software Testing,
NPTEL Online Course (July to October 2018)
F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 9

2. P A G E 2
C O M P U T E R S C I E N C E F A C U L T Y V O L U M E I 1 , I S S U E 7
Chase your passion, not Pay,Position,
Promotion or Pension
Teachers questions, this time to Govt.
Nationalism is the courage to challenge the government
when it's wrong, but the recent Government teachers’ pro-
tests have triggered massive vibrations among the teachers
in private institutions. There were mixed opinions are been
trending in social medias which are gone viral.
Perceptions vs. Reality
Private institution teachers often in a perception that Gov-
ernment Teachers are in a comfort zone, there are things
known and there are things unknown, and in between are
the doors of perception, at times it is not the reality.
Known: Govt. Jobs are known for its comfort zone such as:
Pay, Position, Promotion and Pension. For most of these
Govt. teachers right from posting to retirement their focuses
were mostly limited to getting promotions, increments and
transfers.
Unknown:There were many challenges such
as:
 Discrimination of pay among Govt. Teachers
based on their services and seniorities
 Regarding work load, actually these teachers
at times used to do many tasks beyond class
room teachings such as:
 Continuous Documentation work for
various audits.
 Mini and major Funding projects (that too
with available limited resources)
 govt. tasks which were non-teaching assignments and
they have no choice too (eg, election duties)
There were exceptions among the Govt. teachers too... there
were many dedicated service minded teachers who inno-
vate with their unique style of pedagogy within their lim-
ited scope and available infrastructure; they were driven by
their personal desires merely for job satisfaction by teaching
those under privileged, for these teachers, happiness is not
in the mere possession of pay or position; it lies in the joy of
achievement, in the thrill of creative effort
Connecting the Dots..
The actual demands of Govt. teachers were read between
the lines by most of the teachers of private institutions and
they started connecting various issues which was not rele-
vant to the present context, which lead to comparing the
salary structure, work load, leave benefits, quality of stu-
dents outcome, etc. The underlying fact is these compari-
sons are like comparing your beginning to someone else’s
middle.
Comfort zone is your danger zone
Actually there is no such comfort zone exist anymore in
government institutions. The comfort zone is the great en-
emy to creativity; great things never came from comfort
zones, outside of your comfort zone is where the magic
happens, you can only grow if you are willing to feel awk-
ward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
These Govt. teachers might be economically stabilised
when they get retired at the age of 58, but it would have
incurred at the cost of their potentials such as: Creativity,
Innovation, Progressive growth, Sustainable development,
Entrepreneurship skills, Decision making, Leadership, etc.
After their life long services in the government institutions,
once they retire, most of these teachers regret for the chances
they didn’t take.
Opportunities ahead
In private sector many educational reforms are being done due
to privatisation and globalisation of educational sector by edu-
cational policies, practices, protocol and similar parameters; it
opens the door in the process of integration, exchange, and
interaction between people, ideas, resources and opportunities
across national and regional borders. Subsequently these cre-
ated an opportunity for those competent private institution
teachers to show case their talent, hence for them age is just a
number.
Opportunities often come hidden in the form of suffering or
temporary defeat and those who initiate change
will have a better opportunity to manage the
change that is expected.Recently we use to see,
there are many research projects funded by both
National and International funding agencies
have been granted to many institutions across
the country and most of them were private insti-
tutions and only few premier government insti-
tutions and we hardly find Government colleges
have bagged these opportunities..the reason is
obvious “Infrastructure”.
Comparing with Govt. institutions, private insti-
tutions have more opportunities such as:
 Industry Academia networking
 Collaboration projects with various research institutions
 Travel grant for visiting abroad for conferences and seminars
 Exchange programs with foreign universities and institutions
 Opportunities to be Visiting faculties for various higher educa-
tional institutions
The future growth of these private institutions teachers relies
on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity. If
they can do just one thing well with much conviction or pas-
sion, they will be needed by someone.
Comparison is the thief of joy
Be it is Government or private, teachers are the builders of
nations character and intelligence; they spend their lives edu-
cating our students, the philosophy of our todays class room
will be the philosophy of future government. Comparison is
the best way to judge our progress but not with others, com-
pare your yesterday with your today and your achievements
with your goals. Personality begins where comparison with
others ends, so let us stop comparing since there’s no compari-
son between the sun and the moon. They shine when it’s their
time.
Time for Change
Everyone faces challenges in life, it’s a matter of how you learn
to overcome them and use them to your advantage, your life
does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. No mat-
ter who you are, what you did, where you've come from, you
can always change; if you can change your perception, you can
change your world, become a better version of yourself.
Dr. C.V. Suresh Babu

3. C O M P U T E R S C I E N C E F A C U L T Y V O L U M E I 1 , I S S U E 7
@ Annai Veilankanni
@ Anna Adarsh
@ Sri Muthukumaran
@ CTTE
@ VELS
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4. For Previous issues of our Newsletters visit: https://www.slideshare.net/anniyappa
Lions Club of Chennai
Elite Stars (District 324
A1) has initiated a per-
manent project to serve
“Economically weaker
section” students by
sponsoring them for
their Academic books
for their entire course
with association with
Anniyappa Publications.
C O M P U T E R S C I E N C E F A C U L T Y V O L U M E I 1 , I S S U E 7
Book Review
P A G E 4
The Departments of Science, Chevalier T.
Thomas Elizabeth College for women or-
ganized two days workshop on “Smart
Phone Servicing” on 20/01/2019 and
21/01/2019 for the students from Depart-
ment of Physics, Mathematics and Com-
puter Science. The participants were given
hands on training by New Technology
Mobile Service And Training Institution
(An ISO 9000:2015 Certified Institution).
I. You can do it yourself” series:
1. Writing Journal Papers
2. Doing Project
3. Self Learning
II FDP’s
1. Teacher—Do’s and Don’ts
2. Personalized Teaching
3. Teaching Beyond Syllabus
4. Project Based Teaching
5. Teaching with Technology
6. My Teacher—student’s
perspective
7. Challenge the Challenge—A Road Map UGC
NET
8. Once upon a time long long ago-
Teaching through stories
9. From Guru to Teacher, Trainer, Coach,
Mentor — Channing role of a Modern
Teacher
III SEP—Student Empowerment
Programs:
1. I am ready for University Exam
2. 5 units in 150 minutes
3. After UG what NEXT…
4. Activity Based Learning
IV Skill Development Programs
1. Document Management System through
Word processor
2. Effective Presentation
3. Build your own website
4. Decision Making through Spread sheet
5. Data Analysis through Spread Sheet
6. Problem solving using C / C++ / Java
7. Story, Screenplay, Dialogue and Direction —
"This information-packed Survival Guide
takes you on a sweeping tour of the world of
client/server...it helps the UG students to un-
derstand the concept in an easy way. "
Prof. S. Kala, M.Sc.,M.Phil..
Head, Dept. of CS & CA.
Annai Veilankanni’s
college for women,
Saidapet, Chennai