ANNUAL REPORT 2018-2019
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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Messages from the chair and HOC
UPDATES on three pillars of Vision 2022
CLOSING Finances and Fundraising
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FROM THE CHAIR Page 1
DIVERSITY THROUGH ACCESS Page 6
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FROM THE HEAD OF COLLEGE Page 2
EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE Page 8
OUR PEOPLE Page 22
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VISION 2022 Page 4
A SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS Page 16
FINANCIAL REPORT Page 18
FROM THE CHAIR
We deeply appreciate the work and support of over 160 National Committees globally, many of which are driven entirely by volunteers, who rigorously select our students and fundraise for their scholarships. Thank you to all the parents, friends of the college, teachers, students and alumni for your hard work, dedication and wonderful sense of community.
Keshub Mahindra, Chairman
UWC Mahindra is committed to a vision of education framed by the UWC Educational Model that guides and inspires every member of the college. At the centre of this vision is the principle of deliberate diversity, around which we have built a community where students are challenged and motivated to become true change agents, working towards peace and sustainability in the world. The UWC mission and its unique values are our starting point and guiding lights on our journey. We engage, interrogate, and apply these values not as sacred text, but as a vision that must be debated, committed to, and renewed as necessary. The ‘MUWCI Experience’ primes students to be politically and socially engaged in a manner that is unique in the realm of secondary education, and many students arrive at our campus eager for conversations and for taking positive actions toward social justice. The report that follows provides key insights into how the college delivers this educational experience in line with the mission and values of the UWC movement. Highlighted within the report are comprehensive updates on the College’s ‘Vision 2022’, our institutional commitment to ‘walking the talk’ on diversity, sustainability, and educational excellence. I would like to thank all members of the UWC Mahindra College Board of Governors and Executive Committee who have served during the 2018-19 period. We are the guardians of the College’s mission, and ensure it is prepared to deliver on its mighty ambitions. Good governance and stewardship are fundamental to this purpose and enhanced by Board Members who bring years of expertise from backgrounds as diverse as industry, the arts, education, sustainability, and policy. Through these lenses they make a significant commitment to the college in terms of their time, leadership and fiduciary care. In the Board’s activities this year, of special note is the appointment of Ms. Soraya Sayed Hassen as Head of College. Soraya has been with the college since 2015 and was previously Deputy Head.
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FROM THE HEAD OF COLLEGE I am delighted to introduce our Annual Report for 2018-19, and extend warm greetings to our alumni, donors, parents, and other supporters of the college. This past year it was my privilege to welcome students on campus as their Head of College, with an orientation program that was beautifully conceptualized and delivered by students working collaboratively with the college leadership. The Student Orientation Committee, comprised of second years, was the backbone of their introduction to MUWCI and demonstrated that student leadership is at the center of all things at our College. A primary objective of the year was to reshape and rearticulate our educational program into the MUWCI Core - a holistic place-based curriculum that encompasses the Academic, Experiential Learning and Residential Life programs. The process of formulating the MUWCI Core allowed us to consolidate our most powerful initiatives and scaffold them across four key areas: Host Studies, Active Citizenship, Social and Emotional Learning, and Ecological and Outdoor Education. As always, the year was filled with highlights, with enduring traditions like Theatre Season going strong and new initiatives taking flight simultaneously. UWC Day, also
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known as the International Day of Peace, saw our community interacting with grassroots changemakers in and around the Mulshi valley. This was conceptualized and organised by the Triveni office as part of our sustained effort to develop service learning opportunities mapped onto the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Those goals were also at the centre of the Project Week in March, which was again designed and led by second year students for their 121 first years. The college hosted two important events during the year: the UWC Curriculum Hub, in March, was attended by 15 delegates from 8 other UWCs, and sparked conversations and sharing of curricula best practices. The other group of guests visited from Middlebury College and the School of Leadership Afghanistan, for a joint program based around curriculum development in residential life and university guidance. The Academic sphere was notable this year for collaborative work by both students and faculty, with the Project Based Certificate yielding impressive interdisciplinary studentled projects on cultural preservation, gender equity in sports, efficiency in government school administration, and a pollution study of the Mula river. We also undertook an
organizational audit and impact assessment of Akshara. And finally, we rounded off the academic year at graduation with our first alumna speaker, Zaheena Rasheed, the recipient of Index on Censorship’s Freedom of Expression Award. None of this important and exciting work would be possible without the generous support of our alumni, donors, parents, and other friends of the college. In recent years, several large gifts have substantially increased the endowed scholarship funds. This has allowed us to drive down the average parental contribution to fees in 2019 to $11,580 - the lowest it has been in years. 23% of the new class come from the globally underrepresented regions of Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa. To further expand access to this opportunity for students from around the world, regardless of their ability to pay, we look to the continued support of our donor base and sincerely thank all those who have generously contributed to the work of the college over the years.
Soraya Sayed Hassen, Head of College
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VISION 2022
In 2017 the College embarked on a project with key stakeholders to plan and articulate where we want to be in 2022. The result of that process is our Vision 2022. Diversity Through Access Students are selected for their contribution to a deliberately diverse community of motivated learners. They are chosen on the basis of individual merit and potential, irrespective of their parents’ ability to pay.
Educational Excellence Learning is centred around self-designed, interdisciplinary projects under the guidance of faculty and experts, which encourages a sustained commitment toward social responsibility. Through a wide array of skills-based projects, students grapple with real world problems in local contexts, and develop competence and strength to remain agents of change throughout their lives.
A Sustainable Campus Our campus is carbon-neutral and self-sufficient in its water and energy needs, using sustainable technology planned and managed with the help of experts in the field. These technologies inspire student projects and provide cost-effective models adapted to the needs of the local community.
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2018-19 AT A GLANCE
Students
80
Nationalities
46
82%
137
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240
Students on full or partial scholarship
University visits to campus
Biodiversity and Sustainability Initiatives
Languages spoken on campus
Student-led service learning opportunities
41
Cities visited as part of Experiential Learning Weeks
Campus biodiversity survey
Butterfly gardens
Conversion to LED lights
Water-hole for wildlife and birds
Pump optimisation for garden irrigation
Spring tank development in the football field
Nature trails
Energy efficient Gorilla fans
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DIVERSITY THROUGH ACCESS Goals for Vision 2022:
35%
Students from underrepresented regions (Latin America, MENA, Africa)
30%
Students on full scholarship
We currently stand at:
23%
students from underrepresented regions (Latin America, MENA, Africa)
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23%
Students on full scholarship
159+
Representation from 159+ National Committees on a rotating basis
159+
We have achieved the goal of admitting students from 159+ NCs on a rotating basis
Our donors have been instrumental in enabling us to select students with unique perspectives. The UWC SEA Faculty Scholarship has for many years funded exceptional students from Ladakh to study at the College on a full scholarship. The Akhil Chadha Memorial Scholarship, formed from the gifts of the Class of 2006, has supported promising Indian students from low income backgrounds. Through these efforts, we’ve admitted students like Anita (Class of ‘18) - an intrepid earthquake survivor and activist from Nepal, Salman (Class of ‘20) - a bright refugee student from Iraq and Arsalan (Class of ‘21) - a young man full of promise who brings us the important and timely perspective of a Kashmir native.
82%
Students on needs-based support and scholarships
80
11.48%
23%
Average national committee selectivity (class of 2020)
Nationalities represented on campus currently
8
7
Students on full schlorships
6
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4
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2
number of students (not including India)
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Scholar Profiles
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Tejashree Jadhav was selected to be the first recipient of the Akhil Chadha Memorial scholarship for the 2018 - 2020 cohort. Tejashree - from a Teach for India School in Pune, has always been a dreamer and hard-worker. She did very well in INC selections in the previous year but was unfortunately unable to secure a place due to the limited number of fully funded places. With determination she reapplied this year and was offered a well-deserved full scholarship thanks to the Akhil Chadha Scholarship, created through the collective efforts of MUWCI’s Class of ‘06,.
“My first year at MUWCI went by quickly but when I look back at it, it actually seems like an eternity because my world has completely changed. Now that I have settled into the fast paced routine of this place, I try to find time for myself. And in those moments when I go for a swim, climb the Internet hill, or just watch the sun set in the mountains, I realize how beautiful this place is and how priceless this opportunity is.”
Tejashree Jadhav
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Gabriel Sorondo was one of 11 Venezuelan students chosen to attend UWC in 2017, out of 521 applicants from all over the country. A bright young man from inner-city Caracas, he cares deeply about the political situation in his country and saw UWC as an important step forward in his education to be a changemaker.
“At MUWCI, I found my passion for theatre develop in a way that I had never expected. I come from a background where it was dismissed as a worthless pursuit or as a passion for “homosexuals.” I have been able to erase the prejudices that society had ingrained in me and move fearlessly in the direction that I love. I am currently at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut where I have been granted a full scholarship. I continue living the UWC mission even after my graduation as this movement has given me the courage to go after my dreams.”
Gabriel Ricardo Sorondo Guirola Venezuela, Class of ‘19
India, Class of ‘20
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EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE MUWCI has a long tradition of attracting and enabling dynamic educators whose teaching goes above and beyond the IB, and who commit significant time and leadership to Triveni projects. This year, we made a concerted effort to build on this legacy and rearticulate what a MUWCI Diploma stands for. The college rearticulated its experiential program as the MUWCI Core, a holistic place-based curriculum that spans academics, Triveni, and residential life.
The MUWCI experience is not designed to maximize student IB scores but our academic results continue to place well above the international IB average. Key numbers and metrics include a faculty-student ratio of 8:1, average class size of 14, and IB Diploma average of 34 for the class of 2019. Teaching and learning at MUWCI continues to utilize proven methodologies in project-based and place-based education, and affirms the centrality of student leadership and self-direction.
ideals. Those ideals must be translated into action, through initiatives such as the Fire & Rescue Service, which received specialist training to further prepare them and ensure the college can continue to lead the way in offering such an experience to this age-group. 30 students took part in the two-day Enduro Adventure Race, cycling and hiking over nearly 100km of rugged mountain terrain next to Panshet lake. Second year students planned projects for first years and led them during the Project Week held in March, focusing on areas such as rural science education, women’s empowerment through sports, sustainable development, ecological preservation, and grassroots feminist journalism.
Theatre Season had 16 entirely student led productions take place over two weeks, traversing many genres, languages and cultures. The college has a long tradition of celebrating the arts & humanities, which contextualize and express our humanistic
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IB Grade Point Average
8
23
Number of countries MUWCI alumni from Class of ‘19 are placed in
137
University visits to campus in 2018-19
49%
Students from Class of ‘18 were recipients of financial aid for their undergraduate degree
“Studying theatre, and directing a play for Theatre Season in particular, has been a transformative experience to say the least. I had never thought of Theatre as a way to express thoughts, shape opinions, protest or understand the human condition before I came to MUWCI. I came here to become a changemaker, but studying theatre at MUWCI has actually changed me in many fundamental ways.” Ulyana Belarus, Class of ‘19
MUWCI’s diversity truly comes alive in Theatre Season with re-imagined classics and original works by students from all over the world. Ulyana’s performance entitled “Can You Imagine” was a piece that spoke about man-made disasters around the world.
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“Few things have taught me the power of team-work like Fire Service has. Every time we’re up on a hill fighting fires, I’m getting better at operating under high pressure situations, listening to people and trusting in my team-mates.” Immi Belgium, Class of ‘20
The Fire and Rescue Service Triveni aims to prevent and extinguish brush fires that are often started accidentally through the local practices of slash-and-burn agriculture. This farming method has been used for centuries in the area. FRS steps in when the fires spread to the surrounding hills and the campus’s biodiversity reserve.
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Amritsar Chandigarh
Mussourie
Delhi Chitrakoot Agra Jaipur
Jodhpur Mount Abu
Chitrakoot
Udaipur
Ahmedabad Junagadh Surat
Bhopal Pachmarhi Indore
Kolkata
Dahanu Mumbai
Pune
Alibaug
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Panaji
Hampi Kannur
Bangalore Mysore Yercaud
For our Project Week, I left MUWCI to travel with a group of 10 classmates to Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh to work with Khabar Lahariya, India’s only independent rural women-led media channel. This organisation is the lone female voice that questions rural corruption and genderrelated injustices in Uttar Pradesh. Working alongside these strong, proud women journalists dedicated to amplifying the voices of other women was hugely inspiring. This experience sparked curiosity so immense that many months later, it has still not worn off. I was deeply struck by the power of media and the need to represent marginalised voices in all avenues of life, be it on our campus or the world at large.
Talia
Chennai
USA, Class of ‘20
Pondicherry
Kochi
Experiential Learning Weeks take students on journeys through India, guiding them as they undertake challenging expeditions and tackle issues surrounding social, political, and economic inequity in India. Project weeks in 2019 were student-led and framed around the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Service learning opportunities on campus
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NGO Partnerships established in 2018-19 to facilitate service and project-based learning
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Curriculum Development Defining the MUWCI Diploma
Host Studies: Aimed at building an appreciation and understanding of MUWCI’s local and regional context, Host Studies include village homestays, Experience India week, and the This Is India lecture series, which examines complexities in concepts like caste, gender, and culture. This also prepares students for independent experiential travel in their second year.
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The Office of Experiential Learning set out to codify the ‘MUWCI experience’ into the MUWCI Core, a collaborative, trans-disciplinary curriculum that anchors teaching and learning across four key areas: citizenship, ecological and outdoor education, social and emotional education, and host studies. As a result, academic, experiential and residential learning have been consolidated into a holistic, mission-driven program that maximizes synergies between the different initiatives happening on campus.
Ecological and Outdoor Education: This programme leverages our unique campus, set in a biodiversity hotspot, and informs sustainability initiatives in line with our UWC Mission. Students learn about preserving and stewarding the biodiversity on campus and beyond, and also technical outdoor skills such as hiking, camping, rescue, and first aid.
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Active Citizenship:
Emotional and Social Education:
The UWC mission calls for students who are active citizens of their communities. The modules within our programme examine topics such as democracy, development, gender, class and race, and enhance student knowledge and awareness about how systems and structures can be changed for the greater good.
This programme is built around the unique experiences and opportunities afforded in our residential community to build resilience at the individual and collective levels. Modules include Personal Social Health Education, delivered to all our First Years, as well as the Advisor curriculum. We continue to expand support systems on and off campus, at a time when mental health concerns are increasing globally.
“Through my experience facilitating spaces for such a diverse group of people, I’ve developed an understanding of the importance of managing emotions, establishing trust and acknowledging diversity. This is something I aspire to continue exploring in the future, hopefully in relation to international conflicts.”
Tekla Denmark, Class of ‘19
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“The Project-based Certificate provided a highly useful framework within which to work on my passion project - that of equitable gender representation in sports. It helped me identify organisations in India that are already dedicated to the cause and with their help, conduct research that was rooted in evidence.”
Marie Canada, Class of ‘19 Marie’s research led to a re-imagining of the annual sports festival on campus to create more opportunities for mixed gender team sports leading to a 90% jump in participation from female students
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“We live so much of our lives in the middle, comforts of a routine protecting us from our rough edges, never finding out who we truly are. But that is what climbing mountains does for us. We learned how to support each other when we were at our most vulnerable. Compassion made us all stronger and allowed us to accomplish great feats. With this, came the chance to witness what happens when young people are handed real responsibility. To see what happens when they are told - you are needed.” Phoebe Canada, Class of ‘18
The 2018 summer expedition consisted of students from six different countries climbing 3 mountains reaching 6280m in the Himalayas, without porters cooks, or support staff.”
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Akshara Akshara, the social-impact initiative of UWC Mahindra College, continues to guide our community engagement and service-learning projects with grassroots expertise. This year, Akshara interventions impacted over 2500+ individuals in the Mulshi Valley across the areas of school education, adult literacy, women empowerment, and life skills training. These programs are carried out in partnership with regional communities and leaders and built around participatory and culturally grounded methods of awareness creation and intervention. Students are thereby sensitized to the complexity of the challenges of the 21st century and prepared to confront them with idealism, humility, and awareness.
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With the appointment of a new Head of Akshara to work within the Office of Experiential Learning, service-learning has been further integrated into the Triveni program. All students engage with Akshara’s work during their 2 years at the college, and many do so on a weekly basis. Akshara staff provide cultural competence to build nuance and sensitivity in student work. In a temporary switching of roles, MUWCI students led their Akshara peers in solidarity with the global strike against climate change on UWC Day, through a march that was facilitated by the college.
“For me, the highlight is seeing women lead their own sessions in Asde and Sawargaon, without needing our help. Seeing their confidence grow from when Amaavasyaa started made me feel like this is it! We need this project to grow and expand to all of Mulshi valley. We are now in talks to hold these sessions in schools and are even getting requests from people in other villages for sessions to be held in their communities.”
Komal Amaavasyaa member and resident of Asde village
“Akshara already had links to computer labs in nearby villages and students who were keen to increase their computer knowledge. The only part missing was teachers. So we decided to help. At Computers for All, our classes are built on the reciprocal flow of knowledge.
Mohamed Tunisia, Class of ‘19 With a team of twelve students, Computers for All holds weekly sessions in a computer lab in nearby Asde, where 9th and 10th graders from the surrounding area come together to work together on computer programmes from Word and Powerpoint to Gmail and Google Drive, and even some coding. Amaavasya aspires to enable local communities, including men, to engage in a discourse around the stigma of menstruation, raise awareness about menstrual health, and enable women to make informed choices regarding their menstrual practices.
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A SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS We are fortunate to live and learn in the Sahyadri hills, on a stunning 175-acre campus with our own biodiversity reserve. Our campus is home to an impressive range of flora and fauna, some of which find their way to our classrooms and bathrooms. In 2019-19, we made steady progress towards our vision to be leaders in sustainability by 2022, and should be certified by January 2020 as a Green Campus, with a Platinum rating under the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). Protecting our biodiversity and living sustainably are important educational and ethical imperatives. In line with this, Vision 2022 has three key tangible goals, that use the year 2013 as the baseline:
Goals for Vision 2022:
25%
Reduction in the use of conventional energy
50%
Reduction in river water abstraction
100%
Waste segregation at source, recycling, and only sanitary waste to be incinerated
We currently stand at:
5.4%
Reduction in the use of conventional energy
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28.8% Reduction in river water abstraction
50%
Waste segregation at source, recycling, and only sanitary waste is incinerated
In early 2019, eight energy efficient air conditioners were installed in the Academic Quadrangle and 106 ‘Gorilla’ fans (which consume 50% less energy) were installed in the wadas. Rainwater harvesting tanks constructed around the football field will be used to irrigate the field, reducing the quantity of water drawn from Mula river by approximately 1000 liters per day. The biogas plant installed this year saves 20% of our LPG consumption. A new facility for bio-medical waste was also installed. To continue reducing conventional energy consumption, we have planned to install Solar PV and more efficient garden irrigation systems, to achieve a further 15% reduction in conventional energy consumption by July 2020. There are also concerted efforts being made to restore the hill’s biodiversity, with additions to the medicinal plant garden and two new butterfly gardens - one in Nakshatra Van and another one behind Wada 5. Over the past 18 years, several faculty and students have documented our biodiversity through photographs, personal notes, and presentations. Moving forward, we are doing this in a systematic manner and incorporating the work put in by prior generations of MUWCI residents. A proposed Biodiversity Interpretation Center on campus will function as a hub for both residents and visiting groups of parents, children from local schools, and researchers.
“Caring about the environment means caring not only about nature but about people as well. Through different activities and engagements in MUWCI, you are learning how to find a balance between yourself, the people around and the planet. However, it is important to understand that there is never a single answer for increasingly relevant questions like “What does it mean to live in harmony in nature?”, “How can we approach development vs bio conservation in the era of climate change?” and much more.”
Alsu Russia, Class of ‘20
Gomukh - MUWCI’s on-campus sustainable, organic farming Triveni has been consistently going above and beyond their CAS requirements with a detail-oriented and passionate team led by Ashwin Paranjpe, MUWCI’s Service Learning coordinator.
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FINANCIAL REPORT
The College continues to honor its commitment to the UWC mission, delivering high quality education to a diverse student body through generous financial support. The cost to educate a student was Rs. 1.37 million in 2018-19, while fee income per student was Rs. 0.96 million, with donations and interest on corpus funds investment bridging the gap & resulting in a small surplus. The Scholarship Corpus Fund continues to grow with the support of key college patrons. As of 31st March 2019, the Scholarship Corpus Funds stood at Rs. 360 million - thanks to the generous contribution of Rs. 90 million from Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) during the year. The College is also grateful for a Rs. 14.7 million donation from Mr. Shelby Davis during the year. The college invests in passionate and skillful educators to enhance the quality of education. Expenditure on remuneration constitutes 41% of the total cost, which is similar to other UWCs. Expenditure on hostel is Rs. 63 million, constituting 19% of the total cost. We continue to refurbish student residential facilities & incurred expenditure of Rs 19m on the same during the year. We are deeply grateful to our donors for their generous support in helping to build a sustainable institution on a strong financial footing and thankful for the continued and active support of alumni, parents, employees and friends of the College who enable it to deliver a quality educational experience at a reasonable cost.
Raghunath Sowani, Chief Financial Officer
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Fundraising Snapshot 2018-19: 1. Annual Fund The Annual Fund allows us to support Scholarships, Student Support (costs that are not accounted for in scholarships) and Special Projects like student learning and co-curricular activities.
15,618,378 INR raised from 440 donors (excluding Davis and M&M gifts)
2. MUWCI’s first Class Gift! The class of 2018 along with faculty fundraised to refurbish the security cabin at the main gate. In 2019, the Class Gift campaign culminated in the renewal of the AQ pond, which has now become a college meeting venue, and doubles up as a classroom space under the winter sun. These campaigns were led by students in collaboration with the Advancement Office as part of a larger drive to establish a culture of giving on campus.
Income And Expenditure
General Administation UWC Fees (IO,NC Fund,INC)
FYE 2018-19 325,594,243
Educational Programming Residential Sevices
Contributions from Parents
FYE 2018-19 346,111,678
Maintenance & Renovation
Contributions from National Committees
Student Well-Being & Pastoral Care
Donations Interest Income Other Income
Expenditure
FYE 2017-18
FYE 2018-19
General Administation
46,584,202
41,665,392
UWC Fees (IO,NC Fund,INC)
9,519,595
20,913,445
Educational Programming
105,769,408
106,799,061
Residential Sevices
54,815,311
63,061,145
Maintenance & Renovation
38,314,594
29,511,601
Income
FYE 2017-18
FYE 2018-19
Contributions from Parents
194,609,711
194,595,768
Contributions from National Committees
45,649,192
58,126,009
Student Well-Being & Pastoral Care
25,833,914
29,787,487
Donations
32,330,057
37,258,235
Advancement
2,797,837
4,211,358
Interest Income
41,754,041
51,319,099
Campus Facilities
10,992,162
14,095,341
Other Income
7,466,585
4,812,567
Depreciation
14,061,853
15,549,413
Total Income
321,809,586
346,111,678
Total Expenditure
308,688,877
325,594,243
All figures in INR 19
Donors Aasim Sani Abhi Shekhawat Abhimanyu Rajshekar Abhiroop Basu Abu Rakib Md. Saduzzaman Adishree Datta Aditya Gadkari Aditya Malhotra Aditya Kalynasundaram Ainhoa Orensanz Akshay Purohit Akshay Kulkarni Alaina Robertson Alberto Pan Alexander Thomas Ali Warsame Alina Shkolnikov Alisha Fredriksson Alok Panray Beeharry Amanda Cordoba Amelia Cook Ameve Sharma Amit Rastogi Ana Rocha Anabella Castro Anacleto Melo Anika Venkatesh Anika Tahsin Anisa Puri Ankita Bhattacharjee Anmol Tikoo Ann Cathrine Anna Cassar Anna Maedl Anuraag Rai
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Apoorva Arora Arvid Storheim Arvin Singh Dang Ashlee Chan Ashwin Paranjape Asmita Baruah Asmita Bharam Avaneesh Narla Babul Das Barbara Shuman Barbara Breviario Beatrice Wong Benjamin Lau Benjamin Aaron Snow Bharat Doshi Bompard Emmanuèle Bonnet Arnaud Boyd Waters Bridget Lynch Caitlin Guthinger Carla Deolinda Gourgel Assis Carmen Osbahr-Vertiz Caroline Singer Catherine Sanger Chaya Seewonarain Chloe Gregg Chris & Darrell Fieldhouse Ciaran L Godfrey Courtillot Dominique Daniel Aguilera Daniela Zamora Alcaraz David Rutherford Davide Almacolle Dev Punaini Didier Hermand
Dimitri Margaronis Dipali Tikone Dolores Spagnola Domoina Rambeloarison Dongming Zhang Elizabeth Gregg Emmanuel Gaudin Erika Krajcovicova Ernesto Lopez Eugenia E Ricardez Manzo Eva Fraser Fabio Celso Trigo Gabriele Pimpini Garth Gautam Jain Georg Stillfriend Giuseppe Di Tria Gloria Wande Grit Schwerdtfeger Guli Field Han Yu Hanna stark Hare Ram Agarwal Heather Gross Hormuz Masani Hugues Bultot Hussain Shakir Ian Shenk Ikram Kohli Isis Gaspar Calado Jackson Sales Jacob Hoffman Jacqueline Arzoz Jacqueline Arzoz Padres Jamahl Simmons
James Delgado Jamie Godfrey Jamila Ghazi Jasper Van Marle Jayadev Vadakkanmarveettil Jemika Patel Jenny Chan Jens Embory Jess Agar Jitendra Jotsinghani Joe Attar Jose Antonio Gonzalez Torr Juan Pablo Guzmán Palomino Jules Philippe Sy Julia Godfrey Jullie Sy Kacey Wilson Katherine Wilson Kallol Banerjee Kanchan Nannavare Kanwaljit Singh Karan Hallon Karan Goenka Karma Advani Kate Rowan Katherine Lee Katja Maucha Vuori Katyayni Seth Khushnum Kharas Kim Erslev Kinga Tshering Klever Descarpontriez Kristin Foster Lakshmi Kannan Lara Lebleu
Lasse Maidstone Laurie Murton Leif Vestergaard Lenja Chiara Flütsch Leonor Teles Lianbi Ji Liberte Gregorio Lina Gloria Nasr Linda Martin Lindsey Clark Lucas Sato Lujza Demuthova M Shrestha Mallika Ramdas Manish Thapar Manoj Mahanta Maria Charles Maria F Merino Maria Acosta-Rua Marie Stocker Marit Linnerud Jorde Martha Henze Mary C Bryan Mary Stockdale Masako Tukeuchi Matthew Spall Maury Shenk Mehraj Ud Din Pandit Melissa Leong Michael Amery Miika Korja Mikayla Vieira Ribeiro Minakshi Deerpalsing Minna Peraoja Mrugank Bhusari
N Sandmeier Nachiketa Hosahatti Nanako Sano Naomi Tjiang Nawang Dhondup Nayantara Mukherji Neel Adhiraj Kumar Neeraj Nevatia Nial Rele Nicholas Roberts Nick Randell Nicola Lawrence Niharika Thakur Nim Dorji Nizamuddina Majeed Nkiruka Nweze Nora Zsofia Bartos Norbert Oros P Martin Paola Gonzalez Leal Patricia Vieira Patrick Godfrey Paul Stainier Paula Araya Pavan Nyama Pawel Wit Zagorski Phoebe Mason Plearn Aroonchote Pramod Sonea Prashant Bharam Prashant Kolleri Pratiksha Rao Preeti Rajendran Priyamvada Chaudhary Priyamvada Chadha
R Shalgheen Raffaele Di Tria Rajesh Kshatriya Rajika Maheshwari Ramalingeswar Dandem Ravneet Uberoi Reza Yari Rina Revel-Chopra Rob Hilliard Robin Gagnon Rudi Burgermeister Sachin Gaikwad Sandeep Kabra Sanjay Mahajan Sanjay Moona Sanne Prestegaard Sardar Shokatayev Sarita Wadhawan Satish Mazire Satvinder Singh Saurabh S Bharam Sayeeda Sajed Sean Jones Seema Shedage Shaan Ghosh Shalini Gorthop Sheba Gitta Sherab Lhamo Dorji Shirley Clark Shivaji Jori Siddesh Mukundan Silvia PadrĂŠs y Oelrich Siphamandla Simelane Sirig Gurung Sofie Jensen Brogger
Sohei Sugimura Somu Dinakaran Soraya Sayed Hasen Srishti Nayak Stephanie Fusco Sumit Manektala Susan Rutherford Susan Peck Swee Chin Lee Syeda Shamsun Nahar Tamara Ocampo Tanvi Naidu Tanya Nair Tashbid Sattar Tekla Emborg Thuy Lam Tobias Kellner Tong Jiang Trisha R Iyengar Tristan Bouan Triya T Ramburn Tudor Etchells Ujwala Samarth Ulrikke Erdal-Aase Urmila Chadayammuri Urszula Adamska Urvi Zaheer Ville Satopaa Vinaya Bharam Vishal N Bharam Vishy Venugopalan Vivek Jaswal Vivien Schwerdtfeger Vrushali Thombare William Mateo
Yash Jha Yashaswi Mohanty Youyun Hu Yukiko Shimato Yunus Emre Temiz Yutaka Maruko
Photography credits Grit Schwerdtfeger Duy Ngoc Anh Huynh Alexander Thomas Sam Eder Duc Dam Chi Arvin Singh Dang Ninad Adawadkar Katherine Lee
Organisations Bright Funds Pirojsha Godrej Foundation Jacoba Van Wassenaer UWC SEA Faculty & Staff Timberline Foundation Scholae Mundi Foundation YourCause, LLC
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Board of Directors Mr. Keshub Mahindra
Mr. Ulhas Yargop
Ms. Anuradha Mahindra
Chairman Emeritus, M&M Ltd
Former Group President (IT Sector), M&M Ltd.
Editor, Verve Magazine
Mr. Anand Mahindra
Mr. Dara Khambata
Chairman, M&M Ltd.
Professor Emeritus, American University
Mr. Bharat Doshi
Dr. Rakesh Mohan
Former Executive Director & Group CFO, M&M Ltd.
Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University
Dr. Vijay Gupchup
Mr. Vineet Nayyar
Former Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Mumbai
Former Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Tech Mahindra Ltd.
Mr. Uday Kotak
Mr. Gaurav Chopra
Managing Director & CEO, Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited
Singer, Musician and Sound Designer. Alumnus of UWC-USA
Ms. Maria Ines Kawamura Researcher & Dermatologist. Director, UWC International. Alumna of UWC Waterford Kamhlaba
Faculty Abhishek Singh
Amit Rastogi
Physics
Computer Science and Mathematics
Ainhoa Orensanz
Anmol Tikoo
IB Coordinator | Head of Academics | Spanish
Head of Experiential Learning and PBC
Babul Das Biology | HoG 4
Beatrice Bwali English B | Wada 5 Parent
Alexandra Mackenzie-Johns
Aparna Ramchandran
Chaya Seewoonarain
Theatre/ HoG 6
Head of Student Life | Psychology | Wada 2 Parent
English
Alpana Kelkar
Ashwin Paranjpe
David Lee
Biology/Chemistry
ESS | Community Service Co-ordinator
Philosophy | TOK | Wada 3 Parent
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Dinesh Kumar Dhadwal
Manaswini Ramkumar
Robert Hilliard
Film Studies
Global Politics
TOK and History
Eli Calhoun
Manish Thapar
ESS | TOK
Economics | Creativity & Activity Co-ordinator | HoG 3
Hare Ram Agarwal
Maria Vargas Aguilar
Mathematics | HoG 5
Visual Art
Sarita Wadhawan Librarian | Archivist | Conversational Hindi
Sharada Vakil Chemistry
Siddesh Mukundan
Katherine Lee
Matthew Spall
Mathematics
English L&L | Wada 3 Parent
English | HoG 1 | Wada 1 Parent
Soraya Sayed Hassen
Katherine Wilson
Nicholas Rendle
Head of College
Head of Mindfulness and Well-Being
Economics
Ujwala Samarth
Krithika Dota
Paola Gonzalez Leal
Zeenat Ansari
Wada 4 Parent | Mathematics
Spanish | HoG 2
Learning Support
Hindi
Guidance Counselor
Zoe Leffler Global Politics
Anant Bendigeri Patil
Avdhesh Singh
Freeda Reuben
Manager, Science Lab
Assistant Head of Admin (Estate)
Nurse
Armeet Kaur Arora
Bakul Bokil
Gauri Bhure
Assistant to Guidance Co-ordinator and Academics
Accounts
Head of INC
Ashok Thombre
Dr. Dipak Wadhawan
Jayashree Joshi
Academic Assistant
Doctor
Registrar
LibertĂŠ Gregorio French
Preeti Rajendran
Staff
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Mariamma Angel
Rajkumar Jadhav
Shibsankar Debnath
Maria Charles
Raveena Nepali
Stella Bhagwat
Triveni and Akshara Coordinator
Visiting Psychological Counselor
Raghunath Sowani
Sumit Choksi
Chief Financial Officer
IT Officer
Sanjay Phatak
Usha Sundaram
Senior Accounts Manager
Executive Officer Admissions and Advancement
Saumya Arora
Vinayak Sakat
Fundraising Manager
Assistant Manager, HR
Shalini Gothorp
Vinayak Thombre
Nurse
Head of Admissions and Advancement
Ninad Adawadkar Communications Manager
Nirpa Sagar Singh Administration
Pradip Ambekar Head of Campus Infrastructure and Services
Prashant Kamble IT Manager
Office Attendant
Assistant to Head of College
Rajkishore Prasad Academic Assistant
Sheeja Raju Nurse
Library Officer
Academic Assistant
Yogesh Phansalkar Accounts Manager
Akshara
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Anudnya Jori
Lahu Jori
Prashant Kolhe
Computer Lab Instructor
Mathematics Teacher
Instructor
Dr. Harsha Joshi
Madhuri Sumant
Seema Nikalje
Director of Akshara
Science Teacher
Khelghar Teacher
Harsha Raste
Milind S. Jori
Swapnil Jori
Senior English Teacher
Administrative Officer
Computer Lab Instructor
Kavita Mengade
Nemaji More
Khlegar Teacher
Khelgar Teacher
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