The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) is a quality assurance mechanism in educational institutions, primarily in higher education, aimed at ensuring continuous improvement in the overall performance of institutions. The IQAC is meant for planning, guiding and monitoring Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Enhancement (QE) activities of the colleges. It functions to plan, guide, and monitor quality assurance and enhancement activities of an institution The IQAC may channelize and systematise the efforts and measures of an institution towards academic excellence. The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) at St. Francis College started in June 2020. This initiative was / is part of our continuous effort to enhance the quality of education and institutional processes, ensuring that we meet and exceed standards.

IQAC – Vision
To ensure quality culture as the prime concern for the St. Francis College through institutionalizing and internalizing all the initiatives taken with internal and external support.

Objectives
The main objectives of IQAC are
• To develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic action to improve the academic and
   administrative performance of the institution.
• To promote measures for institutional functioning towards quality enhancement
   through internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices.

Strategies
IQAC shall evolve mechanisms and procedures for
• Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks.
• Relevant and quality academic/ research programmes.
• Equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of society.
• Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning.
• The credibility of assessment and evaluation process.
• Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and proper allocation of support structure and services.
• Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions in India and abroad

Functions
The functions of the IQAC are:
□ Development and application of quality benchmarks.
□ Parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution.
□ Facilitating the creation of a learner-centric environment conducive to quality education and faculty
   maturation to adopt the required knowledge and technology for participatory teaching and learning process.
□ Collection and analysis of feedback from all stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes.
□ Dissemination of information on various quality parameters to all stakeholders.
□ Organization of inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and
   promotion of quality circles.
□ Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement.
□ Acting as a nodal agency of the Institution for coordinating quality-related activities,
   including adoption and dissemination of best practices
□ Development and maintenance of institutional database through MIS for the purpose of maintaining /
   enhancing the institutional quality.
□ Periodical conduct of Academic and Administrative Audit and its follow-up.

• About IQAC
• Composition
• Initiatives and Activities
• Minutes of Meetings and Action Taken Reports
• Academic Calendar of Events
• Program Outcomes and Course Outcomes
• Best Practices
• Institutional Distinctiveness
• Feedback from Stakeholders
• ISO Certification