Institutional Best Practices
Southfield College has done various activities towards promoting gender equality, like: The gender Awareness program with MARG, and the NSS AIDS awareness programme, on December 1, 2020, to celebrate World AIDS Day; Conducted the Gender audit; Offered a course on Gender, Equity and Leadership as a part of the Ethics program for semester; Formed Gender Sensitization Committee Against Sexual Harassment (GSCASH) within the Anti- Harassment Cell that acts as the Internal Complaint Committee (ICC) for Anti- Harassment Awareness Program; etc. Various COMMEMORATIVE DAYS OF THE COLLEGE include Bhanu Jayanti; Foundation Day annually on 1st August; INDEPENDENCE DAY [Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav]; SWACHTA HI SEVA; Gandhi Jayanti, INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY, etc.
Southfield College has undertaken Alternate sources of energy and energy conservation measures, water conservation, Disabled-friendly, barrier free ecology, Green campus schemes and Management of the various types of degradable and nondegradable waste.
The various Quality audits and mechanisms that Southfield College has adopted include Administrative audits, Academic audits, Gender audits, Green audits / Environmental audits, Energy audits, Clean and green campus initiatives and campus environmental promotion activities.
In order to promote an ecology of the inclusive environment through the inculcation of values like tolerance and harmony towards cultural, regional, linguistic, and communal socioeconomic diversity Southfield College organises initiatives like:
- Ethics Classes on STRENGTHENING THE NATION THROUGH KAUSHAL BIKASH, MULYABODH AND EK BHARAT SHRESTHA BHARAT
- FIT INDIA MOVEMENT
- SWACHHATA HI SEWA
- Workshop on INTERNAL COMMITTEE FOR DISABILITIES
- Regional Seminar on ACADEMIC INTEGRITY in collaboration with Sonada Degree College
- Vigilance Awareness Week Celebration Day
- Communal harmony week
- GANDHI SAPTAHA:
- Rashtryiya Ekta Diwas
- Hepatitis day
- Armed Forces Flag Day
- MATRIVASHA DIWAS
- Anti-terrorist Day
- No Tobacco Day
- Awareness and Sensitizing the students about animal rights and ecological sustenance
- National Flag Day
The college calendar provides the code of conduct of the various stakeholders related to values, rights, duties and responsibilities.
The Title of the Two Best Practices are:
- STUDENT-CENTRIC PRACTICES BASED ON THE INSTITUTIONAL VALUES
- ALL DEPARTMENT SMART DEPARTMENT
The title of one area distinctive to South College’s priority and thrust that portrays its performance is SKILL, COMPETENCE AND CHARACTER BUILDING TOWARDS IDEAL WOMEN OF INDIA AMIDST CELEBRATING AZADI KA AMRIT MAHOTSAV
Southfield College was founded as Loreto College, in Darjeeling in August, 1961 as a women’s college. At the request of the Government of West Bengal, the Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Darjeeling Loreto Educational Society agreed to take care of its management. However, due to the lack of personnel the Loreto nuns were compelled to hand over the college to the Government of West Bengal, hence to be run as Southfield College.