Campus Connect Program Overview

Program Overview

Overview
Infosys Technologies Ltd launched Campus Connect, an industry-academia partnership initiative in May 2004, with 60 colleges. The initiative was aimed at deepening the industry-academia bonds and building a strong foundation for the future needs of both Academia and the growing IT industry. The nationwide initiative, now global and in its fourth year, focuses on creating industry-ready IT professionals, by aligning engineering talent with the needs of the industry. As of March 2008 - we partnered with 500 colleges in their pursuit of excellence. We have trained 25,000 students through our Foundation Programs (generic courses) and enabled 2000 faculty in technical and soft skills through various faculty development programs. Campus Connect is also working with policy making bodies to include industry centric electives, including behavioral skills in engineering institutions to make a student industry-ready, when s/he graduates. Campus Connect is present wherever Infosys has a presence -- in the nine Development Centers in India. In addition, the program has also reach in select countries such as China, Malaysia and Mexico.

What do we do? We enable faculty through seminars and workshops in colleges to give them an industry perspective. We publish Infosys courseware in the Campus Connect portal. Our courseware adds value to the existing college courseware and highlights the integrated, systems way of looking at hitherto discrete topics. This is the courseware we use at Infosys to prepare new recruits to global industry-ready standards. We share with our partner colleges our bank of industry projects and case studies. The students can access and work on these, to give them a look and feel of the approach and application of knowledge to real life problems. We invite college professors on sabbaticals to the Infosys campus, to pursue mutual research areas of interest. In addition we have recently launched Aspirations 2020 a contest series to create alternate channels for student learning. In the pipeline are programming contests, student ambassador programs and an Effective English program for both students and faculty.

In short we build relationships.

Program Announcement - Version 3.0 - April 2008