Part I: Indian Institute of Technology Branches Excel in Producing India
Each year, 500,000 students vie to get into one of 16 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campuses nationally, but there are 12,000 available seats, and a good portion of them are among the 7,000 total seats at IIT Madras.
Part II: Diverse in India: Students in Urban Areas May Benefit From Fellows of Teach for India.
Between 600 and 700 teachers will bring innovation and creativity to the classroom to help close the achievement gap between the haves and have-nots in India.
Part III: Diverse in India: Controversial Film Addresses Affirmative Action in Indian Higher Education
India finds itself wrestling with the role that class-based affirmative action should play in bringing about parity in higher education.
Part IV: Diverse in India: College Students Help Propel Anna Hazare Anti-corruption Movement
While many Indian citizens complain they are forced to grease the palms of bureaucrats just to get things done, protesting students in New Delhi say the path to higher education in India is allegedly paved with bribes.
Part V: Diverse In India: Innovation Academy Provides Cutting-edge Technology Education, Experience
For students, the primary benefit of the Microsoft i-Spark Centre Innovation Academy is having a place where they can get hands-on experience and work on projects that could potentially get recognition and support from Microsoft in their bid to take the products to market.
Part VI: Diverse In India: Ga. Tech Design Professor Seeks Toilet Transformation
For Abir Mullick, revolution of the commode cannot come quickly enough in India when 400,000 children die yearly from waterborne diseases, reports Diverse correspondent Jamaal Abdul-Alim in a month-long series on India and higher education.
Part VII: Students at India
Dr. Ann Denkler, a professor of American History at Shenandoah University, said her presentations in India tend to provoke questions not as commonly asked back in the United States.
Part VIII: Diverse In India: Teaching Job Opens Window into Indian Society for Howard Law School Graduate
Jessica Cooper, who plans to join Teach for America upon returning to the U.S. in the spring of 2012, said her decision to teach in India stems in part from her regrets for not studying abroad while still in college.
Part IX: Diverse in India: Fulbright Scholar Sketches Scenes along Superhighway Between Delhi, Kolkata.
The 918-mile trip, during which Gregory Thielker frequently stopped, began at the Old Iron Bridge that stretches over the Yamuna River in Delhi, and ended at the Ganges River in Kolkata.
Part X: Diverse in India: Chess Skills Elevate Student to Elite College
In the first story of a series on India and higher education, Diverse correspondent Jamaal Abdul-Alim profiles a young chessmaster whose talents have opened the door to enrollment at one of the nation
Part XI: Only 18 Percent of IIT Madras Students Are Indian Women
Professor V.G. Idichandy, the interim director at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, says there is no affirmative action in place for female students.
Part XII: Diverse in India: Government Seeks to Boost College Access for the Disadvantaged
Under the law of the land with variations by region, 49.5 percent of all seats in higher learning institutions are reserved for disadvantaged students.
In this series on India and higher education, Diverse correspondent Jamaal Abdul-Alim documents trends and events in academic and research institutions that are helping transform the world?s largest democracy. The profiles of students, scholars, and administrators documented in this series provide a compelling tapestry of technological, social and academic innovation in 21st century India. Please enjoy the series and join the story discussions on what higher education is accomplishing in India.
Jamaal Abdul-Alim is an award-winning Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer who specializes in covering education. A former crime reporter, Abdul-Alim has previously held staff writer positions at Youth Today and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He is a 2008 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan and a former journalism instructor at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee. An avid chess player, Abdul-Alim regularly covers chess tournaments throughout the nation for Chess Life Online. He resides in Northwest D.C. with his daughter, Hadiyah, age 10.