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Krea University has established an Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) as a quality sustenance measure in pursuance of its Action Plan for performance evaluation, assessment, accreditation, and quality upgrade. Since quality enhancement is a continuous process, the IQAC will become part of the institution’s system and work towards realising the goals of quality enhancement and sustenance.
The prime task of the IQAC is to develop a system for conscious, consistent, and catalytic improvement in the institution’s overall performance. The purpose is that institutions need to channel their efforts and measures towards promoting holistic academic excellence.
The members of the IQAC are:
| Chairperson | Professor Nirmala Rao | Vice Chancellor |
| Director of the IQAC | Dr Pradeep Kumar Shinde | Director – Academic Administration |
| Administrative officers | Mr S Sundara Rajan | Registrar and Chief of Staff |
| Dr K Ravichandran | Controller of Examinations | |
| Ms Amanjit Kaur Ahuja | Director – Student Affairs | |
| Ms Swetha Krishnan | Manager – Office of Research Support, Member Secretary | |
| Faculty | Professor N Chandrasekaran | Professor, Operations and Strategy, Area Chair – Strategic Management |
| Dr Vinod Kumar | Associate Professor, Finance, Accounting, & Quantitative Finance | |
| Dr Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi | Dean – SIAS | |
| Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda | Associate Professor of Politics | |
| Dr Kalyan S Chakrabarti | Associate Dean (Students) | |
| Students | Mr Niyati Reddy | Class: MBA 2023-2025 |
| Mr Dhruv Raghavan | Batch: SIAS 2022-2025 | |
| Alumni | Mr Srikant Rajan | IFMR 2008-10 Batch |
| Employers | Mr Mahesh N | Senior AVP HR-TAFE |
IQAC Meetings
IQAC Members will meet periodically to implement Quality conscious measures to be adopted across the Institution.
- The Faculty, Students, Alumni, and Employers along with the IQAC Coordinator and Administrative Officers will meet once in 2 months to assess and suggest suitable measures.
- The IQAC Coordinator and Administrative Officers would meet every fortnight to take things forward.
Some of the functions expected 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
- Arrangement for feedback response from students, parents and other stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes and subsequent corrective measures taken
- Dissemination of information on various quality parameters of higher education
- Organisation 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
- Development of Quality Culture in the institution
IQAC will facilitate/contribute
- Ensure heightened level of clarity and focus in institutional functioning towards quality enhancement
- Ensure internalisation of the quality culture
- Ensure enhancement and coordination among various activities of the institution and institutionalise all good practices
- Provide a sound basis for decision-making to improve institutional functioning
- Act as a dynamic system for quality changes in HEIs
- Build an organised methodology of documentation and internal communication