Tata Institute of Social Sciences:
A permanent Vice-Chancellor is set to be appointed in Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), with the selection committee slated to conduct in-person interviews with 10 shortlisted candidates
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is a multi-campus, public-funded research university in Mumbai, India.
- TISS is Asia’s oldest institute for professional social work education.
- It was founded in 1936 in the then-Bombay Presidency of British India as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust.
- In 1944, it was renamed the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
- In 1964, TISS was declared Deemed to be a University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act (UGC), 1956.
- TISS’s academic programs focus on the Social Sciences and offer doctoral degrees in Management and Labour Studies, Disaster Studies, Development Studies, Education, Gender Studies, Health Studies, Law, Media and Cultural Studies, Public Policy, Rural Development and Social Work.
- TISS has had a focus on field activities, including responding to disasters such as the Partition of India, the Bhopal disaster and Uttarakhand floods.
