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The Alumni Association of JNU (AAJ)
The evolution of the JNU Alumni Association, its vision, mission, and legal constitution.
The Alumni Association of JNU (AAJ) is the official alumni body dedicated to connecting, engaging, and empowering the global community of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) alumni. Established with the vision of fostering lifelong relationships between alumni and their alma mater, AAJ serves as a dynamic platform for networking, collaboration, mentorship, and community engagement.With members spread across India and around the world, AAJ represents a diverse network of distinguished professionals, academicians, researchers, civil servants, diplomats, entrepreneurs, artists, and leaders who continue to uphold the values of excellence, inclusivity, and social responsibility that define JNU.
AAJ works in close coordination with the JNU Alumni Affairs Office to strengthen alumni participation in the University’s academic, cultural, research, and developmental initiatives. By creating meaningful opportunities for engagement, the Association encourages alumni to contribute their knowledge, expertise, experience, and resources towards the continued growth of JNU and the success of its students.
Academic & Research Collaboration
Encourage alumni participation in research projects. Promote academic collaborations and knowledge exchange. Support innovation, entrepreneurship, and interdisciplinary initiatives.
Alumni Networking
Build a strong global network of JNU alumni. Connect alumni across industries, professions, and countries. Promote lifelong professional and personal relationships.
Alumni Events & Reunions
Organize annual alumni meets and regional chapters. Conduct reunions, cultural programmes, and networking events. Celebrate alumni achievements and university milestones.
Global Alumni Chapters
Establish regional, national, and international alumni chapters. Strengthen connections among alumni worldwide. Create opportunities for collaboration across borders.
The emerging deeper and stronger interdisciplinary character of research and teaching in forms the new programmes in sciences, These include :
Launching of Nano-Science and Technology as a new major research and teaching programme integrating several aspects now being pursued separately by groups in School of Physical Sciences, Centre for Biotechnology, School of Environmental Sciences and School of Life Science. Another such integrating programme is the application of common computational approaches and tools to study a range of diverse systems encountered in real life situations ranging from traffic flows, stock market fluctuations to analysis of gene protein regulatory networks. This programme on Study of Complex Systems will bring in inputs from social sciences as well. A new frame work of biological research with confluence of various disciplines of biology and physical sciences and mathematics, faculty members from the School of Life Sciences (SLS), School of Environmental Sciences (SES), School of Physical Sciences (SPS), and Special Centre for Molecular Medicine (SCMM) have come together to form an interdisciplinary group of researchers/educationists to pursue biological problems from the perspective of basic principles of physical sciences, especially of chemistry
Emergence of Knowledge Society and widening connectivity between diverse nations and social and economic systems informs the following new initiatives:
Research and Studies on emerging issues of Higher Education in Knowledge Society will find an important place in JNU; issues such as access and inclusion, diversity and excellence, gender, institutional and organizational transformation, financing and privatization, migration of knowledge workers will be taken up. Simultaneously the issue of changing structures and content of School Education and its linkages with higher education require will receive attention.
The changing role and nature of international economic institutions in the management of world economy in the dimensions of trade, environment, technology, knowledge and investments within the framework institutional economics, evolutionary economics along with conventional trade and development theories constitutes a key thrust area of research and teaching.
Alumni Association of JNU (AAJ)
Get Membership
Membership is open to eligible graduates and former students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, subject to the Association’s Constitution and membership guidelines.
Members are encouraged to actively participate in Association programmes, regional chapters, mentoring initiatives, and volunteer activities.
Executive Members:
Together, we celebrate our shared heritage, strengthen our community, and shape the future of Jawaharlal Nehru University.
- Dr. Rajeev
- Dr. M. P. Roy,
- Mr. Shitanshu Dwivedi,
- Mr. Irfan Ahmad,
- Dr. Harish Chandra
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