MACFAST Development Council (MDC) is committed to ensuring success for all students through faculty development and institutional improvement. The major tasks of MDC include curriculum development, faculty development, setting up research facilities and identifying possible projects, developing collaborations, infrastructure development, raising funds for the college, encouraging consultancy and making the institution self sustaining.

* To create wealth and employment, commensurate with unlimited natural and immense human resource potential of Kerala by developing entrepreneurship among the youth.
* To inculcate entrepreneurial culture amongst youth and equip them with the skills, techniques and confidence to act as torch-bearers of “Enterprise” for the new generation
* To sensitise you on the real economic and industrial development scenario of the State
* To inculcate entrepreneurial spirit among the youth
* To enable them to take informed decisions
* To educate members on various dimensions of the industry.
* To nurture the latent entrepreneurial talent

* Stuff your resume with the activities of EDC, which would act as a differentiator when you attend job interviews, compared to other colleges
* Get exposure to the industry and successful entrepreneurs
* Develop your organising skills
* Polish your interpersonal skills
* Sharpen your leadership skills
* Improve your communication skills
* …and enjoy working in a team, as a team…
* …Together Everyone Achieves More

Wednesday Meeting is a MACFAST student-teacher get together to provide a platform for exchange of cultural and scholastic views. It is a time when students and faculty bring to light issues of personal and social relevance. It is also a time of entertainment and enjoyment as the students get an opportunity to display their talents in various fields. Academic achievements and accolades of “MACFASTIANS” are applauded here. The meeting aims at fostering a bond between the teacher and the taught, as well as every staff of this institution – a bond that emphasizes the importance of every member of this family that is MACFAST.

SOCIAL AWARENESS PROGRAMME (SAP)
II Semester MBA- 2007 – 2009 Batch

Most students who join the top Indian business schools come from middle class families. They have practically no exposure to rural India and its problems of poverty, lack of infrastructure, gender inequality and disempowerment of the landless. Nor are they aware of the problems of the urban poor. Sadly, the business schools they study in provide little input about these issues. When these managers join the work force, their sole aim seems to be professional progress and financial benefits for themselves and their employers. Nobody has the time for the real problems of India. The rat race is becoming more pronounced in an economy that has become more liberalized in the past 15 years. We, at MACFAST, have taken various initiatives like SALT to address this issue. We believe that India cannot become a developed country unless its poor also develop and share the benefits of a rapidly developing economy. MACFAST MBA students should show the path for others to follow.
MACFAST believes that students need to learn leadership skills. They need to learn leadership skills in college, so that they can help their communities. So, MACFAST is coming out with a new initiative called SAP (Social Awareness Program) aimed at sensitizing the students about the social and community requirements. With this in mind the following program is chalked out.

Objectives of the Program

To make the students
1. Aware of the community needs.
2. Develop an empathetic feeling about the weaker sections of the society.
3. Gain maturity.
4. Have a high level of character formation.
5. Committed to social work values and ethics; to the principles of social and economic justice; and to serving all people regardless of age, class, color, culture, disability, family structure, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex.


Methodology

119 students of the II semester MBA will be divided into 58 groups of two and 1 group of three. The groups will be formed on the basis of the location of their residences.
Each group will visit atleast one charitable organization and interact with the management and the inmates and interview them with a structured questionnaire schedule (list of organizations and the questionnaire are given separately).
Each group will prepare a report based on the field survey and present the report in front of the audience consisting of the Principal, Director, H.O.D, faculty members and fellow students. During the presentation students will also focus on the learning experience from the whole activity.

Organizations

Each group can select the organizations from the following category.
1. Orphanages
2. Poor homes
3. Old-age homes
4. Rehabilitation centers for mentally and physically challenged people
5. De-addiction centers
6. AIDS rehabilitation centers
7. Leprosy/T.B sanatoriums.
8. Homes for the destitute.
9. Any similar organization.

Duration of the field study

2 days between 15/03/2008 & 22/03/2008.