Convocation Day, one of the most important day in students’ life, marks the culmination of their academic life. GLS University after becoming a private university, hosted its maiden Convocation Ceremony on 10th November, 2017 in its campus. It was a proud and memorable day for GLS University to host its first Convocation Ceremony to confer the degrees upon its students. The ceremonious event marked the august presence of the luminaries like Dr. Adam Fenech, Director, Climate Research Unit, University of Prince Edward Island as the chief guest of the eventand Dr Malay Mahadevia, Director, Human Resources and Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd., the special guest. The ceremony was hosted by the President, Shri SudhirbhaiNanavati whose remarkable captainship has sailed the ship of GLS. The students of the first batch of the GLS University from MBA, B.Ed., PGDM, PGDCA, PGDMA, M.Sc. (IT) and M.Com courses were given the degrees on completion of their academic pursuit.The ceremony witnessed the gathering of more than 500 students who were accompanied by their parents. The graduates and their parents were enthralled by the traditions that GLS carries. The degrees and medals were imparted to students for their excellent academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular performance during the tenure of their academic pursuit by the dignitaries present in the ceremony. Many of the students were overwhelmed on receiving the fruit of their endless academic efforts in the form of degree certificate and blessings from the dignitaries. In all, the day was marked as a memorable event for noting the emotionally and academically strong ties between the graduating students and the university.

A workshop on the topic of ‘Gender Sensitization’ was organized by Women Development Cell of Faculty of Management, GLS University in association with Sauhard. Sauhard is an Ahmedabad based non-profit organization working on youth development to promote and establish peace, harmony and equality. The workshop was organized on 1st September, 2017 from 11 am to 1 pm by Ms. Rajvi Kaur and Ms. Bhavi Barad who are the facilitators at Sauhard. 62 students had participated in the workshop from various courses of Faculty of Management. The main purpose of the workshop was to make people aware of the existing inequalities among the gender and to make people move towards the society where all are treated equally and fairly and where people don’t judge others on the basis of their appearance. The workshop involved various activities like debate, skits & survey. These activities made students speak out their opinion towards such gender gap that exists in our society.

Looking the current corporate scenario, it seems extremely needful to develop people and performance skills of management students. Hence, as a part of continuous education GLS–Faculty of Management has been conducting a soft skill training program – “EVOLVE” for management students of all level. This program aims to make management students competent enough to survive in the professional world. Students of GLS – MBA get acquainted with the soft skill areas like Grooming & Body Language, Interview Skills, Presentation and Public speaking skills, Group discussion etc.For the year 2017 – 18 one day soft skills training workshop was conducted for second year MBA as well as PGDM students on 30th August 2017. The trainer for the workshop Ms. Mitti Limbachiya, is well known NLP practitioner and a Life coach. She has been training students & corporate representatives on the areas of soft skills, NLP and V & A training for more than 10 years. Total 150 students were present in 5 hours Training Workshop on 30th August and the topics covered were Resume Writing, Key to win Group Discussion, Dos and Don’ts of Interview.

Faculty of management at GLS University, organized a state level summer internship competition – “Parishti, 2017” on 4th September, 2017. The event furnished several colleges, a common platform to showcase their practical learnings and their contributions from their summer internship. A total of 34 projects were shortlisted from 45, including colleges like B.K. School of Management, K.S. School of management, Ganpat University, Amity school of management and other reputed institutes.Off all the enriching projects, the first position was secured by NileshDhage – Raju Shroff institute of business management, the second position was secured by Dr. Linsha from Christ institute of management and the third position was secured by Riya Jain of Amity institute of management.The best speaker of the event was awarded to Heena Gajjar of ITM Universe, Baroda.