Student Recruitment Campaign of the year

In the year 2022, Lovely Professional University (LPU) focused its Distance Education recruitment drive to reach out to the Special Group of People to help them in their academic pursuits. This special target group, consisting of persons with disabilities, national and international level sportspersons, females, home-makers, Defence and security personnel, jail inmates, and individuals belonging to 30+ age group, is an under-represented group in the ambit of Higher Education due to a lack of suitable and flexible educational opportunities for them to upgrade their qualifications.
Some of the Initiatives taken by LPU Distance Education in the year 2022 for the enrollment of this special target group are:

Seminars: In order to spread awareness regarding various higher education opportunities available for the mentioned target group, special seminars were organized at various places in the state of Punjab at strategic locations like cantonment areas, rural belts, corporate houses, schools, colleges, etc.

Scholarships, up to full fee waiver, were provided to persons with benchmark and Locomotor disability caused by Spinal Cord Injury and sportspersons with national and international level achievements so that financial hardships do not deter them to pursue their academic aspirations.  Read More: Scholarship Policy (https://www.lpude.in/downloads/LPU-CDOE-ODL-Scholarship-Policy-2022.pdf)

Academic and Examination Facilitation: The learners were facilitated with provisions like making the recording of the Personal Contact Classes available to them to watch as per their convenience, providing the Exam schedule as per their requirements, taking care of the special needs of the persons with disabilities during exams, etc.

Special media campaigns: Strategically focused digital and social media campaigns by the expert team were run to spread awareness about the LPU Distance Education offerings among the special target group.

Rewards and Recognitions: The prominent accomplishments of the Distance Learners from the special target group were celebrated with cash rewards and recognitions on different media platforms to motivate them further.
The initiatives taken by the University in the year 2022 resulted in significant enrollments from the Special Target Group in Distance Education programmes. Over 10,000 students from this group enrolled in various LPU Distance Education programmes which included 70+ students with disabilities, 750+ defence and security personnel, 450+ home-makers, 6000+ females, 3000+ learners from 30+ age group and International-level sportspersons like Shamsher Singh, Manpreet Kaur, Sardar Singh, Mandeep Singh, Jugraj Singh, Harpal Singh (all Hockey players) along with Sachin (Boxing) and Simranjit Kaur (Archery), who were granted sports scholarships owing to their distinguished achievements in sports. The overwhelming response to this special recruitment drive is a testimony to the university’s efforts in bringing inclusivity in and enhancing the accessibility of quality higher education to all segments of society.

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Glimpses of Initiative taken by the University for inclusivity of Special Target Group in Distance Learning Programmes

Special Target Group Awareness Seminars

LPU DE Sports Scholarship holder Students of the year 2022

Media campaigns focusing Special Target Group

Recognition of achievements of LPU Distance Learners from Special Target Group

Recognition of achievements of LPU Distance Learners from Special Target Group