From echoes of heritage to aspirations of a progressive and harmonious tomorrow, SFIMAR’s commemorative celebrations reflected patriotism, cultural pride, unity, and social responsibility. The institution enthusiastically observed Independence Day, Sadbhavana Diwas, Teachers’ Day Celebration, National Unity Day, Vigilance Awareness Week, the Vande Mataram Celebration marking the 150th anniversary of the national song, Human Rights Day, National Youth Day, National Voters’ Day, Republic Day, and other significant occasions through cultural programmes, film screenings, quizzes, creative activities, awareness drives, and student-led initiatives.
These celebrations encouraged students to reflect on democratic values, celebrate diversity, and strengthen social responsibility and ethical leadership. The active participation of students, faculty, and staff transformed each occasion into a meaningful learning experience, fostering harmony, inclusiveness, community spirit, and commitment towards nation-building and societal progress.
The Social Media Club at St. Francis Institute of Management and Research (SFIMAR) plays a vital role in strengthening the institute’s digital presence and fostering meaningful engagement with its stakeholders. The club is responsible for managing and promoting SFIMAR’s activities across various social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Through creative content, timely updates, and interactive campaigns, the club showcases the institute’s achievements, academic excellence, student accomplishments, faculty expertise, and vibrant campus life.
The club serves as a bridge between the institute and its students, alumni, prospective students, faculty, and the wider community. By disseminating important information, promoting events, and highlighting success stories, it helps enhance awareness and build a strong institutional brand. The Social Media Club also encourages community engagement by facilitating interactions and gathering valuable feedback from stakeholders to improve communication strategies and institutional offerings.
With a focus on increasing visibility, strengthening stakeholder perception, supporting admissions and recruitment efforts, and nurturing alumni relations, the club contributes significantly to SFIMAR’s growth and reputation. Through data-driven insights and innovative digital marketing practices, the Social Media Club continues to position SFIMAR as a dynamic, student-centric, and forward-looking management institute committed to excellence and continuous engagement.
The Film Screening Club is an interesting Club, in which award-winning movies, short films, documentaries, etc. are selected based on Management concepts and screened for MMS and PGDM Students. The Movies screened by the club are followed by a detailed discussion focusing on the learning’s derived from the movie.
The Club facilitates and creates an environment conducive for experiential learning and Edutainment to the students. It helps students analyse different personality types and roles in the society and also teaches them excellent leadership qualities and skills through different characters, personality types, and their analysis.
It helps the students in learning the right values and developing leadership skills required to become successful leaders in their workplace. This story telling technique proves to be a powerful technique to imbibe right values and ethics in the young minds.
Malay club is the perfect platform to showcase Fine Arts & Performing Arts. Fine arts exhibit and express the creativity amongst students, which is a group competition, and performing arts cater to individual talents. It includes group competitions such as ‘Best Out of Waste’, ‘Act of Sand’, ‘Solo Talent’.
• The objective of conducting the Malay Club is promote innovation and stir the creativity. • To bring out the talent and imagination of the students in MMS & PGDM. • Performances, which are organised in the campus, give students a chance to imbibe and inculcate team spirit, co-ordination, confidence in themselves and amongst other students.
Green Club is a dynamic body of St. Francis Institute of Management & Research. SFIMAR has a wonderful lush green campus and Green Club members along with maintenance department managing the green activity. In July 2018 College successfully completed its first round of plantation drive for the year, with the help of Green Yatra, a Mumbai-based NGO. Faculty and staff members of Green Club and students from PGDM I participated in the programme. Govt of Maharashtra initiated a plantation drive 2018 all over the state. Hydroponic system is initiated in SFIMAR, which is under first-round trial run with a motive to develop entrepreneurial activity on urban farming. On successful completion, this will be taken further to underprivileged women who can take it up as their livelihood.
• To promote “Green Activities” amongst all the stakeholders of SFIMAR and inculcate a sense of responsibility in improving the conditions of environment among them. • To spread the message about conserving resources and living a sustainable lifestyle. • To encourage research on sustainability.
• SFIMAR organized an awareness campaign in association with the NGO, Green Yatra, a leading environmentalist of Mumbai towards protecting, conserving and the betterment of the Environment through a street play on tree plantation, with the slogan "Ped lagao jeevan bachao" in some of the biggest malls in Mumbai. • In association with Green Yatra, a Mumbai-based NGO, the college team planted 30 plants in the campus. The plants were numbered and measurements were taken by student representatives. • ‘Go Green Nursery’ visit was conducted, where all green club members (staff and students) spent their whole day in understanding the right practices and guidelines regarding plantation.
SFIMAR carries out its Institute Social Responsibility (ISR) activities through the social club ‘ABHIMAAN’ and through its Lifelong Learning and Extension Projects under the Department of Lifelong Learning and Extension (DLLE), Mumbai University. The Institute is guided by the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi, who is the Patron Saint of Ecology for his love for the nature and environment. The Institute also carries out the ethos ‘Service through Enterprise’ of its Founders – Society of the Congregation of Franciscan Brothers, which has a strong societal-responsibility dimension in what it does. The VISION and MISSION statements of the Institute not only helps in developing students into global business leaders and entrepreneurs, but also helps imbibe a deep sense of responsibility in its students, faculty, and staff towards the society and the environment.
The Outbound Training facilitates Experiential Learning wherein groups of students are taken away from the campus into the outdoors and are assigned challenging tasks that need to be completed by them within a given time frame. The Institute initiated outbound training for students from the academic year 2017-18. They are taken to Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini (Uttan), where they participate in various indoor and outdoor activities in groups.
It makes students gel among themselves and understand diversified cultures and values of the Institute.
• The outbound training gives an opportunity for students to bond together, communicate and work in teams as well as lead in activities that are based on the concept of learning with fun. • The environment provides scope for interaction through various activities that hone their managerial qualities like time Management, group dynamics, and soft skills like presentation skills and interpersonal skills, etc.
