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Lecture Series No. 1, 2002: Education
NEED FOR HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN RURAL AREAS OF INDIA
By:
Richard L. Ottinger
Former Member, United States Congress
Dean Emeritus
Pace Law School
78 North Broadway
White Plains, NY 10603 USA
Phone: (914) 422-4121
FAX: (914) 422-4180
E-Mail: rottinger@law.pace.edu
This paper was presented at the Forum on Higher Education of Women and Minorities in India organized by Mrs. Helena Kaushik Women’s College
P.O. Malsisar, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, India 331 028
www.helenakaushik.org
at Altschul Auditorium, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in New York City on Saturday, April 27, 2002
NEED FOR HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN RURAL AREAS OF INDIA
By:
Richard L. Ottinger
I would like to salute Dr. Surendra Kaushik, Professor of Finance at Pace University, for convening this forum and for his inspirational efforts at promoting higher education of women in rural areas of India through his founding of the Mrs. Helena Kaushik Women’s College in Malisar, Rajasthan. I had the privilege of visiting the college earlier this year and keynoting a conference on energy for development there. What an experience it was! Tucked in a small community some 150 miles west of New Delhi, the College, established just three years ago and already fully accredited, is providing a first class education in the arts and sciences to more than 150 rural women who never would have had the chance otherwise to obtain a college education.
The dedication of the faculty and the enthusiasm of the students are noteworthy. Besides my formal presentation, I took the opportunity to speak informally with students and faculty. They are such a bright group, the students being the top in their classes from rural high schools from a wide area around Malsisar. They were so well informed and so full of questions about world events and about US policies about which they were quite familiar....