The academic roles and responsibilities of faculty members in the grade of Professor include, but are not limited to:

• To develop the course syllabus, prepare the lecture plans, and to communicate it to the Director/head/students.
• To develop the course material and to ensure its timely distribution among the students.
• To teach by useful and innovative methods and approaches that facilitates students’ learning and to complete the Programme syllabus on time.
• To foster classroom discipline.
• To provide leadership for continuous development through self-learning and encourage the optimum utility of the library.
• Encouragement of students to actively participate in curricular and extra-curricular activities that contribute to their learning and development.
• To co-ordinate with other faculty members in preparation of tutorial assignments and other tutorial work.
• To motivate the students through various activities to utilize the tutorial facility.
• Assisting the students in completing the assignments.
• To identify the learning difficulties of students and help them to overcome the same.
• To help the students in solving problems hindering the completion of assignments and ensure the completion of assignments on time by all students.
• To participate in the compilation of question banks with solutions.
• To set up the question papers for internal examination in the format prescribed by the Examinations Department.
• The question papers are to be prepared in a format prescribed.
• To evaluate internal examination answers sheets and to submit the marks of the same to the concerned department.
• To prepare model answer script in a justified manner by taking some main features of keywords into consideration, by virtue of which marks can be awarded impartially to all the students.
• The faculty may need to evaluate the answer sheets from time to time as required by the examination department.
• The faculty members have to submit the final marks in the prescribed format (available in the examination department) within the stipulated time as declared by the examination department in the detail programme during each class test.
• The faculty members are also required to attend to the invigilation duties and abide by the guidelines to the invigilators in the examination.
• To organize, participate and encourage the participation of students in the following activities:
• Annual fests and functions
• Sports and games
• Academic co-curricular and extra-curricular activities
• To work closely with the students and facilitate the proper functioning of different cultural activities as faculty coordinator.
• To continuously work towards getting relevant higher academic qualification(s).
• To continuously get engaged in personal research, publication of research papers and books.
• You are required to publish a minimum 2 research articles in top-quality journals and get involved actively in all research endeavors of Sri Balaji University, Pune.
• To participate in academic conferences, seminars & workshops.
• To attend educational programmes.
• To get involved in the activities of professional organizations.

To participate in the administration, planning and development activities at the department level as well as at the Institute level.

• To inculcate the culture of research and development.
• To participate and guide in research work.
• To bring in projects and consulting assignments to the institute.
• To collaborate with industry and other academic institutions.
• To develop a new curriculum or upgrade the existing one.
• To guide Asst. Professors for the improvement of their teaching and research ability.