CONNECTING INDIAN STUDENTS TO AMERICAN
LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION

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  SKC India Office
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  SKC New York City Office

SKC Educational Consulting connects high performing secondary school age and undergraduate Indian students to US liberal arts colleges and universities that focus on educating a person to engage in the life of the mind as a route to a substantive career in industry, the arts, and government.

We are uniquely situated in India and the US. Our Indian operations are based in Dehra Dun, the capital of the state of Uttarakhand located in north India. Known as a great educational hub, Dehra Dun is home to excellent residential schools, good local high schools, and both private and public universities with established national reputations. The population of the city is relatively affluent and eager to utilize its affluence to extend the advantages of American education to its children. The city attracts students from across the country, and this broadens our ability to recruit.

We have discovered that ambitious, intelligent Indian students have limited opportunities in India to obtain the kind of quality liberal arts higher education to which their American contemporaries have access. This fact has been widely documented in the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education in recent years; opportunities for quality higher education in India are few and far between.

In India, we are frequently asked by students and parents how to gain access to liberal arts colleges in the US. While a certain sector of the Indian student population is aware of and pursues access to elite, Ivy League US colleges and universities, we are interested in servicing students who have the ability, desire, and means to seek a well rounded education in a smaller, more student-focused setting that also will aid them in developing dynamic careers in the arts, government, and the corporate sector.

All students who seek our services are first evaluated using a personal essay written in English to determine if they are committed to the broadly humanistic liberal arts education for which we are recruiting them in the US. These essays are then provided to our US higher education partners for use in admissions decisions.

In Dehra Dun, we will provide evaluation of students’ English language skills and their facility in beginning a program of study expected by US liberal arts colleges. We will also prepare them for the SAT, ACT, GRE and/or TOFEL examinations. Our students will be screened to insure their intellect and their ability to fund their studies in the US.

While our focus is currently on students in Dehra Dun and its surrounding area, including the capital city of New Delhi, we will soon expand the reach of our operations throughout India.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

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  Neerja Chaturvedi:

  Dr. Chaturvedi earned her Ph.D in history at Michigan State University and her B.A. in English (Hons) at Delhi University. She is a professor of history specializing in international relations with a focus on colonial and post-colonial studies. She is currently engaged in the study of globalization. Her research focuses on the impact of globalization on education. She examines educational trends in India and does a comparative analysis of Indian and American educational trends. This study includes an assessment of newly created private institutions and their limitations, career goals of students and their aspirations for higher education.

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  Christian J. Churchill:

  Dr. Churchill earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Brandeis University and his B.A. in sociology and literature at Marlboro College in Vermont. He is a professor of sociology and a licensed psychoanalyst with a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in New York City. He has written numerous peer reviewed articles in ethnography, psychoanalysis, globalization, and higher education. His co-authored book The Enigmatic Academy: Class, Bureaucracy, and Religion in American Education was released in June 2012 by Temple University Press.