Forming men and women for corporate world is not in the domain of vocational skills. Instead it lies in the sacred realm where building character becomes a holistic, integral and formative exercise that helps a student gain a certain facility and ease to face challenges, take calculated risks, and mitigate the risks by which he or she has a deep sense of fulfilment in life
This formation, we believe, is not achieved by acquiring prescriptive knowledge but it is intensively by discerning propositional knowledge that connects organically with the real world of business.
As LIBA focuses on pursuing excellence with ethics, we view this formation as a deliberate approach to excellence, which means unusual goodness surpassing the ordinary to reach the heights of pristine standard of learning. That standard provides an unique and valued position in which a student feels (pathos) thinks (logos) and acts (ethos) in his or her circumstances based on values of goodness, truth and beauty. For excellence is not a skill but an attitude.
In the same way, ethics is not an act but a behaviour that comes from proper self-knowledge leading to appropriate and mature expressions in inter-relational situations. In this, there is an acute awareness of inner motivations, consolations, desolations, and intentions in what one says and does, what we call ‘self-conscious living.’
In fact, this attitude and behaviour make a way of life of everyone who lives, works, and learns in LIBA.
In the courses our students follow, the learning they gain from them and the life they live in the campus we insist that they pursue this kind of excellence that leads to ethical living.
Therefore, LIBA students are competent, committed, creative and compassionate. When they join an organisation they will commit totally to enhance its quality and standard.
You can see this clearly in the profile of students in the brochure in your hand and I know that you will not hesitate to employ them in your enterprises.
Welcome to LIBA, and wish you the best.
Rev. Dr. C. Joe Arun, SJ
Director