With the objective of improving quality of higher education, FORD Pathways to Higher Education Programme, supported by Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications (HEIRA) Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore Supported by the Ford Foundation, USA organized a number of campus initiatives. The programme aims to enhance access of quality higher education to the socially marginalized First Year students of Degree College through innovative Research applications and programmes. It also aims at sensitizing the issues of social diversity and social justice. The total duration of the programme was for three years only