Our Trustees

Prof. Manjunath V. Acharya, B.E- Civil, M.Tech-Structural, the chairman of LES, Started his career as a site engineer constructing Civil Bridges, Engineering Colleges and Jack Wells, Before finding his true calling for teaching and academic world. After Beginning his 12 year teaching stint as a lecture, then a senior lecture, then he served as Vice Principal and Incharge Principal. He was founder principal, and campus director for one and half at YTIET, Karjat. And CEO of Adrash Shikshan Mandal, Kalyan. Along the way he started consulting for establishing New Engineering, Pharmacy, Management, D.Ed, B.Ed Colleges as well as giving new direction to old ones. To this date, he served on Boards of Several Leading Education Institution. The Tremendous Good will and confident repost by his colleagues propelled him to become the rallying point and take a lead in undertaking the tedeious task of establishing Institution Of The Teachers, By The Teachers, For The Students.

Prof. Manjunath V. Acharya

Chairman’s Message

Mrs. Roopa Manjunath Acharya, has mastered the rare art of securing the first rank. Starting young, right thought school, the 10th, the 12th and all the year of B.E(Extc). She maintain the record even her M.Tech. She has served selflessly for over 22 years in premier institute of Mumbai University. Along with Manjunath Acharya, She started and help in bring to reality the dream that was LEELA EDUCATION SOCIETY and Its Institutes. Ever Since, its foundation, she has been handling the responsibility of the secretary of beloved and respected teacher with aplomb. She takes special pride in the service she is rendering to humanity as a practicing Art of Living Teacher

Mrs. Roopa Manjunath Acharya

The Secretary

Prof. Rajendra Pawar, holds master in manufacturing. Over the past 18 years he has actively involved as a academician across various engineering college in Mumbai. With a vast experience in administrative front as well, his guidance and inputs are valued by one and all engineering and polytechnic in pandharpur (Maharshtra). Addition he has published few International Paper as well. Even Today, he continue to guide students deal with difficulties in numerous subjects while carrying out his duties as a principal aplomb.

Prof. Rajendra Pawar

The Joint Secretary

After graduating from Estudiar University with a MA in Communications, Rachel Gomez served as the director of Freshman and Transfer Programs before becoming the Vice President for Student Affairs. Holding both a BA and MA degree in Communications from Estudiar University, Rachel Gomez has spent much of her professional life at the College.

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Rachel Gomez

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Franklin Doyle is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Psychology Research, the premier honorary organization for scientists working at the interface of behavior and medicine, and he has been appointed to serve on two consensus committees at the Estudiar Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Outside of the academy, Doyle’s research has been cited in several amicus curiae briefs.

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Franklin Doyle

Assistant Professor of History

Rodney Estrada is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Estudiar University. She has published over 125 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, which have appeared in leading journals.Before coming to Estudiar, Rodney earned a B.A. from Carleton College (2006), an M.F.A. in philosophy from New York University (2010), and a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015).

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Rodney Estrada

Lecturer in Philosophy

Calvin Foster is BA Journalism course leader and I teaches on the BA and the MA Magazine and MA journalism courses. He currently leads four modules – level 6 International Journalism Special Study, level 5 Journalism Research Paper, level 4 Journalism and the Wider World and MA Feature Writing. I also teach MA ethics and on a foundation module. Before joining Estudiar, he spent two decades working full time as a journalist including ten years at the Independent newspaper.

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Calvin Foster

Lecturer in Journalism

Professor Eva Willis received her Ph.D. from Cornell in 2005 and began teaching at Princeton, coming to Estudiar in 2009. Her interests include philosophy of mind and moral psychology, the nature of testimony, aesthetics and the philosophy of literature, and the later Wittgenstein. Eva Willis has recently taught courses on the above topics, and on speech-acts, philosophy of action, self-consciousness and intersubjectivity, and Marcel Proust.

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Eva Willis

Assistant Professor of Science and Philosophy

Hester Cox received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin, after which she taught at Illinois State University for three years before coming to Estudiar. Her research interests are in the areas of social and political philosophy and ethics. Her most sustained research projects concern political liberalism and political legitimacy, educational justice, and the gendered division of labor.

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Hester Cox

Professor of Politics

Cordelia Nichols is the Chair and Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Estudiar and a Professorial Fellow at University College. Before that she was a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey in the United States. She has held visiting positions at the University of California, Los Angeles philosophy department and at the University of Chicago Law School. 

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Cordelia Nichols

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Luke Robertson is an intellectual historian specializing in twentieth-century Europe. He earned his BA in Mathematics and History at the University of Cambridge, and his PhD at Harvard University. Before coming to Estudiar, he taught for a decade at Drew University. Baring has held fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the ACLS, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. At Estudiar he holds a joint appointment with the University Center for Human Values.

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Luke Robertson

Assistant Professor of History

Eleanor Parsons is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Estudiar University. Her research interests include decision theory, social choice theory, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. Her book Risk and Rationality (2013) concerns how an individual ought to take risk into account when making decisions. It vindicates the ordinary decision-maker from the point of view of even ideal rationality.

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Eleanor Parsons

Lecturer in Philosophy

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