Current Status and Initiatives
- Until 1953, the administrative control over the college was exercised by the Foreign Mission Committee of the Church of Scotland. This was exercised by jointly by a local council consisting of representatives of the Church of Scotland and the United Church of Northern India. Later the Foreign Mission Committee of Church of Scotland relinquished its authority to the United Church of Northern India, and in 1970, the United Church of Northern India joined the Church of North India as a constituent body. This made the Church of North India the de facto and de jure successor (to the Church of Scotland) in running the administration of the college. As the college was founded on Christian (Protestant and Presbyterian) foundations, it derives its legal authority and status as a religious minority institution as defined by the scope of Article 30 of the Constitution of India.
- On 27 September 1980, the Indian Postal Service released a commemorative stamp on the college recognizing its contribution towards the historical, cultural, artistic and scientific heritage of India and the entire Indian subcontinent.
- Since 2004, this college has been a member of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia and is a participant in that organization's Asian University Leadership Program.
- Since 2004, the college has been annually publishing the Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, an international refereed journal in the social sciences related sub-fields like liberalism, empiricism, Marxism, postmodernism, feminism, subaltern studies and postcolonialism.
- The University Grants Commission (India) accepted the recommendations of the University of Calcutta to regard the college as a centre of excellence.
- In 2011, the Scottish Government instituted a Centre of Tagore Studies in Edinburgh's Napier University, to facilitate integrated research on Rabindranath Tagore's works and philosophy. In Calcutta, this scholarly initiative (with student exchange programs) was extended to the college, involving the departments of English, Bengali and philosophy.
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