English language education is a central feature of the Shansi Memorial Association. Fellows participating in Shansi are graduates of Oberlin College in the United States who have a passion for teaching and multiculturalism. The two year fellowship offered to these students by the Shansi Memorial Association offers graduates a chance to teach English in Asia for two years. As native English speakers, formally trained in ESI (English as a Second Language) methodology, Shansi fellows provide the non-English-Speakers with a valuable English Language course.

Shansi has been actively teaching English at The American College of Madurai since 1952 and began teaching with Jivana Jyoti in 1990. Shansi fellows teach Jivana Jyoti students on a daily basis, as English teachers. Shansi Fellows offer Jivana Jyoti students a rigorous English syllabus which attempts to equip students with practical English language skills. Through the study of both spoken and written English, Jivana Jyoti Students become better prepared to enter the Indian workplace. Students have meaningful one-to-one contact with their teachers who assess the students ' linguistic strengths and weaknesses and address difficulties on an individual basis. The Shansi Fellows develop creative and dynamic syllabi which attempt to engage and challenge the students at all levels of compreehension. In addition to more traditional lecturing methods, A shansi class room offers an energetic English education through the use of games, drama , songs , and creative writing exercises. The courses also offers the students skills which are directly applicaple to the work place such as, resume drafting and job interview competence.

Shansi's emphasis on practical English education, taught in a supportive and dynamic classroom environment, provides the students with useful and marketable skilled the English learned by Jivana Jyoti students in the one-year course helps them to compete in India's aggressive Job market. Shansi is proud to be involved with Jivana Jyoti mission of empowering India's differently abled students.

The Shansi International Center (SIC) is located on the campus of the American College. The goal of the SIC 's is to promote multicultural/interpersonal dialouge and personal development within the campus. The center provides students and faculty with a space that fosters creativity and communications. Shansi facilitates workshops, film screenings, discussion groups, and lecture series which draw students and faculty from all academic departments. The SIC is place which welcomes all people. Shansi has been enthusiastic about including Jivnana Jyoti in the center's management and programming.

Every year Shansi International Center hires several Jivana Jyoti students as Shansi Supervisors. As Shansi supervisors, JJ students are involved in the center's day-to-day management are also included in the development of center's extracurricular functions. Supervisors are expected to be more than simple clerks: they are expected to be dynamic student leaders.

Jivana Jyoti students are greatly benefited by working at the SIC. Besides the accumulation of a modest remuneration, the students gain valuable work experience. As Shansi supervisors the students are expected to be cooperative, responsible, and reliable. The role of a handicapped students working in the SIC is no different than that of their more "abled" co-worker. By giving Jivana Jyoti students the responsibilities and the respect due to them they gain confidence and real-life working experience which will guide them in their post academic carriers.