Newman College is a Syro Malabar Catholic institution of higher education in Thodupuzha, Kerala, India, administered by the Diocese of Kothamangalam.

On 4 July 2010 Professor T J Joseph was attacked and had his arm severed by Islamic radicals claiming that a punctuation exercise he had set in an examination was insulting to Islam.

[2] Though the college raised 600,000 rupees for his medical care, he was on 4 September dismissed from the college's employment on the grounds that he had "hurt the feelings of a community" and caused a "loss of goodwill to the Church".

[4] In August 2015, Mahatma Gandhi University, Syndicate initiated disciplinary action against the principal and management of the college.

Grievance redressal committee of the University found that the college denied admission to a poor student as he could not pay huge amount of money as donation.