[1] In 2012, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee invited St. Xavier's College to open a university.

[4] The State University of New Town Kolkata (SXUK) was established in February 2017 by the West Bengal government and formally inaugurated in July 2017 by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Lakshmi Mittal, the CEO of ArcelorMittal.

[8] A female professor at St. Xavier's University Kolkata was allegedly forced to resign after sharing personal photos on social media.

[9] According to the professor, "The vice-chancellor John Felix Raj said this parent had found his son looking at my photographs on Instagram where I was wearing just my undergarments.

The professor explained that the photos were posted on 13 June 2021, prior to her joining the university faculty and before she accepted any requests from her students to follow her account which is private.