Muchlas Samani, Chancellor of UNESA for the 2010-2014 period, conveyed the important role and contribution of professors to institutions, society and the country, as well as the need to prepare the younger generation who are more ready and adaptive to face future challenges.
Unesa.ac.id. SURABAYA—Professor or professor is the peak academic level of an academic or lecturer at a university. However, this level is not a goal, but a means to achieve the goal itself. The aim here has a general meaning which emphasizes the principle of the benefits of a professor to institutions, society and even the country.
This was conveyed by Muchlas Samani, Chancellor of Surabaya State University for the 2010-2014 period, when giving a speech at the inauguration of 11 UNESA professors at the Sawunggaling Performance Building (GPS), campus 2 Lidah Wetan, on Tuesday (12/11 /2024) ago.
"We can use John Fitzgerald Kennedy's words as an appeal, namely, don't ask what the country has done for you, but ask what you have done for the country," said the UNESA professor who leads the Independent Accreditation Institute for Education (Lamdik) That.
This means, he continued, that when appointed, professors need to ask about what they can contribute to this nation, this country, at least to UNESA as a place to work and have a career as an academic.
As a senior academic, Muchlas Samani really understands that a career as a teacher or lecturer is very challenging. School or study in the past, work now, and prepare the nation's children or generations for the future.
The future we want to go to is only in the form of a shadow in our minds, but no one knows what the reality will be. No one can predict for sure what will happen in the next five or even ten years.
Three senior chancellors pose with the leadership and 11 UNESA professors who were appointed.
"Very likely, what "You teach now, in the next five years it will no longer be useful, because times have changed. Therefore, the question is, what do we do to prepare students to be ready to face the future era, the era of digital and artificial intelligence," he added.
With such an image of the future, he invited academics including professors to imagine the challenges ahead, and think about strategies so that students being educated now are able to compete in the future.
"It seems that the future requires transdisciplinary science, because no work can be completed with just one scientific discipline. Please look for forms of transdisciplinary science in higher education, including whether narrow programs are still relevant in the future ," he said.
This is important to think about. Because, from various experiences, the work that someone does in the world of business and industry is very different from what they have learned in college.
"What we use for work now is only 10 or 20 percent of what we learned when we were on campus. We have to learn the rest ourselves. I think that's what we need to think about in the future. Congratulations to those who inaugurated and hopefully it will be a blessing for the institution and the country," he concluded.
In addition, the inauguration of 11 UNESA professors was attended by a number of important guests and senior chancellors. Apart from that, Muchlas Samani (2010-2014) was also present, Toho Cholik Mutohir, rector for the 1997-2001 period, and Haris Supratno, rector for the 2001-2010 period, who is currently chairman of the UNESA Board of Trustees (MWA). [*]
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