When the study program and alumni are committed to improving branding and recognition, as well as motivating each other to encourage graduate career success.
Unesa.ac.id, SURABAYA—Master of Arts and Culture Education Study Program, Faculty of Languages and Arts (FBS), Surabaya State University (UNESA) held Scientific Forum #1 Alumni Trail. The activity which took place on Friday, 20 December 2024 in the 3rd floor auditorium, T2 Building, FBS, UNESA Campus 2 Lidah Wetan Surabaya carried the theme 'Creative Process and Career Journey."
Deputy Dean for Field I FBS UNESA, Didik Nurhadi appreciated the implementation of the first scientific platform for the Master of Arts and Culture Education Study Program. He said that through this scientific platform, the life of scientific thinking on campus continues.
This activity is a real action to foster scientific thinking in the community and alumni. He also appreciated alumni who still maintain connectivity with the study program where they studied. The role of alumni is very important and cannot be replaced in encouraging the progress of the study program.
"It is hoped that alumni contributions will help fill lectures and even now study programs are asked to report alumni activities in the field as the study program's responsibility to the government in the form of tracer study and user survey, we not only release but we continue to maintain good relations between alumni, study programs and institutions, ” he added.
Coordinator of the Master of Arts and Culture Education Study Program, Anik Juwariyah, explained that this activity is a form of branding for the study program so that it becomes more widely known to the public, and attracts people's interest in studying or continuing their studies at the UNESA Masters of Arts and Culture Education Study Program.
"We also want to bridge our Master's graduates who have been active in various professions so that they can share/share their knowledge and experience after graduating. "So that our master's students are enlightened regarding their career prospects after they graduate," he said.
This activity involved a number of alumni as resource persons, namely Zukhriyan Zakaria, a graduate of Masters in Arts and Culture Education; Welly Suryandoko, alumnus of S-1 Sendratasik, S-2 Arts and Culture, and S-3 Arts and Culture UNESA.
Next, there is Ervin Nuriana, alumnus of S-1 Sendratasik, and S-2 Arts and Culture; and, Ratih Asmarani, alumnus of Bachelor's degree in Sendratasik, and Master's degree in Arts and Culture at UNESA.
Zukhriyan Zakaria, who is currently a lecturer at the Islamic University of Malang, shares his journey and experiences of the creative process during his studies and career. As a lecturer he is required to have two sides, namely the work side and the scientific side.
"Now I am focusing on performing arts and I am a leader of the performing arts community on my campus, Thank God from there I discovered an arts-based learning model," he said.
In Indonesia, he continued, folk art is very popular. "In essence, as an alumnus of the Master's Degree in Arts and Culture Education, I can apply my knowledge both as a lecturer at the university where I serve and in my community and in the community that I have built," he explained.[*]
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Reporter: Muhammad Azhar Adi Mas'ud (FBS)
Editor: @zam*
Photo: UNESA PR Team
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