Leaders of UNESA and Unmul Samarinda shared strengthening the academic sector, including strategies for improving quality, and strategies for students to graduate on time.
Unesa.ac.id. SURABAYA—Surabaya State University (UNESA) welcomed a visit from Mulawarman University (Unmul) regarding benchmarking academic governance on Friday, 25 October 2024 in the Meeting Room, Rectorate Building, Lidah Wetan Campus.
Director of Information Technology, Communication , and UNESA Collaboration, Slamet Setiawan conveyed several discussions such as bureaucratic regulations that can improve the quality of graduates, including so that students can graduate on time.
This requires support from lecturers to provide assistance, to programs that provide students choice in making final assignments other than the thesis scheme.
The professor at the Faculty of Languages and Arts (FBS) also emphasized the importance of communication relationships between supervisors and students in the process of preparing and providing direction for student research.
"In making a final assignment, students can replace it with non-academic achievements, but there are still several criteria that need to be met," he explained.
Directorate ranks, field work units UNESA cooperation and center of excellence with the Unmul delegation.
Head of Sub-Directorate for the Center for Science and Technology Excellence (PUI ) UNESA Arts and Culture, Trisakti explained the strategy for improving the quality of graduates and so that students graduate on time, namely by providing research methods courses early so that students have acquired knowledge of research.
In line with this, the representative of the Head of PUI Sports Sub-Directorate UNESA, Donny Ardy Kusuma gave an example that when students win championships at the National Sports Week (PON) or international championships, students can apply for their achievements to be recognized as final assignment grades.
"We really appreciate the achievements that have been made. "It was achieved by students, UNESA even provided scholarships up to PhD," explained the lecturer at the Faculty of Sports and Health Sciences (FIKK).
Apart from that, this visit also discussed increasing student motivation to immediately complete their final assignments. UNESA's Director of Public Relations and Public Information, Vinda Maya Setianingrum, said that the challenge in encouraging students to graduate on time requires a comprehensive strategy.
Not only through academic policies, but sometimes there are also other problems that need to be prepared for a mentoring system.< /p>
For this reason, UNESA has guidance units in several fields to provide the assistance that students need. Such as Guidance Counseling and Psychology, for example, to help with the obstacles felt by students.
"BK will explore and help students solve their obstacles, whether they are work problems so they can't manage their time, they are sick, or so on so that a solution can be found, ” he explained.[*]
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