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The Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Sebelas Maret (FEB UNS) Surakarta, organized a Character Coaching and Workshop for the Faculty academic support staff, on Saturday, January 11, 2020 in Magelang. The activity was attended by 80 support staff in FEB UNS as well as the Deanery and the Head of Study Programs and Units in FEB UNS. The activity was started with rafting along the Elo river, which was supported with a clear weather that day.

After the rafting, the academic support staff held a Workshop in Kampung Ulu Resort meeting room. Prof. Djoko Suhardjanto, the Dean of FEB UNS in his remarks mentioned that this activity aims to refresh the spirit of all support staff after working and busy with various activities at the office. “This activity is also a means to disciplining ourselves, to work hard, and work together to maintain compactness. Be happy under any circumstances even under a high pressure to achieve the target set,” the Dean said. Further, he also mentioned that this activity is useful to train the staff to be a good event organizer, how to plan an event to be successfully implemented, and providing excellent service.

Meanwhile, the Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, Dr. Izza Mafruhah, tells a story about “Learning from a Butterfly”. A kid who watch a cocoon felt sorry for the butterfly that struggling to getting out from its cocoon. The kid took initiative to help the butterfly and cut a wide hole on the cocoon to help the butterfly, but the butterfly is to weak to fly. The struggle taken by a butterfly to get out from its cocoon helps the butterfly to strengthen its wings, thus when it finally out, the butterfly has a strong wing. Learning from this, the difficulties in life actually bring wisdom to us become stronger and wiser. Work hard and struggling is part of life.

Dr. Izza also reminds the staff that FEB is a family, if one person is sick, then the other will be affected. Likewise, if one is happy, then the other will feel happy too. “Wherever, the position is, either in academic or student affairs or other unit, we should work together to support FEB UNS,” she said.

During the testimonial session, Lucida Rectavia represent the other 4 support staff who are transferred to other unit, to deliver a speech.

Starting on January 1, 2020, there are 5 support staff from FEB UNS who were transferred to other faculty in UNS. They are Edi Kusnadi transferred to the Faculty of Sport; Mohammad Taufiqurrahman, A.Md transferred to Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science (MIPA); Sutopo, S.Kom transferred to the Vocational School; Hermawanti transferred to the Legal and Administrative and Cooperation Division; and Lucida Rectavia, SP transferred to Interest, Talent, Reasoning, and Student Information Section.

The Workshop was ended with photo session.

The end year meeting of the FEB UNS is attended by the Deanery of FEB UNS and all of the Faculty support staff. The meeting, which was conducted modestly, is organized on December 27, 2019, in FEB UNS 2^nd Meeting Room. This aims to establish a positive synergy among the Deanery and FEB UNS support staff.

The Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, Dr. Mugi Harsono, starting the meeting with an introspection toward oneself mistake, both in action and thought in the daily life. In general, he mentions that all people should introspect their worship to the Allah, as all a person did should goes along with God regulation. Meanwhile, in social interaction he reminds the support staff about the good moral to fellow human beings. Dr. Mugi also provides example on how to introspect someone life, such as finding comparison to someone better or reviewing one’s weakness, and understand that God always keep an eye on our life.

Meanwhile, the Vice Dean of General and Finance Affairs, Dr. Djuminah, wishes that FEB UNS will be a ecosystem that provide usefulness and convenience for all stakeholders both internal and external parties. She also mentions that all Faculty member should have a sense of belonging in their workplace, which leads to responsibility and better performance. Further, she informs that in 2020 the structural official of echelon 3 and 4 will be abolished. Therefore, all the Head of Unit in UNS will retain their position but their rank will changed into functional position.

Moreover, in the beginning of 2020 there will be a rearrangement of support staff to refresh the staff performance. This mean several FEB UNS support staff will be transferred to other Faculty or to another unit within the FEB UNS. This, however, is a normal transfer.

At the end of meeting, Dr. Izza Mafruhah, mentioned to the support staff that in conducting their job in FEB UNS all Faculty members are establishing a collaboration, not working together. Where in collaboration there is an interrelated bond. A job conducted by academic unit can be forwarded by student service and/or other units. Therefore, all organization unit is important and no unit is more prominent than other. In an interconnected bond, if one part is loose then all other part will likely to crumble.

The National Accreditation Board for Higher Study (BAN-PT) recently updated the requirements for the Accreditation Instrument for Study Program (IAPS) 4.0. The current standard focused more on the output and outcome of the teaching and learning activities. The quality assessment is more focused on the process, output, and outcome, while the previous instrument focused more on input. This will make a Study Program do harder work in order to prepare the accreditation using Criteria 9. The Criteria 9 covers: vision, mission, goals, and objective; human resource; finance and infrastructure; education; research; community service; output and the achievement of the Tri Dharma of Higher Education.

This was mentioned by Prof. Tulus Haryono, M.Ek., during a technical meeting with the Universitas Mataram (UNRAM) on Friday, December 27, 2019. The meeting was attended by approximately 20 staff of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Mataram (FEB UNRAM) who hold leadership role.

Further, Prof. Tulus explained that there are two reports that should be submitted to the BAN-PT namely the Study Program Performance Report, which covers quantitative data, and Self Evaluation Report for Study Program that mainly covers qualitative information. The submission to the BAN-PT should be made at least 6 (six) months before the previous accreditation certificate is expired. Therefore, the preparation of the reports should take one year prior to the submission to BAN-PT, the Study Programs should get prepared because the preparation of the Accreditation Reports needs a high accuracy.

“The Reports is prepared by the Head of Study Program assisted by an accreditation team. The Head of Study Program should be directly involved in the preparation of the Report and should completely understand its content, because they will get interviewed during the assessment, while the team member will provide assistance where needed,” Prof. Tulus explained. Further he also mentions that the Report should strictly follow the format provided by the BAN-PT. “No matter what the template is, we have to follow the format provided by the BAN-PT,” said the Professor who had served as BAN-PT assessor for more than 16 years.

In term of collaboration report, the Study Programs need to report their collaboration with the industries, institutions, or other universities both with national and international universities. However, the collaborations that can be included in the report are not the ‘dormant’ collaboration, which mean only active collaboration can be included. For lecturer profile, the assessor will assess whether the lecturers are capable and possess the competency to teach on certain course, this apply for both permanent and non-permanent lecturer. The assessor will also consider the lecturer last education.

“If all lecturers are assigned to course that are in line with their competency and skill, the program will earn 4 points. Based on the regulation from the BAN-PT if there are more than 7 lecturers who are assigned to a course that is not in line with their competency, then the program will be given 3 points,” he said.

For the sake of accreditation process, Prof. Tulus reminds that a program should focus on hiring permanent lecturers and limit the number of non-permanent lecturer. In his presentation, Prof. Tulus explains all the important point related with accreditation using 9 criteria and followed with discussion with the participants.