Semarang – The Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Diponegoro University (FISIP Undip) holds a routine agenda in the form of an advocacy forum for student aspirations entitled ‘Public Hearing’. The forum was held online on Saturday (28/11) starting at 14.00 and opened by the short speech from the Dean of FISIP Undip, Dr. Hardi Warsono, MTP. It was also attended by campus bureaucrats such as the Deputy Dean, Head of Study Programs, educators, and of course students.
The forum, which was held to accommodate the aspirations of students, focuses on lecture activities to campus administration during the pandemic which is carried out online. One of the complaints that arise is related to student competency assessments. This was also answered by S. Rouli Manalu Ph.D. as the Head of the Undip Communication Studies Undergraduate Study Program, who considered the assessment to be directly proportional to the quality supported by the university.
“I see it this way, we have qualities that must be maintained, we all together want (students) to graduate with a good reputation. We also want to maintain the quality of our learning, we’re on this together,” she explained.
Rouli also said that students and lecturers have the same share in maintaining this quality so that they are able to bring Undip to the desired level.
“These are two things that must be maintained together; lecturers can teach well and students are able to produce good products. That is what ultimately keeps our university at the level we want it to be. If we reduce the quality with the hope that college will be easier and pass faster, so in the end, we will not become a classy university anymore, if that is the case where our excellence will be,” explained the lecturer who is familiarly called Kak Uli.
Not only giving critical notes, but the Head of the Communication Science Study Program also gave advice to the forum to maintain the expected quality by reflecting on the efforts that have been made with the results obtained.
“Please reflect yourself, whether my effort is enough to get an A, if it’s enough but the lecturer doesn’t give it, having discussions with lecturers and lecturers will not make it difficult for students at all,” she suggested.
In fact, it is not without reason that Rouli is quite keen to argue in this matter, he replied that Undip has committed to compete not only in the national arena but internationally so that the quality it has must continue to be improved.
“Because we are maintaining and raising the quality of Undip to continue to rise, it is not our fellow universities in Indonesia that become our standards, but with universities abroad, because we want to become an international university,” said Rouli.
At the end of his presentation, Rouli conveyed an invitation to maintain mutual empathy between lecturers and students to the forum which won the attention of more than 600 participants in order to maintain the quality of themselves and the university.
“Let us have the same empathy, students have empathy for lecturers but lecturers also have empathy for students,” she said.
Author: Luthfi Maulana Adhari
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