Opening Conference 2020

Host                : Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer
Speakers        : Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer, Prof. Dr. Duu Sheng Ong, Dr. Fransisca Endang Lestariningsih, M.Hum. and Dr.-Ing. Wiyatiningsih

Before our session, please watch the video on “Quality Management in Higher Education” provided in our cloud. At the beginning, every participant gives one comment on the three questions on leaderships given by Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer from the first workshop. Afterwards, there will be a theoretical Input in Quality Assurance by Prof. Dr. Mayer, and followed by a case study on the design of an internal quality management system at Multimedia University in Malaysia. This will be followed by having some inputs from UKDW and will discuss the quality assurance issue within the university. Dr. Nemuel Pah will summarize the presentations into Bahasa Indonesia. Dr.-Ing. Wiyatiningsih will hold the last session by giving the presentation of PAP.

Host and Speaker      : Assoc. Prof. Dr. Leenawaty Limantara

The workshop will be started with a presentation to share the portrait of the 2020 Higher Education clustering made by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, with the highlight on the workshop participants’ university data and the important criteria for clustering. Good practices are presented by comparing the Universitas Pembangunan Jaya baseline in 2015 and how through leadership that focuses on several strategic issues such as the comparative advantage (unique selling point) of Higher Education, Resources (Human Resources, Finance, and infrastructure), Internal Quality Assurance System, and Research is able to move institutions to upgrade from year to year. The presentation will be inserted with the philosophy of leadership, values, strategies and program implementation that are able to move the organization to make continuous improvement. This first session is an introduction to the second day (IQA) and third day (Academic excellence of Human resource as the backbone of organization) workshops. Participants will then be invited to discuss the challenges and opportunities for leadership in their respective tertiary institutions, the strategic roles that leaders can play, and related things that leaders can and should not do (the do and don't). Participants are invited to reflect and know exactly what the strengths and weaknesses of their leadership are and the impact of their leadership on the organization they lead. Participants will also be invited to have a future vision, have clear bench marking, what kind of ideal university model to develop and what important factors should be prioritized to initiate change. The workshop will highlight the meaning of “Man behind the gun”, leadership quality, and how leaders should contribute significantly.

Host & Speaker         : Dr. Nemuel Daniel Pah

Academic quality is one of the main factors determining the quality of a university. We will start from understanding the significance of academic quality assurance for our universities and the determinants of academic quality from a university. This section also discusses an overview of the National Higher Education Standards, especially those related to academic quality standards (PPEPP). Participants will discuss systematic and cultural constraints in an effort to improve academic quality at each university. Participants will be invited to evaluate the quality culture in their respective universities. This session will explain experiences, constraints, and best-practices from several universities in implementing the quality assurance system and how it impacts the quality of higher education as a whole. Participants will continue with a discussion session to try to formulate strategies to build academic quality assurance in higher education.

Host and Speaker      : Tatas Hardo Panintingjati Brotosudarmo, Ph.D

 Theodore Roosevelt once said, “The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun”. This is also true in the higher education business, whereas reliable human resources in the academic field are the backbone of the creation of quality academic processes and conditions. But how can I raise and make quality human resources that I lead? This workshop will be started with the speaker’s cases example sharing taken from his experience as the Director of the MRCPP Research Center at Ma Chung University, from which originally had 3 human resources (1 diploma/D3, 1 bachelor/S1, and 1 doctor/S3) and an 18 m2 laboratory in 2011. Then it was developed intensively in 2014 to become the Center of Excellence in Higher Education Science and Technology (PUI-PT) from the first private universities in Indonesia in 2015. The joys and sorrows behind hard work and dreams will be shared, as well as strategies and technical work practices that prioritize the superior quality that has been used to achieve PUI-PT which was successfully obtained in just 1 year. Participants are then invited to actively discuss the human resource management evaluation that has been carried out. Then focus on mapping the strategic steps as well as output-based technical measures to improve the academic quality of human resources. The importance of changing the superior culture of human resources will be inserted, "whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things" Philippians 4: 8). After the break, each group will present a reflection on the theme of human resources with concrete steps to be taken and receive 360-degree suggestions and responses from the speakers.