Events 2020
ONLINE OPENING CONFERENCE NOVEMBER 2020
The Opening Conference of the project set to take place in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in November 2020 has been cancelled due to COVID-19. The project committe has decided and agreed to hold the first conference online. The key objective of the event was to bring together a group of 20 participants consisting of rectors, vice rectors, deans and management staff from four Indonesian private universities and to support them to improve their educational quality standard in the university landscape in Indonesia. Moreover, the conference gave an opportunity for the experts and participating universities to exchange interactively on their expertise and experience on the following topics; leadership, quality assurance and human resource management.
The opening conference 2020 was split in two phases:
- Phase I : November 2nd, 4th and 6th with the focus on the Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana, Yogyakarta. All session was held in English language.
- Phase II: November 9th, 11th, and 13th with the focus on three partners (Universitas Kristen Wira Wacana in Sumba, Universitas Halmahera in Maluku, and Universitas Ottow Geissler in Papua). All session was held in Indonesian language.
PHASE I
Host : Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer
Speakers : Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer, Prof. Dr. Duu Sheng Ong, Prof. Dr. Gladys Nivera and Ir. Henry Feriadi M.Sc., Ph.D
Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer as a project director and Ir. Henry Feriadi as a rector of Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana opened the conference and welcomed all participants. Prof Mayer gave briefly introduction and overview of the joint project DIES - partnerships with higher education institutions in Indonesia supported by the DAAD.
There was a presentation on leadership by Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer, followed by the best practice example on leadership presented by Dr. Gladys Nivera from the Philippine Normal University. After this session, colleagues from Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana (UKDW) shared the current situation on the leadership at their university, which has been discussed accordingly.
In the third part of this session, there was an introduction of the “Project Action Plan” as a project management tool by Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer and Prof. Dr. Duu Sheng from Multimedia University, Malaysia. Lastly, Prof. Dr. Leenawaty Limantara summarized this first Zoom session into Bahasa Indonesia for the participants from the three partner universities.
Time | Agenda |
60 minutes | Welcome Session for all of Participants & Introduction of the Project by Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer |
5 minutes | Break |
20 minutes | Theoretical Input on Leadership by Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer |
10 minutes | Theoretical Input on Leadership part II by Prof. Dr. Duu Sheng Ong |
20 minutes | Sharing the Leadership Experience of Philippine Normal University by Prof. Dr. Gladys Nivera |
45 minutes | Input on the situation within the UKDW by Ir. Henry Feriadi M.Sc., Ph.D, followed by the discussion |
10 minutes | Break |
30 minutes | Introduction of PAP as Project Management Tool by Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer and Prof. Dr. Duu Sheng |
15 minutes | Summary in Bahasa Indonesia by Prof. Dr. Leenawaty Limantara |
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 the session started, participants are asked to watch the video on “Quality Management in Higher Education” provided in our cloud. At the beginning, every participant gave one comment on the three questions on leaderships given by Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer from the first workshop. Afterwards, there was 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. Then, followed by having some inputs from UKDW and discussion on the quality assurance issue within the university. Dr. Nemuel Pah summarized the presentations into Bahasa Indonesia. In the last session, Dr.-Ing. Wiyatiningsih gave a presentation about the management tools project action plan by showing an example of UKDW´s PAP.
Time | Agenda |
20 minutes | Reflection on Leadership by sharing the most interesting learning from the last workshop |
20 minutes | Theoretical Input on Quality Assurance by Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer (Summary in Bahasa Indonesia by Dr. Nemuel Pah) |
20 minutes | Sharing the quality assurance experience from Malaysia Prof. Dr. Duu Sheng Ong (Summary in Bahasa Indonesia by Dr. Nemuel Pah) |
20 minutes | Input on the situation within the UKDW by Dr. Fransisca Endang Lestariningsih, followed by discussion |
15 minutes | Break |
25 minutes | ZUMpad Session |
45 minutes | Presentation of Project Action Plan in Bahasa Indonesia by Dr.-Ing. Wiyatiningsih |
Host : Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer
Speakers : Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer, Handi Hadiwitanto, Ph.D and Prof. Dr. Gladys Nivera
For the preparation of this session, participants are asked to watch the video on “Human Resource Management in Higher Education” presented by Prof Peter Mayer.
Time | Agenda |
30 minutes | Reflection on QA – what should be the focus in term of QA for your university? Max. of 5 minutes per Input by each rector in Bahasa Indonesia |
15 minutes | Theoretical input on Human Resources by Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer |
5 minutes | Summary in Bahasa Indonesia by Tatas H.P. Brotosudarmo, Ph.D |
20 minutes | Sharing Best practice of „Faculty development at Philippine Normal University“ by Prof. Dr. Gladys Nivera |
5 minutes | Summary in Bahasa Indonesia by Tatas H.P. Brotosudarmo, Ph.D |
15 minutes | Break |
45 minutes | Input on the situation within the UKDW in Bahasa Indonesia by Handi Hadiwitanto, Ph.D Vice Rector of Partnership and Capacity Building |
45 minutes | Break-Out Session with following questions on HR: 1. What are the challenges of recruiting instructors or teachers? 2. What are the challenges of improving the quality of teachers (focus on staff development)? 3. What are typical conflicts in office at your university? 4. What are the challenges of academic staff to deliver their Tri Dharma responsibilities? |
Presentation of the breakout session results. 5 minutes per group. | |
Summary in Bahasa Indonesia by Tatas H.P. Brotosudarmo, Ph.D |
PHASE II
Host and Speaker : Assoc. Prof. Dr. Leenawaty Limantara
The workshop was 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 were 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 was 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 was an introduction to the second day (IQA) and third day (Academic excellence of Human resource as the backbone of organization) workshops. Participants are then 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 are also 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 highlighted the meaning of “Man behind the gun”, leadership quality, and how leaders should contribute significantly.
Time | Agenda |
45 minutes | Presentation Sharing Best Practices “Leading in the New Normal Setting: Challenges and Opportunity” |
90 minutes | Knowing your own university (Methods: Mentimeter, sharing, input from trainers) |
10 minutes | Break |
25 minutes | Reflection on Leadership |
15 minutes | Summary in English |
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.
Time | Agenda |
30 minutes | Framework and Good Practices on Improving Academic Quality (Bahasa Indonesia) |
30 minutes | Break-out session (3 groups; mixed) with the following topics:
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25 minutes | Formulating strategies to improve academic quality in our university (Bahasa Indonesia) |
10 minutes | Break |
25 minutes | Introduction to PAP Preparation (Bahasa Indonesia) |
30 minutes | Break-Out Session (4 groups; each university): Working on your PAP |
30 minutes | PAP Presentation & Discussion by each university |
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.
Time | Agenda |
45 minutes | Presentation “Making Academic Excellence of Human Resources as the Backbone of My Organization”, Sharing Best Practices - Role Model: Ma Chung University |
90 minutes | Knowing your own university (30 minutes per each university) - Methods: Mentimeter, sharing, input from trainers |
10 minutes | Break |
25 minutes | Reflection on HR with wrap-up session (PAP per University) |
60 minutes | Summary of proceedings in English & Closing Ceremony for all national and international participants |