UNS — Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta is actively improving its performance to be considered as a World Class University (WCU). Supporting their university hard works, the Student Executive Board (BEM) UNS showed their support through the World Class University (WCU) Talkshow in the Sebelas Maret (Semar) Elaboration (Seration) Series 2021.
WCU Talkshow was held online through the Zoom Cloud Meeting application on Sunday (28/11/2021) and was attended by participants from UNS and outside UNS. The President of BEM UNS, Zakky Musthofa Zuhad, shared his hope that UNS could achieve WCU as targeted and that Seration Series 2021 is a place for students to take global action.
“This is a place for us as a university students to think globally, act locally. We need to encourage UNS to achieve WCU through our action that could be implemented well,” Zakky said.
The Vice-Rector for Planning, Partnership, Business, and Information Affairs UNS, Prof. Dr. rer.nat Sajidan, M.Si., attended the workshop and appreciated the initiative taken by BEM UNS that collaborates with the Directorate of Development Partnership and Internationalization UNS. Prof. Sajidan thought that BEM UNS idea was exceptional and hoped that after the event, BEM UNS could provide recommendation on the steps that could be taken by UNS to achieve WCU.
“This is a wonderful idea to discuss the condition in Asia and Europe. The objective is to get a comprehensive strategy from various universities that have achieved WCU. After this Seration, we hope BEM could provide a comprehensive recommendation to us on the strategy that we could take to achieve WCU,” Prof. Sajidan stated.
The Talkshow invited two keynote speakers and one guest star. The keynote speakers are the Education and Culture Attaché (Atdikbud) Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Germany, Prof. Ardi Marwan, and Board of Experts World Class University Ditjen Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and TecHumas UNShnology (Kemdikbudristek), Prof. Wawan Gunawan. dr. Nadhira Nuraini Afifa, M.P.H., was invited as the guest star for her achievement in graduating from Harvard University and delivering a valedictory in 2020 with a scholarship from LPDP.
WCU Talkshow is the finale of Seration Series 2021 that had a series of events including BEM UNS online visit study to various international universities such as Universiti Putra Malaysia and Bangor University, UK. Humas UNS
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