Bangkalan - Trunojoyo Madura University held a workshop on the Strategy Preparation for the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA) International Accreditation Visitation for Programs within UTM, on Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
The workshop took place in the KH. Syaichona Cholil Meeting Room, Graha Utama UTM building, featuring two speakers, Aulia Rahmawati, Ph.D., from the East Java National Veteran University, and Novrys Suhardianto, SE., MSA., Ak., Ph.D., from Airlangga University, Surabaya.
Present at the event were UTM Rector, Dr. Safi’, S.H, M.H, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, Dr. Achmad Amzeri, S.P, M.P, as well as the Deans, the International Accreditation Team, faculty representatives, student representatives, educational staff, and alumni. All these parties will later serve as assessors in the FIBAA accreditation.
Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, Dr. Achmad Amzeri, S.P, M.P, as the chairman of the workshop organizing committee, expressed his gratitude to the team for their maximum effort.
This workshop is expected to serve as a forum for the international accreditation (FIBAA) team within UTM," expressed Amzeri. "At the very least, UTM can learn from experienced parties, especially the speakers, in preparing for the field assessment of international accreditation.
Both speakers present are individuals with significant experience and are part of the Quality Assurance Team at their respective campuses," expressed Amzeri.
Furthermore, Amzeri emphasized that Curriculum Preparation for OBE is an integral part of international accreditation preparation,
Initial preparation for internationally accredited programs: Introduction to FIBAA standards.
He also emphasized the need to maximize preparation for Social Sciences and ASIIN for STEM programs," he said.
From December 30th to 31st, 2023, documents for the submission of international accreditation for 3 clusters have been sent to FIBAA," he explained.
In 2024, we received information from FIBAA that the field assessment or international accreditation visitation for 7 programs within 3 clusters will be conducted. It will take place online for Cluster I on June 4-6, 2024, and offline for Clusters II and III in the fourth week of June 2024," he explained
In his speech, UTM Rector, Dr. Safi’, expressed his hope that the teams entrusted with this task would consider it an act of worship for the future quality of UTM,
May the preparation for the International Accreditation Visitation for the Study Program proceed as expected," he expressed.
Safi’ added that the team should work more seriously. At the very least, they should achieve a better status than the previous one.
Meanwhile, Novrys Suhardianto, as the speaker, outlined that in the strategy for preparing international accreditation.
Firstly, understand what internationalization program entails.
So, does UTM, which aims for international accreditation, already have an internationalization program?" Novrys stated.
Novrys explained the stages of the strategy for international accreditation preparation. Meanwhile, Aulia Rahmawati shared some of her experiences in handling preparations for international accreditation field assessments.