March

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.

Bangkalan - Trunojoyo Madura University (UTM) conducted a study visit to Darussalam University (Unida) Gontor, East Java, on Monday (4/3/2024).

The study visit was attended by UTM Rector, Dr. Safi’, S.H, M.H, Vice Rector, Chair of the Quality Assurance Team (APT), internal UTM assessors, APT Task Force, and the medical task force.

The participants of the study visit from UTM were warmly welcomed by the Vice Rector I of UNIDA, Vice Dean of Medicine, Chair of the Quality Assurance Body of UNIDA, and members of the UNIDA Quality Assurance Body.

Dalam sambutannya, Rektor UTM, Dr. Safi’ menegaskan maksud kedatangan dan tujuan berkunjung ke Universitas Darussalam Gontor, untuk belajar praktik baik pendirian fakultas kedokteran

We intend to continue building relationships and hope to share best practices (in establishing a medical faculty) from UNIDA Gontor," expressed Safi’.

According to him, it is part of an effort to understand the processes at Unida related to quality assurance and the establishment of a medical faculty.

"Safi’ also expressed hope that MOUs and MOAs would be initiated with UNIDA, and there should be follow-up actions and implementation," said Safi’.

"Safi’ conveyed that in the future, there should be sharing activities between UNIDA Gontor and UTM,"

"UTM currently does not have international programs or international students. There are other constraints that need to be addressed," he said.

"After the speeches from both UTM and UNIDA, the event continued with introductions from the UNIDA team. It was followed by a sharing session regarding the process of establishing a Medical Faculty."

Bangkalan - In preparation for the Institutional Reaccreditation of Universitas Trunojoyo Madura (UTM), which is due in November 2024, the Quality Assurance Team (BPM) of UTM visited Malang State University (UM) for a study visit.

The UTM Accreditation Document Preparation Team assigned to the Comparative Study group consists of Prof. Masduki, Dr. Kurniyati Indahsari, M.Si, Dr. Devi Rahayu Sh, M.Hum., and Dr. Nurhayati, along with Trischa and Yeni, on Thursday (29/02/2024).

The activity is expected to fully support the process of preparing the UTM re-accreditation documents for 2024. Notably, UTM is aiming for an "Excellent" accreditation result this year.

Based on the Ministerial Regulation of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology No. 53 of 2023 on Quality Assurance in Higher Education, 2024 is the last year that universities can achieve an “excellent” accreditation status. Starting the following year, the accreditation status of universities will only be categorized as accredited or non-accredited.

The UTM delegation was welcomed by Warsono, the Chair of the Quality Assurance Team at Malang State University, and the team. After a discussion session and Q&A, Warsono stated that follow-up activities from the visit need to be carried out.

Warsono said, "The team will immediately hold a coordination meeting to share the results of the visit to Malang State University."

Warsono added that the team responsible for preparing the reaccreditation documents should optimize their strategy, tips, and tricks for composing the re-accreditation documents.

"Every data requirement from each sub-team should be communicated as soon as possible for follow-up," he concluded.