Increasing human resources and university development was a hot topic during the visit of the Yogyakarta AAN College of Administrative Sciences (STIA”AAN”) on Thursday, November 23 2023, which took place in the Chancellor’s Room at Universitas PGRI Yogyakarta (UPY). In this activity, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was also signed between Universitas PGRI Yogyakarta and AAN Yogyakarta College of Administrative Sciences. The signing was carried out in the UPY Chancellor’s room, attended by Dr. Ir. Paiman, M.P as Chancellor of UPY, and Mr. Happy Susanto, S. Sos., M.A., M.P.A as Chair of STIA”AAN” Yogyakarta.
Also present at the event were UPY leaders, including Drs. Johannes Sabari, M.Si. (Chair of the YP Management), Dr. Septian Aji Permana, S.Pd., M.Pd (Deputy Chancellor III), and Pebri Prihatmoko, S.Pd., M.Eng (Secretary of KUI). From STIA”AAN” Yogyakarta, present Sugiyanto, S.T., M. P.A. (Vice Chancellor I) and R.R.E. Anggraeni E.W., S.I.P., M.P.A. (Vice Chancellor II).
During the meeting, UPY and STIA”AAN” exchanged ideas to improve the quality and achievements of each institution. This discussion covers various aspects, including improving the quality of lecturers, increasing the number of study programs, and building facilities as a strategy to increase institutional achievement and competitiveness.
The Chancellor of STIA AAN explained that in his efforts to develop the campus he encountered several quite serious challenges. The toughest challenge faced is expanding the number of study programs at STIA AAN. In response to this, the Chancellor of UPY provided a solution that STIA AAN must change the nomenclature from High School to University. By changing to a university, it will be easier to increase the number of study programs. By increasing the number of study programs, students automatically have more choices, so more students will register. This will later increase campus income, so that the campus will develop more in terms of infrastructure and human resources. Apart from that, the UPY Chancellor gave advice to always involve the foundation in every meeting, planning and decision making. This aims to maintain harmonious relations between the institution and the foundation, so that the institution’s programs will be supported by the foundation.
Furthermore, the rectors of both universities agreed that the signing of this MoU was just a ceremony, the most important thing was the cooperation program which would later run hopefully to provide benefits for both parties in order to improve the quality of education in Indonesia. At the end of the session the event closed with the presentation of mementos from UPY to STIA AAN and a group photo between UPY officials and STIA AAN officials.