Establishing a good relationship with alumni can be beneficial for the university. In addition to their contribution in donating money for scholarships for the students, the alumni contributions in the form of ideas are also needed by the university to support the quality of learning and teaching. Some universities across the world even put the alumni as ambassadors to introduce the university to a global level.
“To learn something is not a difficult thing. The difficult thing is to make someone has a desire to learn,” said Ahmad Yuniarto, Founder of Biru Peduli Foundation Indonesia on the debriefing of prospective graduates of undergraduate and diploma programs of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) November 16 period. Took place on Tuesday (15/11) at Gedung Sabha Pramana (GSP), the debriefing that was moderated by Wisnu Martha Adhiputra, who is a lecturer from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, was attended by more than 200 prospective graduates.
“It is never too late to build personal branding. Even though naturally we have our own character and also influenced by the environment since we are little, there is a part of us that can be changed in order to achieve our success,” said Analisa Widyaningrum, a psychologist. That was delivered on the ‘Wardah Bright Days Campus Roadshow’ Seminar that is a result of Sub-directorate of Alumni Relations of UGM cooperation with Wardah Cosmetic on Thursday (10/11) at the UGM Central Library Seminar Room.
UGM received a visit from MITSA (UiTM Sarawak Alumni Association) on Thursday (10/11). The group of 30 people was consisted of administrators, educators, and alumni from Sarawak Malaysia branch of Universiti Teknologi MARA. They went to UGM to strengthen relationship and to do comparative study on UGM alumni management program.
UGM as a higher education institution always try to increase the education and learning quality. One of the efforts is to capture information from the alumni as an integral part, which is inseparable from the university by the Tracer Study program. Other than as means of alumni tracing, information obtained by this program can also benefit UGM to help adjust the education system to maximize students’ competency so that they are able to compete and are needed by the market. Looking at the great benefits, UGM relaunched Tracer Study 2016.
“Preparing yourself for the career world is something you must do. This is due to the growing industry, increasingly tighter competition, and smarter client,” explained Herni Surhatini that is SVP HR PT. Elang Mahkota Teknologi (EMTEK) in ‘From Campus to Corporate’ Seminar on Friday (4/11) at the UGM Central Library Seminar Room. Self preparation is not only important for the career world, but also in entrepreneurship. With self preparation, Job seekers are not only focused merely on the income, but also have more understanding the job goal and able to love the jobs they’ll be doing.
“Don’t ever be tired of being Indonesian. Bring positive energy wherever we go to make Indonesia better.” So was the advice from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, Retno Marsudi, given at Grha Sabha Pramana UGM on Wednesday (2/11) as Emtek Goes To Campus (EGTC) 2016 series of events. Requested to be a speaker on the first day of ‘Inspiring Talk” session, the alumna of Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIPOL) UGM shared her life journey as a diplomat for almost 30 years.
“Extra skill that is owned aside from those that were formed throughout your classes can be your added value to get the job you want or to be an entrepreneur. One of those extra skills is public speaking,” said I Made Andi Arsana, Ph. D., as the head of UGM Global Initiatives office, in his speech at Career Talks and Explorations seminar on Tuesday (1/11). With the theme ‘Public Speaking’ as the eighth series, the seminar that was held by UGM Subdirectorate of Alumni Relation invited Radju Manusamy that is the Chairman of Jebsen & Jessen Indonesia as a speaker.
Gadjah Mada Volleyball Alumni (AVOGAMA) held a cross-generation Grand Reunion for members of the Volleyball Student Activity Unit (UKM) UGM on Thursday-Friday (28-29 / 10). Located in the Hall of Student Center UGM, this reunion was attendedby members of AVOGAMA from the class of 1970 and on. There are various series of activities in this reunion of which are fun games for cross-generation as well as employees and lecturers of UGM, watching together GAMA CUP Universities Volleyball Championship 2016, gathering night, night culinary travel, and AVOGAMA Workshop with the theme “Alumni Participation in the Development of Volleyball UKM”.
Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Alumni are spread evenly not only in Indonesia but also abroad. Given the large number of alumni both in quantity and quality, various positive potentials can be developed through a strong bond between the alumni. For example is idea contribution for the advance of almamater UGM on providing educational facilities as well as improvement on knowledge that is taught to the students. Therefore, UGM held Alumni Meet and Education Promotion in a number of ASEAN countries. After visiting Laos and Thailand on the third week of October 2016, UGM team then headed to Vietnam and Myanmar on Thursday-Monday (20-24/10).
