Faculty Exchange Summary
Summary of Activities
Campus touring & Opening ceremony
Sat in Mr. Leo’s class
First time
Comment one each student's thesis topic
Give suggestions for modification to make the research more meaningful
Provide some new topics when the students’ thesis topics are difficult to implement
Second time
Basic concepts related to bank
Process business bank
Risk&Value
5Cs
Sat in Mr. Saiqa, my partner’s class
Basic concepts about human resources
Students presentation
how to run a business
how to recruit employees
How to retain staff turnover
Went into students’ class
Traditional Musical Instruments with SANDAL SIMPUL
Workshop 1:Research Plan: Factors Affecting Students’Choice to Vocational College
Share progress in research project: Background、Study Subjects、Literature Review、Methods、Results
Conclusions
Communicate with Teachers and students
Listen to the opinions of the participating teachers and make amendments
Invite students to fill in the questionnaire and test the validity of the questionnaire
Interview students
Requirements on spontaneous translation
Skills on spontaneous translation
Introduce the changes of clothing, food, shelter and transportation
Interact with students
Teachers from Economics and Business Department
Students from business management and medical specialty
Joined in the lecture on how history and culture influence city branding of Chengdu held by Miss Ren Xinyuan
Proofread PPT for Mr. Shen Jingqiao from CDTC
Join International Conference on Technology for Sustainable Development(ICTSD)
Cultural Explore
cultural attractions: Yogyakarta Royal Palace, water castle; forest; Sunflower garden; museums
Weekend excursion to Beaches ( Andri, Tyas; Dhemaze)
Indonesia food culture
Wayang Kancil Performance
Shopping Mall: Malioboro Mall, Mirota batik
Met with old and new friends: Wikan, Cisya, Yohana , Andri, Lastria, Risqi, Tyas, Dhemaze
Closing ceremony
Reflection
Teachers and students have a deep understanding of Indonesia's local customs and necessities. Different cultural experience deepens the understanding, both teachers and students recognize the cultural similarities and differences between the two countries.
The friendship between the teachers and students of the two schools has been strengthened and profound friendship has been established.
Teachers in UGM-SV are committed to work,. They pay attention to research, teaching and community services , and most of them must obtain a PHD degree. They have no Summer holiday and winter holiday. When the students are off, teachers continue to learn or improve themselves.
Students in UGM-SV are very conscientious and diligent in their learning attitude, they are more active than students in our students.
Specialty setup in UGM-SV are closely linked to social needs, and students have many opportunities to practice in this field. After entering the society, they can directly engage in this field and apply their knowledge to practice.
School-enterprise cooperation in UGM-SV has been very successful and deserves our school's study.
Through this exchange program, the courage of the students was improved. Students have a certain cross-cultural awareness. A month's life makes them more independent. They can accept tasks and difficulties freely and complete them on time and in good quality.
Acknowledgments
All the reported activities could not have happened without the help and support of your distinguished and nice people. My heartfelt thank especially goes to :
the UGM-CDTC program and those people who have been devoting and supporting this Faculty Exchange; especially the Dean, Mr. Wikan, and the Head, Dr. Endang, and Vice dean, Mrs Dr. Sylvi; The head of Economics and Business Department, Mrs. Echo
staff in OIA, Andri, Tyas, Dhemas, who arranged every thing well and sacrificed their weekend to go to the excursion with us;
the faculty members in Economics and Business Department , who are always helpful and nice, and who enthusiastically offer me help whenever I come across troubles, providing an independent office for my research, providing WiFi account for me to download all kinds of materials, solving power and air conditioning problems
the volunteer students, Hanyi, Adam, Handri, etc. who made my life here more convenient and comfortable, helping me buy a phone card, bringing me to find the shop selling coffee, and providing all kinds of information I need.
Mr. Leo and Mr. Saiqa pick me up every day, discuss and decide research topic with me, invite me to taste local food. Mr. Saiqa for his unconditional support in every aspects of this faculty exchange project, offering his mobile WiFi device to me; Lastria, accompanied us here and there, and worked as a qualified tour guide for both Tracy and me; the remaining colleagues with whom I interacted and discussed a lot;
Finally, my colleague, Mrs. Ren Xinyuan, who show much care for me; and all our student, who are good team players and self-disciplined.
Conclusion
As my partner Mr. Saiqa, from Economics and Business department, majors in management, different from my major, so the joint teaching and research is novel and very challenging. Both of us are very busy. So as long as we are in school, we’ll meet with each other, learning more about our teaching and research field. And most of time, we are discussing the topic we plan to do. We try our best to find a meaningful research topic we are both interested, at last we choose “Factors Affecting Students’ Choice to Vocational College” as our research topic, and we design and complete the questionnaire, and now we are preparing for the paper. Hopefully, the project will be more fruitful with their publications and scientific achievements. Despite the difficulties, both of us have benefited greatly, broadened the scope of our cooperation, and both feel that there are still many opportunities for the future, waiting for us to sit down and explore further.
Liu Yanjun, Foreign Languague School
