Adopting a New Marking and Reporting System (MaRS) at Faculty Level: A Survey of Lecturers’ Level of Readiness and Acceptance

At the end of each semester, academic and administrative staff of a faculty have to analyse students’ results for a myriad of factors such as calculating performance of students and lecturers, and for the university’s senate confirmation. Unfortunately, many relevant personnel at the faculty level lack the clearance to access students’ results directly. To circumvent this issue, individual lecturers were required to print out and submit hardcopies of students’ results and channel the data to relevant personnel. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit and lecturers were unable to submit the hardcopies, the faculty had to find an alternative. The introduction of the Marking and Reporting System (MaRS) marks a change from manual hardcopy submission of results following travel restrictions necessitated by the Malaysian government during the Covid-19 pandemic. As with any technological shift and innovation, the level of readiness and acceptance of academic and administrative staff at a faculty must be examined. This paper uses the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) (Davis, 1986; Davis, Bagozzi & Warshaw, 1989) to determine the level of readiness and investigate the level of acceptance among academic and administrative staff in using MaRS via a questionnaire. The findings suggest that with adequate guidance and assistance, the respondents were positive towards using MaRS as the system offers advantages to them such as being cost effective, environmentally friendly, and more convenient in recording students' results. In short, the respondents are ready and willing to use MaRS to manage students’ results despite facing some difficulties in handling the system, because positively overcoming challenges will yield positive outcomes.

KSPM GOES TO KSE AS A CAPITAL MARKET LITERATION LEARNING MEDIA

In carrying out its duties and obligations, the KSPM (Capital Market Study Group) Universtas Siliwangi must provide education and outreach to the general public and students of Siliwangi universities in particular. In addition, the KSPM Siliwangi University must also establish cooperative relations with other institutions both at the faculty level in other universities or universities. So as to maximize the performance of Siliwangi University KSPM to be always active and develop with other KSPM circles, in this case the capital market group in Unswagati named KSE (Economic Study Group) The form of this activity is a panel discussion as a means of exchanging information that is educational and literacy to discuss about Capital Market knowledge, the performance of management and as a form of hospitality visits. This comparative study was attended by 14 people from the board of KSPM Siliwangi University by taking the theme let’s share, let’s study. The target in this activity is the Management of the KSPM Siliwangi University, Tasikmalaya.The results of the program are to increase knowledge and insights that will be applied to the progress of the organization, namely KSPM, especially in capital market education and literacy, in addition to learning the advantages of other KSPM in order to improve work programs for the better.

Predicting entrepreneurial intention across the university

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to quantify the relative importance of four key entrepreneurial characteristics identified in the literature (proactiveness, attitude to risk, innovativeness and self-efficacy) in predicting students’ entrepreneurial intention (EI) across a range of faculties offering different subjects at a UK higher education institution (HEI). This approach will help to identify whether there are variations across the faculties in the predictors of EI. This enables recommendations to be made with regard to the development of educational delivery and support to encourage and develop the specific predictors of EI within the different subject areas. Design/methodology/approach This research uses a 40-item questionnaire to obtain information on students’ demographics, entrepreneurial characteristics and EI, based on a five-point Likert-type scale. Principle component analysis, correlation analysis and multiple hierarchical regression analysis are used to analyse the data from 1,185 students to develop models which predict EI for each of the six faculties. Findings Individual models which predict EI are developed for each of the six faculties showing variations in the makeup of the predictors across faculties in the HEI. Attitude to risk was the strongest predictor in five of the six faculties and the second strongest predictor in the sixth. The differences, together with the implications, for educational approaches and pedagogy are considered. Originality/value This research breaks down the level of analysis of EI to the individual faculty level in order to investigate whether different entrepreneurial characteristics predict EI in different academic disciplines across a UK HEI. This enables entrepreneurship educational approaches to be considered at a faculty level rather than a one size fits all approach.

Faculty Level Support of Graduate Attribute Assessment and Continuous Improvement Process

We survey the approaches taken at several universities for faculty level support of graduate attribute assessment and continuous improvement process and present the approach taken at the University of Ottawa. Our approach consists of a common process for continuous improvement across programs, supported by templates for key tasks, and a common set of performance indicators for graduate attribute assessment supported by our Graduate Attribute Information Analysis system. We demonstrate our approach across three engineering programs (electrical engineering, computer engineering and software engineering) and report on specific issues encountered and results obtained.

Is the Lack of Women in Philosophy a Universal Phenomenon? Exploring Women's Representation in Greek Departments of Philosophy

Although recent empirical research suggests that there is a gender gap in Anglophone philosophy, no research has been done on the representation of women in non‐Anglophone philosophy. The present study constitutes a first step toward filling this void in the literature by providing empirical evidence on the representation of female students and female faculty members in Greek universities' departments of philosophy. Our findings indicate that the underrepresentation of female students in philosophy is not a universal phenomenon, since female students constitute the majority of philosophy students in Greece at both the undergraduate and the graduate levels. However, our findings also suggest that the low number of women in philosophy at the faculty level is not a problem unique to Anglophone philosophy, since female faculty members comprise, on average, only 29% of philosophy faculty members in Greece. In order to explain these findings, we argue, first, that the teaching of philosophy at the secondary level may motivate female students in Greece to enter and persist in philosophy, and, second, that since the gender gap at the faculty level in Greece cannot be attributed to the low number of female students in the philosophy pipeline, the causes of women's poor participation in philosophy at the faculty level should be looked for elsewhere.

MAINSTREAMING JURNAL ILMIAH SEBAGAI PLATFORM PENGEMBANGAN KURIKULUM MANAJEMEN DAKWAH (Studi di Prodi Manajemen Dakwah UIN Sunan Kalijaga)

Da’wah activities are required to always adjust to the development and the needs of era, so dakwah can no longer be described just as doctrinal studes, but rather the strategy for bringing ummah to transform socially. Therefore, as part of Tri Dharma, universities should build a strong and adaptive curriculum to produce competent alumni in their fields. One of the strategies that need to be put forward is through mainstreaming scientific journals because today's publications are becoming vital points in assessing academic productivity, measuring the depth of a person's social analysis, or maintaining the credibility of an institution. To address this matter, Faculty of Da’wah and Communication UIN Sunan Kalijaga made a breakthrough by establishing a journals house at the faculty level. The effort is supported by the Department of Da'wah Management through several strategic steps such as: implementation of cultural and structural strategy through Jurnal MD, encouraging academic community to productively writing in accordance with their field and interest of the study, pouring lecturer and student activity into manuscript deserve to be published, and organize academic forums to obtain quality manuscript.

Assessing the potential for openness: A framework for examining course-level OER implementation in higher education

The implementation of open educational resources (OER) at the course level in higher education poses numerous challenges to education practitioners—ranging from discoverability challenges to the lack of knowledge on how to best localize and utilize OER as courseware. Drawing on case studies of OER initiatives globally, the article discusses field-tested solutions to addressing those challenges at the faculty level, the programmatic level, and institutional level. The article concludes with an ontological framework that highlights the importance of weighing the efficiencies afforded by a higher level of institutional control in OER implementation efforts, with the need for individual freedom on behalf of faculty to creatively use and adapt OER.