Brief Profile of Undana

Presented by Prof. Frans Umbu Datta, M.App.Sc; PhDRector University of Nusa Cendana

Brief History

University of Nusa Cendana (UNDANA) is the only state university located in the city of Kupang, the capital city of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

UNDANA was established in 1st September 1962

UNDANA has 8 faculties containing 47 study programmes, as well as 6 master degree study programmes

UNDANA has over 924 lecturers, more than 18,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and over 600 supporting staff

UNDANA has produced over 36,000 graduates; over 70% of whom are working at the public services throughout NTT. Many of them are currently holding management positions at various levels of government, regional and national

Vision

Undana: a global oriented university

Missions

To produce high quality human resources capable of competing at global labour market and creating job opportunities through improved learning system

To undertake market-oriented research and development activities to enhance regional and national competitiveness

To increase the capacity of the university to contribute more to community by enabling development of a knowledge-based society

Mission (2)

To conduct and improve quality of services for students

To attain a dynamic, professional, effective, efficient, and accountable internal university-wide management system

To develop and increase collaborations in various areas with other institutions at national, regional and international levels towards improving independency of Undana and its graduates

Objectives

To attain skilled, professional graduates who are able to compete in the global job market and being able to create job opportunities

To develop a professional higher education system

To establish partnership between Undana and other institutions at local, regional, national, and international levels towards improving independency of Undana and its graduates

To develop a dynamic, professional, effective, efficient, and accountable management system

Structure of Organization

Rector

VR I, II, III, IV Board of Trustee

University Senate

BAUK BAAKPSI

Faculties:1. Law2. Education and Teachers Training 3. Social and Political Sciences4. Animal Science5. Agriculture6. Public Health7. Science and Engineering

ResearchInstitute(15 Study Centres)

CommunityServicesInstitute(6 Service centres)

Postgrad. Program

Master degree in:1. Development of Tropical Animal Husbandry2. Public Administr.3. Management of Natural Resources and the environ.4. Law

Technical Supporting Units:1. MKU2. Library3. Computer centre4. Language centre

Quality Assurance & Internal Audit Institute

The Institute for Supervision and Development of Learning

Research Institute

1. Centre for Research on the Environment and Natural Resources 2. Center for Research in Demography 3. Center for Research in Woman Studies4. Center for Research in Dry Land Farming5. Centre for Studies and Advocation of Human Rights6. Centre for Research in Fisheries and Marine Resources

7. Center for research on Culture and Tourism8. Center for Research and Development of sandalwod (Cendana)9. Center for Research and Development of Tuber Crops and Beans10. Center for Research and Development of Timor Cattle11. Center for Australia and Pacific Studies12. Center for Research and Development of Arboretum 13. Center for Research in Management 14. Center for Research and Development of Intellectual Properties 15. Centre for Research in Social Change and Local Politics

Community services Institute1. Centre for information on job vacancy and carrier development2. Centre for community services and education3. Centre for development of field work4. Centre for development of “model village“5. Centre for legal drafting6. Center for innovation and development of

science and technology

Institute for Quality Assurance & Internal Audit

It was established in 2005 for quality assurance and internal qudit activities in order to gradually meet the current requirements of a better higher education institution/organisation

The Institute for Supervision and Development of Learning Centre for curriculum research

and development Centre for design and

development of teaching media Centre for evaluation of

education, training, and teaching

Other Centres or Services University Computer Centre University Library and Reading

Rooms at Faculties/Institutes General Subject Language Centre and language

Laboratories Field Experience Centre Laboratories of Faculties

Cooperations

Collaborations and networking are the keywords of progress for better Undana

Cooperations between Undana and other institutions at local, regional, national, and international have increased significantly for the last two years

International Cooperations

Current international cooperations:– Charles Darwin University– Sunshine Coast University– Flinders University– Nuffic, Netherland– JICA, Japan– dll.