Unram Starts Classes in August

Responding to government instructions for the implementation of the New Normal Life (new order of life), Mataram University issued a Circular (SE) regarding the implementation of academic & student activities for the 2020/2021 academic year, in sync with the new normal order during the Corona Virus Disease 2019 or Covid-19 pandemic.

Vice Chancellor I for Academic Affairs Unram, Agusdin, SE, MBA, DBA Confirmed regarding the SE, talking about the New Normal is a change in behavior to permanently carry out activities normally.

"However, with the addition of implementing health protocols to prevent transmission of Covid-19, so that the Circular can be understood as concrete steps in permanent efforts to carry out academic and student activities, by permanently paying attention to health protocols," he said via the WhatsApp application. /29/6).

According to him, in SE Number 5353/UN18/HK/2020 which was signed by the Chancellor of Unram Prof. Dr. Then Husni, SH, M. Hum. There are six points to tidy up how to organize academic and student activities.

Where in the first point it is stated that the implementation of lecture activities for the 2020/2021 academic year will begin on 18 August.

“However, the lecture activities are not final yet & are still waiting for the independent UTBK test schedule. God willing, it will only be decided this week," he explained.

Meanwhile, in point 2 of SE, it is explained that permanent theoretical lectures are carried out online, as well as for practical application courses, efforts are made to be permanently online as much as possible.

“Practical courses that cannot be implemented Monday fasting intention online, then the course is directed to be done at the end of the semester," he said in the third point.

In addition, the Unram academic person in charge continued, it was also explained that student activities on campus could only be permitted if they met the health protocol conditions. As written in the fourth point of SE that the above activities include academic activities that cannot be carried out using online (online) learning, such as research in the laboratory for final assignments in the form of theses, theses, and dissertations.

Other activities on campus that are permitted while still complying with health protocols include laboratory assignments, practicums, studios, workshops, and similar academic or vocational activities.

While the fifth point is that student activities during the transfer of even-odd semesters for 2019/2020 and odd semesters in 2020/2021 can be carried out online using creative media/information technology.

Meanwhile, the sixth point states that service protocols and management of student activities can be carried out online.

"Hopefully this Covid-19 pandemic can be handled and appointed by Allah SWT, as a result, lecture activities can run normally, for example before," he concluded.