| Sebelas Maret University | |
|---|---|
| Universitas Sebelas Maret | |
| Motto | Mangesthi Luhur Ambangun Nagara (Javanese) |
| Established | March 11, 1976 |
| Type | Public |
| Rector | Prof. Dr. Ravik Karsidi, M.S |
| Academic staff | 1,575 |
| Students | 33,888 |
| Undergraduates | 29,296 |
| Postgraduates | 4,592 |
| Doctoral students | 233 |
| Location | Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia |
| Campus | Suburban 148.2 acres (0.600 km2) |
| Colors | Turquoise |
| Affiliations | ASAIHL |
| Website | www.uns.ac.id |
Sebelas Maret University (Indonesian: Universitas Sebelas Maret) is an Indonesian public university in the suburban area of Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. It is colloquially known as UNS or UNS Solo.
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In 1975, there were five universities in Surakarta. To accelerate the education development, the government initiated in merging of those five into one single institution. These schools were spread over as small buildings around the city; they were merged on one new location, in a suburban area called Kenthingan. Universitas Negeri Surakarta or UNS was founded. It was built on a hilly area spreading out over 60 hectares.
After being consolidated, the institution started to improve its infrastructure in 1980. The development consisted of large improvement of basic facilities such as transportation, communications, power supplies, and buildings. The development was followed by development in areas such as human resource improvement and academic mechanism.
Being officially merged on March 11, 1976, it was named Universitas Negeri Surakarta Sebelas Maret which means "The State University of Surakarta Eleventh of March." Later it was shortened to Universitas Sebelas Maret.
The university has 9 faculties providing courses at the diploma, undergraduate, professional, and specialist levels. Some graduate and postgraduate courses are managed by the separate Postgraduate Program.
UNS is supported by more than 1,600 lecturers; 4% of them are professors, and 72.9% of them hold either a bachelor's degree or master's degree. It is supported by approximately 900 administrative staffs. The overall human resources have become a valuable asset to lead the organization towards the realization of the defined visions, missions, and purposes.
UNS has a large academic community. Students mostly come from outside of Surakarta, who have to leave family and regulate all activities on their own. UNS requires facilities, infrastructure and supporting facilities in the health sector to support academic activities for the lecturer, staff, and especially the students. The existing clinic is inadequate to meet those needs. The Family Medicine master's program received equipment from the Ministry of Health to develop a model of family clinic services, which provide comprehensive, quality, effective, efficient and humane health services, supported the concept of health insurance/Public Health Maintenance Insurance (JPKM). UNS-MC will be used to support teaching and learning activities for the practicum for students Faculty of Medicine and Family Medicine. Other leading universities already have and develop the medical center. Participants are students, employees, lecturers, and communities around the campus.
As a consequence of the development of Information Technology, UNS committed to build information technology-based facilities. Facilities that have been developed are the Internet network at the university and in each faculty. UNS provides web hosting for each faculty and department which intends to build a website as a sub-domain of www.uns.ac.id. Email is provided free for the entire academic community UNS. This is a concern for UNS, since the number of email users became a very important factor for assessment of university accreditation. UNS develops Academic Information System (SIAKAD), an educational information technology-based system, so that student registration and Plan Studies Consultation can be performed online. This increases the efficiency in academic activities. In Central Library, UNS is also developing UNS Library Automation (UNSLA) to ease the reference and collections search through online media. Library can be searched via the Internet.The Library is also equipped with a Digital Library, a reference that can be accessed online. If UNSLA is the online catalog, only searching the library collection, while the Digital Library serves as a digital reference database, all information from a scientific work can be accessed here. Educational Development Institute (LPP UNS) develops educational activities online or E-Learning. In this digital forum, students and teachers can do academic activities, in the form of consultations or provision of academic tasks. With this E-Learning, distance and time are no longer a problem. Other IT facilities are hot spot and the SAT. Hot spots are areas to surf the internet using Wi-Fi technology using notebook. To anticipate those who do not have a notebook, UNS has been providing Self Access Terminal (SAT), PC Desktop internet service. Because the number of PCs are still limited, the users are very low charged to avoid the monopoly use of a PC. SAT is also reserved for those who wish to develop skills in ICT.
As a health concern, UNS established the Medical Center. Not only serving the UNS academic community, the Medical Center serves the health examination of people around the campus as a form of community service. It consists of four divisions: Public Health, Dental, ENT, and Eye. Medical Center is supported by doctors and medical personnel, lecturers at the Faculty of Medicine as well. In addition to the health service center, UNS-MC serves as a supporting facility for teaching and learning activities for students of Faculty of Medicine and Family Medicine. UNS-MC was established in conjunction with the 26th Dies Natalis UNS on March 9, 2002. UNS-MC is supported with the grant of the MOH equipment worth Rp. 400 million as part of the Rp. 1.2 billion assistance.
Student facilities include sports and arts facilities, dormitory, and the Secretariat of SMEs. In sports and arts facilities, UNS has a national standard football stadium with supporting facilities such as stands, players changing rooms, as well as athletic tracks that are eligible for athletes exercise and means of sports learning. The closed sports arena is a facility that can be used for indoor sports, such as volleyball, badminton, basketball and futsal. UNS has a Student Center UNS which can be used for academic activities like seminars, workshops, or meetings with a large-scale participant as well as sports activities such as Tae Kwon Do, Jiu Jit Su, Karate, Pencak Silat, etc. UNS has tennis courts in Kentingan and in the Department of Sports Education and Health at Manahan. Sport facilities are scattered in every faculty such as basketball court, volleyball, and badminton.
For the convention hall, UNS has an auditorium with good amenities for academic and entertainment activities such as art performances or music concerts. Traditional Karawitan equipment, equipment for modern music, and marching bands are student facilities in expressing themselves in arts and creativity. In providing guarantees of freedom of association to the students, UNS builds secretariats for Student Activity Unit at the university and faculty level. UNS has a comfortable student dormitory with full residential facilities. Students may live in the dormitory with a very low cost. Bus Campus is another facility that can be used in student activities, within and outside the campus with permits that have been set by the institution.
Nurul Huda Mosque is the largest mosque in campus. UNS has other mosques in Kentingan, Manahan, Kleco, and Pabelan. Because Nurul Huda Mosque is located in the campus center, Kentingan, this mosque becomes an integral part of various activities undertaken on UNS. Since the establishment on October 22, 1982, Nurul Huda Mosque has made a very large contribution to the development of mission of Islam. Besides functioning as a means of worship, Nurul Huda Mosque serves as a means to instill the values of Islam to the campus community, especially Muslim students. For other religions, UNS has a church for Christians, Pura for Hindus, and monastery for Buddhists.