Abstract
Prioritizing and making decisions on what student activities to be selected and conducted to fulfill the aspiration of a university requires some understanding on the mission of the university as translated in its strategic plan and the basic theory on student development. For government funded universities in Malaysia, the recent budget cut imposed by the Malaysian government has made the task more difficult. In this paper, we illustrated how 0-1 integer programming (0-1 IP) model was implemented to select which activities among the forty activities proposed by the student body of Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) to be implemented for the 2017/2018 academic year. Two different models were constructed. The 0-1 IP model was developed to determine which activities to be selected based on RM50,000 total budget allocated by the UUM management towards fulfilling the SETARA-rating requirements as well as the Chickering’s student development theory. The selection of activities was also based on maximizing the preference of the members of the student body whereby the preference value for each activity was determined using Compromised-Analytic Hierarchy Process. The optimal result obtained using LINGO version 11 revealed that the budget allocated was more than enough to fulfill all the needed requirements. The technique used in this study will be useful and suitable to be implemented by organizations with key performance indicator-oriented programs and having limited budget allocation issues.
Highlights
IntroductionStudent academic performance is important either to student itself or to a country development
Student academic performance is important either to student itself or to a country development. This is because one of the component for a high ranking university is based on its excellent record of academic performances
The dataset used for this study was taken from Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
Summary
Student academic performance is important either to student itself or to a country development. This is because one of the component for a high ranking university is based on its excellent record of academic performances. Students who get a better result in higher learning institution are more likely to be employed and have high salaries. Based on the previous literature, there are a lot of definitions on student’s performance. Mat et al (2013) stated that student’s performance can be obtained by measuring the learning assessment and co-curriculum. Most of the studies mentioned about graduation being the measure of student’s success
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