Campus Management Research Articles

Framework for improving usage of library services and resources in the private higher education in South Africa

PurposeThis study aims to investigate a framework for improving library services and resource usage in a private higher education institution in South Africa. Marketing of library services and resources has a great impact on their usage. If marketing is not properly applied, libraries can turn into the unused institution, render useless or unused services, no matter how good their available services and resources are.Design/methodology/approachThis multi-method study used questionnaires to collect data from both staff and students at the private higher education institution concerned. The questionnaire was augmented with data collected from staff using group interviews. It is unfortunate that the target institution approved the conducting of the study only on the condition that their name could not be disclosed or used in any study reports. On this basis, the institution is referred to as Campus A for the purposes of this paper.FindingsThe study discovered that Campus A lacked key marketing tools, such as a marketing policy for the library, and that it also failed to take advantage of new platforms such as social media and other available computer software and technologies. This has resulted in its users being unaware of certain important services and resources rendered by the library.Originality/valueThe study proposed a framework for library marketing practices to improve services and resources usage as a benchmark for libraries. The study also recommends that the management of Campus A library come together to gather information for the development of an appropriate library marketing policy and also ensure that their marketing strategies take advantage of the latest technology, including social media, by means of which their clients may be easily reached.

The Carbon Footprint Estimation based on Campus Activities in ITERA (Institut Teknologi Sumatera)

ITERA (Institut Teknologi Sumatera) is one of young university situated in Lampung Province, Indonesia. In 2018, the average population of campus (students, faculties, and staff) was about 9584 persons. The objective of this paper is to inventory Green House Gasses (GHGs) and then to calculate carbon footprint using equation by UI Greenmetric Guideline 2018 except for fuel and LPG consumption, paper use, and organic waste generation by using GHGs Protocol. Three scopes of GHGs emission were used to classify based on both direct and indirect source(s). The first scope was presented by LPG consumption and fuel consumption of campus’s car. Electricity consumption became scope 2 while the scope 3 involved paper use, organic waste generation including food waste and Yard trimmings, and transportation activities of both motorcycles and cars. The estimated GHGs emission was about 2846.541 metric ton CO2eq during 2018-2019 (one year) with the portion of each scope resulting 10.2%, 62%, and 28.2%, respectively. Electricity usage was being the highest contributor of carbon footprint. The inventory of GHGs will help top management of campus to evaluate and determine some strategies for minimization, reduction, and mitigation notably in electricity sector by some strategies such as substituting electric devices into eco-friendly products, applying energy management ISO 50001, and others.

Water Management in UGM for Resilient and Healthy Campus

Water management is one of the most challenging aspects of campus management. With a large number on campus population and limited water resources, water management is essential for achieving a resilient and healthy campus. In this paper, we explain two targets in UGM water management: water efficiency and water conservation. Both objectives are significantly related; however, each goal has a different approach to the method for the design approach and strategies in the implementations. Water efficiency is included in building new buildings and retrofitting the existing ones. Meanwhile, water conservation is implemented to calculate potential alternative water resources in UGM, including water treatment, to produce freshwater as an additional water supply. We also explain how water management is implemented in UGM from the highest Directorate to the lowest units. Through our method and best practices in UGM, we hope our paper could be a reference for other universities who want to implement a water management program.

Analisa Sistem Informasi Akademik Menggunakan WebQual dan PIECES Frameworks Pada Universitas XYZ

This study aims to provide recommendations or policy suggestions in order to improve the quality of the academic information system (SIAKAD) for university operator or management. SIAKAD is a website-based application created to assist the process of managing data related to academics and has uses in managing campus or college management. Policy suggestions are compiled based on the analysis of higher education information system assessments with a comparison of the dimensions of WebQual and the PIECES Framework in measuring the quality of SIAKAD as a guide in improving or developing the quality for the better. The results of the analysis using the WebQual method with a value of 3.50 and the PIECES Framework with a value of 3.97 on the quality of the SIAKAD website produced the same results which were in the Good category with a score of 4 (3.43 - 4.23) based on the assessment criteria. The results of the recommendations in this study are expected to contribute to higher education management as a reference or decision support in improving the quality of the website-based academic information system (SIAKAD) for the better

Prevention of Radicalism at Islamic Boarding College

This research aims to identify the background of radical thinking and behaviour among students at an Islamic Boarding College. We analysed through a qualitative descriptive approach by interviewing several key persons from the campus management, and some students indicated to be exposed to radicalism and radical behaviour. The Islamic struggle movement is synonymous with intellectual movement. Thus, radical movements and behaviour must be prevented as early as possible. The actors are the implementers at universities, starting from the study programs, departments, faculties, and university-wide levels. Several recommendations and suggestions were produced through this research to reduce radical understanding in the university environment with several humanist and psychological approaches. One of them is by deepening the Religion and Islamic compulsory courses such as Ahlussunnah wal Jama'ah courses, regular recitations at the faculty and university level to deepen understanding of Islam, as well as educational materials for defending the country and love for the homeland, as well as citizenship materials and others relevant to the mindset of today's students.

Research on the Integration of 5G+AI Technology to Empower Digital Education Under the Background of Industrial Internet

With the continuous maturity and gradual application of 5G technology, this technology will break the traditional traffic service model and shift to a full factor ecological chain model. The integration of 5G technology and industrial industries will greatly improve industrial production efficiency and accelerate the digital transformation of industrial upgrading. When 5G + AI technology is accelerated into the education and learning process, what effect will this have on the educational scene? Undoubtedly, this is a new subject worthy of attention and research. 5G + AI technology will reconstruct the future education information ecosystem, bringing subversive technological changes and educational application scenarios. The integration of 5G + AI and education and teaching practice will innovatively bring many important scenarios, such as technology integration, teacher training, student learning, digital campus management, teaching context, curriculum development, environmental design, teaching evaluation, special education, etc.

Design of Smart Classroom System Based on Internet of Things Technology and Smart Classroom

Smart classroom teaching is one of the new teaching methods. With the support of technology, teaching is carried out with the help of smart teaching tools to enhance teacher-student communication, enhance students’ learning autonomy, and provide new ideas for the realization of students’ deep learning. How to promote the overall intelligence of the teaching environment so that the teaching equipment can be used more efficiently and managed more effectively has become the main concern of schools. This article mainly studies the smart classroom system based on the Internet of Things technology and smart classroom. For temperature detection, we mainly use the DS18B20 chip to detect the temperature in the classroom. For the light intensity of the classroom, we use a photoresistor to collect the light data, and after amplification by the amplifier, the A/D sampling process of the single-chip microcomputer is used to obtain the light intensity, combined with the clock module to distinguish the influence of the classroom light. The data collection adopts the method of directly observing the source data, and the data format has not undergone secondary conversion, which ensures the accuracy of the source data. This test uses the USR-TCP232 network debugging assistant to debug the data collection. To optimize the safety and reliability of the system, dual-computer backup switching is adopted on the hardware, and process monitoring and management strategies are adopted on the software. At the same time, the amount of data interaction in the smart classroom is relatively large, so it is necessary to build a highly available cluster server, so that the system not only has a certain degree of stability, but also can quickly respond to users’ access requests. We can calculate that the average transmission time is about 10 ms, and 99.9% of the data transmission delay is less than 30 ms. The results show that the Internet of Things and smart classroom provide great convenience for future smart campus construction, daily teaching, and campus management and can also provide reference for the construction of smart classrooms in other universities.

Innovative Transport Pressure Management Models for Efficient Transportation Management in the RUDN-University

The main transport flows on the RUDN territory are caused by the city public and private transport. The general transportation scheme around and through the campus develops some decades. Today this is a huge traffic system with high technogenic pressure on the surrounding ecosystems. The efforts of the university only on the organization of bike transport and shuttle buses cannot protect in this situation our territory. Thus, the university in collaboration with the Moscow government try to solve the transportation problem: a new underground station named RUDN will be built – this must help to optimize transport flows. Transportation management in the university campus (especially situated in the city) needs to apply reliable models for the optimization of transport pressure. That is why, for the RUDNUniversity campus in the South-West of Moscow, we try to develop the most sensitive indicators and to control a set of technogenic factors affecting environmental quality. The unique environmental monitoring system of the RUDN campus able to evaluate the environmental state of the territory and to contribute to maintaining the environmental quality is now under development. The primary results were presented in September 2019 during the first UI Green Metric World Sustainable Campuses Tour in RUDN.

Dynamics and Complexities of Work Based Education in the Context of Technical, Vocational and Training Colleges

ABSTRACT Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in South Africa has undergone major institutional, structural and curricular changes over the last twenty-seven years. At the centre of these changes lie skills mismatch and poor quality of graduates who have gone through Work Based Education (WBE) experience. This study was conducted on two campuses of one of the public TVET colleges in northern KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. This mixed-method study used purposive sampling to identify the sample size of 21 participants, which comprised campus managers, senior lecturers and WBE champions. The findings revealed that the college management is failing to give necessary support to the implementers on the ground to carry out the WBE programme. Findings also revealed that the college management seems not to fully comprehend their role in enforcing compliance with the regulation guiding the WBE implementation. The need to strengthen ties with existing host employers and to recruit new host employers to address a serious shortage in graduate placement is evident. The study recommends that a clear vision for the implementation of WBE be prioritised and communicated to all stakeholders for effective implementation of the programme.

Covid-19: A Challenging Enigma to Global Education

The Global Education landscape has dramatically changed in the past few months due to the spread of the Corona Virus, otherwise known as COVID-19. The article highlights the pulse of prospective students and Educational Institutions throughout this crisis.The article explores the findings, including the impact on student’s careers, online learning offerings, campus management and a range of other areas. Students worldwide have been dramatically impacted by the spread of the Corona Virus, from travel restrictions to social distancing, isolation measures, quarantines, campus closures and border closures.Hence, the objective of the study is to assess the impact of Global Education and to determine the various benefits, challenges and reasons on Virtual Education against the challenging enigma. The COVID-19. Network issues, lack of awareness and lack of training were also stated as a challenging enigma; less attendance and lack of interaction were found to be the significant drawbacks too. Above all, the study also suggested ways to overcome the challenges. “Various studies have been conducted where it appears that different institutions have been adopting and doing well with this new learning environment” (Oblinger and Kidwell, 2000).Thus the COVID-19 changes have brought a promising future of learning and the accelerated changes in modes of delivering quality education. Global learning can continue to be integrated into classes, curricular and co-curricular activities and programs.

Towards Smart Campus Management: Defining Information Requirements for Decision Making through Dashboard Design

At universities worldwide, the notion of a ‘smart campus’ is becoming increasingly appealing as a response to the multitude of challenges that impact campus development and operation. Smart campus tools are widely used to support students and employees, optimise space use and save energy. Although smart campus tools are supposed to support campus managers in their decision-making processes, the use of the information delivered by smart campus tools and their application in organisational processes has received little attention. In this paper, we focus on the use of dashboards in the connection of IoT information to strategic decision-making processes in the management of university campuses. To this end, we developed a briefing approach for dashboards that expresses the needs of campus management and matches the structure of decision-making processes. In two cases, dashboards based on this approach were use-tested by stakeholders for defining information requirements for IoT applications. The results suggest that users are able to use dashboards for assessing portfolio performance and determining interventions. Through iteration the usability of the dashboard is improved and information requirements are refined, resulting in a brief for a campus management dashboard. The results suggest that the briefing approach can be used to determine IoT information requirements, though further research is required to study indications and contra-indications of the proposed method.

Challenges of teaching large classes at UNAM

This article is part of a thesis study that sought to investigate challenges experienced in teaching large classes at UNAM, Hifikepunye Pohamba Campus. Lecturing in large classes can be of grave concern to anyone because of the various challenges involved. Employing a qualitative case study design, this article explores the challenges experienced by lecturers and student teachers in large classes.The participants for the study were three teacher educators who teach classes with one hundred students or more, nineteen student teachers and three campus management members. Data were collected through face- to- face semi-structured interviews, focus group interviews, non-participant classroom observations, and document analysis. Data were analysed through means of thematic and content analysis. The results revealed that large class sizes hinder implementation of active teaching approaches and strategies, impact negatively on the learning activities, assessment tasks and feedback given to student teachers. Among others, the article recommends provision of appropriate resources in creating a conducive teaching and learning environment for large classes. It also recommends that teacher educators should be provided with continuous professional development programmes in how they could handle large classes as well as various assessment strategies that they could use in such classes.

Decision Support System For Determining Campus Promotion Media In New Student Admissions With Analytical Network Process And Regression Methods

Campus promotion is carried out in an effort to introduce the campus to the community, especially prospective new students. This effort was carried out as an action that was considered effective in recruiting new students. Various obstacles experienced by tertiary institutions in implementing campus promotion, namely the lack of need for supporting funds, limited human resources (HR), the right decision system for the selection of promotional media. This study analyzes the decision support system in selecting the right promotional media for campus promotion. The research objective is to assist campus management in selecting the right promotional media with a decision support system for determining the promotion media for new student admissions and determining the priority of the promotional media that will be used by private universities (PTS) in the city of Kendari. The sample in this study amounted to 40 respondents from 24 universities. The method used is the Analytical Network Process (ANP) method and the Regression method uses factor analysis. The results of the research analysis show that promotional media using the campus website has a number one rating, namely with a value of 26.2% while word of mouth has a second rating of 23.3%, then social media with a score of 23.1%, brochure 8.9%, print media and electronic media with a value of 6.2% and billboards have a value of 5.7%.

RANCANG BANGUN SISTEM INFORMASI DOKUMEN KERJASAMA BERBASIS WEB (STUDI KASUS : STIKES BHAKTI HUSADA MULIA MADIUN)

A database-based information system is a supporting application program for a university to make it easier to provide information services for users and accelerate the implementation of tasks or jobs effectively and efficiently. Cooperation is one of the main keys to success for a university; this is related to the existence of points in the accreditation assessment, namely the number of collaborations carried out by universities with related parties. The existence of an information system that manages documents and archives related to cooperation can make it easier for users to access and retrieve data for decision-making. This information system also provides access as needed to leaders, campus management, and stakeholders related to data and information managed by the Public Relations Section of Stikes Bhakti Husada Mulia Madiun. This research produces an information system that can be accessed easily by related parties who need the document in the form of archived data in a web-based application. Access to the application is required and is a basis for role permissions so that users who enter using this application can be controlled so that data security is more guaranteed.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Teaching management of music academies based on multi-core processors and machine learning

Music colleges are a branch of our country’s colleges and universities, and campus informatization is a new development trend under the rapid development of network information technology today. Informatization is conducive to better campus management and administrative efficiency greatly improves. Compared with ordinary colleges and universities, the development of informatization construction in music and art colleges is relatively backward. Therefore, it is very necessary to customize a complete information campus construction plan specifically for music schools. This article will study the related issues of how to carry out information management in music academies based on the problems and practice of teaching management in music schools. Focus on the embedded multi-core processor storage system and propose new storage architecture based on the original. And through machine learning methods, artificial intelligence software that can recognize music styles is trained. Traditional recognition is relatively dependent on the listener’s experience. Cannot reach a complete standard, the accuracy rate is also unstable. So we use embedded application software under the premise of low power consumption. To achieve a stable and efficient way of listening to replace the traditional manual judgment.

Strategy of Building Perfect Campus Security Management Mode under the Internet Age

At present, many colleges and universities are building various information systems in order to improve the efficiency of campus management. Due to the frequent occurrence of campus security incidents, management organizations at all levels are demanding to strengthen management and improve campus security management through informatization. This paper mainly studies the strategies of constructing perfect campus security management mode in the era of “Internet +”. According to specific research requirements, this paper integrates J2EE technology to build the system architecture, such as network structure, architecture module, performance module, database operation and other aspects. Through the study of the system comprehensive testing, a series of functional testing and performance testing. The system realizes the refinement, digitalization, automation and mobility of campus security management, so as to improve campus security and provide support and data basis for campus information construction, talent reserve and information decision-making.

Waste management in a university campus

In this study, we discussed how can be the management hierarchy and management process in a university campus. Erciyes University is in the middle of the Anatolia Region that has about 60.000 population. The university has faculty /institutional administrations and hospital-related buildings and research centers. It has an area of about 20 m2 for each person on the campus. The university is responsible in terms of legislative directives that are in operation. The waste directive is published by the university in 2017 that shares the responsibilities and distributes the tasks for each unit on the university campus. In Turkey, zero waste projects and zero waste legislation are also in operation by 2019. The importance of waste management strategy is important for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that is published by the United Nations and put in consideration of Times Higher Education (THE) which is one of the most confidential ranking systems for universities. There is also, environmental assessment system for university campuses, the Green-Metric. One of the grading subjects of the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) in Turkey is the zero waste strategy on the campus. Therefore, the operation of a zero-waste strategy gains importance.

Dynamics and Complexities of Work Based Education in the Context of Technical, Vocational and Training Colleges

Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in South Africa has undergone major institutional, structural and curricular changes over the last twenty-seven years. At the centre of these changes lie skills mismatch and poor quality of graduates who have gone through Work Based Education (WBE) experience. This study was conducted on two campuses of one of the public TVET colleges in northern KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. This mixed-method study used purposive sampling to identify the sample size of 21 participants, which comprised campus managers, senior lecturers and WBE champions. The findings revealed that the college management is failing to give necessary support to the implementers on the ground to carry out the WBE programme. Findings also revealed that the college management seems not to fully comprehend their role in enforcing compliance with the regulation guiding the WBE implementation. The need to strengthen ties with existing host employers and to recruit new host employers to address a serious shortage in graduate placement is evident. The study recommends that a clear vision for the implementation of WBE be prioritised and communicated to all stakeholders for effective implementation of the programme.

KAJIAN PENERAPAN KAMPUS RAMAH LINGKUNGAN (GREEN CAMPUS) DI STT MIGAS BALIKPAPAN

Global Warming is one of the environmental problems today. Efforts of anticipatons as a form of concern, have been carried out by various environmental movement programs, initiated by the government, NGOs and the community. In principle, environmentally friendly campus management is one of the determinants in producing the quality and quantity of the ongoing educational process. The purpose of this research is to study the application of an environmentally friendly campus using the fishbone diagram method to analyze the cause and effect of a problem. The results of the cause and effect analysis are then used as input to formulate internal factors in the SWOT, then produce strategies to minimize obstacles and increase the success of the green campus. This research is useful for educational institutions at STT Migas Balikpapan because it can provide an understanding of campus management policies that are oriented towards environmental management, in an effort to implement environmental education for students, as well as the care and involvement of all elements of the academic community in a culture of environmental care.

Who Got Infected with COVID-19? A Study of College Students in Wuhan (China).

College students represent a large group of people who frequently travel across regions, which increased their risk of infection and exacerbated the risk of COVID-19 spread throughout China. This study uses survey data from the end of April 2020 to analyze the status of COVID-19-infected cases, the group differences, and influencing factors in college students in Wuhan. The sample size was made up 4355 participants, including 70 COVID-19-infected students. We found that during the COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020, college students in Wuhan were primarily infected during off-campus events after winter break or infected in their hometowns after leaving Wuhan; the percentage of college students with severe cases was relatively low, and most had mild cases; however, a large proportion of asymptomatic cases may exist; there were significant group differences in gender, age and place of residence; and the risk of infection was closely related to the campus environment, in which the population density and number of faculty and students on campus had a significant impact. The results indicated that the infection of students did not occur at random, thus strengthening student health education and campus management can help curb the spread of COVID-19 among students.