Public Campus Research Articles

Religion, Higher Education, and Environmental Sustainability: Identification of Green Fiqh in Islamic Religion Courses at Muhammadiyah and Aisyiyah Universities

Based on the ranking of 20 Indonesian Green Universities by UI Green Metric 2022, green campuses are dominated by public campuses that do not have a strong foundation in Islamic values. In fact, not a single Muhammadiyah and 'Aisyiyah Universities (PTMA) was included in the top 10 ranking release. Why has PTMA, which has developed Green Fiqh, not been able to present itself as a green campus? This research aims to identify Green Fiqh in Islamic Religion learning at PTMA. This qualitative research uses a thematic approach with a narrative-descriptive-explanative strategy. The research was conducted at three PTMAs in Yogyakarta. The findings obtained are: first, the Green Fiqh study materials in learning Islamic religion courses at PTMA are not optimal. Even though Muhammadiyah has created Green Fiqh products such as Environmental Fiqh, Disaster Fiqh, Water Fiqh and Agrarian Fiqh. Second, learning about Islamic religion at the three PTMAs where the emphasis is still limited to the basics of Islamic religious teachings, such as Aqidah, morals and worship. The Aqidah theme raised also does not optimally touch the role of rububiyah monotheism in preserving the environment. The moral theme also does not touch much on actual contemporary problems, including the problem of global climate change. Third, the Al-Ma'un ethos which is the foundation and spirit of Muhamamdiyah taught in the three meanings of PTMA has not yet developed. Al-Ma'un's main mission is only interpreted as fighting religious liars in a narrow sense. Al-Ma'un has not been developed towards "new" religious liars, namely those who destroy nature and the environment. Keywords: Environmental Sustainability, Green Fiqh, Islamic Value

Girl Students' Attitude towards Yoga in the Public Campuses of Kathmandu and Rautahat Districts in Nepal

This article aims to find out and compare the attitude towards yoga among girl students in the public campuses of Kathmandu and Rautahat districts. A comparative descriptive study including multistage (convenient, census and simple random) sampling methods was done among the total 60 respondent students from two campuses of Kathmandu and one campus from Rautahat. An interview schedule including ten statements (five positive and five negative statements) in a five-point Likert scale format was used as the tool. The attitudes’ score of the students of Kathmandu was found better in all aspects than Rautahat. Total respondents of both districts had shown favorable scores i.e. obtained score > neutral score (1286 and 1065 > 900) or had positive attitude towards yoga. There was a significant difference on attitude towards yoga between the girls of both districts. The supporting variables in Kathmandu, i.e. positive gender feeling, leisure time, information, teachers’ factor, yoga proficiency, social belief, home and campus environment than in Rautahat, are indicated as role player in creating the difference in the attitudes of the girls.

PENERAPAN METODE SIMPLE ADDITIVE WEIGHTING UNTUK MEMILIH JURUSAN PADA KAMPUS NEGERI

Students in grade twelfth high school must be able to determine their individual student interests to be able to continue further studies at university. But there are still many students who have not been able to determine their specialization even though they have sufficient understanding and knowledge of learning during high school. This study aims to apply simple additive weighting and calculation of the tightness capacity of each specialization major on a public campus in making a Decision Support System in determining student majors in the Angkasa High School environment. By paying attention to the weight and each criterion for the specialization major, then calculate with the tight capacity of the specialization department on each state campus so that the results issued by the calculation have provided decision support for students to determine specialization and state campuses more precisely. The decision support system uses the Kotlin programming language and Android-based NoSQL MongoDB database. The results of the manual calculation of the Simple Additive Weighting and Opportunity method with a decision support system reach 99% according.

Teachers' Professional Development at Public Campuses in Nepal: Policies and Practices

Teacher professional development (TPD) is the process of making teachers competent at applying the knowledge and skills they have attained in the classroom practice. TPD keeps academics up-to-date with the changing world and knowledge. The objective of this study was to explore policies and practices of teacher professional development in public campuses of Nepal. This study was qualitative approach with a phenomenological design. The participants of the study were three teachers of different public campuses of Rupendehi district selected purposively. The study revealed TPD policies as opportunities for teachers of public campuses deserve high consequence in the sense that they help teachers develop various kinds of professional skills, knowledge, new techniques of teaching. However, Public campuses are facing many challenges which include proper management TPD for faculties of their campuses and there is a gap between policies and practices in implementation of TPD in public campuses of Nepal.

Understanding the Master’s Degree Research Supervision at Community Campuses of Nepal

Research supervision has become increasingly demanding for graduate students towards the successful completion of their research. However, there are limited studies on how supervisors supervise the research students and what their experiences are in the context of Nepalese higher education. This phenomenological qualitative study explores the Master’s degree research supervisors’ perceptions and their lived experiences on supervision of Master’s thesis. Thematically analysing the data collected from six purposively sampled supervisors of three public campuses of Nepal, this paper reports the findings that research supervision practices in community campuses of Nepal lack sociocultural pedagogic practice for developing research skills in the students. Furthermore, it examines the supervisors’ roles, supervisor-student relationship, and the challenges the supervisors faced during research supervision. In this paper, I argue that the research supervisory process in Nepal needs to be socioculturally situated for producing independent researchers.

“Tuskegee Is Her Monument”: Gender and Leadership in Early Public Black Colleges

AbstractThis article examines the relationship between gender and leadership in southern public Black colleges from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century. Public colleges offer a unique view of this relationship because, in an era of disfranchisement, the political stakes of leadership were more obvious than in private schools. I argue that the gap between Black women's dynamic roles on public campuses and their marginalized representations in school reports reveals the processes that have obscured their public educational leadership in the American South. Analysis of images collected from college catalogs supplements my examination of documentary evidence from archives and published reports. State educational administration was one of the few remaining spaces where Black men could wield political influence. As they worked to produce institutional images that proclaimed their capacity for and right to public leadership, however, they minimized the contributions of Black women.

Dating Violence among Undergraduate Medical Students at a Public University in Mexico City: An Exploratory Study.

Gender-based violence (GBV) and cyber-aggression are growing problems in Mexico, but there is a dearth of information on their associated risks. We aimed to determine the prevalence of dating violence (DV) and cyber-aggression in a public campus and compared students' acceptability of abusive DV based on their sex and sexual orientation. We employed a cross-sectional design to survey 964 first-year medical students attending a public university. We analyzed who found "acceptable" abusive behaviors from a dating partner and carried out descriptive analyses of sample characteristics by sex. We included 633 women and 331 men. Homosexual and bisexual orientation was lower among women (1.5%, 4.8%) vs. men (16.9%, 7.2%). Of women and men, respectively, 64.2% and 35.8% reported having been in a dating relationship. Experiencing abusive behaviors in the year prior to the study was associated with students' level of "acceptability". A total of 43.5% of the students who experienced cyber-aggression did not report any mental health consequences, 32.6% did not seek professional help, and 17.4% reported feeling depressed. Students that accepted emotionally abusive DV behaviors displayed a fourfold risk of experiencing physical abuse. Women and sexual minorities are more at risk of experiencing GBV and DV. More male students reported being victims of cyber-aggression.

Tigers or Strawberries: Seizing the New Mission Opportunities Before Us for Church and Campus

The context of my ministry is LIFE Adventist Church in Berkeley, California, a campus church near the University of California, Berkeley. I also provide leadership direction for Adventist Public Campus Ministry across the North American Division. This paper addresses the ministry challenge and opportunity for our mission forward following the COVID-19 Pandemic. For many churches and mission programs, the COVID-19 Pandemic was a huge interruption of their entire operation. In many ways, for us COVID-19 was more of a disruption rather than a complete interruption of ministry. This paper discusses the factors that contributed to the continuation of our ministry at LIFE Adventist Church, and also for other students attending non-Adventist college and university campuses across North America. It will include suggestions for moving forward at this time. The pandemic has opened numerous opportunities for ministry, including some right in front of us. Ways will be suggested to integrate these opportunities into a new strategic plan for advancing the Kingdom of God in our ministry context in this unique time.

Problematika Manajemen Pendidikan Agama Islam di Sekolah dan Kampus Umum

Islamic Religion education is the most important thing to implement in each education level from elementary, high school, and higher education, from basic formal public schools into campuses. The purpose of this study is to analyze the problems of Islamic religious education in public schools and campuses along with solutions to overcome them. The research method used in this research is library research using content analysis. The research results show that; First, the problems of Islamic religious education in public schools, namely the limited time allocation of only 2 hours of lessons per week, learning that is more oriented towards cognitive aspects, learning methods that are still traditional and boring, and the lack of competence of teachers. Second, the Problems of Islamic Religious Education on public campuses, namely: the provision of a very minimal credit load, only 2 credits, the provision of learning patterns that are less sustainable and only theoretical in nature, the form of developing an autonomous Islamic religious education, and Islamic religious lecturers who are not linear.

Teachers’ Professional Development at Public Campuses: Issues and Challenges

Teacher professional development is the process of becoming competent teacher. It is an opportunity for teachers to share their knowledge and develop new instructional practices. TPD helps to keep academics up-to-date with the changing world and knowledge. The objective of this study was to explore issues and challenges of teacher professional development in public campuses of Nepal. This study was qualitative approach with a phenomenological design. The participants of the study were three teachers of different public campuses of Rupendehi district selected purposively. The study revealed that teachers of public campuses deserve TPD high significance in the sense that it helps teachers develop various kinds of professional skills, knowledge, and new techniques of teaching. However, Public campuses are facing many challenges which include proper management TPD for faculties of their campuses and there is a gap between policies and practices in implementation of TPD in public campuses of Nepal.

Student Political Activism in Nepal: Vanguards of Democracy or Powerless Pawns?

Student political activism declined in the Global South after the 1990s. However, it has remained strong in Nepal despite the fact that it has undergone similar socio-political changes. This paper demonstrates that the main reason for the distinct nature of Nepali student political activism lies in the patron–client relationship between student organizations and political parties. Undoubtedly, the contribution of student organizations in the establishment of democracy in the three major democratic mass movements in Nepal is incomparable. However, the nature of their relationship with their mother political parties transformed from a semi-autonomous to a subordinate relationship after the institutionalisation of a multi-party democracy in 1990. This interdependent relationship is maintained and consistently solidified through the mutual exchange of resources, both material and non-material. This paper concludes that student political activism in Nepal is not expected to decline in the near future, because these patronage-dispensing political parties are perceived to be part of the state by the general Nepali society—one that controls state resources and institutions, including universities and public campuses.

SCVS: On AI and Edge Clouds Enabled Privacy-preserved Smart-city Video Surveillance Services

Video surveillance systems are increasingly becoming common in many private and public campuses, city buildings, and facilities. They provide many useful smart campus/city monitoring and management services based on data captured from video sensors. However, the video surveillance services may also breach personally identifiable information, especially human face images being monitored; therefore, it may potentially violate the privacy of human subjects involved. To address this privacy issue, we introduced a large-scale distributed video surveillance service model, called Smart-city Video Surveillance (SCVS). SCVS is a video surveillance data collection and processing platform to identify important events, monitor, protect, and make decisions for smart campus/city applications. In this article, the specific research focus is on how to identify and anonymize human faces in a distributed edge cloud computing infrastructure. To preserve the privacy of data during video anonymization, SCVS utilizes a two-step approach: (i) parameter server-based distributed machine learning solution, which ensures that edge nodes can exchange parameters for machine learning-based training. Since the dataset is not located on a centralized location, the data privacy and ownership are protected and preserved. (ii) To improve the machine learning model’s accuracy, we presented an asynchronous training approach to protect data and model privacy for both data owners and data users, respectively. SCVS adopts an in-memory encryption approach, where edge computing nodes collect and process data in the memory of edge nodes in encrypted form. This approach can effectively prevent honest but curious attacks. The performance evaluation shows the presented privacy protection platform is efficient and effective compared to traditional centralized computing models as presented in Section 5 .

Implementation Of Scientific Integration-Based Teaching (At The Faculty of Science and Technology UIN Alauddin Makassar)

This research discusses the Implementation of Scientific Integration-Based Teaching at UIN Alauddin Makassar Faculty of Science and Technology. There are several subproblems that will be discussed in this study. First, how is the concept of scientific integration at UIN ALauddin Makassar?. Second, how is the concept of teaching at the Faculty of Science and Technology UIN Alauddin Makassar. Third, the implementation of scientific integration-based teaching at UIN Alauddin Makassar Faculty of Science and Technology.
 To answer the problem, the study used methods, observations or observations directly, interviewed online by phone and used questionnaires with google form and studied scientific literature related to the discussion of this study. Scientific papers are also systematic, controlled, empirical, and critical investigations of natural phenomena guided by theories about these phenomenological phenomenological approaches as well as one of the approaches used in this study.
 The rapid development of science in the development of science dichotomy that becomes the separation between religious science and general science that these two sciences should not be separated between the two so that in the development of the transformation of IAIN into UIN that has opened the opportunity for the public to choose more broadly from various public faculties that become an attraction for the community. But on the other hand, public faculties that have been opened by UIN should still pay attention to the image of UIN as an Islamic educational institution. As an Islamic educational institution, UIN must implement integrated teaching between public faculties by incorporating religious content so that the integration of science becomes a characteristic of differentiating with other public campuses.

Online learning at public campuses during COVID-19: Students' perceptions and practices

The Pandemic situation of COVID 19 had impacted the global education system leading to the cancellation of face-to-face classes and exams. Online classes had been started in universities and campuses on a large scale as an alternative to face-to-face education. The objective of the study was to find out the perception and practice of online teaching among students on public campuses in Nepal. The study was quantitative research design with survey methods. A Google online survey was conducted in response in which 402 respondent students of public campuses of Lumbini province were taken as a sample. The study found that the COVID-19 has resulted in public campuses shut all across the country so education has changed dramatically, with the distinctive rise of online learning, and started remotely on digital platforms. For this situation, the students are needed to adopt online learning. The majority 63% of students have been learning online during this pandemic situation. Online education is the best alternative of face to face learning as it is flexible, innovative, and interesting. Challenges like slow internet, shortage of adequate teaching materials, teachers' disinterest, unstable power, and unavailability of devices were also found for conducting online courses.

Risk Assessment and Prevention Strategy of Virus Infection in the Context of University Resumption

The risk assessment system of virus infection probability and the prevention measures for virus transmission are keys to controlling epidemics. In the context of university resumption, this study identifies the risk elements in terms of the mechanism of virus transmission. The effect of two recognized effective measures, i.e., occupancy constraints and ventilation intervention, on the infection risk are quantified and compared using the improved Wells–Riley model. Considering the priority of these two measures, the controlling quantity are determined, and the optimal schemes are proposed based on the targeted infection risk. The results show that the effect of reducing infection risk by constraining occupancy within 25% of all public campus buildings is better than that achieved by increasing the ventilation rate alone. If the ventilation system of the building type is operated by occupiers, it is a priority to prevent the risk of virus infection by restricting occupancy and ensuring the distance between occupants, while if the ventilation system of the building type is centrally controlled, it is a priority to increase the ventilation rate and then limit the occupancy rate during peak periods to 75%.

Teachers Professional Development at Public Campuses of Nepal

Teachers Professional Development at Public Campuses of Nepal

Consumption and Piety: Raising the Curtain on the Islamization of Taste and Fashion in Kendari's Muslim Middle Class

The social phenomenon that was born from the expression of piety of the Muslim middle class in Southeast Sulawesi is no longer only concerned with Ansich’s faith. This is interesting to explore because it involes specific actors and capital (industry), and furthermore it also involves a religious dimension in which the Muslim community struggles with a space that continues to experience globalization and economic contestation in the midst of becoming devout Muslims. In this paper, Bayat’s post- Islamic approach was used to portray the atmosphere of the trend of Islamization of tastes and fashion of the Muslim middle class in Kendari City.The results of this research found that the relationship between consumption and piety in the Muslim midle class community in Southeast Sulawesi has occurred in the space of Islamization through three popular Islamic da’wah institutions: Wahdah Islam, Muaz bin Jabal and and the congregation of the recitation of Abdullah Taslim. The resulting segmentation can be seen in the Muslim middle class in the city of Kendari who like to use Islamic symbols in fashion and halal food. They are scattered in government institutions, bahtera mas hospital, and other government offices, as well as public campuses in the region. The resulting impact can be seen in the development of sharia-labeled industries and stalls related to fashion and halal food. The owner of the sharia industry in Kendari City is related ideologically and fiqh with the three groups of da’wah. This indicates that the trend of Islamization of Muslim societies does not only concern politics and the state. There is a preference for the soft (non-political) Islamic path where the satisfaction of Islamization is achieved through the inclusion of a sharia identity in daily life.
 Keywords: piety, Islamization, taste and fashion

How Diversity Fails: An Empirical Investigation of Organizational Status and Policy Implementation on Three Public Campuses

Although diversity has been a guiding preoccupation in higher education for several decades, organizational diversity practice, i.e., what happens when colleges and universities implement diversity plans, is rarely a subject of inquiry. As a result, there is relatively little empirical understanding of why diversity has failed to significantly advance racial equity on college campuses. In response, this ethnographic, collective case study draws on interviews with 54 respondents, archival and organizational documents, and campus observations to interrogate diversity practice on three campuses of different status in one public system in the U.S. This study employs Bourdieu’s theory of practice, specifically institutional habitus as an analytic lens, to examine the influence of campus social status on diversity practice related to a statewide policy. Findings reveal that each campus has a unique institutional habitus—that is, a status-linked sense of campus identity, constraints, and opportunities—that prefigured and, on most campuses, derailed diversity practice in response to the policy. Only the middle-status campus made any substantive progress. By juxtaposing these findings, this analysis demonstrates that diversity practice does not exist within a campus vacuum; instead, it is inevitably influenced, constrained, or aided by the institutional habitus of the organizational environment. The paper concludes by arguing that organizational change efforts that recognize diversity work as a situated organizational practice that reflects broader power relations can better challenge inequities to spur transformative change across educational levels and contexts.

Mobility challenges and experiences for students with disabilities in Tanzania universities: dealing with a social inclusion nightmare in property management

PurposeDespite the presence of people with disabilities in higher learning institutions, facilities provided for both accommodation and classrooms prove to be ineffective in fulfilling their expectations. However, the existing measures have tended to be rigid and unable to incorporate the ever evolving user experiences from constantly enrolling students in public campus buildings. The paper is premised on the notion of social inclusivity of the built environment in public universities through user experiences, measured through a qualitative lens.Design/methodology/approachThe study was qualitative and deployed a case study strategy. Respondents were purposively identified and subjected to in-depth interviews, key informant interviews and focused group discussions. The full realisation of the sample frames was determined by data saturation. Data from responses was thereafter sorted, coded and categorised through a systematic thematic analysis. Some responses reactions were reported verbatim. The anonymity of the respondents was observed though through the use of pseudonyms.FindingsThis paper has indicated respondents' experiences regarding social inclusivity of the institutional built environment and thematically categorised them in six areas: complaints mechanism and feedback, pre- and post-enrolment experiences, namely; complaints mechanism and feedback, pre- and post-enrolment experiences and social support as a property management policy. Others include, representation in university decision-making organs, perceptions regarding disability and its needs and distribution of facilities and site works. It recommends that property management practices should be re-oriented to ensure the sustainability of learning facilities for the disabled, taking into consideration the ever-evolving needs and preferences of PWD user students with disabilities.Originality/valueLinking the social and human rights models to actual experiences of property occupiers is unique. The author believes that it will, in addition to the existing models and strategies, improve on a better achievement of inclusivity of building use used by all categories of members of the society.

Teachers’ Professional Development at Public Campuses in Nepal: Opportunities and Challenges

Teachers’ professional development activity is an opportunity for teachers to share their knowledge and develop new instructional practices. It keeps academics up-todate with the changing world and knowledge. The objective of this study was to explore opportunities and challenges of teacher professional development in public campuses of Nepal. This study was qualitative approach with a phenomenological design. The participants of the study were three teachers of different public campuses of Rupendehi district selected purposively. The study revealed TPD opportunities for teachers of public Campuses deserve high significance in the sense that they help teachers develop various kinds of professional skills, knowledge, new techniques of teaching. However, Public campuses are facing many challenges which include proper management TPD for faculties of their campuses and there is a gap between policies and practices in implementation of TPD in public campuses of Nepal.