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UPT. LEMBAGA BAHASA
UNIVERSITAS SRIWIJAYA
(Sriwijaya University Langauge Insritute/SULI)
Background
The DGHE’s management paradigm places the promotion and maintenance of quality as the central concern of Indonesian higher education management. It is pertinent, therefore, for a university and all of its organizational units to focus on the effort of promoting the quality and maintaining it as a continuous process. It is this process that serves as the raison d’etre for the continued existence and sustainability of a university and all of the units within the organizational structure of the university. Consequently, in formulating its vision and mission and in drawing its strategic plan, a university unit should consider the promotion and maintenance of quality as the guiding principle.
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Lembaga Bahasa Vision
In the SWOT analysis, Lembaga Bahasa Universitas Sriwijaya (henceforth LB Unsri) as a supporting unit to its parent institution is responsible for the implementation of a centralized system of English Language Training (henceforth ELT) for non-English majors (Rector’s decree No.0577/PT11.1.1/C.6.f/1994, dated 2 February 1994). The relevant question that LB Unsri asks to formulate its institutional vision is “What can ELT programs for non-English majors contribute to the promotion and maintenance of quality of the programs within its parent institution, Universitas Sriwijaya?” LB UNSRI, therefore, formulates its vision as follows: “A sustainable center capable of providing ELT and other language service programs effectively and efficiently.”
Sustainability
refers to a two-fold ability to maintain both financial
viability and functional
vitality required to warrant formal integration into the structural
organization of the parent institution. Financial viability is a matter of
becoming self-supporting, through the development of a range of programs,
in order at least to meet the cost
of maintaining and developing LB Unsri as a language training center (LTC),
and ideally to make some contribution to the maintenance and development
of the parent institution in the collective pursuit of a common mission,
i.e., to produce high quality tertiary education. The functional
vitality of LB UNSRI lies in its ability to define and fulfill
functions that are relevant to that mission, and to develop similarly
useful functions in relation to sibling organizations, in particular to
the main structural components (Unit Utama-s: faculties and departments) of the parent institution.
The effectiveness of the programs may be clearly visible in the increase
of the size of population served (students and other clients), and the
efficiency of the programs may be indicated by the capacity of promoting and maintaining
quality of the services.
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Lembaga Bahasa Mission
As an LTC, LB Unsri’s missions are formulated as follows.
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To empower students and graduates of its parent institution through ELT and other foreign language support programs so that they are able to actualize themselves, optimize their potentials, compete in the job market, meet the globalization challenges, and grab the opportunities made available or presented by the globalization.
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To empower academic staff of its parent institution through ELT and other foreign language teaching services.
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To help its parent institution in providing foreign language services to other institutions (government and private) and the general public.”
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UPT. Lembaga Bahasa Universitas Sriwijaya
Jl. Srijaya Negara, Kampus Unsri Bukit Besar, Palembang 30139, Telp/fax. 0711-354981
Jl. Raya Palembang- Prabumulih Km. 32 Inderalaya OKI, Telp. 0711 - 580061
E-mail: Lbunsri@palembang.wasantara.net.id or Ach_ilham@yahoo.com
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