UNY Becomes the World Class University

UNY agreed to go to WCU as declared by the Chief of UNY in every opportunity or in the newspapers. These ideals are great ideals, lofty and noble. An effort to realize a university becomes world-class university concept (World Class University) requires many steps that must be done. One of them is increase the student competences pass through authority of foreign languages, especially English. The colleges usually seek for authority of foreign languages to students pass through using of English as the medium of language in a subject. To create UNY become a WCU is a long and hard struggle, so that needed a strategic and mature plan, and continuous and sustainable. Several steps and things that need be prepared:
1. the strong and complete intention from all of academic community. There is an intention that UNY will be concern to WCU, need to be socialized throughout the university components, so that appear optimism that is the capital base and a strong base for further steps.
2. Define a World Class University (WCU) and continued the socialization.
3. Explain the definition of WCU in a work program that measured in the time limit and specific achievements, such as: yearly or 3 yearly.
4. Cultivate all of the resources, tools, and available systems. The need for renewal and revision of systems of locally based, such as: writing and thesis examination is possible in English, renewal of regulations towards international discourse.
5. Increased cooperation between universities from within and abroad and with the community. This cooperation should not just more MOU, but with concrete action, for example: student exchange, delivery of academic staff, research cooperation.
But UNY also have to spend much money to support WCU programs. The money can use for finance the lecturer or someone that can support the programs. UNY can facilitate some lecturer to continued their study in abroad to support English learning. But in UNY only two majors that will be change into WCU now. There are mathematics education majors and accounting education majors. But not all of majors change to WCU yet. So, hope in order to the WCU programs can be successful, so that all of majors in UNY can change to World Class University.