Taking place at the Ballroom of UNY Hotel on Wednesday the 8th of February, the Department of Academic and Student Affairs of UNY initiated a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and the signing of the Further Study Cooperation for Students of School of Sports Talent (SST).

Vice-Rector for Academic and Student Affairs, Prof. Dr. Siswantoyo, M.Kes., stated that the aim of this activity is to enhance collaboration between UNY and various SSTs in Indonesia.

UNY held a graduation ceremony for Teacher Professional Program (PPG) students/participants who graduated in 2022. The graduation was held on Wednesday (8/2) in the Auditorium with offline and online modes. According to the Director of the Directorate of Professional Education and Competence of UNY, Prof. Dr. Erwin Setyo Kriswanto, M.Kes. The graduation ceremony was attended by 226 offline representatives by considering the distribution in the field of study and domicile, and online a total of 4,399 participants.

One manifestation of the cooperation between UNY and UPSI Malaysia is the implementation of International Educational Practice (PK). UPSI Malaysia sent 33 students to teach in various UNY partner schools, while UNY sent 18 students from various faculties to teach at UPSI partner schools. Out of the 18 UNY students, 4 of them are FIKK UNY students, including Azriel Ardiansyah (Physical Education, Health, and Recreation), Riana Fauziah (Physical Education, Health, and Recreation), Rafi Fajar Susila (Sports Coaching Education), and Ilham Frimatara (Sports Coaching Education).

A Fieldwork Lecture is one of the required courses in Sociology Education Department Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta. In this year, the Fieldwork Lecture was done by students of Sociology Education 2021 and accompanied by three lecturers. The lecturers are Datu Jawmiko S.Pd., M.A, Sasiana Gilar Apriantika S.Pd., M.A, and Dwi Agusitiana M.A. The activity that has been done recently has several destinations or places that will be visited by the students.

Breadfruit (a tropical fruit in Indonesia) is commonly consumed in Indonesia and has the potential to be developed into contemporary food products. This is due to the high nutritional value of breadfruit, and will be abundant during the harvest season. However, the community has not been able to cultivate it optimally. During the harvest season, A large amount of breadfruit is damaged and wasted because it is not cultivated or harvested properly. Those can affect the quality of the breadfruit including the fruit is bruised, the flash turns brown, and tastes bitter.

Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta held a monitoring and evaluation for the receivers of higher education affirmation scholarships (ADik) for the 2016-2021 generation in the Main Conference Room of the Rectorate, Friday (3/2). This activity was attended by more than 90 students who received affirmation scholarships spread across 44 study programs at UNY. Vice Rector for Academic and Student Affairs of UNY Prof. Siswantoyo said that a number of strategic steps were taken for the scholarship recipients, including helping them to become excellent students.

Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta’s International Office recently hosted a State Universities as Legal Entity (PTNBH) Internationalization Socialization at the UNY Hotel. It was attended by the Rector, Vice Rector, Vice Deans of Academic, Student, and Alumni Affairs, Vice Deans of Research, Cooperation, Information Systems, and Entrepreneurship, the UNY WCU Team, and the UUIK Team for each Faculty.

Factors that cause an inclusive classroom environment include the diversity of intellectual and social levels of students who are not accommodated. Therefore lecturers provide space for a variety of student background abilities. Lecturers need to integrate previous student experiences in learning and accommodate the diversity of student abilities.

Globalization, which encourages scientific advances and technological developments, especially information technology, has fostered an entrepreneur spirit and it is very important to grow in someone’s soul. Especially if the entrepreneur spirit is raised from an early age. Entrepreneurship has a very important role. With entrepreneurship being able to find new innovations and new ideas in managing the available natural resources, entrepreneurship is the process of developing and applying creativity and innovation in solving problems and being able to see opportunities to create a business.

The Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences at UNY had the opportunity to cooperate with JICA Japan. The cooperation designed is about sending professional trainers in the sports of volleyball, archery, and tennis to improve the quality of coaching education at the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences UNY.