4. RESOURCES
4.1 S TAFF
4.1.2 The Staff Workload
The workload of each staff has been regulated in Government Regulation Number 37 of 2009, where the staff workload is at least 12 credits and a maximum of 16 credits per semester. The suitability of staff workload is aimed at obtaining optimal work results.
4.1.2.1 Workload Adequacy
The workload of the lecturer is depicted in Figure 4.2. The average total workload for each semester ranging from 13 credits to 15 credits. In total the number is still in the range workload per government regulation. Most of the lecturer workload is for teaching. Lecturer spent their time for teaching from 55% to 60%. The teaching workload is inline with the student to staff ratio. With the existing student to staff ratio, it is natural that the teaching workload is the heaviest one.
The lecture's teaching load is 8.9, 7.9, and 8.5 credits for Mathematics Study Program, respectively. The minimum and maximum credits for teaching Mathematics Study Program:
7.4 and 9.1, respectively. This load is reasonable so that the lecture is not burdening with the teaching only activity, but they still have time for conducting research, community services, and management activity. Load variation between staff is still normal; no staff has 12 credits workload for teaching only. And in other hand, the average workload is no less than 12 credits and no more than 16 credits following the government regulation.
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The time availability correlates with the lecturer productivity in doing research, indicated by the scientific publication as well as the community services as described in section 4.1.3.
Supervising the the student final year project as part of the lecturer duties is synchronized with the lecturer research activity.
Figure 4.2 The Average of Total Workload of Lecturers
Apart from teaching, lecturers are also assigned to be academic guides for students.
Lecturer Academic Advisors have an important role in providing direction to students in choosing courses and planning courses to be taken in the current semester and the following years. The number of the student under the lecturer advisory is divided evenly. When a lecturer retires, the student will be transferred to another lecturer who has fewer students. The number is varied from year to year depends on the number of new enrolled student and graduates students and number of lecturer.
The lecturer provides advice to the students on case by case basis, except for the study plan consultation, where the students are obligated to ask the lecturer approval. In each semester, the lecturer spends less than an hour per student for the advisory. The lecturer allocated a week for the student to consult their course plan if the need. Most of the students capable to plan their courses. They ask for a consultation if they think it is necessary. Lecturer gives the advice to the student if they think so, for example in a case the student took a wrong study plan. Personal problem advisory, which is allocated in the advisory task, was very little used by the student. Therefore academic advisory is not burdening lecturer workload.
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Workload (Credit/semester)
The Average of Total Workload per Lecturer at Mathematics Study Program
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4.1.2.2 The Final Project Supervision
Supervising the final year project is part of the academic activity of the lecturers. There is a consensus within the study program to arrange the final project supervision workload. A maximum number of students who can be supervised yearly is set. The consensus was made to distribute the workload and encourage the lecturer to push their supervised student to finish the final year project in time with good quality. In the mathematics study program maximum of 15 students is set. Evaluation of the distribution is always carried out every year to improve the supervision quality. The final year project is mostly related to the research project of the lecturers or lecturer field expertise. Therefore, the lecturer need also considering their research project capacity. Supervising the student's final year project becomes part of the lecturer's research workload but helping the research work done by the lecturer. Figure 4.3 show the number of final year project supervised per lecturer for each study program.
Figure 4.3 The Number of Final Year Project Supervised per Lecturer 4.1.2.3 The Student to Lecturer Ratio
The government set the regulation of maximum allowable student to lecturer ratio, i.e., 1:30. Figure 4.4 show the student to lecturer ratio for the three consecutive years for each study program. The number varies according to the newly enrolled student, graduate number in the year, and lecturer number.
The management manages to maintain the ratio so that lecturers have adequate time for good lecturing, research, and community services. On other hand, the management needs also maintain the adequacy of the financial aspect for the study program sustainability.
The lecturer to student ratio in all three study programs is far less than the regulation. It means that the should be no overload for the lecturer.
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The Number of Final Year Project Supervised per Lecturer in Mathematics Study Program
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Figure 4.4 The Student to Lecturer Ratio at Undergraduate Program of Mathematics