Capacity Building of Associate Professors for Improving Lecturers' Performance: A Case Study in a Leading University in Indonesia

摘要

Nowadays, the duty of a lecturer is not merely teaching but also becoming a professional teacher as well as a scientist who is responsible for transforming, developing and disseminating knowledge, technology and arts through teaching, research, and community service. Associate professors in a university are professor candidates who should build their capacity to help this nation reach the ultimate objectives of education. In reality, quite many associate professors delay their promotions to full professors as they have got an abundance of business as well as limited time to conduct outstanding studies. Hence, this study was conducted to disclose the development of associate professors' capacity building at Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), as one of the best colleges in Indonesia. This study applied qualitative approach with purposive and snowball sampling techniques. The findings showed that: there was no specific capacity building program for associate professors at Faculty of Engineering UGM. However, there were some capacity building programs held for all lecturers at Faculty of Engineering UGM such as: promotion socialization, research grants workshops, reference management software workshops, workshops on international journal writing, and international publication preparation programs. The success indicator of the capacity building was when the number of promotion from associate professors to full professors has increased up to 10% among the total number of 107 associate professors at this faculty. This study revealed that limited number of studies and international publications became the most problematic causes of this promotion delay, as these two aspects were the basic requirements. To overcome this problem, UGM conducted International Publication Preparation Program (PPI), yet this program has not been specifically addressed to the associate professors. Besides, UGM had also equipped the lecturers with various facilities and supporting programs to encourage their capacity building.