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The Director of HI UM led this meeting

Poor. State University of Malang (UM) held Council Meeting 8th related to MoA (Memorandum of Agreement) with Guanxi Normal University via Zoom video conference on Monday (18/01). This virtual meeting was attended by officials from each university, including Prof. Dr. Su Guifa as Vice Rector of Guangxi Normal University, Prof. Li Dongmei as Director of Office of International Cooperation and Exchanges / Dean of College of International Culture and Education, Prof. Dr. AH Rofi'uddin, M.Pd as the Rector of the State University of Malang, Evi Eliyanah, SS, MA, Ph.D as the Director of International Relations of UM, as well as UM leadership ranks such as the vice chancellor and dean.

UM Chancellor gave a speech at the meeting

"At today's virtual meeting, discussions will focus on developing the Mandarin Language Center and expanding our cooperation between UM and Guanxi Normal University. We hope that this collaboration is both related to the development of Mandarin Language and other collaborations such as transfer credit, research, and lecturer mobility will continue to develop in the future, "he continued.

Message from Guanxi Normal University

Here are some things that are focused on renewing the cooperation agreement between UM and Guanxi Normal University: 1) Recognition of management transfer from Hanban (Office of the International Chinese Language Council) to Overseas Chinese Education Foundation (OCEF), 2) Maintenance of the Indonesian Brand name "Mandarin Language Center" together with its global brand name "Confucius Institute“, 3) Reorganization role sharing both universities in the management of the Mandarin Language Center /Confucius Institute, and 4) Additional agreements for financial management. Regarding financial management, there are several reforms including 1) Financial management must be integrated with MUs, 2) Provision of permanent accounting staff by MUs to help with budgeting and reporting, 3) Provision of permanent assistant directors by MUs to assist Chinese Directors in PBM / CI in managing institute.

Joint meeting between UM and Guanxi Normal University

"The discussion is in more detail related to other reforms such as the student exchange agenda /students exchange, joint research, conferences, lecturer mobility and others will be continued in session 2, "said Evi Eliyanah before closing the main meeting session. In session 2 there were 4 rooms, each of which was attended by a different faculty. So, the results of the discussion will be further processed so that they can be applied through real activities during 2021.

Reporter: Ulya Aziza Fitriya - UM Public Relations Internship