UPH Awards: Awards for the Outstanding People in UPH

This year is the fourth time UPH Awards (UA) held by Student Organizations & Activities (SOA).

Quality of a university can be seen from the educational and teaching, research and development, and the community services. These three things are known as tri darma perguruan tinggi. Each university should carry out all three of them simultaneously and cooperatively, supported by those who are dedicated in their respective fields.

Aligned with tri darma, Universitas Pelita Harapan calls it ?holistic education? that shines through the vision and mission of UPH, which are true knowledge, faith in God, and Godly character. The University believes that in order for someone to become a complete human being, it is not enough to merely master the science and the intellectuality. A strong faith in God and a noble character are two things that are no less importantance.

UPH has achieved a lot of things, thanks to its qualified faculty members and students who have high dedications to UPH. Two events, which are specifically designed to provide awards for outstanding people, are UPH Awards and Miss UPH Scholar. Both are events which are dedicated to those who have realized UPH vision and mission in various fields.

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UPH Awards 4

This year is the fourth time UPH Awards (UA) being held by Student Organizations & Activities (SOA). SOA itself is a place for students to develop their skills and talents as well as training them in organizational fields. SOA?s aim is to balance classroom learning with relaxation (extracurricular). SOA has been an umbrella for Executive Student Board, Student Representative Board, Senate, and Student Council in UPH.

SOA has held UPH Awards for three times and always received positive responses from all parties. This organization took the initiative to organize UA as a form of appreciation to all UPH community that have been playing important roles in uplifting this university by holding on to holistic education as the realization of the vision and mission of UPH.

Stevian Bong

This time, UA 4 is titled “Contemporary Indonesia: Break Out the Tradition”. This year the commitee tried to reflect on our own country that actually has a lot of beautiful and interesting cultures to be explored. “Indonesia?s culture is very rich and diverse. Unfortunately, right now there are many traditions in the transition stage and experiencing drastic changes, because the young generations prefer adapting foreign culture to loving their own culture. Therefore, UPH Awards 4?s aim is for campus activists to take part in building nationalism and pride as Indonesian people through their accomplishments,” said Stevian Bong, chairman of UPH Awards 4 committee.

A message from UA 4?s theme is simple, that is for students to realize the abundant variety of Indonesian culture that is not less prestigious than the foreign one. Thus, they can be proudly introduce, use, and even preserve cultures, so that Indonesian art and culture remain exist.”I’m delighted because UPH students love Indonesian culture,” said UPH Rector Jonathan L. Parapak.

To support the theme, UA 4 committee designed three sub-events before the awarding night, namely, pre-event as an initial sounding event; Pesta Rakyat (People?s festive) in the form of culinary and archipelago?s special items? bazaar; Indonesian Contemporary Fashion Carnival featuring Indonesia modified traditional costumes ? in collaboration with ESMOD fashion school and Jember Fashion Carnival to enlivened it.

There were four major categories in UA 4 announced in the awarding night: individuals, programs, student organizations, and miscellaneous. Each category consists of a large number of small categories totaling 23.

Individual category consists of outstanding freshman, outstanding sophomore, outstanding junior, outstanding senior, dorm supervisor of the year, mentor of the year, student executive of the year, student representative of the year, student of the year, and student leader of the year. Program category consists of social program of the year, HMJ/SMF?s program of the year, BEM?s program of the year, and outstanding program of the year. Student organizations category consists of HMJ/SMF of the year, Intercollegiate of the year, and UKM of the year. While the miscellaneous category consists of outstanding achievement, lecturer recognition, honorable mention, student entrepreneur of the year, student innovator of the year, and scientific student paper of the year.

“I hope, through this UPH Awards, UPH ideals can be achieved, that is to prepare future leaders from various fields. UPH students will color the Indonesian traditions and life in the future,” said Parapak.

Indonesia Youth Education Deputy, Erlangga Masdiana expressed his pride towards UPH students. “The youth must be nation?s inspiration and innovator. In this event, I can clearly see dynamic young people, who are cap
able of creating things intellectually, and yet still entertaining. UPH needs to transmit this spirit to other places, so that all youth can be a catalyst of development,” he continued. (cyn/photographs: Debora Louissa)

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