Universitas Pembangunan Jaya (UPJ) Visited UPH Faculty of Liberal Arts

On Friday, 4 April 2014, 9.00 WIB, Universitas visited Liberal Arts Faculty of UPH to do a benchmarking. According to Rini ( Senior staff of quality assurance UPJ) the purpose of UPJ visited UPH was to learned what they suppose to do first on creating Liberal Arts Faculty. ?One of the things that we want to learn is about the curriculums, and to know how UPH apply the programs and to succeed that.?explained Rini.

In response to the questions, Hendra explained that the purpose of creating FLA is to equip the UPH students with foundational knowledge, life skills, and moral values that are important toward the students when they do their career, and to be a part of the society. Hendra insisted, that the three areas can?t be taught neutrally. At UPH, all the lessons are teach based on faith in Christ, and the Bible. This belongs to the vision and mission of UPH : True Knowledge, Faith in Christ, and Godly Character.

In respond to the question about the non-Christian students taking Liberal Arts courses, Hendra explained that each universities has an unique vision and mission. UPH has commit to based their academic foundation on Christian worldview as UPH indentity. This affirmation does not mean that UPH discriminate other religions, but instead to uphold their direction and stability in the middle of globalisation that happen now. The position is like an achor that stick a university above the firm foundation. However, Christian worldview is a comprehensive and a very broad worldview, which able every Christian to think open mindedly, but at the same time critically. Common grace concept does not ignore the inevitablility of Antithetis reality which rooted from Reformed thought, therefore FLA will able to see God?s wisdom in the philosophy of non-Christian without forgetting the fall of man in sin and the significance of the redemption that Christ had started.

With the exsistence of FLA, UPH graduates the alumni who understand Christian worldview, and are able to comprehend the knowledge well, consider evidences carefully, understand issues deeply, criticize certain paradigm, standardize values consideration, have historical sensitivity, formulate rational purposes, plan in details, and passionate for the truth.

By the end of the meeting, Gita, as the representative of UPJ gave away their souvenirs to Hendra, representing FLA. At last, the visit was continued by group photo and also campus tour.