Internationalization towards an excellent Sociology Department is the work meeting theme of the Faculty of Social and Humanity Sciences which was held at the Grand Royal Hotel Malang, 07 to 09 March 2020. The faculty meeting which held annually involves the academics from the faculty officials, the Dean, the Deputy Dean I, the Deputy Dean II, the Deputy Dean III, the Head of Faculty Administration, the Head of Sub-Division, and lecturers from three study programs, the Sociology Department, the Communication Department, and the Psychology Department.

The event was opened by the Ad Interim of Rector UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Dr. Phil. Sahiron M.A., by providing an overview of the activities of UIN Sunan Kalijaga in 2020. The Rector said that the faculty swiftly supports the acceleration of internationalization. Besides, the Rector of UIN Sunan Kalijaga said that to internationalize the department, facilities and infrastructures are needed. One of them is to amplify e-learning. By using e-learning, lecturers ease their activities in the teaching and learning process even though the distance is far.

In the Internationalization commission meeting, each lecturer in the Sociology Department which coordinated by Achmad Uzair, S.IP., MA., Ph.D. conveys the work program of internationalization. The internationalization plan is based on the accreditation of nine standards to increase the number of foreign students through holding short courses, banchmaking curriculum, holding classes in foreign languages, upgrading services to students, and increasing staff capacity. Documentation of foreign students is necessary to mark documents and digital traces. At the end of his presentation, Achmad Uzair said that the faculty can respond to internationalization.

In another meeting, Dr. Napsiah became the research strengthening coordinator. Referring to the nine accreditation standards, the research field should receive attention like, the obtained funding research, the involvement actors, lecturer’s relationship, lecturers and student’s relationship, and research publications. Also, international and national journals are important to support accreditation. In this regard, supporting activities in that direction are needed, such as access to research funding, workshop methodology, a workshop for Scopus indexed journals, and research collaborations in order to publish research in reputable journals.

In the tracer study commission meeting, Agus Saputro, M.Si is the person in charge. In his presentation, Mr. Agus said the tracer should ideally not be done when facing accreditation, but it carries out annually so the tracer would detect easily. The five important points in doing tracer include; the authorized tracerer, the tool or media, the time to execute, the target to be traced, and steps to increase interest in filling in the tracer data. These five important points have been included in the faculty tracer guidebook.

Meanwhile, UI Ardaninggar Luhtitianti, M.A presents the journal team as a member of the journal commission meeting. Dr. Yayan Suryana presenting the MoGA Study Center while Ambar Sari Dewi, Ph.D. presenting the university senate included in the Laboratory Strengthening Commission and PKM. Each of them has been conveyed which has been summarized at the faculty. Furthermore, Achmad Zainal Arifin, Ph.D., the Head of the Sociology Department, is preparing for the AUN QA certification which is approximately visited on 16-18 June 2020.

The faculty meeting is very important to formulate FISHUM agendas for transparency and to solve common problems. Either faculty problems or department problems that might not be solved alone. (Napsiah)