The Academic and Non-academic Announcements

Nowadays, the development of technology has become a trend in every aspect of our life. It includes the way how the society delivers information to each other. Yet, some people still use the conventional media to inform that information, one of which is announcement boards. As State University of Malang does, it still uses announcement boards for every single faculty. One of the faculties that still functions the announcement board is the Faculty of Letters. In our opinion, the reason why they use the announcement board because it is effective and visible. In this case, we take D8 building as the example. If students enter D8 building from the entrance, the students can see the announcement board on their right side, so they can easily access it. To explain more about the information that is properly attached, we classify it in terms of the purposes into two classifications, which are academic and non-academic.

First of all, we are going to deal with the first purpose which is academic. In this case, academic purposes mean that the information refers to the academic activities. Moreover, in our observation, the announcements which are attached on the D8 announcement board consist of several announcements, two of which are the dean election of the Faculty of Letters 2010 to 2014 and the required courses of 2008 to 2010 periods. From the dean election of the Faculty of Letters, the students could see that there are three candidates who propose to be the dean of the Faculty of Letters. It provides the names and the photos of them. The first candidate is Prof. Dr. Dawud, M.Pd, secondly is Prof. Drs. Bambang Yudi Cahyono, M.Pd. M.A. PhD, and lastly is Prof. Dr. Suyono, M.Pd. Next, we will go on to the second academic announcement which is the required courses of 2008 to 2010 periods. This announcement is aimed to the English Department’s Students to inform the students what courses they have to take. In our opinion, the attachment of this announcement is eye-catching because it is placed in the midst of the board.

Second of all, we are going to look at the non-academic purposes which are attached on the announcement board. Non-academic purposes mean that the information refers to the activities which do not have the direct relation with the students’ learning process. Furthermore, there are several non-academic announcements, two of which are, the tutor recruitment of Primagama Education Institution and the National Seminar. Firstly, let us deal with the tutor recruitment of Primagama Education Institution. This announcement informs that Primagama needs several tutors. It provides the requirements, the addresses on which the applicants should send their application letters, and the facilities which the tutors could get. Secondly, the non-academic announcement is about the National Seminar. This seminar which entitled “Evaluasi Hasil UAN 2010 Sebagai Upaya Meningkatkan Kelulusan UAN” is held by Bahasa Indonesia Students Association on Saturday, October 16, 2010 at the second floor of E6 Building. This announcement includes names of the speakers, facilities, contribution, and place to register. In our opinion, there will be many participants of this seminar because the theme that be chosen which is UAN is controversial in our society.

In a brief, the information on D8 announcement board can be classified in terms of the purposes, which are academic and non-academic. In our opinion, the parameter of academic and non academic purposes can be seen from the relationship between those announcements and the students’ learning process. Even, the effectiveness and the possibility to be read by the people are the reasons why State University of Malang still uses the conventional way which is announcement board. Additionally, there are several suggestions to make the announcement board in D8 become neater, one of which is the officer should make the boundaries of every single paper which is attached on it, so that the students can read it clearly. Hopefully, the purposes of the announcements which are attached can be accomplished.

Asizah

Nurrahma Sutisna P