Rector of IPB Invited the Heads of OSIS to Study at IPB
Rector of Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Dr. Arif Satria, stated that IPB had a great commitment in setting forth the national leaders. “This commitment will be embodied by IPB through a number of steps and a systematic process. One of the new things that will be done by IPB in 2018 is to open a new path to the entry selection of IPB, namely the path of the Head of OSIS or the leadership talent path,” said the Rector in the event of the Socialization of National Selection to Enter the State University (SNMPTN) and the Joint Selection to Enter the State University (SBMPTN) in Grha Widya Wisuda (GWW), Campus of IPB Dramaga, Bogor (31/1).
The Rector said, when the interest of the prospective students to study in agriculture in various universities declined further, then IPB opened the selection to find the prospective students who had a passion for agriculture as well as had talent of the leadership and the entrepreneurship through an independent selection that was named the Entry Talent Test to IPB (UTMI), applying the selection through the mechanism of the talent mapping and the academic potential test.
The Rector added, now in the era of democracy and decentralization, when the quality of the leadership in the center and the region became one of the most pressing needs, IPB developed one of the selection scheme of the new student candidates for the special path of the Heads of OSIS who were qualified academically as the students of IPB. This scheme was one of the independent selection to find the prospective students who had been proven to have leadership as the Heads of OSIS during SMA, as well as had sufficient academic ability to be educated in IPB to be the candidate leaders who had the high intellectual, in other words the intellectual which had the strong leadership spirit.
“It is hoped that this scheme will produce the prospective leaders, both the national, regional, corporate and community leaders who lead the scientific approach, which is to apply the scientific based leadership,” explained the Rector.
The Rector explained, in 2018 IPB allocated 130 – 160 places from the total quota of 4 thousand students for the special path of the Heads of OSIS. In addition to being the Head of OSIS (reinforced by the statement letter of the Headmaster), other requirements were: (1) the graduate majoring in IPA, (2) the average values of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology at least 80, (3) applying to the Rector of IPB by including the biodata and the activities during becoming the Head of OSIS approved / known by the Headmaster, (4) creating the Synopsis of the Contribution for Indonesian Development in the future, (5) willing to get the leadership training, the entrepreneurship training, and other trainings.
The applications could be sent to the Rector of IPB from 1 April – 1 June 2018. The announcement of the selection result was planned on 9 July 2018. The full details on the admission of the new students of IPB in various independent paths including the special path of the Head of OSIS would be uploaded in the website of IPB Admission (admisi.ipb.ac.id) in February 2018.
“IPB will hone their potential for us to be made to become the candidates for the nation’s leaders, both in the fields of technopreneur, technocrat, sociopreneur, and in the other fields. The Heads of OSIS have had the good and tested leadership genes, so that it will be the superior seeds of the leaders of the nation which later with a touch of IPB Insya Allah will be able to become the trend setter of the change of this nation into the Indonesian nation which is strong, sovereign, and independent,” said the Rector.
In addition to the new line, IPB would accept the prospective students from other pathways. In general, the entry selection of IPB consisted of three main lines, namely SNMPTN Line, SBMPTN Line, and Mandiri Line, with the quota of approximately 50, 30 and 20 percent respectively.(Awl)
