Gymnastics with Faculty leaders, lecturers, and academic staff enlivened the opening of the 56th Anniversary of Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UGM. The opening ceremony was marked by the release of balloons by Dean of the Faculty, Dr. Chairil Anwar, on Friday (22/7) in the yard of the Faculty.
Chairil Anwar hoped that the anniversary this time will further enhance the togetherness among managers, teaching staff, and academic staff. With unity, the performance is expected to be better and is able to demonstrate achievement. Entering the age of 56, the Faculty targeting 50 percent of all students are graduate students. Currently, there are about 4,000 students, consisting of 3,000 students in S-1, and 1,000 students in S-2/S-3 programs. "In the future, if the number of S-1 student remains at around 3,000, the number of our graduate program students will increase to 1,500," the Dean explained.
To support this ideal, a new building for S-2 and S-3 programs will soon be constructed. The building estimated to cost sixty billion rupiah is planned to be completed in late January 2012. "What special on the anniversary this time is we can realize the construction of a new building," he added.
Besides doing gymnastics together, a series of activities for the anniversary of Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences is various sports activities, family gathering, fishing competition, seminars, anniversary speech, and giving awards to outstanding students, faculties and academic staff.