As an international university, President University (PresUniv) is concerned about global warming caused by those human activities that are damaging the environment. For this reason, PresUniv is committed to reducing those activities that damage the environment, especially around its campus. As proof of its commitment, PresUniv in 2021 succeeded in increasing its UI GreenMetric ranking. PresUniv managed to rank 61st (out of 101 Indonesian universities) at the national level, an improvement of eight places from the previous yearst 69th places position (out of 87 universities). In the same year, PresUniv’s position rose to 664th (out of 956 universities worldwide) at the international level.
UI GreenMetric is a ranking system for universities concerned with environmental and sustainability issues. Temmy Wikaningrum, Head of PresUniv’s GreenMetric Team, said that in order to achive this success her team made an all-out effort, covering all of the assessment indicators. “In 2021, our inital strategy was to update all performance data. Many programs and infrastructure improvements had been carried out, but the data and documentation had not yet been updated to UI GreenMetric system. So, we insured that all this was updated,” she explained. We also focus our efforts on determining the vision, mission, logo, tagline, and website for GreenMetric at PresUniv.
For the coming year, Temmy said, the strategy that will be carried out is to focus on those indicators where there still exists many opportunities for improvement. These indicators include energy, waste, and water. “We see that there are still many opportunities to improve our score on these three indicators. We need to install and build the appropriate infrastructure in order to improve our performace,” she said. Temmy hopes that our achievements will increase the understanding of the entire academic community and furher motivate them to in implementing additonal programs related to environmental management and sustainability on campus. (Gilang Suryanata, PR team. Photo: Gilang)
Source: https://president.ac.id/p/148-actual/detail/1384-president-univ-successfully-raises-rank-in-ui-gree