Ditgrasi USU Invites Academic Community: "Just Google It, Everything Becomes Easy!"

Under the roadmap for transformation towards excellence, Ditgrasi views digital independence as the key to achieving institutional superiority.

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The Directorate of Digitalization and System Integration at Universitas Sumatera Utara (Ditgrasi USU) presents this initiative as a proactive response to the main challenges of the information era: data overload and lack of search efficiency. Under the roadmap for transformation towards excellence, Ditgrasi views digital independence as the key to achieving institutional superiority.

Ditgrasi encourages the use of search engines not just generally, but strategically, particularly to support:

1. Teaching and Learning (Students): Students are encouraged to use advanced search techniques (such as site:usu.ac.id) to ensure they obtain official campus references and avoid hoaxes or outdated information. This initiative strengthens source validation skills.

2. Research (Lecturers and Researchers): The utilization of tools like Google Scholar is encouraged to accelerate literature reviews. With specific keyword search capabilities, this improves both the speed and quality of research outputs.

3. Administration and Service (Education Personnel): Education Personnel are encouraged to direct routine questions to easily searchable information sources. This frees staff from repetitive tasks and allows them to focus on services requiring human intervention and deeper analysis.

Moving forward, the "Google-in Aja" (Just Google It) campaign will be integrated with a series of digital capability improvement programs organized by Ditgrasi. These programs will include short workshops on Information Ethics and Security.

By mastering the skills of searching and filtering information in the digital world, the USU academic community will become more efficient, productive, and ready to face global competition, aligning with USU's grand goal of achieving excellence.