Group decision support system model to determine prospective participants for lecturer strengthening activities

Sriwijaya State Polytechnic is one of the state vocational universities in Indonesia which plays an important role in producing alumni with adequate expertise. Efforts are being made to achieve this goal through increasing the competence of lecturers in the Higher Education environment. The program is realized by carrying out lecturer strengthening activities which are divided into 5 activities, namely 1) assignment research, 2) assignment service, 3) workshops and training, 4) competency certification, and 5) industrial internship. This study aims to build a model group decision support system (GDSS) for management in universities to determine lecturers who will participate in lecturer strengthening activities. The method used is a combination of Multifactor Evaluation Process (MFEP) and Borda. The MFEP method is used to generate recommendations from each decision maker independently, while the Borda method is used to perform aggregation and final ranking of the recommended alternatives. In this built GDSS model, there are 8 criteria and 20 alternatives involved in testing the proposed model. The results of this study can be used by management in universities in group decision making, and as a research model in group decision support systems.