CNU (Chungnam National University) was selected to four financial supporting projects sponsored by the government. These projects are the ACE project, LINC business project, CK project, and a financial support project business for the university contributing to the normalization of high school education. CP (Chungdae Post) cub-reporter could feel CNU’s sincere desire and effort to offer a better place for CNU students. This conversation is just the beginning!

ACE project
Advancement of College Education

1. The ACE Project and CNU

   CNU was selected as a beneficiary of the “2014 ACE (Advancement of College Education).” This project is selecting high performing universities and supporting them financially. Ninety six universities applied for this ACE project and it showed a high competition rate as 7.4:1. But in spite of this tough competition, in the “large scale university category,” just 3 universities including CNU were selected. CNU will be supported by 2.3 billion won annually for 4 years.

2. What Does the ACE Project Aim for?
   There are 3 aims for this ACE Business project. First, to “Change the university’s interest from selecting competent students to teaching well.” Second, to “Upgrade university education’s quality and competitiveness.” Third, the “Promotion of universities’ diversity and originality through the reestablishment of considering for each university’s circumstances and characteristics, not just going after so-called university ranks.”
   For these aims, CNU will promote making “S.T.R.O.N.G” students utilizing the supporting fund. “S.T.R.O.N.G” is an abbreviation of 6 core abilities, “Self-management,” “Talk With,” “Relationship,” “Originality Convergence,” “Nature,” and “Global.“ Cultivating these 6 core abilities, CNU wants to produce “Emotional Global Leaders who have creative knowledge.“ And for this, CNU plans to make a 3-dimensional education system, ▲Student Competition (Competition based by university education focusing on student) ▲Life Cycle (University’s open education harmonious relationship with the life cycle) ▲Education Experience (Originality-fusion university education which leads to change). CNU will create a leading model by implementing this 3-dimensional education system.
   CNU will counteract rapidly to keep abreast with changing education circumstances through the S.T.R.O.N.G 3-dimensional leading model and try to meet social needs by providing whole-person education with rationality and sensibility.


LINC business
Leaders in Industry-university Cooperation

1. LINC Business and CNU
   CNU was also selected as a beneficiary of 2nd upper level LINC (Leaders in Industry-university Cooperation). So CNU will be supported with a 14 billion won grant for 3 years. CNU has undertaken this first-level the LINC since 2012 and also was again selected to perform the LINC project this year. Thirty four departments’ students from 10 colleges and 38 graduate school students will take part in this project.

2.CNU LINC’s Vision and Motto
   CNU LINC’s vision is the “Vitalization of ChungCheong megaregional Red Biotechnology through university-industry cooperation.” For this, LINC is using several strategies and setting goals to attain this vision. In addition, the LINC group made “MOTTOES” for this project. Mottoes are the following. “Motivation (cultivation of students’ talent through motivation),” “Energizing (fulfilment of industry through energizing each other),” “Development (student development),” “International (cultivation of international students),” “Transcending (aim for amalgamative study transcending existing medical industry),” “Enterprise (cultivation of students with a spirit of enterprise),” “Cooperating,” and “Harmonizing.”
   Based on these Mottoes and using infrastructure around university, CNU LINC will do a lot of activity to achieve that vision.

3. LINC’s Several Supporting Program for Students

 
   LINC’s major business project can be divided into 3 part. First, “Employment support part.” Second, “Education support.” Third, “Vitalization linkup between school and commerce.” Especially in the employment support part, LINC will support several programs such as a language ability improvement program, internship and work experience connection program. Also LINC will support founding and running clubs. In addition, LINC supports a lot of various programs now. If you want to get more information about this project, you can visit this web site! (http://linc.cnu.ac.kr)

CK Project
University for Creative Korea

 
1. What is the CK Project?
   The CK project, supported by the Ministry of Education, is a differentiated university project. One hundred sixty universities and 989 groups applied for this project and resulted in a severely high competition on a national scale. The CK project aims to foster university specialization inducing the university reform. This project is divided into CK-1 and CK-2. CK-1 is aimed at universities located at the country while CK-2 is aimed at universities located in the capital area. The Ministry of Education is supposed to invest 203.1 billion won for CK-1 and 54.6 billion won for CK-2 in 2014 totally supporting 1.2 trillion in five years. This project also aims to guarantee internal stability of education quality and to autonomically reduce the number of university entrances in preparation for drastically reducing the number of high school students.

2. Features of the CK Project
   There are three main characteristics of the CK project. First, the society of humanities course and art, music and physical education course showed marked participation as compared with past distribution of educational finance. Forty-three percent of society of humanities course and 10% of art, music and physical education courses which are based on prosperity of culture are participated in this project among the 989 business groups. Second, academic departments of various disciplines were associated with or integrated in to cultivate students who can have problem-solving abilities. Sixty-seven percent of whole business groups were composed of convergence business groups for cultivating talent fusion. Finally, it is expected to contribute to the balanced regional development through the university specialization which magnifies the regional characteristics like international business experts, bio-technology, display, agricultural life, and so on. It will help local universities to lead the community in the 21st century.

3. The CK Project and CNU
   Chungnam National University will be financially supported by 7 billion won for 5 years. The Ministry of Education and National Research Foundation announced the lists of selected universities on June 30. CNU’s 9 business groups were selected, which ranked as the top out of all universities applied for this project. Seven billion won would be supported, which is the largest amounts along with Chonbuk National University and Yeungnam National University. Chungnam National University was selected as an example of an excellent specialized university because CNU employed new strategies and accomplished structural reforms focusing on combining similar departments and cultivating creative students who got talented. This project is expected to give CNU students a better learning environment to study majors with future possibilities. They can create a diversity of opinions and studies while CNU supports them and their diversity.

4. The CK Project and CNU’s Weakness
   CP cub-reporter thinks the CK project is a double-edged sword. Students enter CNU with their hopeful dreams. However, CNU has experienced the unilateral abolition and combination of departments. CNU administration officers combined similar departments only to get CK project’s funding without discussing this matter with relevant department professors and students. Can students who entered that department which is the target of university reform plan have a dream in their campus life and future? The CK project is to make a better place that students can study whatever students study. Therefore, CNU needs to prepare counter-measures for departments that have weak competition at the same time. CP cub-reporter hopes CNU to become a top national university where it is a good place for studying.

Support Projects for University Contributing to The Normalization of High School Education

1. What is This Support Project?
   It induces university to implement desirable polices helpful for contributing to the normalization of high school education. It is a follow-up supporting project for strengthening the admission officer system begun in 2008. This project was implemented for the first time this year by evaluating which university’s admission system exerts good influences on high school education.

2. This Support Projects and CNU
   The Ministry of Education and Korean Council for University Education selected CNU for contributing to the normalization of high school education. CNU is going to be funded 560 million won. CNU will concentrate on simplification of college admission system and improvement of university admission system which can be helpful for normalization of high school education. In addition, CNU tries to make a “CNU EDU-Bridge” project model that connects high school, university and research institute for normalizing public education. Students who are prepared for the university can apply for CNU, and many opportunities will be given to competent students.

Ha Ye-ji | By CP cub-reporters, Jeong Su-yeon | By CP cub-reporters

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