Selected as an Outstanding University in Education Specialization by Korea University Newspaper
New Start through Campus Integration, Promoting Specialization in ‘IT, CT, BT, and Foreign Language’
Dankook University was selected as an outstanding university in Education Specialization at the ‘Grand Prize Award Ceremony held by the Korean University Newspaper.
In celebration of its 25th anniversary, The Korean University Newspaper held a Grand Prize Award Ceremony to reward the universities that contributed to the development of higher education in Korea through various endeavors.
This year, a total of 13 universities around the nation including Dankook University, Kookmin University, Soongsil University, and Incheon University were selected. Dankook University was selected as an outstanding university in education specialization, and the award ceremony took place at the International Conference room on the 20th floor of the Gwanghwamoon Press Center on October 15, at 4:30pm.
The Korean University Newspaper said that it selected Dankook University for its effort in establishing a specialization at each campus, its subject unit control plan, and its contribution in suggesting university specialization such as building a base to enforce future competencies through campus integration.
University-Industry Cooperation Vice President Lee Gye-hyung who attended the ceremony said “(he will) put more efforts in enforcing university competence for its basic strategy of enforcing university enforcement.”
New Start through Campus Merge, Transformation from Main•Satellite University System to Campus System
Dankook University has been focusing on the development of specific majors in each campus based on each campus’s location and the strong points of specific majors; it has specialized the Jukjeon campus with IT(Information and Technology) and CT(Cultural contents) while specializing the Cheonan campus with BT(Bio-technology/life science), and foreign languages.
For this, it has recently established a research institution focusing on university policy which will pull up the specialization of each major. Also, it merged existing similar majors in each campus to focus on developing majors that are suitable for the specialization of each campus. Also, it enforced competency of related majors by adding majors that are suitable for specialized fields.
Through this, it has added 14 new majors in humanities and society as well as life science during the past 2 years. Based on these, on June 27th 2013, Dankook University received approval for a main-satellite university merge from the Ministry of Education, and therefore it will be transformed from a university system to a campus system in 2014. Dankook University will be strengthening the capacity of the university while vitalizing research on convergence and integration centered on similar majors to reinforce competency between majors while creating a synergy effect.