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2016 대교협 하계 세미나…"대학 특성 존중돼야"
2016 KCUE Summer Seminar calling for institutional respectability

JNU President Huh Hyang Jin stressed that the government increase its investment in the nation’s higher education at the Korean Council for University Education (KCUE, President) Summer meeting held at Maison Glad Hotel, Jeju, earlier today (June 23, 2016).

He pointed out that the apparent budgetary increases for higher education in recent years are offset by declining financial support for the institutional competitiveness program, as reflected in the fact that the current level of government investment in the nation’s higher education is below that of the OECD national average.

The KCUE president said “To develop and play critical roles in the nation’s higher education the society’s interest and support are essential and to create the new knowledge and educate the globally competitive leaders the government must expand its investment area and assure the universities to be autonomous.”

He further commented that institutional characteristics of each individual university must be respected and that any infrastructural reform should not be a mere reduction in enrollment, but rather be based on independency and greater public interest in higher education.

Other members of the council including Choi Il (President, Mokpo National University) and Kim Sung Ik (President, Sam Yook University) also addressed the issues confronting their respective institutions.

The KCUE members adopted the resolution entitled “Proposals of New Take-Off Steps for the Universities.”. The council decided to distribute the resolution to the government and the national assembly.

The KCUE meeting was attended by 120 presidents of the 4-year colleges and universities in the country.

The second day program features a special lecture by Professor Lee Jin Hoo, POSTECH, who will speak the title talk ‘Philosophical Leadership in the Darwinian Era.”