In 1940, Sejong University created a place of learning dedicated to excellence in education and research. Years of this endeavor have resulted in one of Korea's most distinguished and prominent academic institutions. Sejong is now poised to take another leap, aiming to become a university with global recognition.
Today, we are witnessing the rapid transformation of our knowledge-based society built on a robust IT industry into the so-called "Smart Society" underpinned by wide-ranging mobile devices, facilitating a ubiquitous development environment person-to-person, person-to-object, and object-to-object communication can occur in real-time. This change of enormous magnitude poses challenges for universities everywhere that question their reason for being. The current times demand nothing less than a fundamental change and innovation and a paradigm shift in research and education.
Gratefully, Sejong University was early to spot these changes and has proactively responded to them. This led to many valuable accomplishments: the university was named a Resource and education.
Gratefully, Sejong University was early to spot these changes and has proactively responded to them. This led to many valuable accomplishments:
- The university was named a Resource Development Specialization University.
- Its business school was re-awarded the international AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) certification.
- The Graphene Research Institute was named a Priority Research Center by the National Research Foundation of Korea. The university was awarded a Brain Korea 21 project.
- The Department of National Defense System was newly created.
Faced with these recent challenges, the university has adopted the PLB (Problem-Based Learning) approach, expanded its internship and industry-academia partnership programs, and added inter-disciplinary courses and classics courses to facilitate multi-disciplinary thinking, establishing a curriculum that stresses the three core values of the Smart Era – Creativity, Specialty and Ethics. In terms of educational infrastructure, we implemented a next-generation integrated system to build a "Smart Campus" that enables "Ubiquitous Education."
These efforts will provide a foundation for the university to combine the research capabilities that put the university's science, technology, and engineering departments among the top ten in Korea and the strengths of its art & physical education department that is one of the best in the country to fuel the new growth engine and serve as a hotbed for entrepreneurship and innovation, which is expected to help ease the youth unemployment problem. As part of this effort, we created a plan to open a Sejong-TED entrepreneurship school capitalizing on information and communication technologies and Sejong's competence in the fields of design and entertainment. This school will be open to anyone interested in starting a business and is expected to help the university proactively respond to the global economy's challenges. A university that leads change, instead of reacting to it, communicates with the world to bring changes to the world and plays a vital role in turning the world into one unified community: the future we envision and what we aspire to become.
We have dreams and the capability and passion for turning them into reality, which will allow us to write new history every day. And we will continue on this path of new challenges and creative innovation.
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