Freewriting - About Hanyang newpaper's attitude on goverment's university reformation (Kim min Joon / 김민준)

Few days ago, I read our school newspaper. In there, I saw this article.

University structural Refomation, Enjoy it if you can not avoid it

What?

 

Particularly, department of liberal arts, social science, and fine arts have a high possibility of sacrificing. however, we must comtemplate the school's position. Hanyang university is private university, so it has to consider a profitability. we can't shift the blame for reducing the department that unfavorable at reputation or employment rate onto university authority.

 

 

To being a world-famous and research-oriented university, graduate school must be developed. Lee said, "reducing the undergraduate course can make graduate course reinforced and help our school being a research-oriented university." Meanwhile, Kim said, "many index like power elite postering index, can be influenced if we don't reform the structure of our school"

 

Demanding to media to remain politically neutral is not always right and cannot. However, Their tone of an argument is highly partial.  Newspaper has one-side bargain in government's university reformation. 'it's difficult to be chosen in capital attracting if school disapproves of government's reformation policy.' is Hanyang newspaper's attitude. They don't have any intention to listen the contrary views. In addition, when opponents said 'only pure academic course like liberal arts or fine arts will be sacrificed unilaterally.', school authority and paper announced that  appraisal standards which decides the number of reducing students or merging department are relatively fair. I think it means that department which falls short of the standards will be reduced. Features of the department are not important.

 

Kun Kook univ. and Choong Ang univ. are very unroarious because of authorities' one-sided reformation.

 

 

In my opinion, tertiary education's primary purpose is not making student empolyed or obtaining profits. 'Education' must be student-oriented, not business-oriented. Especially, university must give a quality education which makes student critical and creative. Employment is not the main role of the university. some educator said, 'education must be progressive to make student thinking critically, and be conservative to told the society's important moral rule.' I extremely argree.