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22 meter long ‘Tunnel Fountain’ at the front gate of the campus... Walk through the water spouts to cool down LED lights at night color the water spouts attracting people looking for things to see and places to rest Alumnus Choi Hyeok-young (Civil Engineering class of ‘63 donated 100 million KRW for installation costs saying, “I hope it can be a place of rest for students and the community’ The ‘108 fountain nozzles’ hope to wash away the concerns and anguish of visitors to the school [June 19, 2020] <YU Cheonma Tunnel Fountain> The ‘Cheonma Tunnel Fountain’ that gushes out streams of water to cool down the sweltering heat of ‘Daefrica (Daegu + Africa)’ was installed at YU (President Sur Gil-soo). YU installed the ‘Cheonma Tunnel Fountain’ at Cheonmajimun, which is the main gate of the Gyeongsan Campus, from December of last year to March of this year, and recently conducted test operations. The completion ceremony was held at 5 p.m. On June 19 prior to the regular operation for the summer season. The ‘Cheonma Tunnel Fountain’ is a tunnel-type fountain where people can walk into the fountain. It stands 3 meters tall, 6 meters wide, and 22 meters long, and there are a total of 108 fountain nozzles. The 108 fountain nozzles represent the meaning of washing away concerns and anguishes of people visiting the school through this fountain. A steel walkway was installed on top of the water and below the fountain tunnel allowing visitors to walk through the refreshing spouts of water to cool off in the summer. LED lights were installed on the nozzles to embroider the campus with lighted water gushes at night. The YU campus is frequently visited by members of the community thanks to its reputation of being a beautiful campus with the mirror pond, cherry blossoms and love road along Cheonma-daero in front of the main building of YU, and the path to the folk village. The YU Cheonma Tunnel Fountain will offer extravagant attractions and a place for rest from the entrance to the campus, and it is thus expected to attract even more students and community members. This fountain cost 100 million KRW and it was paid in full by YU Department of Civil Engineering class of ‘63 alumnus and president of the Choi Hyeok-young Scholarship Foundation Choi Hyuk-yeong (77) (right on above photo). This is not the first time that Mr. Choi gave a huge gift to his alma mater. In 2018, he paid for the entire cost for installing ‘Big Time’, the large clock on the upper exterior of the Central Library, which is a landmark of YU standing 80m high. Mr. Choi said, “I hope this can be a place of rest that students and community members can take a moment to rest at while visiting YU. I will continue to support the development of YU and my juniors at YU whenever I have the chance.” <Cheonma Tunnel Fountain (Night)> Mr. Choi is also generously supporting students. He founded the Choi Hyeok-young to continuously give scholarships to not only his juniors at his alma mater, but to high school and college students nationwide. Mr. Choi not only offers scholarships to students, but also acts as a mentor who communicates with students through letters. He valued each and every one of the letters sent by students who received scholarships and published a book titled ‘Dialog of Love’ and he published a total of three books starting with ‘Dialog of Love I’ in 2015.
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Received best evaluation thus receiving 7.8 billion KRW for second year project cost High evaluations for university long-term development plans and consistency Also received good assessments for achieving business goal and program operation performance [June 11, 2020] YU (President Sur Gil-soo) received the highest grade, ‘A’, in the first annual evaluation of the ‘University Innovation Support Project’ supported by the Ministry of Education and National Research Foundation. The University Innovation Support Project aims at improving the basic capacities of universities and support strategic specialization to respond to changes in the future society, while constructing a future-oriented creative personnel incubation system based on national innovative growth through the autonomous innovation of universities. The project period is from 2019 to 2021. The second year (2020) and third year (2021) project cost distribution will be supported in connection with the previous year’s annual evaluation results. Universities participating in the project are categorized into type 1 (autonomous agreement type) and type 2 (empowerment type). For type 1, 131 autonomous improvement universities based on the ‘2018 University Basic Capacity Diagnosis and Faculty Fostering Institute Diagnosis’ results participated in five regions (capital area/Daegu-Gyeongbuk-Gangwon/Chungcheong/Honam-Jeju/Busan-Ulsan-Gyeongnam regions). For type 2, 12 universities that passes the selection evaluation among 30 empowerment universities according to the ‘2018 University Basic Capacity Diagnosis’ results were selected. YU, which is under the type 1 Daegu-Gyeongbuk-Gangwon region, received the highest ranking in the 2019 annual evaluation with an ‘A’, and will thus receive about 7.8 billion KRW for the second year project funds. YU received approximately 6.5 billion KRW in the project cost for the first year last year. The University Innovation Support Project annual evaluation that the Ministry of Education notified to each university is the result of qualitative and quantitative evaluations for the first year project pursuance performance. In this evaluation, YU was assessed to have systematic internal and external analysis and diagnosis, and therefore, the University Innovation Support Project judged that YU had outstanding long-term development plans and consistency. Furthermore, it received good evaluations as its project goal was set in detail and reasonably, and for its first year project goal achievement and program operation performance. YU President Sur Gil-soo said “By receiving the top ranking in the first year of the University Innovation Support Project, the competitiveness and performance of the university innovation project being pursued by YU has been proven.” He added, “As we have procured more project funding by receiving the A rating, we will provide full support to achieve the goal of the University Innovation Support Project.”
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YU opens ‘HuStar Water Industry Innovation University Project Team’ on the 19th Signs ‘Water Industry Human Resource Fostering’ MOU with the Korea Environment Corporation National Water Industry Cluster Project Team Daegu City funds 3.9 billion KRW for project... Professors, companies and alumni gather development fund for the success of the project [June 19, 2020] <HuStar water industry innovation university project team opening ceremony> YU (President Sur Gil-soo) will accelerate its efforts to foster human resources for the water industry, which is a future growth engine. The ‘HuStar Water Industry Innovation University Project Team (Leader Jung Jin-young)’ was held at Room 524 of the Materials Hall at 2 p.m. on the 19th. The ceremony was attended by YU President Sur Gil-soo, Daegu Mayor Kwon Young-jin, professors, institutes participating in the project, corporate personnel, etc. <YU President Sur Gil-soo (left) giving a welcoming address and Daegu Mayor Kwon Young-jin (right)> The HuStar Innovation University Project is a project for fostering local human resources being pursued by Daegu City and Gyeongsangbuk-do. YU linked the Department of Civil Engineering and School of Chemical Engineering (chemical engineering system major) centering on the Department of Environmental Engineering to open the Smart Water System Convergence Major to pursue the HuStar Innovation University Project. The newly opened HuStar Water Industry Innovation University Project Team is expected to serve as a hub for the construction of local water industry infrastructure and to foster experts. Following the opening ceremony at around 3 p.m., an MOU ceremony (photo below) was held for the YU HuStar Water Industry Project Team and the Korea Environment Corporation National Water Industry Cluster Project Team. It aims at gathering the capacities of the two institutes to foster practical personnel by operating a curriculum based on water industry demands. The two institutes agreed to cooperate in ▲operating the water industry innovation human resource fostering course and ▲operating practical human resource fostering course using the national water industry cluster infrastructure. <From left to right: HuStar Water Industry Innovation University Project Team Leader Jung Jin-young, Korea Environment Corporation National Water Industry Cluster Project Team Leader Jung Sang-yong> YU President Sur Gil-soo said, “As a university equipped with education and research capacities partnered up with professional institutes and companies, while the local government provided administrative and financial support, the HuStar Water Industry Innovation University Project was placed in orbit,” and added, “Our university will take the lead to create synergy for fostering experts in fields related to water industry development through the construction of a government-academic-industry cooperation system.” In particular, the HuStar Water Industry Innovation University Project that YU is pursuing not only received 3.9 billion KRW in funding by Daegu City, but also donations by participating professors, companies and alumni, thus receiving huge momentum. Professor Jung Jin-young who is leading the project team and participating professors (Department of Environmental Engineering Professors Won Yang-soo, Lee Soon-hwa, Gong In-cheol, Kim Seung-hyeon, Jeon Gwan-soo) also donated 20 million KRW. Companies taking part in the HuStar Project together with YU such as Korea Fluid Technology (CEO Seo Sung-soo), Midni (CEO Choi In-jong), Tae Sung Engineering Consultants (CEO Jung Chang-hwa), HANIL ENG (CEO Yoon Beom-seok), KD (CEO Jung Tae-hwa) and ATT (CEO Kim Jae-cheol) donated a combined 33 million KRW. Alumni from the YU Department of Environmental Engineering also gathered a combined 10 million KRW to help support their juniors currently studying, thus gathering a total of 63 million KRW in development funds for the success of this project. The project team plans to use this development fund to build better educational infrastructure. Project Leader Jung Jin-young said, “It is expected that the HuStar Innovation University Project will contribute significantly in fostering local water industry experts in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions. It has added even more meaning through voluntary donations by not only participating professors, but also participating companies and alumni.” He added, “I hope that students will be able to develop their capacities in the nation’s best educational environment. YU will take the initiative in fostering innovative human resources in the water industry, which is a future growth engine.” Meanwhile, YU’s HuStar Water Industry Innovation University Project is receiving a lot of attention as it is expected to develop the future cash crop industry for the region, while creating jobs for youths. In particular, it is placing emphasis on constructing a system linked with the employment of students taking the courses, and it is thus expected to improve the employment rate of local students. An agreement was already entered to hire 42 people annually (as of 2022) with 21 water companies in the region, and anticipations about the project outcomes are high. In addition, discussions are being held actively for long-term internship programs linked to employment with relevant companies (field work) and therefore, synergy is expected to foster human resources and develop the local industry through industry-academic cooperation.
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Students share individual effective online learning methods and strategies Sharing in the outstanding work lecture portal system [June 18, 2020] The YU Education Development Center held the 2020 first semester ‘Extracurricular Learning Activity Online Contest - YU Online Learning Award’. This contest included submissions related to efficient online lecture utilization plans in the current situation where students have no choice but to take online classes due to COVID-19. In the contest, individual effective online learning methods and strategies were shared through creative and smart knowhow produced using PPT, voice and recording methods. The submitted works contained various novel methods compared to offline classes by freely using time and space amidst the environment of online classes. The awards ceremony for the YU Online Learning Award was also held online. All winners excluding grand prize winners participated in the awards ceremony remotely via Google Meet. The YU Online Learning Award confirmed that our students have the ability to come up with their own learning methods and put it into practice amidst the confusing situation where all classes are held remotely this semester. The purpose of this contest was to help students upgrade their leaning capacities and methods through online classes and find this method on their own. Works submitted to the contest were reviewed focusing on production relativity, uniqueness, and possibility to spread the case. The awarded works will be opened first in extracurricular courses within the school’s lecture portal system from June 22 (Mon) and will be shared to all students. A total of one person won the grand prize, three silver medals and six bronze medals. Han Jin-ah (Department of Electrical Engineering, senior) with ‘My Online Study Strategy’. This contained an idea to elevate learning goal achievement rates through the ‘small but certain happiness point system (3-stage study motivation strategy)’. Education Development Center Director Kim Geun-ho (Professor at the Department of Forest Resources and Landscape Architecture) said, “We are currently operating programs such as online study consulting, YU Can Do, etc. to strengthen the learning capacities of students. We are also planning to various contests, IT empowerment programs, and learning method lectures with the goal of sharing outstanding study strategies and improving study capacities in the second semester.”
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Only private university outside of the Seoul area placed in the top 10 Analyzed alma maters of 134 CEOs of the top 100 companies finding 4 CEOs from YU [May 19, 2020] YU (President Sur Gil-soo) was placed 7th in the ranking for universities that graduated CEOs of the top 100 companies in Korea. It was the only private university outside of the Seoul area placed in the top 10. The current events magazine, Economist, analyzed the alma maters of 134 CEOs in the top 100 companies in Korea. In result, YU was found to have graduated four of the CEOS, thus placing seventh place. Seoul National University topped the list with 29 people, followed by Korea University (16), Yonsei University (12), Sungkyunkwan University (9), Hanyang University (8), and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (5). YU, Kyungpook National University and Pusan National University tied for seventh with four people each, while Sogang University and Konkuk University completed the top 10 list by graduating two CEOs. Meanwhile, YU was ranked ninth in the nation in the college rankings for graduating CEOs in the listed subsidiaries of the top 30 domestic groups as analyzed by Data News in February of this year, and ninth place in the CEO graduating college rankings for the top 500 companies in Korea analyzed by the corporate business performance evaluation website, CEO Score in July of last year.
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Signed MOU with the Air Force and will select 20 freshmen in the 2021 school year Generous support including full four-year scholarship, free textbooks, and training at competent agencies Specialized curriculum including aviation theories, flight simulation, and commissioning as ‘Air Force pilot officer’ after graduation [June 1, 2020] <Students in the YU air transportation course in flight simulation> YU (President Sur Gil-soo) signed an MOU with the Air Force on May 1 and will open the ‘Department of Air Transportation’ that fosters Air Force pilot officers. YU is the only university to select Air Force pilot scholarship students in humanities tracks through an MOU with the Air Force. With this MOU, 20 freshmen will be selected for the Department of Air Transportation from the 2021 school year. YU has been selecting and educating Air Force pilot scholarship students in the air transportation track within the College of Basic Studies School of Free Majors, and up until now, 39 were commissioned as Air Force officers. One of the graduates in February 2020 received the Air Force Chief of Staff Award, thus being recognized for the excellence of the education program. YU decided to establish an independent Department of Air Transportation in order to foster expert Air Force pilot officers by operating a more systematic education process. The new Department of Air Transportation will be a department under the College of Business and Economics, and upon graduation, students will receive a bachelor’s degree in trade. Education will focus on and be specialized for the Air Force including aviation theories, practical aviation English, flight simulation, and piloting science. All graduates will be appointed as Air Force pilot officers. After completing the pilot education program, students will serve as Air Force pilots and after serving as a military officer, they can continue their career in aviation such as civil aviation pilots. Freshmen in the YU Department of Air Transportation will be selected after reviewing their high school transcripts and college entrance examination grades, as well as physical and aptitude tests, fitness tests, and interviews, etc. All students will receive four full-year tuition scholarships. In addition, they will receive 600,000 KRW for textbook costs per semester, as well as training at relevant agencies, and benefits will go so far to also provide dormitories for all freshmen. YU President Sur Gil-soo said, “With the full-fledged support of the Air Force, we were able to establish air the Department of Air Transportation while fostering expert Air Force pilot officers,” while adding, “We hope that students in humanities tracks will be able to realize their dreams of becoming Air Force pilots at the YU Department of Air Transportation.”
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Student Consulting Center operates ‘customized psychological quarantine consulting programs’ for freshmen and students preparing for employment Various online group consulting programs such as art therapy, cinema therapy, and photo therapy highly popular [June 3, 2020] <A researcher at the YU Student Consulting Center is holding a meeting with ‘YU PEER Supporters’ students> Psychological quarantine consulting conducted by YU (President Sur Gil-soo) to overcome the Corona Blues (COVID-19 induced depression) is receiving huge popularity among students. The YU Student Consulting Center provides psychological quarantine consulting customized to students. It aims at providing psychological stability to students complaining of depression and stress due to the prolonging of COVID-19. The face-to-face consulting of the past have been changed to various non-face-to-face consulting programs such as by phone or video conferencing. Various online group consulting programs were opened including art therapy, cinema therapy, and photo therapy and participants will be invited until June 11. About 100 students applied to participate as of now, and the program started from June 3. In particular, customized consulting programs per grade attracted attention. In the case of the ‘Wise College Life’ for freshmen, it is expected to be very helpful to freshmen having trouble adapting to college life being deprived of normal college life as most events including orientation, admissions ceremony, freshmen welcoming events were canceled due to COVID-19. Consulting programs for older students suffering from psychological and emotional difficulties while preparing for employment are also very popular. The YU Student Consulting Center selected the ‘YU PEER Supporters’ and have been actively promoting the center’s programs and activities. The YU PEER Supporters made up of a total of 10 students in three teams have been producing card news, webtoons and videos to prevent the Corona Blues and suicide to share the information through the center’s homepage, official social media accounts, and the personal blogs of supporters. The ‘Y Peer Program’ is another program using for psychological quarantine consulting. ‘Y Peer’ refers to peer-aged consultants of YU. This is a mentor-mentee program where students who completed mentor training act as consultants for other students having trouble or a hard time adapting to college life. <Researchers at the YU Student Consulting Center are holding a seminar> The YU Student Consulting Center has opened and is operating special online lectures. It is also working on improving the student counseling capacities of instructors by producing student consulting guidebooks and suicide crisis response manuals. In the future, plans are to find and share excellent cases on consulting and interviews of YU professors. YU Student Consulting Center Director Lim Sung-woo said, “We expect that there are many students having psychological difficulties due to the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. If such students receive assistance from the experts, it will help with their mental health immensely.” He added, “There are some students who are unaware of the various programs of the Student Consulting Center or who may feel reluctant to ask for assistance. The Student Consulting Center will develop various programs that can help students and we will spare no effort in promoting and supporting it so that more students can participate.” Meanwhile, the YU Student Consulting Center is made up of career and psychological consulting and education-related experts such as consulting psychologists, youth advisers, professional consulting teachers, and professional consultants. The Center is continuously striving to construct a crisis response system among universities in Daegu and Gyeongbuk, and it is working hard to improve the mental health of students through an MOU with the Gyeongsan Mental Health Center and Daegu Youth Consulting Welfare Center.
