Pukyong National University

"Attempts that haven't been before ... Make campus more attractive to come, to Pukyong National University"
The Kookje Daily News, <Hearing about 'Local University's UP' directly from university presidents>

△ An interview article with President Jang Young-Soo published in the Kookje Daily News.

On 26th January, the Kookje Daily News introduced in detail the 'Making an Attractive Pukyong National University' project that Pukyong National University is currently promoting under the banner of 'New beginning'.

This newspaper featured an interview with Jang Young-soo, the president of Pukyong National University, as the second article in the year-round planning series <Hearing about 'Local University's UP' directly from university presidents> on all 14 pages on this day. It is a series to meet the presidents of each university one after another to hear the strategy to overcome the crisis in the university.

The title of the interview is 'Students create majors and AI manages curriculum… System of the future is our competitiveness'.

This article said, "In the two-hour interview, Jang reiterated the 'disciplinary convergence'. The article introduced, "President Jang said that it is the 'killer contents' of Pukyong National University. 'Innovation equivalent to creativity' is possible based on this."

The article's focus on this day was the 'Student Designed Major' of Pukyong National University.

The article said, "The 'Student Designed Major', which has been unprecedented in universities nationwide, will be introduced in the spring semester of this coming March at the College of Natural Sciences," and added, "The core of this is to deviate from the traditional department major and create the major subject that students actually want."

It prospected, "Students enter the department of a specific college, but as soon as their career becomes shapes up, they can take related majors and liberal arts courses to gain expertise and graduate. New majors may be created that have not been operated in domestic universities so far."

In this regard, President Jang said, "In collaboration with company, we built a 'data-based student career management system', an artificial intelligence platform. When the student's desired career direction is indicated in the system, AI guides the suitable major according to the subject, also manages the career of non-subject study (interns, extramural activities, etc.)."

The recently completed academic restructuring of Pukyong University was also a major issue.

The newspaper introduced, "The key is to integrate three or four departments into one division," and added, "Although there were many fusions of similar areas, such as double majors and minors, it is difficult to find cases in which a student created a convergence department or a department that seemed to have little connection was integrated into one division."

In an interview, President Jang stressed, "It (academic restructuring) is decisive challenge to cultivate the '4th industrial talent' that society demands."

President Jang emphasized the profit-making business as a plan for the university's financial expansion.

The newspaper introduced the president Jang's strategies, such as ▷establishing a venture by students and professors on the Yongdang Campus, ▷and creating a 'World Food Street' on the campus where people can taste the world's food in connection with the UN Special Peace and Culture Zone.