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▶RivalrywithKAISTandPOSTECH
Shin Hyung-wook who is in charge of the merger and
abolition has also insisted that the loss will be much bigger
if the campuses are not unified. If the two campuses remain
separate, both of them will be classified in the category of
medium-sized universities where the competitive universities
gathered specialize in areas such as engineering, like KAIST
and POSTECH. In this pool, HUFS, which specializes in
▲ Policy-makers come together to discuss the need for the restructuring of private
foreign languages, has no place to attract the spot light. Shin
universities.
added that the more HUFS appears in the media, the higher
broughtoutthesectionalismandaggravatedthediscrimination
the benefits it receives. However, competing with medium-
against the branch campus due to its relatively lower cut-
sizeduniversitieswillmakeHUFSlosesuchopportunities.
off scores. Therefore, merging the two different universities
should be carefully analyzed as it is a sensitive issue among
the students. However, administrative officials insist that it is
WorryandProblemsoverUnification
inevitable and very important for the development of HUFS
and a better future. Then, why are they claiming that the
▶Unilateralpushingforwardwithoutdiscussion
mergerisimportant?
The administrative officials are pushing the unification
forward based on the reasons mentioned above in support of
mergingthetwoschools.However,itisnotthatsimpleasthey
▶Ratingsofuniversityevaluationdowngraded
Every year, the rankings of universities are identified by the
are judging based on the duplicated majors existing on both
university evaluation ratings determined by the press. HUFS
campuses. According to the regulations about mergers and
explainsthatifthetwocampusesdonotmergeintoone,both
abolitions,theremustbeoneunifiedmajorforbothcampuses,
of them will be downgraded in the evaluation. Even though
which implies that one of them should be abolished or their
the two branches have been under the same institutional
nameschanged.Therearesixduplicatemajorsintotal:English
umbrella,separateassessmentswillbeappliedbecauseoftheir
Interpretation and Translation (EIT), Economics, Russian,
different legal statuses. In this case, the Seoul campus, which
French, Hindi and Portuguese. In terms of those majors, the
does not have an engineering department, will receive lower
Planning and Coordination department announced that their
scoresduetothelackofanSCIpaper.Forthebranchcampus,
namesandcurriculumwillbechangedalittlebittosatisfythe
the grades regarding globalization will decrease as it has a
conditionsrequiredforunification.
smaller number of foreign students. “To prevent the lower
However, students, especially those majoring in EIT at
ratings,unificationofthetwoschoolsmustbecompleted,”said
the Seoul Campus, are implacably opposed to the change
Shin Hyung-wook from the Planning and the Coordination
of their departmental name to ‘English Communication
Department. He also estimates that government grants and
InterpretationandTranslation.’LimHyo-won,thechiefinthe
aid will be reduced due to lower grades resulting from the
EITdepartment’sTaskForceTeamopposingthenamechange
universityevaluation.
said, “None of the school officials ever asked our opinion
about changing the name. English Communication? What on
earth is that? We are studying interpretation and translation,
▶Smallnumberofstudents,smallpossibilityofsuccess
Merging two separate schools into one unified university
notcommunication.”Sheaddedthattheywoulddoanythingto
means that the number of students has doubled. Compared to
protecttheiridentity.
otheruniversitiesthathavemorethan10,000students,thereare
merely8,000studentsstudyingateachcampusofHUFS.“No
▶Noconcreteplanspreparingforaftertheunification
matterhowexcellenttheHUFSansare,numericalinferiorityis
Apartfromtheproblemsrelatedtotheprocessofunification,
difficult to overcome,” said Jun Hak-sun, a professor from the
there still remain questions arising about what happens
CollegeofLaw.Forthisreason,thenumbersofstudentsfrom
after the unification. If the two schools are merged, students
bigger universities seem to outnumber HUFS students who
from both campuses will be able to take courses anywhere
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