Discussion on extension of oversea campus and exchange program
[2009-10-13]
The party of Gensaft, the president of American Council on Education (fourth from the left) is taking memorial pictures at the entrance of Main Administration Building with president Lee, Hyo-Soo of Yeungnam University, etc,
President Judy Lynn Gensaft (female, 61) of American Council on Education had visited Yeungnam University on 13th.
She who is serving as president of University of South Florida for 9th year since May, 2000 is a power woman of American educational circles representing about 4,000 American universities at this time.
She who had also received honorary doctorate degree from Yeungnam University in Feb, 2006 had visited the university again. The reason is to discuss on extending dispatching scale of Yeungnam University's oversea campuses that are being installed and operated for 3rd year as well as promotion of exchange between universities.
Yeungnam University has installed an oversea campus at the University of South Florida for the first time in our country in 2007 and dispatched a total of 93 enrolled students until this year. University of South Florida has broken the custom of demanding expensive tuition reaching up to three or four times of the local students to foreigners and providing tuition and dormitory costs of equivalent standard as local students to Yeungnam University students. Yeungnam University has categorized the programs to 1 semester language training, 1 semester language training & 1 semester regular course and 2 semester regular course to provide the opportunity of advancing into oversea campus by having students select appropriate program for their own standard and necessity.
Especially since 2008, the exchange between medical schools became active to carry out a joint promotion of clinical practice and oversea internship such as 10 medical students from Yeungnam University being dispatched to the University of South Florida last year.
To this, president Gensaft said that "let the two universities make an effort together to provide as much opportunity as possible for the students to understand different perspectives and values from each other as well as communicating with other countries by extending oversea campus and exchange program" by saying that "Yeungnam University students are most excellent among many foreign students" at the opportunity of meeting president Lee, Hyo-Soo of Yeungnam University.
To this, president Lee, Hyo-Soo responded that "I hope we would become partners in contributing for the future of human race by giving concern on global problems such as the field of green, culture, medical and biotechnology together" by saying that "the mission given to universities throughout the world at this time is to raise glocal talents pursuing globalization and localization at the same time."
Meanwhile, the University of South Florida is 9th largest university in the United States which is proud of 46,000 enrolled students and 4 campuses. Especially, it had recently been assessed as Very High Research University by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as it had been acknowledged for superb research performance in the field of medicine and biotechnology such as being designated as a center performing a leading role in dementia related researches and treatments including Alzheimer, Parkinson and Huntington.
