Yonsei Precollege Experience

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience A Comprehensive
College Preparation Package for Freshman Students
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Yonsei Pre-college ExperienceA comprehensive
College Preparation Package for Freshman Students
Presenter Han, Bonghwan onepack_at_yonsei.ac.kr Kim,
Hyunsang jimkim_at_yonsei.ac.kr Code
545 University College, Yonsei
University http//www.yonsei.ac.kr/eng/ 2006
NACADA Annual Conference
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Institutional Information

• Yonsei University
• A four year private university located in the
  heart of Seoul, South Korea.
• Founded in 1885, it has been one of the leading
  institutions
• 36,000 students in 19 colleges, 89 departments, 1
  graduate school, 17 professional graduate schools

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Institutional Information

• University College
• A college for the students who are not admitted
  to their choices of majors
• Established in 1999
• About 5000 students in 6 divisions
• The first institution implemented professional
  academic advising system in Korea
• 17 full time professional advisors

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Yonsei Pre-college Experience how It got Started
• Program Objectives
• What Should Be Contained in the Program
• Program Overview
• Program in Detail
• Program Schedule
• Program Operation
• Evaluation
• Tips
• Conclusion
• Q A

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• How It Got Started
• University A whole new world for entering
  students!
• New educational environment
• Different social network
• Different things to enjoy

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• How It Got Started
• A typical Korean high school students life
• School hour 8 to 5 or 10
• Private after-school program to midnight and
  weekend
• Set schedule in and out of school
• Fixed classroom one teacher, 3040
  students/class
• How to have them ready for college?
• A critical issue for us

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• How It Got Started
• Why not have them experience all those in
  advance?
• To provide an opportunity to experience college
  life before school starts

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• How It Got Started
• To provide an opportunity to
• Do class registration
• See various student clubs
• Sample lectures
• Obtain academic skills
• Be introduced to different things to enjoy
• Participate team building exercise
• Familiarize with different academic fields

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Program Objectives
• Promote Christian Leadership
• Have students adequately prepared for college
• Advance a sense of belonging to Yonsei community
• First year in college is not about never-ending
  parties and social engagements. Take college
  seriously!

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• What Should be Contained in the Program
• What is university Understanding university
• What is Yonsei History of Yonsei, its vision
• What to think understanding of the world
• What to learn different academic disciplines
• How to survive college survival tips
• How to enjoy different ways of enjoying life

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Program Overview
• 3 consecutive day campus-wide event
• - January 17 to 19, 2006(Tues, Wed and Thurs)
• 1st Semester starts in March in Korea
• Participants

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Program Overview
• Division involved Office of academic affairs,
  student affairs, student housing office,
  continuing education division, student
  government, university college and etc
• Efficient Collaboration between different
• administrative divisions is very important!

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Program in Detail
• Keynote Address
• - What Is University
• - What Is Yonsei Its Foundation and Vision
• - Building Positive Self-Image Through College
  Life
• All students are required. Held in auditorium
• College Survival Workshop
• - Planning College Life
• - Effective Interpersonal Communication Skills
• - Power Presentation

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Program in Detail
• College Survival Workshop
• - College Study Skills
• - Understanding Gender Roles
• - College Writing and Power Reading
• Unit based workshop. Common courses
• Understanding of the World
• - Are You Liberal or Conservative?
• - Division and Reunification Political tension
  in Korean Peninsular
• - Globalization Is It Good or Bad?

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Program in Detail
• Understanding of the World
• - Religious Pluralism and Spirituality
• - Environmental Crisis Our Life in Danger
• - Digital Nomad in the 21st Century
• - Cultural Context of 21st Century
• Registration required. 2 units in a lecture
• Edutainment
• - Wine and Culture, Coffee and life, Magic
  Manipulating Visual
• Perception, Dress for Success Fashion Tips
  for Freshmen, Diet
• and Fitness and etc
• Registration required

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Program in Detail
• Major Fair(89 majors)
• - Humanities, Social Science, Natural Science,
  Engineering
• Additional activities
• - Coffee talk with professors of your intended
  majors
• - School club performance, AKARAKA
  (Cheer-leading team
• performance)

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Program Schedule

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Program Operation
• Yonsei Pre-college Experience TF team(7) started
  in August
• - took approximately 4 months for the event
• University College Played a coordinator between
  offices
• - mediated between different divisions,
  coordinated various
• interests
• Senior Mentors key for efficient operation
• - Preparation meeting held a week prior to the
  event
• Full support and commitment from key decision
  makers
• - budget(140K), to promote faculty involvement
  and etc
• meticulous planning

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Student Evaluation
• By Category

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Student Evaluation
• Program Operation

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Student Evaluation
• What was good
• - I would have never known Yonseis history and
  its vision
• - I got to know what college class is going to
  be like
• - It was very helpful overall
• What could have been better
• - Too many lectures. Needed something that
  students can
• participate
• - Lectures were somewhat shallow. One subject
  in depth
• approach would have been better
• - More practical subjects should have been
  covered
• - No time to get to know my unit friends and
  seniors mentors
• - It is too tight!

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Faculty Evaluation
• Program Operation

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Faculty Evaluation
• What was good
• - Senior mentors were eager to help each
  student
• What could have been better
• - More lectures with lager selection
• - Quality control on each lecture
• - More time for socializing among students

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Senior Mentors Evaluation
• Program Operation

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Senior Mentors Evaluation
• What was good
• - Efficient program operation
• - each part of the program was right on the
  goal
• what Could Have Been Better
• - Program should be organized from a students
  perspective
• - Lecture should cover something practical
• - Should be more fun. Too boring for students
• - Campus tour and free time!
• - Team building activities we want to know
  each other!

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Overall Evaluation
• A great opportunity to experience parts of
  college life in
• advance
• Senior mentors and unit faculty Leaders were
  highly
• evaluated
• More interactive, better evaluated
• Need more freedom when it comes to class
  selection
• Not about the number of lectures, its about
  the quality
• More time for unit activities. More time to know
  each other

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Conclusion
• Preparation before school starts, NOT after
  school starts
• Student centered approach program during
  vacation
• Students feel comfortable with academic advisors

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Yonsei Pre-college Experience

• Q A

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• Thank you!