The 2023 joint public hearing was held yesterday(21st) at the middle auditorium on the third floor of the main building of the Seoul campus. The joint public hearing was conducted in the order of the candidate's opinion presentation, questions from the media in the school responses from the candidate, and written questions from the participants. The public hearing was attended by the Dongguk Post, DGU Press, DUBS, and Donggukians.
First, a delegation from the College of Business Student Council ran. “FORTUNE,” the campaign headquarters of the Student Council of Business School, announced three pledges: reorganizing rental businesses, providing employment insights, and communicating events for seniors and juniors as part of welfare, academic, and planning projects. In terms of welfare, they promised to reorganize the rental project to take advantage of the existing student council and compensate for its shortcomings to provide higher levels of welfare to business school students. Also, they said it would deliver more employment information as it was judged that existing employment information was insufficient. In the planning part, they promised to hold a communication event for seniors and juniors to provide opportunities for them to communicate actively and further revitalize the student society.
In addition, as part of the welfare project, the management team’s partnership with Chungmuro commercial district promised to increase the partnership with Dongguk University Station commercial district to improve the distance from the management team building and lack of communication with the store owner, and to put a banner inside the restaurant to announce that it is a cooperative store. In terms of planning, they said they would try to expand the small business support project through an academic exchange program for business college students to create many new conferences. Furthermore, it was announced that a seminar will be promoted so that existing and new conferences can interact. As a way to deal with the lack of major classes, one of the biggest difficulties for business school students, they will try our best to solve the problem by submitting an agenda to the academic management office on the expansion of face-to-face and non-face mixed classes or intensive completion lectures.
Secondly, a delegation of the College of Engineering students attended. The “US,” institute of Technology’s student council, puts forward its main targets as rural volunteer activities for engineering colleges, operation of used bookstores, and promotion of exchanges with other colleges. The rural volunteer work, which was put forward as a planned project, will be visited after the end of the first semester, and the operation of used bookstores will be operated so that expensive and difficult major books can be collected and used in the student council room. In addition, it announced that it plans to actively exchange with the other college, such as holding an athletic competition with the other college.
Regarding the building facilities of the university, the student council of the university said it plans to maintain and repair aging facilities such as shower rooms and toilets periodically by operating monitoring groups at all times. In the employment-related business, they promised to invite graduates and current employees to promote special employment lectures. As a learning-related project, they promised to hold an engineering engineering idea contest and a speech contest. The last engineering college idea contest was successful, with more than 100 students participating, and although the speech contest was extended due to the late notice, it will be held next year as they believe it is a good academic conference that can develop the humanities skills of many engineering students. In addition, in the self-governing part, they promised to facilitate communication with classmates by operating SNS communication channels and letter boxes.
Next, a delegation from the College of Liberal Arts Students attended. The College of Humanities student council “Iroom” has made three major pledges in terms of planning, learning, and welfare. In the planning part, they promised to promote a new learning center to provide a program for freshmen and current students to mingle. In the learning section, it was announced that it plans to hold various briefing sessions on double majors, teaching professions, and exchange students, which were relatively lacking in information. In the welfare sector, they said he plans to carry out a common book rental project with welfare items.
In addition, the main reason for the failure of the Myeongjin Sports Festival, which was scheduled to be held this year, was the low participation rate. This is due to the fact that sports events at liberal arts colleges are not usually active, and they promised to provide opportunities for many students to interact next year by activating sports consumption. One of the learning-related pledges was to check and improve Myungjingwan printers and Wi-Fi. The student council of liberal arts colleges promised not only to check the Wi-Fi connection on a regular basis but also to check the classrooms that do not have Wi-Fi connections through surveys and contact the information center. In addition, they said he would specify the contact information of the relevant ministries so that students could contact them directly. As a problem to be supplemented, it was suggested that there were many event-like events such as snack events in the past. Therefore, next year, they said it will increase the number of projects that only liberal arts colleges can do, such as job briefing sessions.
Finally, a delegation from the University of Science delegates attended. The University of Science currently has no candidates to run, so the student council election has been canceled, and there is no student council. “REPORT,” a delegation from the University of Science’s delegates, said that their main job is to be a delegate, so they will not be able to focus on the student council’s work, and hope that a person who will lead the university’s student council will run in the by-election in the future. If there is a student council of science colleges in the future, they said they would like to actively interact with the student council of science colleges and promote the development of science colleges together. The delegation presented three main pledges: integrity audit, systematic legislation, and fair elections. The delegate promised to conduct audits of each department through regular and irregular audits to confirm the use of student membership fees and to conduct audit training for the Donggukians. Afterward, they said they would upload it to Instagram so that students could check the audit results. Regarding legislation, they said they would revise the rules that do not fit the current situation. As a way to ensure fair elections, it promised to establish regulations and supervision systems to prevent corruption and to further activate Instagram to provide information such as candidate pledges, election schedules, and voting locations to guarantee the rights of classmates.
The 2023 Dongguk University Joint Public Hearing will continue until the 23rd. The Dongguk Post hopes many classmates will be interested in joint public hearings and candidates’ pledges, and exercise their right to vote. Election Day is from Monday, the 27th to Wednesday, the 29th. The joint public hearing can be watched live through the “Dongguk University Education Broadcasting Station, DUBS” channel.