Ewha fosters global women leaders
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Ewha Womans University has actively fostered globalization in the campus.
Following are the interviews of President Bae Yong Lee with JoongAng Daily(AUG, 28).
- Ewha fosters global women leaders(JoongAng Daily, August 28)
- Ewha preparing for a growth spurt(JoongAng Daily, August 28)
Ewha fosters global women leaders
After becoming president of Ewha Womans University in July 2006, Lee Bae-yong launched “Global Ewha 2010.” With less than a year left before the deadline, the nation’s top women’s university is close to achieving the project’s key goal of establishing ties to 20 overseas campuses.
Overseas campuses refer to clusters of universities overseas that have formed partnerships with Ewha for student exchange programs.
For example, New York, Columbia, Rutgers and Long Island universities belong to Ewha’s New York base campus, where Ewha not only sends its students but also its professors.
Ewha alumnae across the world spare no efforts to provide necessary support, according to Lee. “As a historian myself, I believe the zeitgeist for the 21st century is globalization,” Lee said in an interview Monday at Ewha’s campus in western Seoul. “Regional balance is considered a top priority in the global base campus project. Students are not supposed to be sent to a single destination en masse, because they should have diverse experiences from diverse regions.”
Lee said that next year almost 60 percent of freshmen at Ewha are expected to spend varying periods studying at overseas universities. As of this month, the number of global campuses stands at 15. Adding five more by the end of this year won’t be a problem, the president said. The remaining five may include Shanghai and locations in Spain and India. Data supports Ewha’s efforts at globalization. In the annual QS.com Asian University Rankings unveiled in June, Ewha ranked tops among Korean universities in both “Student Exchanges Outbound” and “Student Exchanges Inbound.”
Lee said she believes the world’s largest women-only university assumes a major responsibility for fostering female leaders not only at home but also in the third world. To that end, the school launched the Ewha Global Partnership Program in 2006, a scholarship program covering tuition, Korean language training, plus living expenses for 24 students from underdeveloped and developing countries who entered Ewha three years ago. This year, a Kenyan student became the first graduate.
“Ewha started with just one student in the first year of its foundation in 1886 by one female Methodist missionary who came here with the spirit of devotion, sharing and love,” Lee said. “Today, with some 170,000 students who have graduated so far and another 24,000 students presently enrolled, it’s our turn to spread the founding spirit. That spirit is also the very driving force behind producing the country’s first female doctor, government official and judge,” she said.
Lee earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from Ewha and earned a Ph.D. from neighboring Sogang University. She became a professor of Korean history at Ewha in 1985 and was announced as president of Ewha in August 2006. Lee was appointed president of the Korean Council for University Education in June, becoming the first female leader of the 27-year-old association.
By Seo Ji-eun
JoongAng Daily, August 28, 2009
Following are the interviews of President Bae Yong Lee with JoongAng Daily(AUG, 28).
- Ewha fosters global women leaders(JoongAng Daily, August 28)
- Ewha preparing for a growth spurt(JoongAng Daily, August 28)
Overseas campuses refer to clusters of universities overseas that have formed partnerships with Ewha for student exchange programs.
For example, New York, Columbia, Rutgers and Long Island universities belong to Ewha’s New York base campus, where Ewha not only sends its students but also its professors.
Ewha alumnae across the world spare no efforts to provide necessary support, according to Lee. “As a historian myself, I believe the zeitgeist for the 21st century is globalization,” Lee said in an interview Monday at Ewha’s campus in western Seoul. “Regional balance is considered a top priority in the global base campus project. Students are not supposed to be sent to a single destination en masse, because they should have diverse experiences from diverse regions.”
Lee said that next year almost 60 percent of freshmen at Ewha are expected to spend varying periods studying at overseas universities. As of this month, the number of global campuses stands at 15. Adding five more by the end of this year won’t be a problem, the president said. The remaining five may include Shanghai and locations in Spain and India. Data supports Ewha’s efforts at globalization. In the annual QS.com Asian University Rankings unveiled in June, Ewha ranked tops among Korean universities in both “Student Exchanges Outbound” and “Student Exchanges Inbound.”
Lee said she believes the world’s largest women-only university assumes a major responsibility for fostering female leaders not only at home but also in the third world. To that end, the school launched the Ewha Global Partnership Program in 2006, a scholarship program covering tuition, Korean language training, plus living expenses for 24 students from underdeveloped and developing countries who entered Ewha three years ago. This year, a Kenyan student became the first graduate.
“Ewha started with just one student in the first year of its foundation in 1886 by one female Methodist missionary who came here with the spirit of devotion, sharing and love,” Lee said. “Today, with some 170,000 students who have graduated so far and another 24,000 students presently enrolled, it’s our turn to spread the founding spirit. That spirit is also the very driving force behind producing the country’s first female doctor, government official and judge,” she said.
Lee earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from Ewha and earned a Ph.D. from neighboring Sogang University. She became a professor of Korean history at Ewha in 1985 and was announced as president of Ewha in August 2006. Lee was appointed president of the Korean Council for University Education in June, becoming the first female leader of the 27-year-old association.
By Seo Ji-eun
JoongAng Daily, August 28, 2009