Student Success Center Successfully Hosts the 2025 Student Success Forum
- Competency-Based Extracurricular Achievement Sharing
The Student Success Center (Director Joon-Sang Lee) held the 2025 Student Success Forum under the theme of “Competency-Based Extracurricular Achievement Sharing” at 1 p.m. on November 27, 2025, at SPACE 1398 on the 2nd floor of the Dasan Economic Hall.
With approximately 70 participants, the event featured presentations by students who took part in major programs of Sungkyunkwan University, followed by discussions led by the directors of each hosting unit. The program consisted of four sessions: ▲Session 1. Self-directed Learning Competency Enhancement Program <Student Success Story Contest> (Presentation: Tae-Uk Min, School of Chemical Engineering / Discussion: Joon-Sang Lee, Director of the Student Success Center) ▲Session 2. Global & Civic Competency Enhancement <S-Global Challenger> (Presentation: Seo-Yeon Yang, Department of Global Business Administration / Discussion: Se-Young Lee, Director of Knowledge Center for Innovative Higher Education)▲Session 3. Convergence Competency Enhancement <Convergence Research Credit Program> (Presentation: Hyun-Soo Kim, Global Leader Department / Discussion: Younguk Kwon, Dean of SKKU Institute for Convergence) ▲Session 4. Entrepreneurship Competency Enhancement <Creative Innovation DNA Team Project> (Presentation: Min-Jun Kim, School of Mechanical Engineering / Discussion: Young-Nam Lee, Associate Director of Center for Innovative Engineering Education).
Tae-Uk Min (School of Chemical Engineering) shared his growth experience and enhancement of self-directed learning competency through his participation in the <Student Success Story Contest>. He presented the virtuous cycle of mentoring, the expansion of voluntary influence, his sense of responsibility as a model for student success, and the strengthening of his collaboration and networking abilities through activities in the President’s Lists community.
Seo-Yeon Yang (Department of Global Business Administration) described her growth in global and civic competencies following her participation in the <S-Global Challenger> program. She explained her development during the concrete stages of challenge, failure, transition, achievement, and growth, and noted that repeated failures as a first-year student helped her build resilience. She also expressed her aspiration to produce a book and video documenting her activities to share her experience.
Hyun-Soo Kim (Global Leader Department) shared that, through the <Convergence Research Credit Program>, she and her team aimed to build a “practical social safety net,” based on empathy for teammates’ personal experiences and civic issues such as rental fraud. She explained that improved convergence competency enabled her to develop expertise as a developer who understands the law. The Convergence Research Credit Program required highly integrated thinking by combining law (Global Leader) majors with software majors and AI technologies to derive practical solutions. She emphasized that she developed self-directed research competency by overcoming failures throughout the process.
Min-Jun Kim (School of Mechanical Engineering) shared that participation in the <Creative Innovation DNA Team Project> enabled him to collaborate with other majors, analyze industrial value, and experience the commercialization of technology, thereby expanding engineering research into industrial value. Through the university’s support system—including the Center for Engineering Education Innovation, industry mentors, and patent attorneys from the Office of Research & Business Development—he successfully pursued university–industry collaboration and patent application, ultimately leading to winning the Prime Minister’s Award at the Creative Capstone Design Competition.
The directors of the participating units—Joon-Sang Lee (Student Success Center), Se-Young Lee (Director of Knowledge Center for Innovative Higher Education), Young-Uk Kwon (Dean of SKKU Institute for Convergence), and Young-Nam Lee(Associate Director of Center for Innovative Engineering Education)-encouraged the student presenters and expressed their commitment to responding to diverse student needs and supporting student success by providing competency development opportunities throughout university life.
This forum served as an opportunity to confirm how the value of student success is being realized in the actual educational field. Students were motivated to develop their competencies through diverse experiences in university life with the help of practical advice, while faculty and staff gained momentum in exploring directions for program improvement and educational innovation.
Director Joon-Sang Lee of the Student Success Center stated, “Based on this forum, the Student Success Center plans to review the effectiveness of its programs in 2026 by drawing upon students’ growth stories, and to broaden the possibilities for cooperation among student support units.”
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