Am I a College Student for a Day? ... Dong-Eui University Hosts One-Day College Experience for Nearby Village Residents

Residents of five neighborhoods near Dong-Eui University, including Anchang Village, Hocheon Village, Gayadong, Gaegum-dong, and Deokcheon-dong, are taking a group commemorative photo after participating in the event.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] Dong-Eui University offered a special experience by inviting residents of nearby villages to become university students for a day.

On the 19th, Dong-Eui University invited about 40 residents from five villages near the university?Anchang Village, Hocheon Village, Gayadong, Gaegum-dong, and Deokcheon-dong?to the campus and held the one-day university experience event "Village! Going to University!" across the campus.

As part of the "Dong-Eui Youth! Let's Village! Big Event," the day’s program started with an entrance ceremony and included activities such as drawing village maps, non-alcoholic cocktail practice, a tour of the central library and VR experience, a session appreciating residents' life storybooks, and graduation photo shoots.

Participants also had time to interact with neighbors from other villages, and a graduation ceremony was held after the programs concluded.

The detailed programs of the university experience were planned and conducted by nine major clubs belonging to the "Dong-Eui Youth Let's Village" group under the guidance of professors from the Sustainable Community Research Association.

Now in its ninth year, "Dong-Eui Youth! Let's Village" selects one village near the university each year and activates the village community through various major clubs, working to improve the village’s safety, culture, and welfare.

This year’s event was held with the support of the University Innovation Support Project Group and the Regional Collaboration Center, inviting residents from the five villages that previously participated in the "Let's Village" event to the university.

In his congratulatory speech at the graduation ceremony, Vice President Jo Jae-kyun said, "'Village, Going to University' is a new model of Dong-Eui University's founding philosophy, Dong-Eui Ji-cheon, which pursues human morality and explores the principles of heaven." He added, "I hope the residents who completed the one-day university experience will return to their villages with pride as talents who 'form a forest together,' the ideal human resource of Dong-Eui University, and contribute to the development of their communities."

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