Chung-Ang University Achieves Highest Grade in Ministry of Education's University Innovation Support Project Annual Evaluation

Chung-Ang University has achieved the highest grade in the annual evaluation of the University Innovation Support Project.

On the 21st, Chung-Ang University announced that it received the highest grades, S and A, in both the educational innovation strategy area and the self-performance management area in the first-year annual evaluation results of the Ministry of Education-led financial support project, the '2nd Cycle University Innovation Support Project Type Ⅰ (General Financial Support)'.

The University Innovation Support Project is a program that supports universities to improve their structure through autonomous innovation. The goal is to provide high-quality university education and foster future talents. Currently, a total of 117 universities are participating in the project. Universities that achieve the highest grade, S, receive additional incentives.

The Ministry of Education evaluates universities on ▲innovation plans ▲core educational outcomes ▲self-performance management, among other criteria. In particular, the educational innovation strategy area, which corresponds to the innovation plan, was the main focus of the evaluation.

Chung-Ang University was evaluated as having a concrete educational innovation strategy that reflects analysis and diagnosis of internal and external environmental changes and conditions. The university currently implements educational innovation programs considering students' life cycles. These include activating basic competency education for freshmen, supporting basic education and major exploration programs tailored to aptitudes, and systematic educational innovation strategies such as reforming academic systems to guarantee and expand students' major selection rights and strengthening advanced teaching and learning support.

Park Sang-gyu, President of Chung-Ang University, stated, "Achieving excellent results in the annual evaluation of the University Innovation Support Project is proof that Chung-Ang University's efforts for educational innovation are being recognized. We will continue to strive to support students' growth through educational innovation and to create outstanding educational innovation outcomes that can serve as a foundation for regional and national development."