Mokpo National University Launches Campaign to Protect Teachers' Authority

Respecting Teacher Authority Means Protecting Students' Right to Learn, Promoting Consensus on Campus

On the 5th at 11:30 AM, Mokpo National University (President Song Ha-cheol) announced on the 6th that it conducted a campaign activity titled "Rights to Think Together, Protecting Teachers' Rights" at the busking zone in front of the student cafeteria on Dorim Campus.

The campaign was co-hosted by the College of Education and the Civic Education Capacity Building Project Group, with participation from the College of Education Student Council.

The College of Education Student Council is conducting a campaign activity to think together about rights and the protection of educational authority.
[Photo by Mokpo National University]

This campaign was organized to provide university members with an opportunity to recognize the importance of protecting teachers' rights amid the recent crisis of teachers' rights violations, and to contribute to establishing a happy university culture where the rights to education and learning are mutually respected through the expansion of consensus on protecting teachers' rights.

During the campaign, the College of Education Student Council took the lead in promoting the protection of teachers' rights to university members and distributed character memo pads and stickers engraved with messages about protecting teachers' rights.

Additionally, professors and students who participated in the on-site campaign wrote phrases expressing their wishes for the protection of teachers' rights and posted them on a bulletin board, reflecting on the significance of protecting teachers' rights.

Park Boon-hee, Dean of the College of Education, stated, "The active participation of students interested in protecting teachers' rights was the greatest driving force behind the successful progress of the campaign," and added, "We hope that this campaign will serve as an opportunity for a culture of protecting teachers' rights, shared by professors and all students, to be firmly established, and that the recognition that respecting teachers' rights is directly linked to protecting students' right to learn will widely spread."