Changes Students Should Know

▲ So-Ara hosts its interm report for the second semester

Interim report on So-Ara; So-Ara on the right track

Inspection of So-Ara’s pledges was held by aboard of student representatives on September 8.

Currently, out of 44 of So-Ara’s pledges, they accomplished 24 with the rest still undergoing. For them, they have yet to fail to act on other pledges or find alternative measures about the issue.

Some of the accomplished pledges includes, the support in the mock TOEIC exam fee, providing rental information for students living near Jeju-NU’s back gate entrance, and the repairing of the road in front gate entrance.

According to student council President Won Il-Kwon, “Most of all, I am really satisfied with the cost reductions of ‘AraDaeDongJae’, which is name of school festival, by minimizing the costs by over 30 million won.”

He also said, “We will try hard to keep all of our promises for the rest of the term.”

However, some students complained about the lack of information of the completed pledges. So-Ara regularly updates their Facebook page but to students who do not have an account, they have trouble obtaining information.

In response to this complaint, So-Ara said that they will start publicizing the information after approval and confirmation of their pledges.

Signing up for classes is distressing

Errors in signing up for classes and dormitories reoccur annually causing the users anger and sadness. This semester, without exception, this resentment from students has come up to the surface. Last month, there were many complaints with applying to the classes and dormitories.

“I have not experienced but heard often about these errors. Preregistration is needed for all the students who do not succeed in signing up for classes.” said Kim Min-Joo (Plant Resoures and Environment, 3)

Park Soo-Nol (Marine Industrial & Maritime Police, 4) projected, “In any case school websites accept students who are located near the school server first. So I think this is unfair.”

 

 Do you have B’s?

For the past couple of years, there were many reforms in the Jeju-NU System of School Affairs regarding grades.

Since last year, ‘giving up a grade’ which gave students the opportunity to erase a low grade by giving up their credits was also abolished.

Also, before 2015, it was possible for an entire class to receive A's in an ‘absolute grading’ system. Now, however, only half of the class can receive A’s and the rest must get another grade letter.

Lastly starting from 2016, Jeju-NU permits ‘retaking classes’ only for the students who got a C+ and under. Students with B’s and over can no longer retake classes in order to improve their grade point average.

Students are at odds as to whether or not the reforms were for the better.

Moon Young-Hee (Journalism and Public Relations, 1) felt that the reforms were “unfair” and “deprives the opportunity for students who are unsatisfied with their grades to retake a class.” She suggested that the school should consider limiting the amount of times students retake a class rather than not allowing the process at all.

On the other hand, Jo Moon-Kyu (Chemical & Biological Engineering, 2) commented, “Too many A's makes the GPA meaningless. I think it was a good idea for Jeju-NU to reform its system. Also, if those students keep on retaking classes, there will be a lack of spots available for students who are trying to apply for classes for the first time.” 

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