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Campus Review
August 15, 2014
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President Hynes Comments on Similarities
Between Metro Atlanta and Daejeon, South Korea
by Thomas Hynes
Daejeon Health Sciences College will be
an exceptional partner for our University.
Like the Metropolitan Atlanta area,
Daejeon, South Korea is a center for
logistics and supply chain management,
as well as for rapidly developing health
and computer technologies.
The existing connections with Daejeon
Health Sciences College and the Clayton
State Nursing program leverages South
Korean access to instructional technolo-
gies with Clayton State strengths in apply-
ing the use of those technologies to
American nursing care. Our explorations
with business programs in Daejeon should
prove to be another area of mutual benefit
for our institutions, matching such
Clayton State strengths as supply chain
management with similar program
options there. We of course believe that
our students can learn much from chances
to interact with our South Korean visiting
students — taking advantage of yet anoth-
er example of learning in an environment
celebrating diversity.
The Republic of Korea has century-long
traditions of rigor in education. Over the
last 10-15 years, that rigor has been
increasingly applied to what we would
call post-secondary education. South
Korea has for many years been at or near
the top of nations sending students to be
educated in the U.S. The students here
with us this summer have in fact been
advised to do everything they can to take
advantage of immersion at our English
speaking University, even if there are
many Korean speaking-residents very
close to the University.