Community Development puts an emphasis on improving the values of human life as well as promoting the economic growth of the community per se. Since the community is a basis of human life for its residents it is desirable to achieve a balanced develop...
Community Development puts an emphasis on improving the values of human life as well as promoting the economic growth of the community per se. Since the community is a basis of human life for its residents it is desirable to achieve a balanced development and spiritual enhancement. Of a variety of community functions, the universities located in a community should be one of the key organizations in serving this development goal. As a mater of fact, universities these days are requested to have a share in social services and to pay a serious attention to the community affairs.
The purpose of this research is to find a way for the efficient management of university resources be it human or physical, in order to strengthen its function of social services towards the community development.
The findings are in the following.
First, for the university to meet the community residents' needs and perform the service function, university facilities such as human and material resources should be open to public any time unless classes are interrupted and to do this, there should be administrative and systematic support from the university and collegians' understanding towards this goal should change as well.
Second, the university should make solving the community problems as its research project, heighten the community's self-confidence by producing the knowledge the community wants and saving it and strengthen the tie between the community and university by making them believe they, too, are the hosts of the university.
Third, the university should develop an adult education program which focuses on changing residents thinking positively and carry out the social education by adjusting to its peculiarity of the community.
Fourth, the university should make its effort to give a chance for social education to everyone, not a few managers or directors only.
Fifth, it is required of the university to make the contents of the program constituted beneficial for the residents' life, directly related to the community social development and substantially contributable to the development.
Sixth, the university should hold a variety of experts and contribute to the social growth of the community by giving advice for the community growth planning and policy-making of the public organizations, business firms and various social organizations, basing upon the expertise and research results.
Seventh, the university should take the leading role in bettering the current lifestyle of the community, provide a cultural space to the residents, satisfy the desire for knowledge, offer the up-to-date information and do a program for the people to lead a cultural life.
The survey of this thesis was subjected to Pusan National University so it has its limit, however, I believe that the efficient utilization of the human and material resources of the university would help develop the community and furthermore the nation.