대학 정원의 자율화 방안 = Research on the Self-regulation of Student Enrollment Quotas in the Higher Education

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The government policy on the student enrollment quotas in Universities/Colleges has exerted an important effect on not only the school administration in the elementary and/or secondary education but also the higher education itself. Up until these years the decision on the student enrollment quotas has been under the self-regulation of the higher education institute itself, because of the ubiquity of college education in Korea, the shortage in the number of university/college applicants comparing with that of enrollment quotas, and furthermore, the opening of higher education market to universities/colleges in foreign countries
The purpose of this study was twofold, first, to systematically draw weaknesses of the policy on the self-regulation of student enrollment quotas in the higher education, and second to suggest concrete ideas to help the self-regulation policy to settle down after annuling the weaknesses. The major research method in this study was the literature review method, and this study also carried out expert advisory meetings and interviews with working-level officials regarding the university enrollment quotas.
The university student enrollent quotas is being controlled by the total admission accredit system and/or self-regulation system only by universities/colleges which meet the criteria on the educational circumstances. This rule follows the stage-by-stage plan on self-regulation of university student enrollment quotas announced by the Ministry of Education in 1994. Beginning from the year of 1998 or after, however, the number of university student enrollment shall be decided totally by the higher education institute itself.
The present policy on student enrollment quotas has a few weakness as follows. It lacks in the consideration about each university/college's unique characteristics. It does not show any consistency as far as the policy itself is concerned. It is planned on the basis of disbelief and overcontrol regarding the automacy of each university college. It did not begin with a satisfactory degree of objective information or data regarding student enrollment quotas And it did not notice that many universities or colleges were not prepared to accept the policy on student enrollment quotas.
Alternative suggestions to improve the policy itself are First, the role of the Ministry of Education on the policy must be redefined. Second, we need more diversified criteria to select universities colleges which may have the authority to decide their own student enrollment quotas. Third, the Ministry of Education should have the authority to supervise those accredited institutes after the fact. Fourth, each higher education institute should enhance the capacity to autonomically decide and direct its own student enrollment quotas. Fifth, an coordination organization for inter-university regulation regarding student enrollment quotas should be operated Sixth, each institute must have working-level faculty/staff(s) whose major job duty is to control the student enrollment quotas And seventh, the in-service education for the working-level faculty/staff(s) should be enforced.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• I. 서론
• Ⅱ. 대학정원과 정원정책
• 1. 대학정원
• 가. 대학정원의 개념
• 나. 대학정원의 결정요인
• 2. 대학 정원정책의 변천
• 3. 현행 대학 정원정책
• 가 대학 정원 자율화 추진계획
• 나. 1998학년도 대학학생 정원조정 지침
• Ⅲ. 대학 정원 자율화 정책의 주요 문제점
• 1. 대학별 특성에 대한 고려 미흡
• 2. 정원정책의 일관성 결여
• 3. 대학에 대한 불신과 지나친 통제
• 4. 정원과 관련된 객관적 정보와 자료의 부족
• 5. 대학의 정원 자율화 정책 수용 태세 미비
• Ⅳ. 대학정원의 자율화 방안
• 1. 교육부의 역할 재정립
• 2. 정원자율화 대상 대학 선정 기준의 다양화
• 3. 교육부의 사후 감독권 강화
• 4. 대학간 정원 자율조정기구의 운영
• 5. 대학의 자율역량 제고
• 6 대학 정원 관리요원에 대한 연수 강화
• Ⅴ. 결론