연세 기독학생 리더십 아카데미, 그 비전과 전망

Abstract

The talk about leadership has been spreading like a fashion trend. However, finding a true leader who serves the people and offers an aspiring vision for a community is hard to find. The important issue is not a leader but raising up leaders who have what it takes to be a truly righteous leader. As many universities are running different leadership programs, Yonsei is also looking to challenge and raise up students to become Christian leaders through the leadership academy. Yonsei Christian Student Leadership Academy recognizes and is founded upon three major notions. First, the program has to be faithful to reflect its Christian identity. Second, Yonsei, as a representative of Christian universities, must carry the responsibility to create a model leadership program for other universities to follow. Lastly, the students’ interests must be reflected in the program. Yonsei Christian leadership Academy consists of a four-day leadership camp, offered during the summer semester, a freshmen seminar course as an introduction course on leadership, an intensive course on leadership and an internship program, once again offered during the summer/winter semesters. Each course is a one-credit course, and will be graded on a pass/non pass system. When students complete the four courses above, they will be given a certificate of leadership academy. Yonsei Christian Students Leadership Academy is unique because of four reasons. First, the program targets Christian students within Yonsei University, which allows the program to stay true to its Christian identity and can easily raise up Christian leaders based on its beliefs. Secondly, this program meets the need of students because this is offered in the form of courses and students receive the certificates upon the completion of the courses. Thirdly, the leadership camp and internship program will be jointly supervised by the chaplains and the seminar courses will be taught by the chaplains according to their personal focus and interests, giving students a wider variety of course selection. Fourthly, staff members committed to campus mission within the campus are available to help and take part in the leadership academy, which could be a chance to further promote campus mission. Yonsei Christian Student Leadership Academy will be modeled after the leadership of Jesus Christ, the Lord and the leader of all leaders, whose words and actions were in agreement with each other, who served and sacrificed himself as the ultimate leader. In addition, the leadership academy will develop the leadership principles adopted from the life and teachings of Underwood, the founder of Yonsei University, for the students to follow and apply to their own lives. As a result, we want to maintain our positions in keeping this world healthy and further on to bring change.