대학의 제도적 기반 형성과 학술 여건(1945~1955)

The Formation of Institutional Foundation of University and Academic Conditions(1945~1955)

This paper focused on the meaning of the university as the academic condition. It covered the enlargement of higher education, the disciplinary classification system of university and the university governance system. The size of higher education greatly expanded for 10 years after liberation. The expansion is particularly concentrated in universities, private schools, schools in Seoul and Kyoungki Province and certain departments. The rapid increase in quantity of higher education institutes became the base of stable and continuous academic activities, and the condition for the active migration of researchers. The disciplinary classification system of university-college-(faculty)-department was institutionalized and “the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences” appeared as an unique method of organizing academic units. Its appearance and curriculum intensified the liberal-arts-like nature of academic disciplines belonging to it and blocked the securement of their academic identities and professionalism. Also, the introduction of the “council” system as a way of university management incapacitated professor autonomy and set conditions for strengthening the control of the government and self-censorship.