04
Building a stronger, more self-reliant financial foundation
We will give SNU greater control over its future by reshaping how it raises, manages, and invests resources.
Detailed Pledges
04-1
Establish professional financial governance
- Build an integrated management system for SNU's finances centered on a professional chief financial officer (CFO)
- Establish a budget operating system that links a mid- to long-term financial strategy with investment priorities
04-2
Large-scale fundingHighlight Pledge
- Secure large-scale funding by actively using university bonds and idle assets
- Expand overseas research funding and attract funding from domestic and international private foundations
- Expand funding through active planning and identification of large national projects
04-3
Build a foundation for generating the university's own funds
- Revitalize SNU Holdings by securing a CEO and professional staff, attracting capital, and reorganizing its business portfolio
- Create an alumni-participation investment fund
- Launch SNU Lifelong University (provisional name) and pursue both revenue-generating and public-interest projects
- Settle a system that returns tech-commercialization and IP revenue to the university
04-4
Systematize the value-creating development fund platform
- Develop purpose-specific giving programs for scholarships, basic fields, and internationalization
- Develop and run naming programs and project-based fundraising products, including endowed chairs by college and DARPA-style project fundraising
- Expand fundraising programs tailored to donors such as entrepreneurs and retired alumni and introduce planned giving
- Activate small recurring gifts from younger alumni and build a global alumni fundraising system
- Expand tailored fundraising programs and participation at the department and college levels
04-5
Optimize the corporate budget through rational resource allocation
- Reconsider priorities in allocating the corporation's budget
- Strengthen and make transparent an integrated financial operating system covering the corporation, the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, and the Development Foundation
Priority Actions
- Expand the university's own funds to ₩1T
- Raise ₩1T in development funds
- Secure a total of ₩2T in new funds over four years