Lee Ju-ho, the minister of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology,

and Kim Seung-taik, the CBNU President are pushing disabled students' wheelchairs.

 It was impossible for hearing-impaired students to attend real-time classes on their own. However, thanks to tablet PCs, laptops, and other devices including smart phones and pads, hearing-impaired students can participate in classes in real time with ordinary students.

 CBNU held a seminar which was related to the support for disabled students and a meeting including a demonstration of 'Smart Learning' on April 19th before the Day of the Disabled People. CBNU, Chungnam National University, and Korea Nazarene University co-sponsored the seminar at the Gaesin Cultural Center. The seminar was held in order to discuss ways to vitalize support of disabled students' employment and to share each university's disability support programs.

 After the seminar, a 'Smart Learning' demonstration was given in Building No.56(N-14). Lee Ju-ho, the minister of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology(MEST) who visited CBNU, attended the demonstration. 'Smart Learning' aims to support hearing-impaired students to participate in classes in real time through the use of tablet PCs, notebook computers, and other devices. When hearing-impaired students send lectures which are filmed by tablet PCs or notebook computers to a remote support center, a staff member of the center converts the lectures into sign language or characters and returns them to the students.

 The minister also demonstrated a low-floor bus and pushed a disabled student's wheelchair as an assistant to the Head Office, and he had a meeting with disabled students and their assistants.

 Eom Kee-seon, the chief of the Disability Supporter Center and a professor of College of Medicine, said, "CBNU has the 5th highest number of disabled students in the country. CBNU supports disabled students and matches each disabled student with an assistant and gives trainings to assistants before the semester begins. CBNU implements these programs to support disabled students." The minister said, "Every three years, MEST selects the best university that supports disabled students better than any other universities. In 2008, CBNU was selected as the best university. I expect that CBNU will be selected as the best university again in 2011." The minister asked whether disabled students and assistants had any problems and replied to their answers. Jeong Yun-ju, a school parent, expressed her thanks to CBNU. "I asked staff members of the Department of Facilities Management for the installation of elevators for my son who is physically disabled without any expectations, but they really installed elevators." Jo Hyo-jin, a disabled student and also an assistant, said, "Companies should inform what they expect of disabled students. I interned at a company, but the company didn't provide tasks for disabled students. Therefore, MEST should urge companies to make the intern system more systematic than before." The minister finished the meeting by saying, "Thanks to the students for pointing out problems and suggesting alternatives, MEST will do its best in order to gather the students' opinions." He added, "In the future, MEST will strengthen the support for disabled students in higher education."