[Welcome, First-Time at UNIST?] Student Clubs In-depth “ UNI”

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The UNIST Student Ambassador, UNI plays a key role at UNIST, assisting campus tours and visits by schools and colleges and many other events. They are official student representatives and help to promote college and university courses to potential students and young people from a diverse range of backgrounds.

Hello, we are UNI, the official student ambassador of UNIST. We are pleased to take this opportunity to introduce our organization to you.

Q1. What is UNI?

UNI is an affiliated institution of the admissions team and an official student ambassador organization. Our ultimate goal is to promote UNIST both internally and externally. For those who visit UNIST and want to learn more about it, we are always doing our best to help you a lot.

Q2. What does UNI do?

UNI conducts various on-campus and off-campus and public relations activities.

First, the campus tour, which can be said to be the most important activity of UNI. The campus tour is for a variety of visitors to the school, including freshmen and parents.

In addition, UNI is used as an assistant to various official events such as UNIST Commencement, UNIST Matriculation and College Admission Exhibitions. We have a variety of roles as assistants, and we do all the assistant work for the College Entrance Exam Interview at UNIST.

UNI, which participates in various events like this, also hosts events for high school students across the country. That event is a camp called ‘Explorer@UNIST’. At Explorer@UNIST, UNI plans all programs for the event and promotes UNIST to sophomores in high school across the country.

Besides, UNI is conducting media promotion activities through Facebook, Instagram, and Naver blogs. Various posts are uploaded on each SNS to suit their characteristics, and there is not only UNI activities but also information about entrance exams that contain the real experiences of UNI ambassadors.

UNI student representatives, leading campus tours. l Image Credit: UNI

Group photo, taken after the 14th Explorer@UNIST. | Image Credit: UNI

Q3. What are the main departments of UNI?

There are total of six departments in UNI. There are Planning department, External Promotion department, Human Resources Department, clerk department, General Affairs department, and illustration design department. Let me introduce you to each department’s work.

The UNI’s Planning department is called “UNI’s Idea Bank”. The Planning department is planning various online and offline events for student life guidance programs for UNIST students. For example, the online event to share UNISTAR’s happy and enjoyable daily life, “UNISTAR’s happy trip” and the offline event, UNIST 10th anniversary project “You win too, 10 times 89!” We are planning and conducting various events for UNIST students to participate in.

Card news images for ‘UNISTAR’s Happy Travel’ event. l Image Credit: UNI

The UNI’s External Promotion department is the “UNI’s Communication Window”. The External Promotion department keeps and manages blogs and SNS such as Instagram and Facebook to promote UNIST externally. You can find various information such as acceptance story, daily life at UNIST and see UNI’s activities on SNS.

Official Instagram of UNI. l Image Credit: UNI

The Human Resources Department of the UNI is called “UNI’s Efficiency”. The Human Resource department is responsible for all tasks related to the efficient allocation of personnel of official UNI events and general member management. We are allocating the participants when assisting official events internally and externally such as UNIST commencement, campus tours, and college admission exhibitions. Also, we take charge of surveying the UNI emergency information and uniform management.

The UNI’s clerk department is called the “UNI’s Record”. The clerk department is responsible for the paperwork necessary for UNI activities. We are taking the minutes of all meeting, also in charge of renewing the campus tour scripts and the Encyclopedia containing UNI history and various information and purchasing uniforms of UNI’s symbol.

The UNI’s General Affairs department is called “UNI’s Decision.” The General Affairs is responsible for all UNI financial management, budgeting and execution. We manage UNI membership fees and purchase necessary equipment for activities, the entire ambassador’s office and confirm the payment of the activity expenses after the official event.

The UNI’s Illustration Design department is called “UNI’s sign”. The Illustration Design department is responsible for all designs related to UNI. We are responsible for all posters and card news used for SNS promotional activities and making group uniform.

For more information, please visit the official social media sites of UNI!

UNI Instagram: www.instagram.com/unist_uni/
UNI Facebook: www.facebook.com/UNIinUNIST
UNI Naver Blog: https://blog.naver.com/unist_uni

Image Credit: UNI