SHOKEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY

The Fourth Medium-Term Plan [Summary]
“Mission 19 Goodness – The Power to Survive the Coming Age”

A university that will equip students with The Power to Survive the Coming Age

Universities today are required to respond to the demands of the rapidly changing times to come and to contribute to the sustainable development of society. This, in fact, is the philosophy that SHOKEI GAKUIN has valued since its foundation in 1892. In an age where extreme progress is expected to be made in artificial intelligence, we are being asked to return to the origins of SHOKEI education that the founding principal Ms. Annie Buzzell stressed and to cultivate comprehensive abilities as human beings to survive the coming age with goodness.

In the Fourth Medium-Term Plan that commenced in April 2019, SHOKEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY established key challenges with the aim of nurturing the power needed to survive the coming age (universal competencies that will not become outdated, strong areas of specialization and broader perspectives) and to cultivate people who can deepen themselves and walk together with others based on Christian principles, which is the founding spirit of the University.

“Mission 19 Goodness – The Power to Survive the Coming Age” is an expression of the strong will of our teaching faculty and administrative staff to address these 19 challenges. United as one, our faculty and staff will tackle these challenges.

Michiko Suzuki

Michiko Suzuki
President of SHOKEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY

Goals

  1. Enhancement of student-centered education
  2. Establishment of a virtuous circle through student growth

3 Visions and 19 Key Challenges

Humanistic Education Based on the Founding Spirit

– Make Your Heart Resound
  1. 1−1 Enhancement of Christian education
  2. 1−2 Cultivation of an attitude of recognition of diversity and cooperation
  3. 1−3 Initiatives to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  4. 1−4 Prompting spontaneous motivation toward academic achievement
  5. 1−5 Contribution to local community
  6. 1−6 Strengthen collaboration with alumni and stakeholders

Optimization and Advancement of Learning

– Raising Self-confidence
  1. 2-1 Further evolution towards student-centric education
  2. 2-2 Assurance of education quality and communication of information
  3. 2-3 Promotion of High School/University Articulation Reforms
  4. 2-4 Establishment of support system for diverse students
  5. 2-5 Fulfillment of university life
  6. 2-6 Utilize resources that transcend the “barriers” of specializations and universities
  7. 2-7 Advancement of research functions, enhancement of the Graduate School

A University where diverse values come together

– Open up the campus
  1. 3-1 Promotion of collaboration and exchanges with local communities
  2. 3-2 Promotion of international exchange
  3. 3-3 Building of a “common foundation of knowledge” across generations
  4. 3-4 Promotion of exchange through sport
  5. 3-5 Communication and information disclosure of outcomes of education and research activities
  6. 3-6 Building of the foundations to support education and research