AICHI TOHO UNIVERSITY（愛知東邦大学）
Evaluation summary
This university has demonstrated satisfactory compliance with the standards of the Japan
Institution for Higher Education Evaluation.
Standards

Evaluation result

Standard 1. Mission and Objectives, etc.

SatisfiedStandard 2. Students

SatisfiedStandard 3. Educational Curriculum

SatisfiedStandard 4. Faculty and Staff

SatisfiedStandard 5. Management, Administration and Finance

SatisfiedStandard 6. Internal Quality Assurance

Satisfied

Good practices
 The fact that the university sets nine credos, all the faculty and staff declare their own credos, anddistributes them internally and externally in printed publications is worthy of evaluation.
 The fact that the university implements IR (Institutional Research) training workshops inconjunction with other universities in order to further enrich the IR promotion system is worthyof evaluation.
Recommendations for improvement Article 14 of the University Regulations state that “the prescribed credits will be awarded tostudents who complete courses and pass the examinations for them,” and Article 12 of the Crossuniversity Course Completion Regulations prescribe the types of examinations and Article 13 themethod of conducting the examinations; improvements are required concerning the point that
there are courses in which credits are awarded through methods other than the types ofexaminations prescribed in Article 12 of the Cross-university Course Completion Regulations.
 With regard to the important matters concerning education and learning that it is requisite for theopinions of the Faculty Council to be sought, there is a need for improvement regarding mattersin which the President stipulates the matters without seeking the opinions of the Faculty Council.
 The President is required to stipulate the procedures for dealing with the expulsion, suspension
and warning of students, and there is a need for improvements regarding the fact that the President
does not stipulate these procedures.
 Regarding the admission of students in Article 93, Paragraph (2) of the School Education Act,
improvements are required to the fact that an Admissions Judgment Council discusses and makes
decisions although its membership includes members not affiliated to the Faculty Council andthere are no stipulations about its commissioning.

 There is a need for improvements regarding the fact that this academic year’s list of councilors
among the lists of executives stipulated in Article 63-2 of the Private Schools Act are not madepublic on the website.
 The minutes of the 6th Meeting of the Board of Directors in the academic year 2021 do not record
the fact that the meeting was in fact suspended immediately after opening, the actual order of theagenda is not the same as the recorded agenda, and despite this the minutes have been signed by
the Chair of the Board of Directors, the minutes signatories and the auditor. With regard to this, it
is important that the authenticity and invariability of minutes is secured, and improvements arerequired to the signing process to ensure the creation of minutes that are based on fact and about
which no suspicions arise concerning their accuracy.
 The minutes of the 6th Meeting of the Board of Councilors for the academic year 2019 are dated
differently from the actual date and this requires correction.
 With regard to the fact that in the minutes of the 5th Meeting of the Board of Councilors for theacademic year 2021 persons other than the elected Chair and minutes signatories were recordedin the minutes and signed, it is important that the authenticity and invariability of minutes issecured, and improvements are required to the signing process to ensure the creation of minutesthat are based on fact and about which no suspicions arise concerning their accuracy.
 The minutes of the 6th Meeting of the Board of Directors held in the academic year 2021, at which
the auditor was appointed, have been revised, but since the appointment of an auditor wasimplemented improvements are required to appropriately complete the internal procedures andnotify the competent authorities.
 At the 1st Meeting of the Board of Councilors in the academic year 2022, reports on business andsettlement of accounts were on the agenda, but since this consisted of no more than an explanationof the state of discussions at the Board of Directors, the failure of the Chair to seek the opinionsof the Board of Councilors as stipulated in Article 46 of the Private Schools Act requires
correction.
 The articles of endowment stipulate that “the minutes shall be signed or impressed with the sealof the councilors and the auditor in attendance, or signed by the Chair and two or more mutuallyelected councilors from among the councilors in attendance as well as the auditor in attendance.”
However, the auditor has not once signed the minutes and this point requires improvement.
 With regard to the operation, administration and minutes of Meetings of the Board of Directorsand Boards of Councilors important to university operation, confirmation regarding laws andregulations and articles of endowment is inadequate, and there is a partial malfunction of internal
quality assurance, both of which require improvements.