Outline of the Top Global University Project (Type A) at Keio University
Proposal for TGUP at Keio University
Program Name
Enhancing Sustainability of Global Society Through Jitsugaku (Science)
Keio's Aspirations for the Top Global University Project
Keio University will continue to educate the next generation of leaders who will play active roles on the world stage. Basedon the spirit of jitsugaku (science), an educational philosophy espoused by Keio founder Yukichi Fukuzawa, we will makepositive contributions to world development as an institution of higher education that can propose innovative social systems tothe world. By achieving this, Keio University will gain recognition as a top global research university among the world’s top
100 in the world university rankings.
Summary
The Top Global University Project at Keio integrates education and research in the humanities and sciences to enhance thesustainability of global society through jitsugaku (science). Keio aims to strengthen ties with international academic
communities and industry while making positive contributions to the world. In this way, we hope to bolster Keio University’s
international reputation by building on our existing strengths and achievements. Specifically, under the integrative theme ofSustainable Development of a Super Mature Society, Keio has established three global initiatives: Longevity, Creativity, andSecurity.
The Headquarters for the Top Global University Project is currently consolidating University resources in each initiative tobetter support world-class education and research across the disciplines. Within each initiative, Keio will greatly improve its
human resources management and educational systems; improvements include changes to the faculty salary policy, new crossappointment and tenure track positions, expanded degree programs offered in English, and a new visiting research co-advisor
scheme for doctoral candidates. The University hopes that these human resources and academic policies will help increaseinternational jointly authored research and the number of academic papers written in English, which in turn will lead to morecitations and better representation of Keio's research abroad. The University will revamp its research information
infrastructure in order to share its research findings with the world. This will enhance the University’s international presence
and reputation for education and research, which are measured by the number of citations and worldwide reputation surveys.
In order to reinforce university governance and presidential leadership, Keio will establish the Global Advisory Council aswell as a discretionary fund that the president can use to distribute swiftly and flexibly in order to accelerate reform.
Presidential leadership will promote new initiatives in Keio University’s endeavors to become a world-leading researchuniversity.

Summary of 10-Year Plan
䕿 Establishment of Keio's Global Initiatives
The University will launch the three initiatives of Longevity, Security, and Creativity to conduct transnational,transdisciplinary education and research to be shared with the world. These three initiatives form the basis of the Top Global
University Project at Keio University.
䕿 Expansion of Double/Joint Degree Programs
As of 2014, Keio boasted 23 double degree programs with many leading universities around the world—the most of any
university in Japan. The number of programs will increase to 35 in ten years’ time.
䕿 Improving Overseas Research Hubs
Keio has plans to expand its overseas research hubs from 3 to 15 in fields spanning the natural and social sciences,humanities, and medicine. The University plans to use these hubs to promote partnerships for global research and define
Keio's position as a world-leading research university.
䕿 Increased Employment of Foreign Faculty
The proportion of foreign academic faculty employed under the annual salary system/cross-appointment system andJapanese faculty who have either conducted research or earned a degree at an institution overseas will increase to 67.5%, orover two-thirds of the total academic faculty. The University will effectively play to these individuals' strengths to promoteorganic internationalization of the University's education and research systems.
䕿 Development of Degree Programs Offered in English & Increasing Inbound/Outbound Student Exchange
The University will launch the Global Interdisciplinary Courses (GIC) Program, an English curriculum across Keio'sundergraduate faculties and graduate schools. Each faculty and graduate school will expand upon the common GIC platform
with its own specialized curriculum to increase the number of courses available in English, which will lead to an increase in
the number of degree programs available to international students. Combined with newly designed short-term summer
programs, Keio will greatly increase its international student population. Within the next ten years, the University aims tocreate an environment where all Keio students have international experience of some kind, through short-term and long-term
study abroad, internships, or otherwise.
䕿 Implementation of Initiative-based Human Resources Management
The University will formalize visiting research co-advisor appointments, which have been piloted by Keio's All-Round
Program for Leading Graduate School, making the appointments available to all graduate schools. Moreover, under thisframework, the University will devise a system within each initiative that supports and encourages joint research and jointly
authored papers with researchers from Keio's partner institutions overseas. By 2023, foreign researchers will participate indoctoral candidates' research across the entire university.
Additionally, the University will establish a tenure track system that employs around five foreign faculty members per
initiative to be the catalysts for joint research and jointly authored academic papers. Tenure track candidates must be highly
motivated to conduct research and author academic papers.

Defining Characteristics of TGUP at Keio University
䕿 Giving Back Through Education/Research Findings
Under the integrated theme of Sustainable Development of a Super Mature Society, Keio will create three global initiatives:
Longevity, Creativity, and Security. The University will consolidate university resources within each initiative to conduct
practical, globally-applicable education and research that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries and integrate thenatural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The University will serve as a model of social service and contribution to
the world and gain prominence as a top world-leading research university. The initiatives form a university-wide system forresearch where academic faculty members from Keio’s undergraduate faculties and graduate schools can engage in bothbasic and applied research.
䕿 Global Interdisciplinary Courses (GIC)
The Global Interdisciplinary Courses (GIC) Program, Keio’s first university-wide English curriculum across theundergraduate faculties and graduate schools, will offer general education and specialized courses in English in anenvironment where students of all nationalities from different faculties and graduate schools can learn together. Moreover,the GIC Program will incorporate activities from each of Keio’s global initiatives to foster students' ability to conduct
research in English and author internationally relevant research.

Policies for International Collaboration
The University will utilize the cross appointment system and quarter system to invite foreign researchers and conduct
international collaborations in research and education in capacities such as visiting research co-advisor. At the same time,
Keio University faculty may also go abroad to serve as visiting research co-advisors for graduate students conducting
research under foreign faculty and offer opportunities to advise joint research. This system will not only dramaticallyincrease the mobility and international contributions of Keio's academic faculty, but will also make it possible to produce a
new generation of academic researchers who are ready to succeed globally due to prior collaborative research and jointauthorship.
Moreover, the University will work closely with its overseas partner institutions, who are some of Keio's most important
assets, to promote the establishment of overseas research hubs for the purpose of collaborative research. The University willleverage its research and technological assets to form institutional relationships with universities and industries overseas that
promote international collaboration. This signifies a move away from the volatility that researchers may experience when
personally organizing joint research to a more stable mechanism that allows the University to provide the organizational
support necessary to bolster new international developments. In addition to these measures undertaken by Keio University
leadership, each undergraduate faculty and graduate school is also encouraged to pursue international collaborations of theirown.