TOHOKU BUNKYO COLLEGE（東北文教大学）
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 college implements Assessment Tests of students’ basic academic ability upon enrollment.
Through the Learning Support Center, managed by staff who have previously served as highschool teachers, the results are used in learning and class instruction support after enrollment.
This initiative is worthy of evaluation.

Through the support of the Practical Teacher Training Center, the rate of job placement asteachers among those wishing to acquire teaching licenses is quite high. This initiative is worthyof evaluation.

The college regularly holds the Seminar for Pre-school Childcare Workers and the Corporate
Study Seminar inviting the principals and facility managers of nursery centers and certified
childcare centers, and people in charge of personnel in local businesses, Yamagata Prefectural
Police Headquarters, Yamagata Prefecture Government. Through mock interviews or otheractivities in both seminars, cooperative relationships have been built with public organizations,which should be the places for the students to find job placement. With these opportunities, thecollege pursues efforts in students’ career guidance. These initiatives are worthy of evaluation.

Explanatory meetings for students aiming to go on to graduate schools are held on-campus, withprofessors invited from the Yamagata University Graduate Schools and Joetsu University ofEducation, and the college has built relationships with the graduate schools to which its students
will progress to. This initiative is worthy of evaluation.

The role of Assistant to the President is supposed to include the responsibility to motivate andempower younger faculty members. The assistants who are appointed by the President, mainlychosen among assistant professors and below based on their work records, activity performanceand volition and so on, provide the President with their candid opinions and recommendations
and put them into practice. This initiative is worth of evaluation.

Recommendations for improvement
Article 7, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the University Regulations prescribes, in line with Article
93, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the School Education Act “Important matters of education andresearch, which the President prescribes as matters which require hearing the opinion of theFaculty Council, beyond what is set forth in the preceding 2 items,” however, the President has
not yet stipulated or communicated any specific matters, and accordingly improvements arerequired.

With regard to the procedures for the disciplinary actions of expulsion, suspension of andwarnings to students stipulated in Article 26, paragraph (5) of the Regulation for Enforcementof the School Education Act, the President has not yet made any stipulations, and accordingly
improvements are required.

The audit report of the auditor is being deliberated over and decided upon by the Board ofDirectors and Board of Councilors, which is not appropriate with regard to the nature of audits.
Accordingly, improvements are required.