SAPPORO INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY（札幌国際大学）
Evaluation summary
Standard 1. Mission and Objectives, etc.
The University’s articles of endowment stipulate that its mission and goals are to foster humanresources with abundant humanity and to contribute to society. The University emphasizes characterbuilding through a spirit of freedom, independence and self-contemplation, and fostering adults whowill contribute to creativity in community life and developing international society. It has clarified its
individuality and distinctive quality, and the contents of which strictly comply with the School
Education Act and other relevant laws. In order to respond to social changes and needs the university
is conducting reforms to its educational system including the establishment of new departments andthe renaming of existing departments. The University endeavors to gain understanding of its mission,
goals and educational objectives by publicizing them on its website, and in campus guides and oncampus displays. In addition, it stipulates medium-term targets and plans to address educational
quality assurance and is tackling the issue of educational reform, as well as seeking to reflect theseefforts in its three policies of diploma policy, curriculum policy and admission policy. The University
is arranged as an educational and research organization in line with its education objectives, and isbeing operated in an appropriate manner.
Standard 2. Learning and Teaching
The policy on student admission for each faculty and department is clearly shown and publicizedwith the goal of fostering human resources who have close ties with the local community and will
open up new avenues for it, and who are also aware of their responsibilities and have ambitions tocontribute to society. The appropriate admittance of students pursuant to the enrollment quotas iscurrently under deliberation, mainly by the Management Strategy Council etc. In line with the design
policy the educational curriculum is systematically arranged into liberal arts education, specialized
education and career education, and innovation in teaching methods can be witnessed in the SIU(Sapporo International University) liberal arts program, which illustrates the University’s uniquefeature of “walking hand-in-hand with Hokkaido.” Clear standards have been set regarding theawarding of credits, promotion to the next school year, certifying graduation and completion, andthese are stringently applied. Career education is a common course provided to all the students inevery faculty and department, and appropriate guidance is given regarding social and professional
independence on an extracurricular basis. The University grounds and the surface area of the buildings
satisfy the Standards for Establishment of Universities, and the library and gymnasium etc. areappropriately located and equipped.
Standard 3. Management, Administration and Finance
The objectives of the University's incorporated entity are stipulated in the articles of endowment,
the organizational system and various regulations requisite for their realization have been prepared
and are appropriately operated. In order to reinforce the management strategy the Incorporated
Educational Institution Sapporo International University Management Strategy Council is held, andcontinues to diligently work towards the University’s mission and goals. The Board of Directors isappropriately operated pursuant to the articles of endowment, a University Council consisting of theChair of the Board of Directors and executive directors has been established and a system is in placethat aims to attain the missions and goals of the University. The President’s authority andresponsibilities are clearly stated in the University Regulations, and decision-making and theexecution of business is conducted in a suitable manner. With regard to the administrativeorganization, there are regulations pertaining to the University's incorporated entity secretariat in theDivision of Duties Regulations for the Incorporated Educational Institution Sapporo International
University Secretariat, and regulations pertaining to the University secretariat in the Division ofDuties Regulations for the Sapporo International University Secretariat, both of which clarify theirauthority and responsibilities, and are functioning correctly. The fiscal balance of the University alone

over the single academic year tends towards expenditures outstripping income, but the University'sincorporated entity’s overall assets are being kept stable over the long term.
Standard 4. Self-Inspection and Evaluation
A Self-Inspection and Evaluation Committee was established in the 1993 academic year in orderto help the University reach its goals and social mission, and ever since that point self-inspection andself-evaluation initiatives have been regularly implemented. The standards are checked in advance by
the Committee, and the consistency between the states of the enterprises of each department andUniversity’s mission and goals questioned. Reply sheets regarding initiatives and progress in theteaching workplace and the efforts that go in to them, innovation, results and issues, are submitted on
an individual basis by faculty members. Surveys on students’ education and learning, extracurricular
activities and welfare are accumulated and stored as fixed-point data over the years. Evaluations of
the content of self-inspection and self-evaluation results are deliberated over by the Self-Inspection
and Evaluation Committee, submitted to the President as reports and written opinions. The President
effectively uses these reports and written opinions as basic material for the execution of business ineach faculty, department and administration-related department, thereby creating mechanisms for thereforming and improving of the university’s operations and their appropriate functions.
In summary, the University is conducting education, based on strong collaborative links with thelocal community, which emphasizes character-building through a spirit of freedom, independence andself-contemplation, and the fostering of adults who can contribute to creativity in community life andthe development of international society.
Note that with regard to the University’s unique initiatives regarding its mission and goals, thegeneral comments on “Standard A. Provision of educational opportunities” and “Standard B.
industry-academia-government alliances” should be referred to.