Tokyo Seiei College（東京聖栄大学）
Evaluation summary
Standard 1. Mission and Objectives, etc.
The mission, goals and educational objectives are stipulated in the College Regulations, in linewith the College Philosophy and educational principles, and its educational targets, fitted to thesechanging days, and the College’s individuality and distinctive quality are clearly shown to society.
The formulation of mission, goals and educational objectives etc. are checked by the Managing
Director's Committee, Gakuen Operation Council and College Operation Council, with theparticipation of executives, faculty and staff. Its mission, goals and educational objectives are madewidely-known internally and externally through visits to high schools, open campus days, and over
the College website.
The College’s mission, goals and educational objectives are incorporated in its medium-to-longterm plan, and the three policies of diploma policy, curriculum policy and admission policy. The
College has prepared the requisite faculty and departments and educational and research organization
to attain its mission, goals and educational objectives.
Standard 2. Students
Student admissions are in line with enrollment quotas and numbers appropriately maintained
throughout the entire Faculty. The admission policy has been formulated according to the educational
objectives, and clarified for the faculty and each department. The admission policy is disseminatedthrough the College website and College guide, application guidelines, student handbooks and open
campus days etc. With regard to support for learning and class instruction through collaboration
between faculty and staff, initiatives for collaboration are pursued by faculty and staff connected to
the various divisions and committees, including the year head teachers, course teachers and theAcademic Administration Committee.
With regard to career guidance, internships, career research, literacy and other courses areprovided within the educational curriculum, in addition to which career support guidance, job hunting
experience lectures and so on are conducted outside the educational curriculum through collaboration
between faculty and staff.
Consultation on student health is taken care of by the infirmary and college doctor, and acounselling room has been established to deal with mental support for students and is manned byconsultants. In addition, through the implementation of various questionnaires and Meetings forExchanges of Opinion between Students and Staff the opinions cited by students are considered froma cross-college perspective at the College Operation Council etc., and efforts are made to address
them.
Standard 3. Educational curriculum
A diploma policy, based on educational objectives, is formulated with the incorporation of theexternal perspective of Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, with whom the College has concluded acomprehensive collaboration agreement. The standards for certifying graduation and awarding
credits based on the diploma policy, and the standards for evaluating academic achievement andstandards for the recognition of licenses and qualifications are all appropriately stipulated in theCollege Regulations and Course Completion Regulations. Furthermore, the diploma policy is also
disseminated through the College’s website and College guide and student handbooks
As a method for evaluating academic achievement the grade point average (GPA) system wasintroduced upon the 2016 intake of students, and these evaluations are stringently conducted. As an
indicator that is publicized, those students failing to gain a GPA of 1.5 over the semester areinterviewed by the year head teachers, and those who fail to gain a GPA of 1.5 by the end of thesecond year by the Dean and Department Chair. A target of having achieved an aggregate GPA of atleast 2.00 or more upon graduation is clearly set as a goal. In addition, by conducting learning
behavior survey the correlation between learning and GPAs is analyzed and the College isconsidering the effective use of GPAs. Subsequently, with regard to fairness in awarding credits andevaluating academic achievement, the Course Meetings are convened attended by all faculty
members including concurrent and new faculty members, and the concepts are shared among course
teachers.
○ In order to maintain fairness in awarding credits and evaluating academic achievement the Course
Meetings involving the entire faculty including concurrent members have been held each year
since the inception of the College, and the initiatives among faculty members to confirm academic
achievement standards and achieve a common awareness of the handling of late arrival at or
absence from the college is worthy of evaluation.
Standard 4. Faculty and Staff
The College Operation Council, which was established in order to facilitate College operation andassure the functionality of the President’s leadership, is an appropriate auxiliary system to assist thePresident in decision-making. It also serves as an organization that can appropriately pick up theopinions of the various committee organizations. When the President makes decisions the opinionsof the Faculty Council are listened to in line with the College Regulations, Faculty CouncilRegulations and President’s decision. Furthermore, efforts are made to make the content of theopinions and decisions widely known through the Faculty Council, Division Chief Meetings and theGakuen Information Sharing System. In addition, staff are assigned according to the Administrative
Organization and Division of Duties Regulations, and roles are clarified.
The full-time faculty are appropriately assigned in accordance with the Standards forEstablishment of Universities and the designated criteria for various qualifications. Faculty
Qualification Screening Regulations have been stipulated for the screening of the faculty’squalifications. Specific items for qualification screening pertaining to employment and promotion
are stipulated in the Bylaws for Selection of Faculty and conducted. Achievement evaluations areconducted with consideration paid to research and education activities and sharing of duties, as well

as the results of Class Evaluation Questionnaires.
Organizational Faculty Development (FD) activities are promoted, and the reform andimprovement of educational and teaching methods is being achieved. The full-time faculty engage
in mutual inspections of each other’s classes, sharing and improving upon their teaching methods,
while at the same time they are obliged to submit a Reform Report in response to the results of theClass Evaluation Questionnaires, thereby encouraging them to improve classes at their own initiative.
○ All full-time faculty are obliged to make their lessons open and enable them to be viewed, andthe fact that the sharing and improvement of teaching methods are attempted on a College-wide
scale merits evaluation.
Standard 5. Management, Administration and Finance
The goals of the College's incorporated entity are stated in Article 3 of the Incorporated
Educational Institution Tokyo Seiei College Articles of Endowment, and management discipline iscited. Furthermore, regulations have been established with regard to consideration for organizationaland research ethics, environmental conservation, human rights and security, achieving the heightenedawareness amongst both students and faculty and staff, and these regulations are being applied.
The Board of Directors has established the Managing Director's Committee, which has enabled anacceleration of decision-making through the preliminary coordination of matters for discussion, andis processing day-to-day business. With regard to important matters related to the operations of theCollege's incorporated entity and the College, the Chair of the Board of Directors and President
consult with the Managing Director's Committee and Board of Councilors before taking decisions.
In order to establish a financial base, the College is striving to pursue revenue increase measures
such as dividend earned and investment earnings based on sound asset management and initiatives
to acquire external funding such as the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI). As
measure to curb expenditure the College reviews labor costs and is working hard to obtain a fiscal
balance. Furthermore, with regard to budgets, based on Budget Preparation Criteria a (proposed)
Budget Preparation Policy considering the medium-to-long-term business plan and revenue
resources have been formulated.
The audit system is composed of auditors, a certified public accountant and the Internal Audit
Office. The Three-type Audit Liaison Meeting, a review meeting attended by the above three parties,
is held with the target of exchanging opinions concerning the College’s accounting procedures andfinancial circumstances, and an organized system for the appropriate conduct of accounting
procedures has been created.
○ Each academic year a drill involving the entire College is held in which fire/disaster prevention
drills and the system for checking on the safety of students and personnel is put into practice
operation, the installation of priority telephone links during disasters, stocking of emergency
foods and other specific safety measures are all worthy of evaluation.

Standard 6. Internal Quality AssuranceWith regard to the organization and the relevant responsibility system for internal quality assurance,a permanent organizational system centered on the Self-Inspection and Evaluation Review
Committee is in place. In addition, after the Managing Director's Committee has checked the state ofprogress being made with the medium-to-long-term plan, a report is submitted to the Gakuen
Operation Council, while with regard to the business plan for the relevant academic year the CollegeOperation Council manages the state of progress of the faculty and both departments, and the systemof responsibility for the entire College’s internal quality assurance is clear. Through the drawing up
of a Self-Inspection Report centering on the Self-Inspection and Evaluation Review Committee, eachof the committees and administrative divisions check the results of initiatives, inspection evaluations
and issues for the next academic year, and in this way both initiatives to raise awareness among
faculty and staff about internal quality assurance and independent and autonomous self-inspectionand evaluation are conducted.
With regard to the Institutional Research (IR) functions, the College Operation Council that
supports the President’s leadership collects data, and provides its results through committees and theFaculty Council to share it among all of the faculty and staff. In addition, through the use of selfinspection and evaluation, institutional evaluation and accreditation, and the results of Investigations
into the State of Progress in Pursuing the University Establishment Plan, the operation of the College
is being reformed and improved in line with the medium-to-long-tern plan.
In summary, the College is appropriately addressing education and research in line with thefounding principles and mission and goals it cites for itself. The College’s educational target is to“instill students with expert knowledge, techniques and skills in health, nutrition and foods, and todevelop them into citizens capable of success in the local community and in professional workingsociety.” It has in place one faculty and two departments, is pursuing educational and research
activities that are in line with its principle of social contribution, and it is to be hope that it willcontinue to flourish.
Note that with regard to the College’s unique standards, the general comments on “Standard A.
Collaboration with and contribution to the local community” should be referred to.
It should be noted that the College has cited the following remarks.
1. Collaboration between management and education/learning divisions towards making a realityof the College’s vision
2. A continuous support system for learning and class instruction
3. Results of fulfilling one’s raison d’être