Nara Institute of Science and Technology Alumni Association
2023 General Assembly
Minutes
Date:
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Absentees:

Observers:

November 18th, 2023 (10:15am-11:00am)
Kenshu Hall, Interdisciplinary Frontier Research Complex No.2,
NAIST and online
Kiyoshi KIYOKAWA, Chairperson (IS 1994 enrollment)
Akihisa INOUE, Vice-chairperson (MS 1998 enrollment)
Mime KOBAYASHI, Vice-chairperson (BS 1994 enrollment)
Morito AKISADA, Director (BS 1999 enrollment)
Ismail ARAI, Director (IS 2002 enrollment)
Yoshihiro UEOKA, Director (MS 2009 enrollment)
Katsutomo OKAMURA, Director (BS 1998 enrollment)
Junichiro YOSHIMOTO, Director (IS 1998 enrollment)
Others: 3 persons (BS 2012 enrollment 1, MS 2013 enrollment 1, MS
2020 enrollment 1) online, and 2 persons (MS 2003 enrollment 1, IS
2005 enrollment 1) on-site
Kazuma YASUHARA, Director (MS 2006 enrollment)
Raula Gaikovina Kula, Auditor (IS 2008 enrollment)
Yuko WADA, Auditor (BS 2000 enrollment)
Shoji KOMAI, Advisor (BS 1995 enrollment)
Educational Affairs Division (Tsutsui, Sumita, Katakami)
Division of Material Science (Professor Uraoka, Professor Hirota,Professor Hosokawa)

Opening:
Greeting by Mr. KIYOKAWA, Chairperson
Explanation on setting a period of about two weeks to collect opinions on matters to be
discussed at this General Assembly
Deliberation:
1. Confirmation of previous General Assembly (Nov. 19th, 2022) minutes
2. Explanation of 2022 settlement of accounts and approval to continue online
deliberation on this matter

Comment from attendees- In order to save the bank transfer fees, we’d like to use net banking regarding
the method of settlement in cases where Alumni Association board
members make advance payment such as expenses for supporting
activities of overseas branches.
3. Explanation of 2022 accounting audit and approval to continue online deliberationon this matter
4. Explanation of activities proposals and approval to continue online deliberation on
this matter
5. Explanation of board member reappointments and approval to continue online
deliberation on this matter
Retirement Greeting by Mr. INOUE, Vice-chairperson and Inaugural Greeting by Mr.
SUGIMOTO, Director
Reports:
Explanation of active report
Others:Opinion exchange- Survey result show that top 3 activities alumni members expect Alumni
Association to perform are “Support for current students”, ‘Membership listmanagement” and “Publication of newsletters”.
- We have been able to implement “Support for current students” and‘Membership list management”. We consider about “Publication ofnewsletters” by online.
- About 10 members showed positive response for becoming board
members. We will consider them when selecting new board members.
- In order to activate Alumni Association, it might be better to introduce SNSor other systems where members can interact with graduates who are in thesame year of admission.
- It might be better to recruit one current student for each division as Alumni
Association board members. We will be able to continuously produce people
who will participate Alumni Association activities positively even after-graduation or retirement from board member, and it would contribute forrevitalizing Alumni Association.
On the website, we should advertise more about what we do for supporting
alumni activities.