Hiroshima Bunka Gakuen University（広島文化学園大学）
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 university’s Verification of Construction and Effectiveness of Human Service Systems forCommunity Symbiosis program was selected for funding under MEXT’s Private University
Research Branding Project in November 2016. The university established the Hiroshima Bunka
Gakuen Human Services Research Center and is endeavoring to substantiate, diffuse, and improveeducation policies through such measures as promoting education and research centered oninterpersonal support. These initiatives are worthy of evaluation.
○Placing importance on communication with students, the university has implemented a tutor
system and other mechanisms, providing students with continuous support for learning and class
instruction from entry to graduation. These initiatives are worthy of evaluation.
○Active Learning is an independent, active and cooperative learning method that the university ispromoting as a means of reforming educational methods, and the result of these efforts aresummarized in reports. These initiatives are worthy of evaluation.
○ The university has introduced the HBG Dream Chart system—under which students being
formulating ideas of who they want to be after they graduate (their dream) from the time that they
enter the university, set goals aimed at realizing this dream, and carry out self-inspections andevaluations—as a means of providing feedback on inspection and evaluation of learning outcomes,
and this information is used to enable tutors to provide suitable guidance and evaluations. These
initiatives are worthy of evaluation.
○FD/SD training is regularly carried out jointly for staff members of all four university campusesand a diverse range of training courses for individual departments and job classifications, etc. isimplemented proactively on a continuous basis. These initiatives are worthy of evaluation.
○The university make continuous efforts with regard to progress of the mid-term management plan,such as the University and Junior College Council verifying plan content and target values andreflecting any changes in the formulation of the plan’s annual revised version. These initiatives areworthy of evaluation.
○The IR Promotion Center systematically gathers information centered on internal quality assurance
as well as conducts related surveys and analysis; promotes centralized management of each typeof data; and formulates policies related to education/learning and management; thereby
contributing to the realization of actual reforms/improvement actions. These initiatives are worthyof evaluation.
Recommendations for improvement○The President does not stipulate in advance or disseminate important items related to education
and research that the President is required to stipulate in accordance with Article 5, paragraph (1),item (iii) of the Hiroshima Bunka Gakuen University Faculty Council Regulations. Accordingly,
improvements are required.