President’s Position Paper for 2017
Dear All Staff in Nanzan University,
I. Basic Position
Under the banner of “One Campus Many Skills,” the campus integration has beenrealized due to the work put in by the previous University president and his office, giving
us “One Campus.” From this academic year, the challenge of giving substance to the“Many Skills” aspect will begin. That is to say, our becoming one campus will further
enhance the quality of our education and research. I look forward to working on thismatter with everyone who plays a role in our University.
When many people cooperate in order to achieve a goal, I recall the first epistle of St.
Paul to the Corinthians as described in the New Testament. It touches upon the ‘charisma’with which we are all endowed, giving an explanation of the various gifts and abilities
that people possess. It explains how the greater good will be served if everyone displays
their own talents and abilities as they work together. For us, Paul’s words suggest, do they
not, what we should be doing in the newly integrated campus?
In the next few years, I consider that we should etch the following words into ourminds – ‘awareness’, ‘growth’ and ‘maturity’. The people who learn and work in auniversity, whether they be students, administrative workers or teaching staff, should firstof all be aware of their own gifts and seek to use them to good effect. This will lead toour own personal growth. The process of reform or innovation is included within themeaning of the word ‘growth’. I would like the process of growth that will occur in eachand every one of us to bring about the maturation of the campus in its entirety.
II. Priority Issues
1. Further Enhancement of Education Delivered under the Banner of“One Campus Many Skills”
Also related to our basic position, now that the “One Campus” part of “One Campus
Many Skills” has been realized, I would like each and every person involved in Nanzan
University to consider the meaning of “Many Skills” and how it will actually manifest
itself. I would like all of our students to be self-directed in acquiring these skills.
There are several ways to acquire “Many Skills.” For example, in addition to learning
as an individual, there is also the cooperative learning that takes place with friends
teaching each other. The use of the likes of active learning will also be important in orderto encourage such learning.
To ensure that such learning can occur smoothly both as a system and from an
institutional viewpoint, we will provide functions that are in keeping with aspects that are
constantly changing such as information technology and internationalization and, in a
campus where human and material resources are put to even better effect, will enhance it
as a place where students can engage in self-directed learning.
2. Effective Operation of the Quarter System
The quarter system is being introduced from this academic year. The introduction ofthis system is a fundamental reform aimed at further internationalizing the University andenhancing the quality of our education and research. Given that this is a significant
1reform, which will contribute to the realization of various aspects of our future planning,at the preparatory stages we were fortunate that our teaching and administrative staff
cooperated to the extent that they did. We are now employing a short-term intensive
approach to classes, so in order to achieve our goals as a university, I request that you
continue to review our approach so we can run the quarter system effectively. This should
occur from a diverse range of perspectives from the micro-level of the learning andteaching that occurs in every class to the macro-level of campus-wide curriculum. For
students to enjoy the merits of the quarter system, such as self-driven, active learning or
the promotion of study abroad opportunities, while it is of course important for them toact in an independent manner, it is also essential that we enhance the University’s
educational environment. This can be done, for example, by establishing courses thatinvolve internships or service learning, or by offering a range of study abroad programs.
Please continue to consider and then actively implement appropriate programs or support
policies through our faculties, departments, graduate schools, graduate programs andvarious administrative offices.
The quarter system must be beneficial for teaching staff carrying out research as well
as for students, for example by making it easier to go on research leave by taking aquarter off. Here, I ask you all to keep on thinking of ways to take advantage of thequarter system with the balance between education and research firmly in mind.
3. Promoting Further Internationalization
As a university that espouses the fostering of internationalization, this will again be
one of Nanzan University’s priority issues this academic year. In keeping with our plan
given in our “Vision for Internationalization in Nanzan University,” we should pushforward steadily to develop the type of borderless learning environment that will help
achieve the goals cited in the “Vision for Internationalization in Nanzan University”
formulated in 2015. The goals include enhancing our relationships with overseas
universities with whom we have exchange agreements, accepting even more foreign
students and increasing the number of our Japanese students who study abroad.
In order to promote the realization of our Vision for Internationalization, from thisacademic year what was previously the Center for International Education will have its
functions strengthened and become the new Center for International Affairs. In addition
to overseeing the dispatch of our students to overseas destinations and the system toaccept foreign students into Nanzan University, a new international strategy function willbe established. It will set up new programs, promote links with overseas universities andactively carry out promotional activities aimed at foreign universities and prospective
foreign students.
In particular, this year I request that we further enhance and strengthen our system foraccepting foreign students. In our faculties and graduate schools, please continue toactively look for ways to accept foreign students, such as the expansion of the facility forsuch students to sit entrance examinations before they arrive in Japan. When doing so, I
request that you properly ascertain the current needs of foreign students in terms ofcoming to study in Japan, and by taking advantage of the brand we have established forJapanese language education, strive to further enhance the appeal and profile of ourlong-established Japanese culture and language education in the eyes of prospective
foreign students.
Innovative ideas are also necessary to add further verve to the exchange between ourforeign students in degree courses or Center for Japanese Studies students and ourJapanese students. This academic year, the “Multi-Cultural Exchange Lounge” will be
newly opened, so I hope that various international exchange events will be planned andcarried out to further promote multi-cultural exchange. In our classes, we also need tofurther deepen the level of exchange with foreign students.
The International Course category was designed mainly in order to strengthen the
English language ability of our Japanese students, but in addition to this I ask that you
2look into how to make this into a system that further encourages intellectual exchange
between Japanese students and their foreign counterparts.
III. Future Planning
1. Organizational Restructuring
The integration of our two campuses means that several of our existing organizations
will be restructured. The Center for Information and Communication Technology has
been in operation since the 2016 academic year whilst the Center for International Affairs,
the Foreign Language Education Center, the Physical Education Center and the HealthCenter have all started from this April.
I request that each of these centers apply themselves steadily to their respective roles
in order to enhance the quality of our education and research.
The Faculty of Global Liberal Studies, which was established this April, aims to foster
human resources capable of cooperating with others to move proactively to understand,analyze and resolve problems that occur beyond national or regional borders.
In order to further enhance our education and research, I request that we continue tocarry out our organizational restructuring based on a spirit of “unceasing self-reform.” At
the moment, the restructuring of the departments in the Faculty of Science andEngineering and the parallel establishment of a Graduate School of Law alongside the
Nanzan School of Law is being considered. The former is motivated by a desire toenhance the education delivered in the complex technical area required by modernmonozukuri (the craft of making things), and the latter is in response to the demand forhigher level legal education and research with doctoral studies in mind.
In addition, in order to firmly link campus integration with an improvement in our
education and research, we need to consider measures to allow existing organizations thathave been set up to deal with a diverse range of issues to operate in a more flexible andefficient manner. Please begin to review if existing meeting groups or committees may beable to be rearranged or combined.
2. Campus Facilities
Work on preparing our infrastructure for campus integration has steadily progressed,with Building S being completed in the 2015 academic year and the new cafeteria “LienCafé” opening in autumn of 2016. At the end of the 2016 academic year, Building Q, with
its new shared-use research and classroom facilities also opened. We will continue towork on improving our campus infrastructure this academic year. To be specific, this June,
construction will begin based upon Stage III & IV of the Nanzan University Nagoya
Campus Facilities Plan (2017 to 2021). I request that everyone involved redouble theirefforts to ensure that WiFi is available throughout the campus.
During Stages III and IV of the Plan, our goal is to create a borderless learning
environment within a genuinely unified campus, one imbued with the message of “OneCampus Many Skills,” where the fences between faculties and departments have been
made lower. We will also look to deal with the issues of the aging of existing facilities,
making our buildings earthquake resistant and the creation of an educational environmentthat takes full advantage of what ICT has to offer. To this end, carrying on the tradition
established by the Raymond Architectural Design Office, we will press ahead with themaintenance and refurbishment of the seminar rooms and Learning Commons etc., theplaces where students spend time as well as enhancing the functions of existingclassrooms and facilities.
In addition, in order to improve the safety and convenience of our campus, we will
work to revamp the facilities located along on the main pathways within the campus andto enhance the level of universal access by increasing the number of elevators.
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The Learning Commons already located in the Library as well as Buildings S and Q
serve as places for intellectual communication on various levels within the University.
Regardless of whether or not the activities are directly related to students’ regular coursesof studies, please encourage active use of these facilities by individuals or groups
carrying out self-directed learning activities or activities that support these.
IV. Education and Research
1. Three Policies and the PDCA Cycle
Nanzan University formulated three policies (diploma policy, curriculum policy andadmission policy) in the 2016 academic year, with the faculties, departments, graduate
schools and graduate programs amending their existing policies to bring them into linewith these. Please carry out the conferment of degrees, the delivery of classes based uponcurriculum, robust enrolment screening and self-assessment and self-evaluation inaccordance with these new policies. In the faculties, departments, graduate schools andgraduate programs, please establish a PDCA cycle that is traced back to these threepolicies.
It is also necessary to appropriately apply the PDCA cycle in our research institutes
and centers, as well as in the various related administrative offices. For important matters,
in your self-assessment and self-evaluation report please mention what has been done
from the discovery of issues through to what action is taken and review carried out.
2. Introduction of Active Learning and Assuring the Quality of our Education
In universities, it is important for students to think for themselves when learning andacting and to be able to develop their own standpoints and attitudes in order to identify
and resolve the various problems that exist in society. Active learning provides one
effective method towards this end. At the 2016 Nanzan University Symposium active
learning was carried out as the main theme. Instructors should be aware of how active
learning might be introduced in their courses in a way that matches the particular natureof the course. In the faculties and departments, keeping in mind the three policies, please
select courses in which active learning is particularly effective, clearly stating in thesyllabus the classes in which it is applied, and encouraging students to choose thesecourses.
In order to clearly identify what students gain through a university education and toassure the quality of that education it is also important to visualize the fruits of thosestudies. We plan to introduce a study portfolio to enable students to be able to properly
understand the study process and what else is involved beyond the time spent in class.
Last year we carried out a review of the training of instructors in our faculties,
departments, graduate schools and graduate programs. Amendments are planned tolegislation such as the Education Personnel Certification Act so we must move swiftly inorder to be able to adapt. I request that preparation for this be carried out in our faculties,
departments, graduate schools and graduate programs.
3. Collaboration with Other Universities
Please continue to encourage links and collaboration with other universities.
In addition to continuing our deep and cooperative relationship with Sophia University,
as typified by the Sophia-Nanzan Sports Festival, we will continue to press ahead with
the“Japan- Latin America Student Mobility Program: Human Dignity and Harmonizationin Migration and Coexistence.” Through this initiative, in the 2016 academic year, in
addition to the existing relationships we have with the Pontifical Catholic University ofPeru, and the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM) we accepted students
from University of the Andes in Colombia and University of Guanajuato with whom we4have established new links. In addition, we have accepted exchange students from Central
and South America into the Center for Japanese Studies for approximately one month forJapanese language learning and internship experiences.
With the Toyota Technical Institute, we will continue the various types ofcollaboration that we have engaged in to date including credit transfer, interlibrary access,and the joint lecture series, but I request that you consider research exchange etc. that
may lead to joint research projects.
We need to strengthen our links with foreign universities in order to realize our visionof internationalization. During the 2016 academic year, the Association of Institutions ofHigher Education of the Russian Federation and Japan was established to further links
with Russia, a country with which we did not possess any ties. Nanzan University was
one of the founding members of the Association. We will continue to actively press ahead
to enhance our links with universities in countries and regions where we do not havearrangements. At the same time, a memorandum of understanding regarding adouble-degree system was exchanged with Purdue University Northwest during the 2016academic year. On this basis, now please consider the specifics of how we can create adouble-degree system.
In addition to adding value to the overseas study programs already established in ourfaculties, please strive to develop internship programs that take advantage of students’language ability, or service learning programs. On top of this, please consider specificinitiatives designed for accepting foreign exchange students into our faculties anddepartments. For example, creating curriculum that allows students to take Japanese
language education classes in the morning in the Center for Japanese Studies or theForeign Language Education Center and then in the afternoon take subjects offered in thefaculties or departments or General Education Courses will contribute to creating an
educational environment conducive to promoting the acceptance of foreign students in allof our faculties and departments. Accepting research interns into our graduate schools
from universities with which we have exchange arrangements is also worthy of
consideration. Please also actively engage in international exchange at the teaching staff
level.
We also need to maintain international links with Catholic educational institutions. In
addition to the Association of Southeast and East Asian Catholic Colleges andUniversities (ASEACCU) Conference and the Association of Christian Universities andColleges in Asia (ACUCA) Conference, during the 2016 academic year our students also
took part in the first Japan-Korea Student Exchange Program (Francisco Volunteer Camp),
run by the Catholic University President’s Council (CUPC). Aiming to develop themeven further, please continue these initiatives with Catholic universities.
4. Research Ethics and Research Activities
In order for Nanzan University to be an excellent educational institution it must be an
excellent research institution. Please have an awareness of what you are doing and havepride in your activities as a researcher. At Nanzan University we have formulated theCode of Conduct for Nanzan University Research Activities, the Nanzan University
Ethical Guidelines for Conducting Research Involving Human Subjects, the Nanzan
University Regulations Concerning Research Misconduct and the Guidelines for the
Storage etc. of Research Data at Nanzan University. I request that everyone involved inresearch activities read through these documents again to ensure that we prevent improper
conduct in our research activities and carry out our research based upon sound research
ethics. Our researchers also need to undergo research ethics training at regular intervals.
In the Guidelines for the Storage etc. of Research Data at Nanzan University, which were
formulated in 2016, it has been determined that research data must be stored for ten years.
With research activities comes social responsibility.
I request that all researchers apply for external funding such as Grants-in-Aid for
Scientific Research. Applying for competitive funding adds vitality to research activities5

in the field in general and provides a good opportunity for the researcher to review his or
her research and clarify research plans moving forward. The results of research activities
supported by external funding also bring benefits to society. In order to encourage
applications for competitive external funding, please continue to consider policies forallocating in-house subsidies in our faculties and graduate schools that are more related toapplications for external subsidies.
5. Enhancing Support for Students
An appropriate level of support is required for all aspects of student life. With our
motto of “Hominis Dignitati” (For Human Dignity), in a university that extols “universal
access for students” in our Grand Design, it is important for us to provide support for
students with disabilities. I request that the Health Center, which has strengthened its
functions from this year, and our faculties and departments cooperate with the Academic
Affairs Office and the Student Affairs Office and continue to provide students withappropriate support.
It is important that we provide suitable support for students who find themselves in
economic difficulty. This year again, Nanzan University will continue to waive entrance
and tuition fees up to the total amount due for those whose households have been affectedby the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and the Kumamoto Earthquake. Also,
for students whose results have proven their enthusiasm towards their studies, working
within our allocated budget, we will continue to offer economic support throughappropriate scholarships.
V. Social Contribution and Links
1. Social Contribution
Please continue to actively return the fruits from your education and research tosociety. Since re-opening in October 2013 with a basic concept of being a universal
museum, the Nanzan University Museum of Anthropology has received very positive
feedback from the local community and the number of visitors continues to increase. The
museum’s “touchable exhibits” have proven to be particularly popular, winning a prize inthe 5th Japan Society for Exhibition Studies Awards in June 2016.
The “Let’s think about how we will be in the future” lectures that are held every
summer for elementary school and junior high school pupils have now been running forseven years. Last year they were held with cooperation from 13 instructors from ourfaculties and attended by 208 elementary school pupils and 80 junior high school students.
It shows signs of becoming a well-established event in the local community.
Social contribution driven by students is also important. For example, the “Summer
Holiday Swimming Classes” run completely by the Swimming Club has become anannual event attracting more than 100 participants. I hope that this type of activity
becomes more common and that Nanzan University students take all the opportunities
they can to contribute to society.
2. Cooperation among Industry, Academia, and Government
Following the Nanzan University Policy to Strengthen Connections between Industry
and Academia, please continue to work to improve connections between industry andacademia. One thing, for example, for us to consider is the introduction of Project-Based
Learning (PBL) in cooperation with companies, NGOs or NPOs. In the Faculty of Scienceand Engineering, projects involving links with other universities and corporations havebeen selected in the Education Network for Practical Information Technologies, with
PBL being included in the curriculum as one course.
In recent years, the handling of research subsidies from institutions etc. related to themilitary or to national security has been debated in universities, but for everyone at our6University, I request that we adhere to the Nanzan University’s Position on Military
Research that was formulated in 2016.
3. Risk Management Contingency Plans for Disasters
We will continue to refine our risk management contingency plans based upon what was
put in place several years ago, striving to ensure that our students and staff are kept safe
and seeking to play a role as a center of operations in the event a disaster strikes.
VI. Entrance Examinations – Finding Employment
1. Entrance Examinations
The total number of applicants to sit entrance examinations for the 2017 academic year
reached an all-time high of 26,073. This is up by 300 on the previous year’s figure of
25,773. Those applicants sat the general entrance examination, the Zengaku Toitsu
Nyushi (Unified Entrance Examination) (Individual Academic Ability type & Combinedwith the National Center Test type), and the National Center test, (first application
period: 3 subjects & 5 subjects type, and second application period). As the result of ourstrategic public relations campaigns over the past few years and the full cooperation of
everyone at Nanzan this is something to be very pleased about. Nevertheless, we must
redouble these efforts knowing that student recruitment will become increasingly difficult
as the population of 18-year-olds continues to decrease.
The system for accepting extra students was amended from the entrance examinations
for the 2017 academic year. Please test this new system and improve it as required.
In recent years, there have been increased calls for entrance examinations to provide a
multifaceted and comprehensive evaluation of a student from the three elements thatmake up academic ability (1. knowledge / skill 2. cognitive ability / judgment / powers ofexpression 3. independence / diversity / cooperation). In the Faculty of Global LiberalStudies the AO Admissions Examination is already being used and it has also been
decided to introduce it to the Faculty of Foreign Studies. I request that other faculties’
entrance examination systems that evaluate the above-mentioned three elements beconsidered including the likes of the AO Admissions Examination.
The introduction of external examinations that can evaluate the four skills of English(reading, listening, writing and speaking) has already occurred with examinations such as
the Zengaku Toitsu Nyushi (Unified Entrance Examination), but I think we need toconsider broadening our use of these.
In addition, from the standpoint of promoting the acceptance of foreign students,
please look at ways of taking advantage of entrance examinations before arrival in Japan,
or external examinations other than the AO Admissions Examination.
With regard to screening of admissions by recommendation from Catholic secondary
schools and from within the Nanzan School Corporation component schools, in order toensure that these entrance examination systems are used effectively we must press ahead
to consult with the relevant organizations and review accordingly.
The declining number of applicants at postgraduate level is a problem for us. Including
carrying out public relations activities, I request that each of our graduate schools now
take time to review strategies appropriate for attracting postgraduate students.
In the mid-term, we must consider how to respond to changes in the university
entrance system. Please begin to consider how we might make use of the new tests thatwill be introduced with the Center Tests being abolished.

2. Finding Employment
In the 2016 academic year, the jobs-to-applicants ratio for university graduates was at7

a high level as it was in 2015, showing a trend toward improvement in job opportunities.
With these circumstances in mind, once again this year, please strive to achieve a 100
percent job-placement rate for our graduates. To that end, in order to create an even more
effective Career Support Office now that the campuses have been integrated, please
continue to work to strengthen the links connecting the Career Support Committee, the
Job-Search Committee and the various faculties and departments.

VII. Public Relations
Nanzan University has seen major changes this academic year with the campus
integration, the establishment of the Faculty of Global Liberal Studies and theintroduction of the quarter system. Our public relations activities from now need toactively focus on informing people of these new aspects of Nanzan University. In
particular, the various open campus sessions serve as an important opportunity to provide
information about entrance examinations. Once again, this year I request your continued
cooperation on this front.
In order to further increase the number of foreign students, we need to strengthen our
public relations activities directed at the overseas market. Please look to do so by
improving efforts in areas that have not been sufficiently covered to date, for example bycreating materials to be distributed in a range of languages and publicizing the uniquefeatures of our faculties and graduate schools or information about the entrance
examinations for foreign students.
With the population of 18-year-olds declining, in keeping with the changes in theenvironment that universities face, we must review the results of our public relations
strategy and press ahead with pro-active and strategic public relations activities.
As I wrote at the start of this position paper, I myself will etch the following words
into my mind as I carry out my duties: “awareness, growth and maturity.” I ask thateveryone forges ahead with their work making the most of the gifts with which we are all
endowed.

Yoshifumi TORISU
President
Nanzan University8