University of Tsukuba
- Mar 17, 2020
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Profile of University of Tsukuba
OverviewThe University of Tsukuba (筑波大学, Tsukuba daigaku), located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, is one of the oldest national universities (established by Japanese Government) and one of the most prestigious universities in Japan. The university has 28 college clusters and schools with around 16,500 students (as of 2014). The main Tsukuba campus covers an area of 258 hectares (636 acres), making it the second largest single campus in Japan. The branch campus is in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, which offers graduate programs for working adults in the capital and manages K-12 schools in Tokyo that are attached to the university.
The university was established in October 1973. A forerunner was Tokyo University of Education (東京教育大学, Tōkyō kyōiku daigaku) which was founded in 1872. It was one of the oldest universities in Japan, Tokyo Higher Normal School (東京師範学校, Tōkyō Shihan Gakkō). In October 2002, the University of Tsukuba merged with the University of Library and Information Science (ULIS, 図書館情報大学, Toshokan jōhō daigaku). The School of Library and Information Science and the Graduate School of Library and Information – Media Studies were established. It has provided several Nobel Prize winners, such as Leo Esaki, Hideki Shirakawa and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. Dr. Satoshi Ōmura was an auditor at Tokyo University of Education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Tsukuba
ConceptThe University of Tsukuba aims to establish free exchange and close relationships in both basic and applied sciences with educational and research organizations and academic communities in Japan and overseas. While developing these relationships, we intend to pursue education and research to cultivate men and women with creative intelligence and rich human qualities.
The University of Tsukuba endeavors to contribute to the progress of science and culture. Formerly, Japanese universities tended to remain cloistered in their own narrow, specialized fields, creating polarization, stagnation in education and research and alienation from their communities.
The University of Tsukuba has decided to function as a university which is open to all within and outside of Japan. Toward this end, the university has made it its goal to develop an organization better suiting the functions and administration with a new concept of education and research highly international in character, rich in diversity and flexibility and capable of dealing sensitively with the changes occurring in contemporary society. To realize this, it has vested in its staff and administrative authorities the powers necessary to carry out these responsibilities. http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/about-university/concept-concept
Mission StatementThe University of Tsukuba aims to be an open university in all aspects and we are a front runner in the university reform in Japan. Our fundamental principle is to create a flexible education and research structure as well as a university system to meet the needs of the next generation. We aspire to be a comprehensive university, continuously meeting new challenges and developing new areas. The foremost mission of a university is to provide an environment that allows future leaders to realize their potential in full. The University of Tsukuba gives students the opportunity develop their individuality and skills through an education that is backed by cutting-edge research. Toward this end, we set the following goals.
1. We aim to actively expand interdisciplinary and integrative approaches to education research, further specialized expertise and produce distinguished research.
2. We aim to provide an environment that allows future leaders to realize their potential in full and gives them the opportunity to develop their individuality and skills through education that is backed by cutting-edge research.
3. As the core of Tsukuba Science City with its concentration of scientific research institutes, we aim to promote collaboration among industry, academia and government, and actively contribute to society while continuing to strengthen our education and research capacity.
4. Promotion of basic and applied researches with scientific and social values, and researches contributing to the inheritance of science and culture to the next generation.
5. Our university has links with countries and regions all over the world and we aim to become a university with high international reputation and influence by actively promoting world-class education and research activities and collaborative interaction.
6. We take the initiative in university reform through collaborative work between staff and faculty members and valuing their individuality and abilities.
Faculties beyond SchoolsAll members of the University of Tsukuba teaching staff belong to a “Faculty,” and while continuing their own basic research, they are in charge of educational research based on the objectives of each educational research organization including schools, colleges, graduate schools and programs, and centers.
At the University of Tsukuba, teachers belong to an independent organization, making it possible for teachers from different fields to participate in each of the educational research organizations, and the university is able to maintain flexibility in integrating educational research across disciplines and departments and in creating new educational research programs.
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