Seiwa Junior College (Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture) will change its name to Kwansei Gakuin Junior College and become co-educational from 2024. Additionally, as President Takeo Chiba's term of office expires at the end of March 2024, an election for the next president will be held. Yukari Usui, professor of nursery school at Seiwa Junior College, has been selected as the next university president. The term of office is three years from April 3, 2024 to March 4, 1.
Seiwa Junior College has a long tradition and track record as a pioneer in childcare worker training in Japan, and has been training kindergarten teachers, childcare workers, and other childcare workers involved in early childhood education and childcare for about 140 years. In 2009, we became a member of Kwansei Gakuin, and over the past 13 years we have sent out approximately 2,000 childcare workers. The campus is home to the Seiwa Forest, where more than 150 types of trees are planted, and the adjacent kindergarten and nursery school provide an environment where children can learn while being able to see themselves.
Seiwa Junior College will become co-educational from April 2024, 4, in conjunction with the change of university name to Kwansei Gakuin Junior College. Going forward, we will continue to research and make efforts in early childhood education and childcare at the Nishinomiya Seiwa Campus, which has a kindergarten and nursery school next to each other and an environment where you can learn while feeling the children, and develop the childcare workers that society needs.
In 2024, Nagano Women's Junior College (Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture) will change its name to become co-educational Nagano Junior College, as well as Musashino Junior College (Sayama City, Saitama Prefecture), Nagoya Junior College (Toyoake City, Aichi Prefecture), and Osaka Christ Kyoiku Junior College (Abeno Ward, Osaka City) becomes co-educational. In 2025, Seisen Jogakuin Junior College (Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture) will become the Seisen University Junior College Division, Tokiwa Kai Junior College (Hirano Ward, Osaka City) will become the Osaka Tokiwa Kai University Junior College Division, and Osaka Jonan Women's Junior College (Osaka It is planned that the name of the school (Higashisumiyoshi Ward, City) will be changed to Osaka Sogo Nursery College Junior College Division and that it will become co-educational. *Research by University Journal Online Editorial Department
