On October 2021, 10, a special lecture was held by the Faculty of Contemporary Business Administration of Toyo Gakuen University and the Faculty of Business Administration of Bunkyo Gakuin University, which have a credit transfer agreement.Taro Aichi, President of Toyo Gakuen University, will be on stage in the third year course "Management Theory" of the Faculty of Business Administration of Bunkyo Gakuin University.With Masakazu Shimada, President of Bunkyo Gakuin University, who is also an academic advisor of the same subject, we held a special lecture on the management of private universities and a dialogue to answer questions from students.
In March 2021, Toyo Gakuen University and Bunkyo Gakuin University aimed to further develop both sides, promote academic exchanges, further enhance education, and foster a broad perspective of students. Concluded an agreement on credit transfer between the Faculty of Business Administration of Gakuin University and the Faculty of Contemporary Business Administration of Toyo Gakuen University.As a result, from April 3, 2021, students from both universities will be able to take special lectures on the target subjects and earn credits.
Bunkyo Gakuin University's "Management Theory" is a course that can be taken and credits can be taken in the 3rd and 4th years of the Faculty of Contemporary Business Administration at Toyo Gakuen University.It is offered as an online and face-to-face hybrid class, and about half of the students at both universities took it face-to-face on the day.
The theme of the special lecture is "About the management of private universities".President Shimada and President Aichi introduced their ideas and efforts toward university management, and answered questions from students.From a management perspective such as "the reason for aspiring to run a university" and "difficulty in running a university" from the students, I hope that the university's approach to the corona illness, the thoughts on Japanese university education and the university system, and even the students of their own university. What should I do and what should I do as a college student?Many questions were gathered.
The student's questions also extended to the tuition and lessons at Corona.From both presidents, fixed costs such as facility maintenance costs account for most of the university's expenditures, infrastructure development to realize online classes, and system environment such as securing PCs and Wifi routers to lend to students. He explained in detail a part of the university management in Corona, including the fact that the expenditure for investing in was large.
In addition, there were questions related to personality such as the president's college episodes and recommended books, and the students who took the class said, "About the experience of the previous job and the background and motivation for changing to the university president. The story was also very interesting, and I felt close to (the chairman). "Through this class, it seems that it was an opportunity not only to deepen the knowledge about management but also to get to know the way of thinking of each university and the president again.