Tokyo Woman's Christian University (TWCU) was founded in 1918 when an inauguration ceremony was held accepting seventy-six women. Since then, TWCU has consistently provided Japanese female students with precious higher education opportunities based on Christianity, emphasizing liberal-arts studies. More than sixty thousand students have graduated, and their activities in various fields have made TWCU's reputation reliable as one of the leading women's universities in Japan.
On the occasion of the university's centenary, we would like to appreciate the ambitious vision of committed people to establish this prestigious institute of higher education and express our profound gratitude for their generous supports and devoted works.
In the next one hundred years, we will remain faithful to the original mission and promote it more by ever-changing society and the environment surrounding women. Under the principles indicated in TWCU Grand Vision, our undergraduate studies have been developed into a "one-faculty and five-department system," which have started from April 2018, the year of our centenary anniversary. To enrich our liberal-arts studies, we have introduced new types of academic content and education methods in our system, such as problem-based-learning, fieldwork researches, research projects with professional alumnae, and intensive English training courses. TWCU believes that liberal-arts studies are essential for women to be positive and independent to play significant roles in the twenty-first century. Are we always eager to pioneer new frontiers of liberalism? Arts studies.
TWCU will sincerely and energetically pursue the quest of" Whatever things are real" and keep up the spirit of "Service and Sacrifice."
Tokyo Woman's Christian University's Grand Vision' has been created in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the university as an institute of learning deeply rooted in the spirit of Christianity, and to nurture women who, as cultivated people with professional expertise, can make a constructive contribution to society and humankind as a whole in the 21st century.
TWCU's Grand Vision is:
- To nurture women who, in the spirit of Christianity, can make a constructive contribution towards solving the problems faced by society and humankind as a whole.
- To educate women able to make their way in the globalized information society of the 21st century and play a positive role on the international stage.
- To devote significant effort to reform the university's content and education methods, such as will generate in our students, the independent will to learn and the desire to continue to learn throughout their lives.
- To develop and expand the university's liberal arts education, a field essential for fostering cultivated people with professional expertise is how it relates to contemporary society.
- To offer support in career designing, our students might establish themselves as women in careers that will sustain them for their entire future.
- To strengthen relationships with stakeholders and society in general and become a university with the approval and support of society as a whole.
- Maintain the right learning environment and offer facilities and equipment appropriate for higher education institutes in contemporary society.
- To strengthen financial support and expand opportunities for further education and research programs.
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