2021 Cohort
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edits
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Overall, the university’s core values of respect for equality, diversity, and contribution to the larger social good are captured into its motto: “Men and Women, With Others, For Others.” These values permeate not only its academic curriculum but also guide students in their extracurricular activities. Students undertake many volunteer activities run inside and outside the university, but also beyond Japan, such as the support activities focused on refugees, or the areas damaged by the Great Tohoku Earthquake, to name a few. Extracurricular clubs that promote innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity include Horizon (a student empowerment organization committed to inspiring youth to create innovative solutions for social change) and Sophia Start-up Club (Sophia University’s first entrepreneurship organization established in 2021). Other programs that generate awareness and fundamental elements of I&E include TEDxSophia and Sophia University Future Center.
== 3. Recent developments/achievements in research Encouraging faculty innovation and education, with a focus on education entrepreneurship: ==
Responding to the need to further develop as a “university in line with the world”world, ” Sophia University has been taking bold steps in rethinking the old approach to teaching and learning. Through various initiatives , it has sought to reform “Towards “towards a qualitative change in university education to build a new future” for the Japanese society, fostering and foster a “knowledge-based independence, collaboration , and creative model” which “cultivates independent thinking and creativity”. (Report of the Central Equation Council, August 2012).
== 4. Going forward ==