To actively promote collaboration programs with high schools, Kansai University established the Center for High School and University Partnerships (former name: Office for Promotion of College-High School Collaborations) in April, 2003 and a Steering Committee for High School and University Partnerships in October that year, both of which enabled us to make various efforts under the universitywide system. Originally, these collaborations meant those with high schools, but in reality our activities are not limited to those only. Revitalization of our university by creating both inward and outward flows of human resources is also our goal.

  Concrete examples of attempts we have been making include outreach lectures at collaborating high schools by our faculty members, extension courses offered at our university to collaborating high school students, academic staff training designed for kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school and high school teachers, and internship programs where we send our students to kindergartens, elementary schools, junior high schools and high schools to assist teachers and learn know-how on-the-job. Especially, this internship program was chosen to be a Good Practice University Educational Support Program for 2005 by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) for being extraordinary and unique by sending as many as 300 university students to schools for two years in a row.

  We are trying to strengthen our alliance with high schools and other schools as educational institutions with the common goal, which is to foster the young generation who will be able to lead the future society.