Message from the President
大橋ゆか子(Yukako Ohashi)
I started teaching at Bunkyo University in 1977 when the original women's university became coeducational. Since then I have committed myself to researching how laser light transfers to matter when applied to metal complexes at a ten billionth of a second. While my efforts as a researcher do not produce rewards on a daily basis, curiosity is a major force of my life. An unexpected result, however small it might be, gives me such delight.
When I started teaching here, I thought about how to enlighten the students with the joy of working with nature. And yet I found myself nurtured by the students themselves, and have a deeper understanding of natural sciences because of them. After all, more than three decades of teaching experience at Bunkyo University make me realize “educating others makes one grow.” With your warm support and cooperation, I hereby would like to rededicate myself to education as Bunkyo University president in my continuing mission of nurturing humanity.
We have the university's administrative headquarters in Tokyo. In addition there is the Koshigaya campus where the respective Departments of Education, Human Sciences and Language and Literature are located. We also offer Departments of Information and Communications, International Studies and the Women's College at the Shonan campus. Six faculties intermingle with academic fields that center around the human spirit. In each of the different faculties humanity assumes a keyword presence, whether it is for the cultivation of the human mind, the understanding of human behavior, language, ties of information or nutrition. These six petals connect to the flower of our being: "empathy for all humanity.” Putting people first is the driving force of our purpose as educators.
What makes Bunkyo University special? We have small classes for specialized education, hands-on training both in Japan and abroad, faculty enthusiasm for student guidance, trusting and warm support from staff, and joint involvement in local activities by faculty, staff and students. Many of our departments are firsts for private universities, each possessing the special qualities needed for education and research that will enable every student to find his or her own purpose and the pathway to realizing it.
I seek to proceed in making Bunkyo University with its many fields of expertise a trusted name, from which many good things can be expected, both by those in our region and beyond.