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Research Institute for Higher Education 2016-2017 Message from the Director Visit us, Talk with us, and Make use of our resources The Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE) at Hiroshima University was established in the old downtown campus of Hiroshima city in 1972. Since then it has provided ample information and research outcomes and offered graduate programs in the field of higher education. Eventually it established a reputation as a leading research center on higher education among scholars, policy makers, university administrators, graduate students from Japan and foreign countries. This reputation would not have been earned without tremendous efforts of full-time and part-time academic staff, administrative staff, and other visiting scholars inside and outside Hiroshima University. I thank all those who have contributed to the center. Today, it is publicly known that RIHE is the largest research institute in the field of higher education in Japan. There are currently ten full-time academic staff who conduct research on various topics in higher education policies; finance; comparative research; sociology and economics of higher education; faculty and staff development; and other areas. Those staff members have been devoting themselves to their own research and also to research projects in which the center is involved. RIHE contributes to the field of higher education research by organizing seminars and publishing journal articles. Our annual national seminars on higher education, mainly for researchers in Japan, have more than 40-year history. We also organize international seminars every two years. Those seminars offer the latest information and research outcomes to the participants from various universities. We offer different types of publications both in English and Japanese such as Higher Education Forum and RIHE International Seminar Reports. RIHE also provides information such as statistical data on our website and brochures. Thanks to the efforts of our administrative staff members and librarians, our library contains the largest collection of publications on higher education in Japan. RIHE offers graduate programs. Currently Japanese and other Asian students are learning about the field of higher education. Many of our graduates are working as academics at various universities across the country. Some of our graduate students are full-time administrative staff in Hiroshima University or other Universities; therefore we meet their needs by offering courses at night, during weekends or as intensive courses during summer or winter break. We have a visiting professor program which offers foreign scholars in residence research opportunities at Hiroshima University. So far the institute has accepted scholars from China, Korea, and the United States, and so on. RIHE is quite active in research, education and other social contributions. Scholars in the field of higher education from all over the world are very welcome. Visit us. Talk with us. And make use of our resources. Fumihiro Maruyama Director and Professor RIHE, Hiroshima University The Directors of RIHE * Chronological Order Tsutomu Maekawa 1972-73 Akira Arimoto 1993-99 Takehide Yokoo 1973-79 Kazuhiro Mori 1999-2003 Masuteru Maruyama 1979 Akira Arimoto 2003-2007 Keiji Inaga 1980-84 Shinichi Yamamoto 2007-2012 Michiya Shinbori 1984-85 Masashi Fujimura 2012-2014 Hiroyuki Hata 1985-87 Fumihiro Maruyama 2014-Present Masao Seki 1987-93 The Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE) RIHE was established in 1972 as the first specialized Research As official recognitions to our long-standing efforts, RIHE was Institute for Higher Education in Japan. It has become a center identified by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science for current research and information exchange among domestic and Technology (MEXT) as a member of the 21st Century COE and foreign researchers. It aspires to be a focal point for Program in 2002-2007. Furthermore, we have been funded by emerging networks of higher education research organizations the MEXT to continue the strategic research project on university and institutions all over the world. reform for the 21st century (2008- ). National and International Center for Research on Graduate Programs for Higher Education: Higher Education Ph.D. & M.Ed./M.A. Programs Since its establishment, RIHE has provided both a focus RIHE is offering two graduate programs in higher education, a and a forum for research on higher education in Japan. As doctorate (Ph.D.) program and master's (M.Ed./M.A.) program. of April 2016 the Institute has ten academic staff members: These programs were originally established in 1986 as the first six professors, three associate professors, one research graduate programs for higher education research in Japan. The fellow. A post of visiting professor was established in 1996 to programs of RIHE have two main purposes: to produce which non-Japanese researchers are appointed. Besides the researchers in higher education and to train university researchers permanently based at RIHE, over 550 associate administrators and staff. The Institute is actively developing researchers from inside/outside Hiroshima University are actively programs to meet the needs of these two groups. Our programs linked with the Institute. Its annual study meeting, which was are characterized by delivering basic foundation courses, initiated in 1972, attracts not only the associate researchers but followed by more challenging and detailed professional courses. also other researchers and administrators from different parts by the 2015 academic year, fifty four M.Ed./M.A. students and of Japan every year. In 2002, RIHE was designated as one of twelve Ph.D. students from diverse backgrounds have completed Hiroshima University’s four Advanced Research Institutes. Within RIHE programs. the University, it serves as the center for the study and analysis of institutional reforms and development. Research Information Center RIHE is also extensively engaged in diverse international activities. Major international conferences, in collaboration with From its inception, the Institute has attached importance to OECD, UNESCO, Eight-Nation Education Research Project, and establishing an extensive library for research in higher education. CAP (Changing Academic Profession) Project have been held. Its collections include journals, monographs, reports and RIHE acted as the coordinating agency for the Eight-Nation reference material, and university and government publications International Survey of Higher Education. Other current covering all aspects of higher education in Japan and other international projects include collaborative studies with centers Asian countries as well as much material from American and for higher education research in Australia, China, the European sources. Its library is now recognized as one of the leading libraries of higher education in the world. We are now Netherlands, UK and USA. RIHE's reports, books and journals disseminating information from Japan to the rest of the world are published in Japanese and in English. through a variety of means, including the Internet. Activities at Research Institute for Higher Education Contributing to the Advancement of Higher Education and HE Studies in the 21st Century Education and Professional Development Research interactions Publication and Information Services Activities ●Undergraduate Programs ●Open Seminars ●RIHE Publications (Research in ●Graduate Programs (Master’s and ●Annual Study Meeting Higher Education, Reviews in Higher Doctoral Programs) ●International Seminars and Education, Higher Education Forum, ●Research Student Programs Conferences RIHE International Seminar Reports, ●Professional Development for the ●Higher Education Seminars etc.) University Staff Members, the ●Research Projects Grant-in-Aid for ●Information Services University Research Administrators, Science Research ●Database and the Teaching Assistants ●International Research Network Research Activities Foundation Foundation Theme: Higher Education Policies, Finance, University Organizations, Governance, Administration / Management, Economic Analysis, Assessments and Evaluations, History, Comparative Studies, Internationalization, Teaching and Learning, Admissions Policies, Articulation, Professional Development of University Staff Members RIHE staff, Associate Researchers from inside and outside Hiroshima University, Visiting Professors, Visiting Researchers from Overseas Research Programs MEXT’s National Center Project for Research Research Projects ●A comparative study on funding and governance of universities (2016-, MARUYAMA, Fumihiro) Open Seminars ●The governance system for the qualitative transformation of Every year, RIHE organizes seminars on a variety of topics by undergraduate education (2013-, HADA, Yumiko) inviting researchers from other Japanese universities and from ●An international and comparative study of recruiting foreign around the world. academics (2015-, HUANG, Futao) ●Explore for the sustainable university organization: analysis of the current condition, transformation of the scale and scope of university Annual Study Meeting organizations, and their survival (2016-, MURASAWA, Masataka) RIHE sponsors an Annual Study Meeting for the discussion of ●International comparative research on university management and current topics and exchange of opinions. This is a major function of presidents' leadership (2014-, OBA, Jun) ●Theoretical and empirical research on funding schemes