Innovation in International Student Exchange: Trends and Strategies for the Decade
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Innovation in International Student Exchange: Trends and Strategies for the Decade NUPACE 15th Anniversary Symposium & Student Exchange Alumni Reunion October 14-15, 2011, Nagoya University Foreword 2011, the Global 30 (G30) degree programmes. The Nagoya University Program for Academic Exchange (NUPACE) is honoured to convene Nevertheless, despite laudable initiatives, the NUPACE 15th Anniversary Symposium and Japanese universities in general are undeniably Student Exchange Alumni Reunion, an event facing challenges both in attracting and made possible through the generous support of retaining their international student cohort, a the President’s Office and the Nagoya problem arguably compounded by the Great University Alumni Association (NUAL). East Japan Earthquake of March 2011 and, more seriously, in sending their own students Inspired by the Junior Year Abroad in the overseas. United States and ERASMUS in the EU, Japan’s Ministry of Education (MEXT) This Symposium, entitled, “Innovation in established the Short-term Student Exchange International Student Exchange: Trends and Promotion Program in 1995 with the objective Strategies for the Decade” hopes to address of facilitating undergraduate student mobility. current challenges in international student The Nagoya University Program for Academic exchange and, from a variety of angles, to Exchange (NUPACE) was successfully explore innovative policies and strategies launched shortly afterwards in 1996. aimed at nurturing the next generation of globally-oriented leaders. Now, fifteen years after its inauguration, NUPACE hosts approximately 100 students On this, the occasion of the NUPACE 15th annually, the composition of which comprises Anniversary and Alumni Reunion, NUPACE is an enviable regional balance. Significantly, a honoured to invite real time actors in the field large proportion of NUPACE students have of student exchange from Germany and the been, and continue to be financially supported Republic of Korea. The vision, dedication and by JASSO-administered scholarships, which energy of our colleagues abroad are have undeniably served as a catalyst in the indispensable to the promotion of academic development of NUPACE and short-term exchange at this University. Indeed, it is student exchange at Japanese national significant that owing to the collaboration of universities in general. partner universities, student exchange has come to exceed individual student effort and is The impact of NUPACE students is now facilitated by the construction of strong immeasurable. They have enhanced the quality university partnerships and international of education at Nagoya University, improved university networks. the foreign language proficiency of students, faculty and staff, and have, in turn, motivated a Finally, we greatly appreciate and are excited new generation of young people, aspiring to by the presence at this event of NUPACE act globally. alumni and Nagoya University exchange student alumni. We look forward with Furthermore, albeit indirectly, this university anticipation to comments and feedback, not has been stimulated by the presence of a only on their respective student exchange burgeoning community of international programmes, but also on their experiences in students at the structural level. In the last general. NUPACE is heartened by the decade, a significant number of development of an international NUPACE internationally-oriented programmes and network; indeed, we are convinced that the projects have been launched including, in 2002, activities of our alumni will come to have an the Academic Consortium 21(AC21) and, as of impact on a global scale. NUPACE, Nagoya University 1 Innovation in International Student Exchange Trends and Strategies for the Decade Event Programme Friday, October 14 – Saturday, October 15, 2011 October 14: NUPACE 15th Anniversary Symposium Venue: Auditorium, 8F, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University Language: English 13:00 – 13:30 Session 1: Keynote Addresses Master of Ceremony… Prof. Ken Machida, Director, NUPACE, Director, Education Center for International Students, Nagoya University Opening Address… Prof. Takashi Miyata, Trustee (Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration/ Community Relations/International Student Exchange), Nagoya University Keynote Address… Mr. Junsaku Mizuhata, Deputy Director for International Student Exchange, Student Support and Exchange Division, Higher Education Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) 13:30 – 17:00 Session 2: Panel Discussions 13:30 – 15:00 Panel Discussion 1 – Student Exchange Policy and Programmes: Fresh Approaches to Contemporary Challenges Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Claudia Ishikawa, Co-ordinator, NUPACE, Education Center for International Students, Nagoya University Panellists: Mr. Benjamin Gehring, Program Manager Asia, International Office, University of Freiburg Prof. Sachihiko Kondo, Team Leader of Short-term Programs (Team SteP) and Co-ordinator, OUSSEP, Center for International Education and Exchange, Osaka University Mr. Junsaku Mizuhata, Deputy Director for International Student Exchange, Student Support and Exchange Division, Higher Education Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) Prof. Tsutomu Nomizu, Academic Co-ordinator, NUPACE, Education Center for International Students, Nagoya University Ms. JJ Park, Manager, Exchange and Study Abroad Programs, Office of International Affairs, Korea University 15:00 – 15:30 Refreshment Break 2 15:30 – 17:00 Panel Discussion 2 – International Student Mobility: Changing Perspectives and New Directions Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Nami Iwaki, Study Abroad Advisor, Advising and Counselling Services, Education Center for International Students, Nagoya University Panellists: Ms. Mai Kawasumi, Steering Systems Buyer, Renault Nissan Purchasing Organisation, Exchange Student at Université de Strasbourg, France, ’04 Asst. Prof. James R. Masterson, Department of Government, Morehead State University, NUPACE Alumni ’99 (University of Cincinnati, USA) Mr. Yuji Miwa, Marketing Business Planning, Celgene Corporation Exchange Student at North Carolina State University, USA, ’00 Mr. Roland Reiszek, Associate Director, UBS Group Technology, NUPACE Alumni ’02 (University of Freiburg, Germany) Ms. Eri Takahashi, Corporate Sales and Management, Japan Airlines, Exchange Student at Flinders University, Australia, ’07 Asst. Prof. Brian Waters, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University, NUPACE Alumni ’97 (North Carolina State University, USA) 17:00 – 17:10 Closing Address… Prof. Tsutomu Nomizu, Academic Co-ordinator, NUPACE, Education Center for International Students, Nagoya University 17:30 – 20:00 Reception Venue: Higashiyama Green Salon, Nagoya University 3 October 15: Nagoya University Homecoming Day & NUPACE Alumni Reunion 10:00 – 14:00 Free time/Participation in Homecoming Day Events 14:00 – 16:30 Alumni Forum Venue: Room 207, Education Center for International Students, Nagoya University 14:10 – 14:45 NUPACE Alumni Special Lecture – Sino-Japanese Relations in the 21st Century Lecturer: Asst. Prof. James R. Masterson, Department of Government, Morehead State University, NUPACE Alumni ’99 (University of Cincinnati, USA) 15:00 – 16:30 Panel Discussion – Shifting Viewpoints: Home and Japan through the NUPACE Prism Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Yuka Kitayama, Co-ordinator, NUPACE, Education Center for International Students, Nagoya University Panellists: Mr. Marcin Aftyka, Senior Engineer, Toyota Motor Europe, NUPACE Alumni ’06 (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Ms. Flor de Liana Cerros Martinez, Vice-President, CMA Graphix Group NUPACE Alumni ’06 (Institut Supérieur de Traducteurs et Interprètes <ISTI>, Belgium) Mr. Sebastien Emptaz-Collomb, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, NUPACE Alumni ’10 (Université de Grenoble, France) Mr. Dwiky Yoseph C. Peranginangin, Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University NUPACE Alumni ’09 (Padjadjaran University, Indonesia) Ms. Xiaohan Shi, Undergraduate Student (International Politics) at Zhejiang U. NUPACE Alumni ’10 (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Mr. Justin Wang, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Nagoya University, NUPACE Alumni ’04 (North Carolina State University, USA) Mr. Benjamin Wood, Freelance Translator NUPACE Alumni ’99 (University of Sheffield, UK) 17:00 – 18:30 NUPACE Alumni Party Venue: Lobby, Education Center for International Students, Nagoya University 4 Speakers and Panellists: Friday, October 14: NUPACE 15th Anniversary Symposium 13:00~13:30 Session 1: NUPACE 15th Anniversary Keynote Addresses Master of Ceremony As Director of the Education Centre for International Students, Professor Ken Machida takes charge of the overall management of education as well as the provision of substantial and mental aids for foreign students of Nagoya University. Ken Machida's speciality is linguistics, the study of structures, meanings, history and geographical distributions of language. His major concern is how and why language types and word orders are interrelated. However historically or geographically remote different languages may be, they tend to show similar word order rules if they belong to the same language type. The theoretical investigation of this question helps understand the hypothetically necessary relations of meaning and structure of human language. Opening Address Professor Takashi Miyata became Vice-President of Nagoya University in 2006 and,