Doshisha University
VISION

Doshisha University will develop its own unique form of comprehensive knowledge that creates new values by combining foundational, broad-based liberal arts education with specialized expertise. Leveraging our strengths, including Christian principles as the foundation for moral education and conscience, we promote our core education of “balancing knowledge and morality” (acquisition of knowledge and cultivation of morality to appropriately control the knowledge at the same time).
In order to confront social issues and support people in suffering amidst the deepening divides and conflicts of the world, people who have both the “self-governing and independent” spirit to think and act on their own, and the “extraordinary” spirit of not being bound by conventions nor complacent with the current state are needed. In addition, we produce individuals who have the ability to think deeply and to put ideas into practice, who can mediate conflicting values with the conscience of “knowing together” as well as encourage the conscience of people in the world.

Doshisha University will be a frontier of education, research and social contribution that embodies both tradition and innovation, the same characteristics as Kyoto, and present a model of a new society to both Japan and the world through our earnest commitment to tackling complex issues facing the local and global societies, and our effort to revitalize the local community through collaboration with the industry and the government. Furthermore, as we collaborate with our alumni who have gone out from Kyoto, we will create opportunities for students to develop themselves and contribute to society through academic as well as sports and cultural activities.

Now that the international order led by Western countries is undermined, Doshisha University is committed to nurturing true cosmopolitans with the ability to “know together” beyond national and cultural differences. For Neesima, who emphasized the importance of setting oneself free from insular patriotism and loving each person in the world, Christian neighborly love and “Internationalism” were one unified thing. We aim to apply this tradition in cultivating individuals who can pay attention to people in difficult situations and work together for peace with a solid understanding of history. At the same time, we will create a multicultural campus that acts as a microcosm of the world, welcoming people from diverse backgrounds across many countries and regions.

Doshisha University concurrently promotes basic research that expands the horizon of human knowledge and applied research that aims to solve problems facing the contemporary society. We create “multidimensional innovations” with the combination of scientific and technological innovations based on natural science and social and ethical innovations based on arts and social science, assuming a central role of facilitating change in society. In addition, with the expansion of integrated arts and sciences education programs in collaboration with the industry, the government, and other initiatives, we invite students into the high-level cycle of research and education, producing leaders of the new era equipped with conscience.

“Deep forests and large lakes,” which Neesima emphasized as his ideal image of university, was a place of diversity and wonder that encouraged and nurtured different individualities, and a gateway to an unknown world. Doshisha University aims to realize the ideal university that Neesima envisioned as “deep forests and large lakes” in the present day. For this purpose, we will create a learning space where people, natural environment and digital technologies coexist in harmony. Furthermore, we will realize intellectual exchanges that transcend time and space through the organic coordination between our two physical locations, Imadegawa and Kyotanabe Campuses, as well as by integrating them with flexible and diverse learning environment utilizing virtual spaces.