In late February, the JICUF Grants Committee reviewed 18 proposals for the winter 2022-23 term and approved 11 (1 from faculty, 1 from alums, and 9 from ICU students), awarding a total of ¥5,174,520 in funding. Congratulations to the awardees!
International Christian University (ICU) and Japan ICU Foundation invite youths from around the world to share their views on how to make society better. Each year, essay topics are selected in the areas of human rights and current events. For 2023, the application is open from August 15 to October 12. Apply to win great prizes, including the top prize of two round-trip tickets to Japan! Prizes Top Prize ( 1 winner ): Two round-trip airline tickets to Tokyo in the summer of 2024 for the winner and a guarantor. A visit to ICU will be incorporated into the trip. In lieu of the airline tickets, the top prize winner has […]
The Japan ICU Foundation is excited to announce the establishment of the Nelson Ranch Scholarship. The Scholarship was established in honor of ICU’s long-standing relationship with the United States and its Christian heritage. The donors have expressed their vision for the Scholarship as: “Our hope is that in some small way the Scholarship will promote peace in the world and help bind these two nations with the Love of God.” Awarded annually, the endowed Scholarship will support a United States citizen with a demonstrated commitment to Christianity for up to four years of undergraduate studies at ICU’s College of Liberal Arts. The Scholarship is designed to support a student with […]
For this article, we spoke with Ms. Minako Oki Ahearn (class of 1982), founder of the Japanese-English dual language immersion charter school, International Charter Academy of Georgia. The connection between Minako and ICU precedes her own birth. Her father, Hideo Oki, served as an assistant to Swiss theologian Dr. Emil Brunner when he taught at ICU from 1953 to 1955. Just 10 years after the war, both of her parents were fortunate enough to receive scholarships from the United States to pursue studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where she was born. (Left photo below: Dr. Brunner and Mr. Hideo Oki, Right photo: Baby Minako and her parents […]
Do you know that there is a “Honey Team” at ICU that keeps bees? JICUF first encountered the ICU Beekeeping Project in the fall of 2019, when undergraduate student Yuki Tamaki applied for and successfully received a JICUF grant. In the application, she wrote: “We will set up beehives in the organic farm on campus and engage in beekeeping. We will use the funds obtained from the harvested honey to support activities aimed at saving bees from Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), an unexplained phenomenon of mass disappearance of bees. The project will create opportunities for ICU students to think about and act on environmental issues.” The grant was used to […]
On May 17 and 18, JICUF co-hosted a conference titled “Expanding Refugee Education Pathways” at Sophia University with the Global Task Force on Third Country Education Pathways (GTF), Pathways Japan, and Sophia University. About 60 participants from 20 countries gathered to discuss how to increase educational opportunities for refugee students to provide a safe pathway to a third country.
From March 30 to April 1, third-year undergraduate student at ICU Hikari Hirata, PhD candidate at Waseda University Suzan Housseini, and JICUF Vice President Aki Takada attended a conference titled “Students as Partners: Equipping Student Leaders as Partners for Sustainable Humanitarian Action” at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada.
On April 14 and 15, JICUF held its board meeting at ICU. It was the first time that JICUF trustees visited the campus in five years.
In late February, the JICUF Grants Committee reviewed 18 proposals for the winter 2022-23 term and approved 11 (1 from faculty, 1 from alums, and 9 from ICU students), awarding a total of ¥5,174,520 in funding. Congratulations to the awardees!
Runa Oshiro, who graduated from the ICU Graduate School this month, received a JICUF grant to conduct field research for her master’s thesis on how Okinawan identity is expressed through local beer. We interviewed her about her research project.
