JICUF Grantee Spotlight: The 1st Global Community Psychology Seminar in Asia by Prof. Sasao
ICU Professor Toshiaki Sasao received a grant from JICUF to host “The 1st Global Community Psychology Seminar in Asia” at ICU in July. We interviewed him about community psychology and the significance of this conference.
U.S. Scholars Initiative interview : Nicolas Correa
JICUF launched the United States Scholars Initiative (USSI) in 2018 to increase the number of degree-seeking undergraduate students from the US at ICU. For the last five years, we aimed to recruit two US students with excellent academic standing, and cover their full tuition for four years. The first two USSI students graduated this summer. Currently, six USSI students are studying at ICU, including two new students who matriculated this month. We had a chance to interview Nicolas Correa, one of the USSI students who enrolled at ICU in 2019 and graduated this year. Nicolas at the ICU graduation JICUF: Tell us a bit about your background. Where did you […]
Global Link Alumni Interview: Tomoaki Saito & Yukiko Takei
From 2014 to 2019, JICUF hosted Global Link, a summer program for ICU undergraduate students. (The program was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic, and there are plans to reintroduce it in 2024.) With the purpose of helping students contemplate their future, Global Link provided the opportunity to explore a wide range of global careers. Students selected by JICUF spent the month of July in New York and Washington, D.C., participating in office visits, roundtables, volunteer activities and professional skills workshops with the cooperation of ICU alumni and other professionals. We contacted Tomoaki Saito and Yukiko Takei, two former Global Link participants (in 2017 and 2019 respectively) , to […]
Spring 2023 JICUF Grant Recipients Announced
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!
ICU Global Youth Essay Competition 2023
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 […]
Nelson Ranch Scholarship
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 […]
Alumni Stories No. 25 – Ms. Minako Oki Ahearn
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 […]
JICUF Grantee Spotlight: ICU Honey Team
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 […]
JICUF Co-Hosts “Expanding Refugee Education Pathways” Conference at Sophia University
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.
JICUF Staff and Students Attend “Students as Partners” Conference in Canada
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.