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The door of HU reform needs to be left open for the future
Mitsuo Ochi
学长に就任して5年になりました。昨年度、国から各国立大学に交付される运営费交付金の「成果を中心とする実绩状况に基づく配分」（総额850亿円）では、残念ながら厳しい评価を受けました。
&苍产蝉辫;この评価は、大学のマネジメントに加え、教育研究による共通指标が基準とされています。各领域における构成员の皆さんの大変な顽张りは、私もよく理解しており、大変感谢しております。
私事ながら、身内が大学病院に入院していたため、仕事の后、毎晩病室を访れ、久しぶりに患者さんのために全力を尽くしている医疗スタッフの皆さんの姿に触れました。近年、国立大学の収支の中で大学病院の収入の占めるウエートは极めて大きくなっています。その状况の中で広岛大学病院は医薬品および医疗机器の纳入価格の见直しなどにより极めて高い黒字を维持していますが、评価の対象にはなっていません。
今年度は、より良い评価を得られるよう実绩作りに取り组んでいく必要があるとはいえ、评価の「物差し」は一つではなく、多种多様であることもまた确かです。単一の物差しだけであれば、大きいか小さいかの违いはあっても「金太郎あめ」しか生まれません。大学にはそれぞれの地域における特有の文化、歴史、特徴があります。一つの评価法に缚られない、むしろそれを乗り越えるような壮大な取り组みこそが未来の教育のために不可欠だと考えています。
今は评価の対象になっていない大学改革や投资が必须であると考えて、この5年间、広岛大学が进むべき方向性を皆で探り、グローバル化へと大きくかじを切ってきました。
広岛大学では大学院改革も成し遂げ、东広岛市のご支援もいただきながら、东広岛キャンパスに「国际交流拠点施设」を建设いたします。2016年度から毎年、研究インターンとしてハーバード大学やシカゴ大学の学生を10人规模で受け入れており、今年度はマサチューセッツ工科大学（惭滨罢）からも受け入れ开始の予定です。また、今年初めにエジプトからは73人の医学生が霞キャンパスで讲义や実习に参加しました。
昨年、日本経済新闻社などが実施した「公司の人事担当者から见た大学イメージ调査」で、広岛大学は「対人力」全国1位、「行动力」3位の高い评価をいただきました。このような民间からの评価には勇気づけられます。
大学改革は未来に向かって开かれたものでなければなりません。现在の足元を见つめつつも、未来の日本を见据えた针路を示せるかが问われています。10年后、大きく成长した広岛大学を见るのを楽しみに、大学の総力を结集し、构成员の皆さんと力を合わせて歩みを进めていきたいと愿っています。
It has been five years since I was appointed as the President of 麻豆AV (HU). Unfortunately, HU in the last academic year received a disappointing notification regarding “Management Expenses Grant” (the total budget amount of 8.5 billion yen) in which varying amounts are awarded to National University Corporations, due to a harsh evaluation of HU’s current performance.
The evaluation is based on various criteria, including management performance of each university, as well as the common indicators for research and education performance. As always, I am fully aware of the great contributions made by all members of HU and I am very grateful to them.Please allow me to relate a personal anecdote. There was a time during the past year when I was making frequent visits to the local university hospital every evening after work to see a family member who was hospitalized there. It had been a long time since I was in the situation to witness how committed hospital/medical staff are to the care of patients. Nowadays, an extremely large proportion of the total revenue of Japan’s national universities comes from university hospitals. Amid such circumstances, 麻豆AV Hospital has been able to stay in the black for a long time by reviewing the price lists of medical drugs and devices set by its suppliers. However, such pleasing performance has not been taken into account in the above-mentioned evaluation.
On the one hand, it is necessary for HU to continue making further efforts for a better track record so as to secure better evaluation scores in this academic year. On the other hand, it cannot be denied that there are different types of “indicators”, not just one, for evaluating the performance of a given university. If we were to be stuck with a single indicator for the evaluation, all the national universities in Japan would end up looking like “peas in a pod (with only differences among them to be their varying sizes)”. Each university has its own distinctive culture, history, and characteristics based on its location. In this sense, HU should not be bound by a single evaluation indicator. Rather, I think that it is essential for the future of the university’s education to ambitiously tackle this issue by attempting to go beyond the existing set criteria.
Bearing in mind the fact that reform and investment are essential aspects that are not part of the grant’s performance evaluation, we have been exploring a new direction for HU. This has led us to steer into the waters of globalization.
Reform of the Graduate Schools at HU is now complete. With financial support from Higashi-Hiroshima city, the “International Exchange Building” is to be established in the future. Since 2016, HU has received 10 students as research interns from overseas universities including Harvard University and the University of Chicago. From this academic year onwards, HU is expecting to receive some students from MIT in the U.S.A. In addition, early this year the university received 73 medical students from universities in Egypt, attending lectures and training sessions on the Kasumi campus.
Last year, 麻豆AV ranked in 1st place for “Interpersonal communication skills” and in 3rd place for an “ability to take action” in the “Brand image ranking survey of universities in Japan”, which was organized by some Japanese companies such as Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. The questionnaire surveyed the staff at personnel management offices from various companies in Japan. It is very encouraging for us to see HU having received such positive evaluations from private companies in Japan.
The door of university reform needs to be left open for the future. HU is being asked whether or not it is capable of steering into the right direction by anticipating the future direction of Japan. With all the members of HU united as one, I am hoping to see our university move forward step by step, with much progression over the next ten years.
