November 4th, 2022
Paid internships offered to the trainee students by the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
The internship was brought in with the certainty of providing opportunity for students who are still in the early stages of learning to become familiarized with the work of pharmacists and medical clerks.
The journey of becoming a pharmacist is a 6 year long course, thus the key being maintaining motivation to study in preparation for the national pharmacist exam. There is a growing need for pharmacist nationwide, and for this reason, an early start program for first to third year students have been designed to help picture the real life working scenarios of life as pharmaceutical professional.
Starting in 2022, Mukogawa Women’s University’s Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences to partner up with multiple pharmacies to aid in providing training sessions for a fee. During the summer vacation, 11 students were selected to join and participate in the internship. First, hospitality training were conducted on main campus, followed by students split up to be sent to pharmacies in Hyogo and Osaka, where they all spent about 80 hours of training at their assigned tasks.
One student commented, “Watching the pharmacists up close and listening to how they explained and instructed patients on medication was really amazing. It was truly eye-opening and made me eager to study harder.”
November 1st.
The Business Administration students working on developing ideas for ENSEMBLE CAFÉ.
The café, ENSEMBLE is located in the KM building on main campus, with space for dining on the second floor that serves one plate dishes for lunch times which are both reasonably priced and suited for health conscious individuals. The cafe-restaurant saw its grand opening at the same time as the Faculty of Business Administration was established in April of 2020.
There were periods of time where they were unable to operate due to the impact raised by the pandemic, proving it to be a challenge to appeal to consumers. The Faculty of Business Administration has long been collaborating with the operators of the ENSEMBLE café, for PBL (Project Based Learning) and has worked collaboratively on the development of ideas for their menus during Valentine’s Day season.
In order to promote and see increase in its sales, the students underwent on a demographic research and distributed surveys. Through that, they discovered issues such as many one-time visits but low number of repeaters, its location is not ideal to some, the menu is confusing, and such.
Through their investigation, the necessity to promote the café-restaurant within the university campus and revamping of its menu were proving to be needed. Quickly, changes were made from sizes of drinks available and offers such as stamp cards and coupons were added on to the list.
Students commented, “instead of following regimented instructions, we learned the ability to cultivate our own ideas being on the team for this project. Not only facing the challenges of making of proposals, we discovered how to apply what had to be done at this instance whilst also looking at the future profits and the numbers of customers too.”
October 20th, 2022
A certificate of commendation given to teachers that practiced class improvement.
The president of MWU, Mr. Kazuyoshi Seguchi presented a certification of commendation to faculty members who worked on devising and improving their lessons in the first half of this academic year. This scheme aims to highlight the usually hidden aspects of educational activities conducted by teachers who tries to better their lessons.
The purpose is to appreciate and encourage improvement of daily educational activities, and understanding the degree of their devising methods.
Professors who were commended are as follows;
Faculty of Japanese Language and Literature
Professor Mitsuhiko Hirata
Faculty of English Language and Literature
Professor Taro Kato
Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences
Professor Hiroshi Matsumoto
Faculty of Business Administration
Professor Koji Taniguchi
Institute for Education
Professor Kayoko Nakao
October 17th
Students setting up a fixed food stand at a campsite.
Members of the Architecture Club BAU, which is mainly composed of 3rd and 4th year students Human Environmental Sciences Major, created a hut to be stationed at a campsite in Nishinomiya city.
The hut that will house vegetables which have been harvested from a local farm. It was produced using bamboo poles of 2.5 meters and about 20 bamboo brooms. No nails nor bolts were used, and they were tightened with palm ropes and hemp strings. Since it is made entirely of wood, it can be easily dismantled when no longer needed and can also be adapted into fuel for camping.
Ms. Ikeda, whose design proposal was implemented commented, “As it was my very first time to make a design that was not a prototype, there were things I hadn’t taken into account, and learned the reality of actually making things come alive. Making this piece required team work and lots of discussions throughout the process, and as a result we were able to create something that was miles better than we had originally envisioned. I’m grateful for the experience gained through this project.”
October 9th
The 67th Mukogawa Women’s University Culture Festival.
It had been a much anticipated 3 years since the Culture Festival last took place. The weekend event welcomed its final day with a strong start in the morning with visitors setting foot on to campus as soon as the gates had opened. All the stalls welcomed a number of people, in particular, the “petting zone” activity seemed popular, where people gathered around to pet a pony.
Despite the rain, the outdoor live music was livening up the campus. An English Communication Seminar was held by the Institute for Women’s Career Advancement and Gender Equality Development which welcomed participants for a trial of English conversation exercises by MWU faculty members.
Ms. Haruka Yamaguchi, the chairman of the school festival executive committee states “though it was a lot of firsts for us as a committee, we are more than happy and grateful with the large number of turnouts. We realize that it was not just down to us but the support and cooperation from faculty and staff involved that made this weekend of festivities come alive.”
October 6th
In the morning of October 6, a momentous gathering was held at Mukogawa Women’s University to pay respect to the late founder, Mr. Kiichiro Koe.
Mr. Koe passed away on September 6, and the memorial service takes place a month later. Every year, on October 6th, we celebrate Founder’s Day – the day we said our farewell to the founder and former professor, Kiichiro Koe. It’s a custom as well as tradition to listen to the recorded video of the professor on this day.
The commemoration took place on the ground floor of KM building at the Founder’s Memorial Room on the main campus of the university. Chancellor Mr. Okawara, stated “Professor Koe founded Mukogawa Women’s University at the age of 42 and continued his work for 42 years. This year saw 40th year of the Founder’s Day. The 40 years mark a remarkable honor and we’ve seen huge progress of women’s education and development since then.” He continued “we must carry on the legacy whilst considering reforming our educational system. Mr. Koe was inspired by the public school system ever since his visit to universities in the U.K. Professor Koe’s strong desires for women to have an active part in society and cultivate women’s roles continues to live on.”
Customarily, each year, the chancellor, the head of the university, faculty members, and student representatives all pay a visit to where he is buried.