Abstract
This roundtable is a part of the study on “Higher Education Graduate Programs for Professional Staff and Administrators of Universities,” a research project of the Japan Association for College and University Education (JACUE).
This research has entered its third year since JACUE adopted it as a research project, and the time has come to summarize the research outcomes. This roundtable aims to reflect on the activities and capture the perspectives that have not yet been thoroughly discussed. The results may be summarized under the following five perspectives: (1) graduate program learners, (2) graduate program faculty members, (3) university management research, (4) university staff research, and (5) international comparisons. While all these perspectives have been discussed in past roundtables and research project symposiums, in this roundtable, we discussed how to think about educational programs from the practical point of view of the work of university staff, the curriculum, and the effectiveness of masterʼs theses in graduate higher education programs, and human potential in a wide range of professions, including faculty members, as well as how to understand the identity of university staff.
