グローバル大学学長式辞のテキストマイニング分析:グローバル人材にふさわしい視座を嚮導できているか

抄録

It is a common phenomenon that few students listen to their presidents’ remarks at the entrance ceremonies. However, the presidents usually declare their universities’ educational purposes and policies in those speeches. We should pay more attention to those speeches. This paper explores those speeches that explain how to lead their freshmen to nurture global perspectives. The selected leading universities receive huge public funds from the government. In this paper, I conducted a text-mining analysis in which I compared presidents’ speeches with diet discussions on fostering globally-oriented students. The analysis revealed that the Japanese diet aims for some of the universities in Japan to be listed among the top 100 universities in the world and is less interested in educating for globally-oriented citizens. On the other hand, there are numerous insightful ideas and messages in the presidents’ remarks. Therefore, those universities are successful in showing laudable educational global perspectives, while the diet discussions are relatively short of relevant arguments.