Diversification of Student Body and Globalization of Higher Education

American Experience and its Implication for Japan

Abstract

　 Recently, there is increasing tone that the diversification of higher education in Japan should be further promoted in the context of gender equality, low evaluation of internationalization in university rankings, and arguments on strengthening organization vitality and innovation. In discussing the diversification of higher education, there is a viewpoint of diversification at the system level and diversification at the institutional level. In Japan, however, as is represented by the discussion of “functional differentiation” in the past, there are more discussions on diversification at the system level than at the institutional level.

　 Therefore, in this paper, we will focus on the institutional level by focusing on the experience of the United States which is well ahead of us to diversify student body, and then, hopfully, we would like to draw out suggestions for how to respond to diversified students in Japan.