Abstract
Universities has been expected to be an institute which a variety of regional problems are solved utilizing collaboration with regions. However, the issues of university's regional engagement had not been clear because of insufficient discussion about it until now. Therefore, this paper unveils the current situation and the distilled issues of university's regional engagement by means of questionnaire survey. The result indicates that one of the most serious problems are shortage of staff and finance. To encourage the regional engagement of university much more, it is necessary to secure human and financial resources. At the same time, university's regional engagement is captured not as the single action but as system combined with education and research. In additon, the government should support it accommodating to the characteristics of university, regional situation and needs.
