DU Center for Teaching Improvement was established on April 1, 2001, as an attached institution of the institute. It aims to realize DU's most important challenge, to become an education-oriented university, through various teaching improvement activities.       DU's educational reform originated in a report by the education system reform committee titled 'Reform of the education system', which was submitted to the president on November 1, 1999. In this report, many proposals for the purposes of 'building up an education system to provide students with the joys of learning, thinking, and expressing' were made. Since then, DU has carried out various measures based on those proposals. This center was established as one of the mechanisms to implement a new education system, which is one of the important pillars of the proposal. This center aims to achieve DU's education goal, each department's personnel training goals, educational goals, a standard education program, education courses, and academic goals, in order to realize the ultimate goal of the improvement and development of teaching. Diagram of Center for Teaching Improvement system Conducts class evaluation/academic achievement evaluation by students and teaching improvement activities by instructors, from the viewpoint of improvement and development of teaching methods and contents. Conducts teaching evaluation and academic achievement evaluation by students using feedback from students, targeting all classes at DU. The results are fed back to the class instructors to be used for the improvement of their teaching methods. The results of the academic achievement evaluation, along with the grades given by the instructors, will be used for individual consultation.The results will be disclosed on campus as the 'Teaching evaluation results report' and 'Academic achievement evaluation results report' DU instructors and individuals outside of DU observe classes. Then discussions will be held at the teaching improvement committee from the viewpoints of the teaching methods and content. The above-mentioned 'Teaching evaluation results report' and 'Academic achievement evaluation results report', and the evaluation forms are used as materials for discussion. Furthermore, the results of these discussions will be carried in the 'Critique of teaching' (Bulletin of the Center for Teaching Improvement), to be made available on campus. In order to promote teaching improvement activities, a 'Charter of teaching at DU' was established, which requires the entire faculty to disclose their classes. Consulting services, workshops, and training sessions concerning teaching improvement and development are provided for instructors. 'Teaching improvement support system' has also been established to provide financial support for instructors who try hard to tackle the common problems in DU's classes, aiming for organizational improvements to teaching. The Center deals with the all-campus problems that rose from the above activities and raises new issues. Chief Prof. SAKAI Yoichi Vice Chief Prof. OGATA Kazuya Associate Prof. TANAHASHI Hideyuki Center staff Assistant Prof. MACHIYA Shutaro Prof. KOMORI Kazutake Prof. JIMBO Mutsuko Prof. SATO Tatsuki Assistant Prof. KIMATA Hisahiro Prof. UEDA Koji Assistant Prof. WATANABE Hiroko Associate Prof. FUTAMURA Toshihidei Associate Prof. MATSUI Toyotsugu Center office 2 full time staff