CAMRY DEAN
Staff Writer
On Thursday, March 9, President Virginia Horvath renewed a long-standing study abroad agreement with Aichi Prefectural University in Nagakute, Aichi, Japan.
Alongside Horvath was Yumiko Kataoka, an associate professor in the Department of Nursing & Health at Aichi Prefectural and a Fredonia alumnus.
For the past 12 years, Fredonia has welcomed Japanese students from Aichi for short-term study abroad opportunities.
This Spring semester, 16 Japanese students were enrolled in two or four week programs at Fredonia. While here, students attend classes, lectures, club meetings and on-campus events as they collaborate with Fredonia students.
Aichi is a public university with just over 3,000 undergraduate students. The university offers seven undergraduate programs with their most popular by enrollment being foreign studies, Japanese studies and information science and technology. They also offer five graduate programs.
The university has 19 buildings spanning over two campuses: the Nagakute Campus and the Moriyana Campus. They also have over 50 on-campus clubs and societies.
Recently, 2003 Fredonia-Aichi alumnus Yukiko Yasuda and Dean of Kobe Gakuin University Ai Harai visited Fredonia to initiate a new study abroad opportunity at Kobe Gakuin in Kobe, which is in Hyōgo Prefecture in Japan.
Kobe Gakuin is a private university in the sixth largest city in Japan and currently has just over 10,000 students.
The university offers nine undergraduate programs including law, economics, humanities, business administration and global communication, as well as six graduate programs.