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Interview with Dr. David W. Vikner, former JICUF President

Paul Hastings interview, JICUF staff December 9, 2015

Dr. David W. Vikner retired as President of the Japan ICU Foundation this past August after 13 years of service. David’s career in global education spanned five decades and two continents, North America and Asia. He taught and worked in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and in New York City, where he spent the latter half of his career serving as the President of two significant organizations, the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia and the Japan ICU Foundation.

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ICU Rotary Peace Fellow Alumna Megumi Nishikura shares the news on her latest film

JICUF interview, RPS December 9, 2015

Megumi Nishikura received the Rotary Peace Fellowship and attended ICU as a Master’s degree student from 2006 – 08. Megumi’s passion is to use the medium of film and video to remind people of our common humanity. In 2009, she began to explore stories from the multiracial community in both Japan and the United States. Her directorial feature debut, “Hafu – the mixed-race experience in Japan” screened theatrically in Japan, aired on PBS, and won the Best Documentary award at the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival in 2013.

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JICUF has successful recruitment and alumni relations trip to Honolulu

JICUF December 4, 2015

Staff members from the Japan ICU Foundation were joined by ICU Dean of International Affairs Shaun Malarney in a successful recruitment and alumni relations trip to Honolulu this past November.

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Interview with ICU Rotary Peace Fellow Alumnus Steven Houghton

JICUF interview, rotary peace fellow November 5, 2015

Steven Houghton is Senior Program Manager, Global Scholarship Programs at the Institute of International Education (IIE) in New York. He speaks English, Spanish, Japanese, and his specialties include coordinating incoming international students and outgoing study abroad programs.

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Interview with Study Abroad Scholarship Recipient Yoko Uesugi

JICUF student interview, Study Abroad Scholarship November 3, 2015

Yoko Uesugi is an ICU student spending her junior year abroad at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also one of five ICU students to receive the JICUF’s Study Abroad Scholarship for the 2015-16 academic year. This is the second year this scholarship has been awarded.

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JICUF represents ICU at the UN International School (UNIS)

JICUF Aki Matusri, UNIS November 2, 2015

The Japan ICU Foundation (JICUF) has a tradition of representing ICU at the UN International School (UNIS) in Manhattan. This past month, we joined in the annual “Aki Matsuri”, which featured various cultural activities and a Japanese language speech contest. It was a great chance to spread the word about ICU to students from all over New York and New Jersey!

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ICU September Admissions recruitment season has begun!

JICUF recruitment October 8, 2015

ICU, as a bilingual liberal arts institution, welcomes students from around the world to its lovely verdant campus in the western suburbs of Tokyo. Those who have attended schools outside the regular Japanese educational system for at least the last two years prior to enrollment, and who possess sufficient English language proficiency in order to take college level courses in English are eligible to apply through September Admission. (No prior knowledge of Japanese is required.)

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Interview with JICUF Visiting Scholar: Dr. Ludger Kuehnhardt

JICUF visiting scholar October 8, 2015

Dr. Ludger Kuenhardt, a Professor at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), Bonn University, was a JICUF Visiting Scholar at ICU this past May. The Visiting Scholars Program was initiated in 2002 in response to an ICU request for assistance in inviting influential scholars from abroad to ICU for short periods of time, ranging from several days to two weeks.

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JICUF holds Events in Los Angeles

JICUF Los Angeles, recruitment October 8, 2015

Last month the Japan ICU Foundation held a number of outreach events in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. They included a JICUF trustees meeting, a special evening reception and dinner for ICU alumni and friends and a series of recruitment activities.

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Interview with Study Abroad Scholarship Recipient Natsumi Miyauchi

JICUF student interview, Study Abroad Scholarship October 6, 2015

Natsumi Miyauchi is an ICU student spending her junior year abroad at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also one of five students to receive the JICUF’s Study Abroad Scholarship for academic year 2015-16. This is the second year this scholarship has been awarded.

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