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Tokyo Tech News
Published: June 7, 2024
Amidst its efforts to ensure a more inclusive environment for all students, faculty, and staff, Tokyo Tech has created eight new positions for female associate professors or professors — one at each of its Schools and Institutes — in academic year 2024.
This positive action, based on Article 8 of the Act on Securing, Etc. of Equal Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women in Employment (Equal Employment Opportunity Act), encourages women — a group that remains under-represented among Tokyo Tech faculty — to join the community, identify and solve global issues, and create a better future together.
Tokyo Tech is implementing this initiative for the third consecutive year after positions for women were made available in academic year 2022 and 2023. Please refer to Tokyo Tech's Employment Opportunities for details on the latest positions. Women interested in working at the Institute can also sign up to receive alerts about new openings.
Tokyo Tech will merge with Tokyo Medical and Dental University to form Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) in October 2024. As students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other community members of different environments, backgrounds, and values work together to create a new university through various initiatives, we are consistently reminded of the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Increasingly, universities are expected to pool their knowledge and embrace a greater role in solving various global challenges such as environmental degradation, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, and aging and declining populations. DEI forms the foundation for innovations that can provide solutions to these challenges. Since academic year 2022, Tokyo Tech has sought to promote diversity within its academic community through the creation of faculty positions for women across the Institute. This measure will be implemented again in academic year 2024.
The successful candidates who fill these positions will be creating the future with Science Tokyo. I encourage them to participate actively in cross-disciplinary research and education, regardless of their specialization, to play a part in Science Tokyo governance, and to advance discussions on various DEI-related initiatives.
In addition to constantly revamping its campuses and reinforcing support for international campusgoers to create a more inclusive environment for everyone, Tokyo Tech is enhancing awareness in the community through efforts such as unconscious bias workshops for faculty and staff, and the development of diversity evaluation indicators. These efforts will be expanded further in academic year 2024 and beyond.
We look forward to receiving applications for these new positions from outstanding researchers across the world.
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