In March 2015, a student group Diversity Waseda proposed the creation of the “first LGBT Student Center in Japan” at the Waseda Vision 150 Student Competition and won the President’s Award.
Between April 2015 and March 2017, a committee was formed to actualize the proposal, and various focus groups, training, and workshops were conducted. Through the efforts, awareness about the LGBTQ+ issues and gender and sexuality issues more broadly gained momentum on campus.
In April 2017, the Gender and Sexuality Center (GS Center) was established as a safe space/resource center under the Student Diversity Center, along with the preexisting Intercultural Communication Center (ICC) and now the Accessibility Resource Center (ARC).
For the detailed university’s organizational chart, visit here (text only in Japanese ).
Waseda University aims to create an academic community where diverse individuals, regardless of nationality, gender, and/or disabilities, can coexist within the university and be involved in learning, education and research, and career from their own perspectives, thereby creating new ideas that will lead to the further evolution of the university. The Student Diversity Center will work towards achieving this goal based on the following two principles:
The GS Center provides an annual activity report (text only in Japanese).