{"id":73691,"date":"2020-08-18T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=73691"},"modified":"2020-10-17T12:13:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T03:13:42","slug":"how-higher-education-institutions-in-japan-and-the-u-s-are-coping-with-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/73691","title":{"rendered":"Student reports on how higher education institutions in Japan and the U.S. are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waseda University is one of the seven Japanese sponsoring universities of the U.S.-Japan Research Institute (USJI)<\/a>, which was established in 2009 to enable Japanese and American universities and businesses to form an intellectual community that influences the decision-making of the top leaders in Japan and the United States, as well as to encourage mutual understanding between the two countries.<\/p>\n

On June 26, 2020, USJI organized a webinar featuring Waseda University President Aiji Tanaka and Frances Rosenbluth, who serves as Waseda\u2019s Vice-President for International Affairs (U.S.) and is a professor at Yale University. In the webinar, the two discussed how higher education institutions in Japan and the U.S. have been coping with the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of providing educational services to their students while ensuring the physical and financial security of university communities.<\/p>\n