A proposal for future internal evaluation activities for national university corporation evaluation

Following their incorporation in April 2004, each national university in Japan is now required to operate autonomously based on mid-term goals and plans, which are formulated every six years. In 2008, Niigata University's attainment of these goals and plans four years after incorporation, as well as the education and research levels of its faculties and its academic units of graduate schools, was evaluated based on a performance report. In the process of drawing up this report, problems that were overlooked during this internal evaluation were also clarified. It is considered that solving these problems will lead to the realization of the evaluation for improvement, which was the original goal of the university evaluation, and to efficient an d effective university management. This report highlights the problems that should be examined in national university corporation evaluations from both institutional and individual organizational perspectives. Based on the internal evaluation results, methods for the establishment, implementation and evaluation of mid-term plans, collection and analysis of information and data and description of outcomes are proposed