The Academic Writing Center (AWC) is a facility located in the library that opened at the Aoyama Campus in 2017 and at Sagamihara Campus in 2018. It has maintained a high utilization rate since its opening, and we are aware of the high demand for it.
With the goal of "supporting the development of independent writers" in anticipation of post-graduation, AWC has specially trained tutors (graduate students) who provide individual consultations on writing academic papers, reports, etc. for each student. In order to improve "writing skills" in response to an internationalized society, we support not only Japanese but also English writing. In 2022, in light of the COVID-19 situation, we conducted consultations both in person and online.
AWC is also actively conducting research into the support and education of academic writing. Starting in 2021, we will expand on our annual report and publish a journal called "Writing Research."
We will continue to work hard every day, striving to become a center based on the servant leadership spirit.

The Information and Media Center is an institution that aims to improve the information environment in order to advance the education and research of our university and each of the schools established by the college, operates and provides services for education and research systems, supports and disseminates ICT-based education, and conducts research and studies in the fields of information basics education and information science.
Specifically, the Center is responsible for the planning, design, implementation, and overall operation of various facilities, equipment, and systems, including campus networks, PC classrooms, and teaching support systems, taking into account user requests and trends in information technology. It also provides a variety of services, including AOYAMA-Mail, software license provision, and web conferencing software contracts and provision. Inquiries regarding the use of these services are accepted and handled at the Support Lounge. The Center also runs IT seminars, which form the basis of the university's information education, and hosts seminars on networks and applications.

The Environmental Safety Center aims to protect the living environment of local residents and ensure the safety of students and faculty during experimental research by taking measures against environmental risks arising from educational and research activities that use chemical substances, complying with legal requirements, and carrying out educational and awareness-raising activities for students and faculty based on various laws and regulations related to environmental conservation and safety and health.
In the fields of environmental conservation and health and safety, laws, regulations and standards are frequently updated and becoming stricter, so our Center employs practitioners and qualified personnel who are well versed in these fields to ensure smooth educational and research activities while complying with these regulations.
Our main duties include various measurements based on laws and regulations, as well as establishing rules and management systems for handling highly hazardous substances that have an impact on the environment and human body, creating safety manuals, holding safety seminars for students newly assigned to the laboratory, and providing daily safety guidance to students.We also provide support for educational and research activities, such as coordinating with related departments to deal with accidents that occur during experiments.

On April 1, 2022, Aoyama Gakuin University Volunteer Center was reborn as Aoyama Gakuin University Civic Engagement Center. The Volunteer Center, which opened in 2016, was established with the aim of cultivating talented individuals with rich humanity and creativity who can demonstrate leadership through volunteer activities. In the future, the center will expand the scope of its activities beyond volunteering to include civic engagement (citizen collaboration) and utilize it in education.
In fiscal 2022, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we implemented the Green Up Project, a city clean-up project, sign language communication courses, nature experience programs (Nanayama Green Space Revitalization Project), Sobudai Housing Complex Revitalization Project, online Japanese salons, Sibuya Ward version of the children's cafeteria "Children's Table," an introduction to international cooperation planners, dementia supporter training courses (Sibuya Ward and Sagamihara City versions), and disaster prevention volunteer courses. In addition, as social businesses, we also carried out activities such as the Kanazawa Outsider Art Project, Shibuya Font (supporting independence by utilizing the design sense of people with disabilities), and Sagamihara City Fujino District Local Gacha.
We have also started The Aoyama Standard Course "Volunteer and Citizen Collaboration Theory." This is an activity that aims to provide an academic opportunity for students to reexamine the activities of the Civic Engagement Center and gain knowledge about citizen collaboration and volunteering. We are also cooperating in implementing "Volunteer Activities as Service Learning" and "Service Learning I and II" as learning opportunities for students to experience citizen collaboration and volunteering.

Aoyama The Institute for the History of Gakuin aims to contribute to the development of the history of education, the history of ideas, and modern history by analyzing and examining the historical materials collected and held by Aoyama Gakuin, and by studying the historical role played by Aoyama Gakuin in modern Japanese society at large, and by examining the influence of Christian culture in modern Japan. In addition, we aim to objectively clarify the founding spirit of the institute and its historical position, and to support the development and advancement of education on the history of the institute at Aoyama Gakuin University and other schools established by the institute.
In fiscal year 2022, we compiled the 150th anniversary of the founding of the institute in 2024 by compiling the "Aoyama 150-year history of the institute," a general history volume I. This history includes the history of the three schools from which Aoyama Gakuin originated, the development of Aoyama Gakuin during the Meiji and Taisho periods, and the great trials caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake and the war, from the start of missionary work in the early Meiji period. From this you can get a sense of the history of Aoyama Gakuin as it developed through crises. Please take a look.

The Center was established in April 2021 with the aim of contributing to gender equality and respect for sexual diversity Aoyama and in society through the development of gender-related research and education. In the second year since its establishment, this year, the Center has planned an open lecture titled "Gender and Academic Research," co-hosted a symposium titled "Protecting Children from OSEC (Online Sexual Exploitation of Children)!", held an empowerment program titled "Gender and Expression," held a lecture by Sadako Oki titled "The Struggle of a Japanese Woman at an American University Museum," and continued from last year with The Aoyama Standard Course "Life, Women, and Society." The library has a large number of gender-related books that can be borrowed to students, and the Center plans and holds "Moyamoya Cafes" with students, where students can talk about questions they have in their daily lives.