University Library

Our library aims to support the study and research of students and teaching staff. The library building, three-stories tall and 3,138 m² in area, was built in 1985. The first floor contains a limited-access library, the Women’s Lifelong Learning Education Center, seminar rooms, and an auditorium (208 seats); the second floor has two reading rooms, an open-access library, a browsing room, and library offices; the third floor holds another reading room and open-access library, a rare books room, and a special reading room.
  We have about 160,000 books. The facility is open to residents of Fukuoka Prefecture as a cultural and information center to support their research and studies as well.

Women’s Lifelong Learning Research Center

The Women’s Lifelong Learning Research Center developed out of the Women’s Lifelong Education Reference Library established in 1985, the last year of the “International Decade for Women.” It was renamed when the university was transformed into a Public University Corporation in 2006. Our purpose, in common with the fundamental policy of the university, is to support lifelong education and career education for women looking ahead to their future. Along with educational support for young women looking for jobs, we often hold extension courses and provide information and materials available lifelong learning, thus assisting not only older women in general but also students.
  Our annually provided courses include a Saturday extension course (10 lectures), spring and autumn extension courses (6 lectures), lecture meetings and other offerings. In these courses, the teaching staff of our university deliver various lectures based on their research to meet the needs of lifelong learning in our society.

Cooperative Research Center

The Cooperative Research Center (CRC) was established for the active promotion of cooperation among industry, academia, and government. The purpose of the CRC is to promote collaborative research, to protect and utilize the intellectual property rights at Fukuoka Women’s University and to make contributions to technological development in regional industry.

A CRC collaborative meeting on technology

Information Center

The university’s LAN (local area network) system is used to access the Internet. Numerous terminals are available for use in the information processing seminar room and the university library, and students can use them freely. Besides word-processing and other data processing, students have access all kinds of information worldwide collected by e-mail and the web for their learning and studies. We administer the school LAN system and the data processing facility with the goal of constantly improving capabilities.

Information processing seminar room

Career Support Center

Our Career Support Center was established on April 1, 2007. The center aims to develop students’ career consciousness, to help in their job hunting and to provide them with a secure foundation for their college careers as well. We help all of our students both to determine what they want to be in the future and to advance their academic goals, which will eventually lead them to a better future and career.
  Our career education program, “Career Education for a Gender-equal Society” (CE at Fukuoka Women’s University), has been selected by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for its “Support Program for Modern Educational Needs” (MGP) in 2007.