慶應義塾は、教職員・学生・生徒・児童が、互いの人格を尊重し多様な価値観を認め協力して生きるための環境を構築し、多様性の受容に関する課題に迅速に対処するため、2018年4月1日に「協生環境推進室」を設置しました。男女共同参画室およびバリアフリー委員会を発展的に再編した本推進室は、ワーク・ライフ・バランス、バリアフリー、ダイバーシティに関する事業推進を通じて、我が国における協生社会の形成を先導することを目的とした新組織です。
現在、ダイバーシティ（多様性）への取り組みに加え、誰もが社会から孤立したり排除されたりせず、社会の構成員として能力を発揮でき、互いを支え合おうという「ソーシャルインクルージョン（社会的包摂）」に基づく協生社会の実現が注目されています。多様な価値観を共有・発信するプラットフォームを基盤に、慶應義塾がこれまでに培ってきた知見を共有しながら、年齢、性別、国籍、障害、LGBT、文化、人種、信条、ライフスタイルなど、さまざまな背景をもつ人々が互いに尊重・協力しあう協生社会の実現を目指して、一貫教育校から大学・大学院までを包含した全塾的な取り組みを推進します。
Keio University established the Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion on April 1, 2018, toward building an environment conducive to staff, faculty members, and students of all ages cooperating and coexisting in a spirit of mutual respect and acceptance for one another's individual personalities and various values, and to facilitate prompt responses to challenges relating to welcoming diversity. This office, which reconsolidates and extensively builds upon the foundations of the Office of Gender Equality and the Barrier Free Committee, is a new organization that aims to spearhead the formation of a cooperative society in Japan through the promotion of projects concerned with work-life balance, barrier-free systems, and diversity.
In addition to fostering diversity, today there is an increased focus on efforts to realize a cooperative society based on social inclusion. In such a society, no one is isolated or excluded, and each individual can realize their potential and will support those around them as equal members of society. As a platform to share and disseminate a wide range of values, the Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion will promote institution-wide efforts, from the affiliated schools to the undergraduate faculties and graduate schools, aimed at realizing a cooperative society where people from different backgrounds respect and cooperate with each other as equal members of society regardless of factors such as age, sex, gender, culture, race, beliefs, lifestyle choices, or nationality, and whether or not they have disabilities.It will work towards achieving this while spreading the know-how that Keio University has acquired in its efforts to date.
