For innovative, creative educators who want to make a profound difference, AUW represents a unique opportunity. AUW is a “clean slate” educational enterprise with a commitment to excellence, innovation and solutions to problems in the region.
What we must now do now is to engender a spirit of daring to women so that they become the locus of change and development in our communities and societies, particularly in Asia. Therefore, I stand for my conviction that women's education is a very wise investment, not only in the development of individuals, but further development of all. It is the fastest and the most far reaching way to impact the society for the good of humanity.
Dr. Sang Chang, President Emerita of Ewha University in Seoul and the first woman nominee for Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea
The currents teachers at the Access Academy come from the United States, Canada, and Australia. This diverse, enthusiastic and energetic team of talented and experienced university graduates was recruited through AUW's partnership with WorldTeach, a non-profit affiliated with the Center for International Development at Harvard University.
AUW is now actively working to identify and recruit faculty members for the University.
The Asian University for Women envisions a faculty group that includes outstanding academics who understand and support the mission to “educate Asian women to become highly motivated and effective professionals, leaders, and service-oriented citizens of the region and thereby promote the development of and intercultural understanding among the people of Asia.” Our faculty will share a deep understanding of the benefits of liberal education and its pedagogies. They will be committed to approaches of learning that help students develop critical thinking, imagination, and independence of mind. They will encourage the development of their students’ leadership abilities. And, they will help imbue students with the values that the university espouses: intercultural understanding, internationalism, a passion for social justice, and a commitment to building diverse and inclusive communities that respect the dignity of all its members.
AUW seeks faculty members who have significant teaching experience and demonstrable success in the classroom. Our undergraduate faculty, in particular, would include members who are intellectually enterprising and not overly specialized in their intellectual interests. They would enjoy the work of curriculum development and take great pleasure from teaching and mentoring undergraduates. We recognize that much of the pedagogy in schools and universities across the region is entirely fact- and content-based and that some of our faculty may join the University without knowledge of or experience with liberal arts pedagogies. The University therefore hopes to develop many robust opportunities for faculty development as teachers. This may include programs such as a rich series of workshops led by master teachers from leading liberal arts colleges. We hope it will also be possible to establish some partnerships with several such institutions--partnerships that could stimulate the development of faculty and student exchanges.
The AUW seeks to create a faculty that is exceptionally diverse in terms of gender, religion, nationality and ethnicity. AUW is committed to a faculty that includes a very significant representation of women. We hope to engage faculty members who relish living and working in an institution deeply committed to diversity and inclusion.
The AUW faculty would also be committed to scholarship. Generally, excellent teaching and continuous scholarly engagement go together. We recognize, of course, that faculty research efforts will need various kinds of support from the University. AUW hopes to enable the library with the resources to acquire books, journals, and databases our faculty will need for their courses and their research. Our scientists may need resources to buy the necessary equipment and instrumentation. Our faculty may also need the services of a grants officer who will help them identify possible sources for funding their research and curriculum initiatives and to help prepare proposals. Finally, and very importantly, faculty will want to stay connected to their professional colleagues. AUW will thus try to fund opportunities to present papers at professional meetings and, eventually, to sponsor scholarly conferences on our campus.
