Tokyo University to open new faculty for the first time in 70 years in fall 2015... First foreign professor to become dean, five-year program with first-year students living in dormitories

[Yomiuri Shimbun] It was learned on the 3rd that the University of Tokyo has decided to appoint a foreign professor from the university to head the new five-year course "College of Design" to be established in the fall of 2027. The new course will be made into one of the faculties, and it will be the 1st time in 1877 that a foreigner will be appointed as the dean of a faculty at the University of Tokyo.