**Name**

ASONUMA Akihiro


**Affiliation**

Professor of Higher Education Studies, Department of Educational Sciences, School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University


**Employment History**

Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, 2013
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, 2000
Assistant Professor, Institute of Education (Research Center for University Studies), University of Tsukuba, 1994


**Educational History**


Ph.D. , University of Hiroshima, 2000
M.A., University of Hiroshima, 1992
B.S. , Kyoto University, 1989


**Research Interests**


Finance of Higher Education
Science Policy and its Funding System
Comparative Studies of Leading Universities
Structures and Functions of Academic Research


**Recent Main Publications**

Akihiro ASONUMA 2002. "Finance reform in Japanese higher education", HIGHER EDUCATION, 43 (1), 109-126
Akihiro ASONUMA 2003. "Structures and the future of National University Corporations", THE KEIZAI SEMINAR!?No.585,33-37
Akihiro ASONUMA 2003. Research Funding System of National University in the postwar period, Taga Pub.,Tokyo.
Akihiro ASONUMA 2007. "The Various Funding Patterns of Graduate Programs in American Research Universities", JAPANESE JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION, 10, 195-216.