Graduate Alumni
Since 1994 at the opening of the SUA Graduate School, Founder Daisaku Ikeda’s messages have expressed its founding spirit. In his words,
About Soseikai
The alumni group name “Soseikai” was designated by the Founder on May 3, 2001.
So is from Soka (“value creation”), Sei means “pledge” or “vow” and Kai means “group” in Japanese. The name itself as well as the Founder’s speeches show his hopes and expectations for SUA graduates as they continue to work toward actualizing Soka Education in the world.
The mission of SUA Soseikai association is to unite and expand the alumni network in our shared commitment to Soka Education through appreciation, contribution, and friendship, and hereby foster continuous societal change and global citizenship.
The Association shall be committed to the following principles:
1. Be global citizens committed to living a contributive life. Live up to our mission as leaders of our times for the sake of the people.
2. Be proud supporters of SUA and build networks or friendship for the sake of Soka Education. Our greatest honor is to repay our debt of gratitude to our alma mater.
3. Be forever youthful founders. Preserve SUA’s founding spirit.
The Association shall be committed to the following mottos:
1. Contribute to the development of SUA and proliferation of Soka Education, embracing the university’s mottos and principles.
2. Create great value in all aspects of our lives for the sake of humanity and society.
3. Foster true camaraderie among Soka students and alumni.
4. Be life-long learners that reveal our true potential.
World Summit of Educators
The graduate school classes of 2016 and 2017 planned and organized an international gathering of rank-and-file educators dedicated to the establishment, through education, of peace, human rights, and the sanctity of life as universal norms. Held at SUA on June 12 and 13 in 2016, the Summit took its inspiration from a talk delivered by the founder of the University, Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, twenty years earlier at Teachers College, Columbia entitled “Thoughts on Education for Global Citizenship,” in which he called for just such a summit. The founder’s hopes and expectations found their impassioned realization in the work of the first and second cohorts of the University’s MA Program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change. Without their voices, their thoughtful and painstaking planning and organization, the Summit would never have materialized when it did or as it did.
Visit World Summit of Educators website for the Declaration and more information.
Celebrating 30 years of the Graduate School
Contact Us
The SUA Graduate Alumni Soseikai Board of Representatives 2022-2025 are
- Paula Pereira, Graduate School Class of 2021 (MA in Educational Leadership and Societal Change)
- Junior Menezes, GS Class of 2020 (MA in Educational Leadership and Societal Change)
- Vicki G. Mokuria, Class of 2016 (MA in Educational Leadership and Societal Change)
- Luci Goshima da Costa, Class of 2001 (MA in Second and Foreign Language Education with a Concentration in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
- Hiroko Tomono Furniss, Class of 1996 (MA in Second and Foreign Language Education with a Concentration in TESOL)
Email us at Soseikai@soka.edu.