“In Silicon Valley, people talk about being early investors with a kind of reverence,” said long-time SUA donor Steven MacDonald. “Well, I’m an early investor in SUA—and I consider it one of the best
For Curtis Robinson, head coach of the men’s and women’s golf teams at SUA, helping young athletes succeed has always felt like his calling in life. “I really feel like this is what I was born to do,”
“What if we change the narrative of collapse into one of possibilities and hope?” asked Dr. Mirian Vilela during her remarks upon accepting the 2024 Soka Global Citizen Award. “What if we are the
The recipients of Soka University of America’s top academic honors—the Ikeda Scholarship, the John D. Montgomery Scholarship, the Soka Merit Award, and the Academic Excellence Award—met with President
On a crisp autumn day in 1950, Josei Toda revealed his vision for a university rooted in the principles of value-creating education to his 22-year-old protégé, Daisaku Ikeda. Thirty-seven years after
“Four years from now, what kind of person do you want to be?” asked Soka Student Union president Julia Miyagawa Braga ’25, addressing the newly arrived Class of 2028. On August 6, over 120 first-year
This summer, SUA welcomed more than 2,000 visitors from the Southern California community to its annual Summer at Soka series. From June to August, the campus hosted a Shakespeare production and
SUA students will soon have the opportunity to experience hands-on learning in one of the most biodiverse places on the planet: the Amazon rainforest. In July, SUA President Ed Feasel signed a
Soka University of America has named Dr. Mirian Vilela recipient of the 2024 Soka Global Citizen Award for her work championing sustainable development and education for global citizenship. Vilela
“We cannot dismiss the potential of young people,” said Ramon Paras ’08 to a room of fellow SUA alumni and educators, many of whom nodded in agreement. A middle and high school teacher at Soka
