BOGAZİCİ UNİVERSİTY

About Bogazici


Based on the academic autonomy and governance with a history spanning over 150 years, Boğaziçi University, defending the freedom of thought in all spheres of life, the world of education and research performance has taken its place among the most elite universities, he will make a difference in education and dedicated to research, it is a public university has adopted perfectionism.




Turkey's best students and free for outstanding faculty and Bogazici University students brought together in a liberal environment while providing a powerful hardware in their respective fields, they themselves, Turkey and the world to provide a social environment to get to know better. Bogazici University alumni representing a culture in science, in business, in politics, in other words, they play an important role in every facet of life in art.

faculty members worldwide graduate and impact value in Turkey universities with doctoral students maximum, continues to make innovative research.

Bogazici University's six campuses every 1850 new students participated, has 14,500 students and 53,000 graduates all over the world.

Robert College, an educator, inventor, engineer, architect and founder Dr. Cyrus Hamlin with well-known philanthropist and a wealthy New York merchant who Mr. Christopher Rheinland by Robert Istanbul, was founded in Turkey.

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Fundamentals of Bogazici University in 1863 and an instructor, inventor, engineer and architect Dr. Cyrus Hamlin with well-known philanthropist and a wealthy New York merchant who Mr. Christopher Rheinland is the first American college outside the borders of the United States has been taken with the establishment by Robert Robert College in Istanbul.

Mr. Robert financial burden of undertaking Dr. Hamlin is by providing resources from the United States have taken over the responsibility for establishing the College. In line with the decision by the newly established Board of Trustees, the College's doors to race, nationality, religion, regardless of prejudice, and discrimination made of all students to be open, under no circumstances does not indicate any political bias, it decided to make English being the and the language included no political thought has been given.

Donations and aid are financed by the Robert College's first building Hamlin Hall's construction was completed in 1871. South Campus Today we call all the historic buildings on campus were built before the First World War and the blue limestone extracted from quarries which were used in the construction of the campus.

From time to time suffering from a severe shortage of financial resources of the economic situation of Robert College in 1930 was heavily influenced by the economic crisis in Turkey before the war, the economy and the United States. Although Turkey maintained its neutrality in World War II, until the war ended, many problems remained unsolved. During the 1960s, leaving the Hisar Campus entirely for higher Robert Academy, today known as South Campus, the campus moved in Arnavutköy American College for Girls and there began to be considered a mixed way merger to create an educational institution.

In March 1971 then-president Dr. Everton has announced that Robert on the College to establish an independent university campus on 26 January 1971 on any resolution adopted by the Board encourages the Turkish government. The study was concluded in the summer of 1971. Buildings, libraries, laboratories, with 118 acres of facilities and staff in today's South Campus is passed on to the Turkish government on September 10, 1971. Bogazici University, Robert College was founded a hundred years the area was used as an official campus.

Bogazici University BASIC PRINCIPLES

CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF PUBLIC UNIVERSITY

Our 150 years of experience in the Bogazici University in mind, in our country these days reconsidered the rules and university system that governs higher education, basic principles as we have seen essentially be required in relation to the structure and functioning of the public universities have felt the need to express as follows:

Universities; science, philosophy and technology generation, dissemination and teaching them the basic development by contributing to the local and universal inclusion, research, and information dissemination institutions.

faculty of the university, there are also possess a number of qualities indispensable they need rights to fulfill their research and inter-authority acquired as the need to function in cooperation and duties to society as well as their responsibilities.

In this context universities:

    I. Academic qualification of individuals with access to clear,

    II. Libertarian scientifically free and independent,

    III. Academic, administrative and financial sense, autonomous, participatory and accountable institutions

should be.

World unique and creative scientific ideas and innovations in teaching and research university, which aims to develop quality standards but for which the conditions in the environment.

I. Academic qualification of individuals with access to the open university:

I. A. University education is open to all individuals with the principle of academic qualification in mind, student selection and placement should be made only according to objective scientific and academic criteria.

I. B. Individuals; In access to higher education and university life, as long as they meet the academic criteria, ethnicity, language, religion or belief, gender identity and sexual orientation, lifestyle, economic status and disability and so on. reasons should be excluded.

INNER. that they are not excluded from academic university teaching individuals meet the criteria because of economic deprivation, the state must provide resources and support to eliminate the reflections on the origin of the socioeconomic inequalities in higher education.

II. Libertarian and scientifically free and independent universities:

II.A. Universities and non-discriminatory violence of all views should create a democratic environment are preferred and examples to society as convictions can be freely expressed.

II.B. academic immunity related to the teaching staff and students within the scope of oral and written activities is essential to ensure freedom of opinion and expression.

II.C. Universities, all decisions governing academic matters and the internal and external relationships and the universal principles in practice, to act with respect for ethical principles and human rights, and open to account on these issues and must undertake to be transparent.

II.D. any person or organization to be exposed to the influence or pressure and used as a political tool of the University is indispensable in terms of scientific and social development.

II.E. Universities, as an autonomous constitutional institutions, academic programs, research and teaching staff of the policies and / or university councils to determine, as decided, are requirements of scientific freedom and creativity.

III. Academic, administrative and financially autonomous, participative and accountable university:

III.A. Be elected through democratic methods of decision-making authority established at universities and academic administrators is essential for autonomy. Rectors, deans, directors of institutes, colleges manager, not by academic administrators appointed as head of the department should be elected.

III.B. as determined by an authority outside the university board of trustees of the university administrators, as democratic and participatory approach conflict is contrary to the principle of autonomy and independence.

III.C. appointment of lecturers and upgrades with purely academic criteria and inspection process should be open and transparent as determined by the university councils. Research, administrative and technical staff and upgrading, according to their needs and preferences should be made by the university.

III.D. Accountability within the framework of the principles of transparency and accountability in universities and budgeting should be spending autonomy. The right to determine the University of budgetary allocations based on their business needs and objectives, and expenditure flexibility should exist.