By conducting accreditation, evaluation, and outreach activities for the curricula of the Faculties of Science, Letters, Science and Letters, Languages, and History and Geography (FEF) across various disciplines, the FEDEK Evaluation Team—which has contributed to improving the quality of FEF education in Turkey, has completed the interim evaluation process for the departments of Western Languages and Literatures, Physics, Chemistry, Human and Social Sciences, Statistics, Mathematics, Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Turkish Language and Literature.
As part of the FEDEK Evaluation Program, on March 3, 2024, the evaluation team toured the physical facilities of our University and Faculty and held relevant meetings. The opening ceremony took place on March 4, 2024, in the Ahmet Karadeniz Conference Hall, featuring a comprehensive presentation by our Faculty of Science and Letters Dean, Prof. Dr. Salim YÜCE, introducing our Faculty. The meeting, attended by FEDEK Evaluation Team Chair Prof. Dr. Ayşehan Deniz ABİK, Team Co-Chair Prof. Dr. Ahmet Çolak, Program Evaluators, and Co-Evaluators, also drew significant interest from our Faculty’s faculty members and students.
Following the completion of the relevant evaluations, on March 5, 2024, our University’s Rector, Prof. Dr. Tamer YILMAZ, along with Vice Rectors Prof. Dr. Bestami ÖZKAYA, Prof. Dr. K. Nur BEKİROĞLU, Prof. Dr. Uğur DOĞAN, and Prof. Dr. Umut Rıfat TUZKAYA, and the Secretary General, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bekir ŞENER, the evaluations of our departments—which had prepared diligently for the FEDEK Interim Evaluation process—were shared in accordance with FEDEK evaluation criteria.
At the end of the meeting, our University Rector, Prof. Dr. Tamer YILMAZ, delivered a brief closing address, congratulating the departments of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that had completed the Interim Evaluation process and concluding his remarks by expressing his gratitude to the FEDEK team.
Emphasizing the great importance they place on FEDEK accreditation, the Dean of the-Literature, the meeting concluded after FEDEK Evaluation Team Chair Prof. Dr. Ayşehan Deniz ABİK presented the evaluation documents to him.
On February 21, 2024, a FEDEK meeting was held under the coordination of our Dean, Prof. Dr. Salim YÜCE, with the participation of all our departments in preparation for the FEDEK audit.
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