On Thursday, 24 November, Teachers' Day 2 022was celebrated and the 2022 commencement ceremony for graduate students took place at İstinye University’s Topkapı Campus. Rector Prof. Dr. Erkan Ibiş officiated, along with Prof. Dr. Hayri Şafak Ural. İstinye University students and faculty were in attendance.
The program began with a piano recital by musician and lecturer Dr. Ömer Yusuf Topçu.
Delivering the opening speech, Rector Prof. Dr. Erkan İbiş shared his Teacher's Day message with the assembly: "I congratulate all teachers on this Teacher’s Day, the 99th anniversary of our Republic.”
Prof. Dr. Erkan İbiş continued “We are here today for two important events. The first is a day entrusted to us as educators under the auspices of our head teacher, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The second is our recognition that our esteemed colleagues have completed their graduate education. We will crown this day with the graduation ceremony.
Prof. Dr. İbiş touched upon the mission of İstinye University, stating that we can only develop by exercising reason, following science, expanding research and development, and engaging in entrepreneurship. He emphasized the identification of educational awareness.
Prof. Dr. Hayri Şafak Ural, head of the Philosophy Department in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, discussed the relationship between education and training with his speech entitled, Education and Training: The Case of Istinye University.
Prof. Dr. Hayri Şafak Ural said:
Education, of course, is different than teaching, but the two complement each other.
In fact, we acknowledge the relationship between them when we refer to
'education and teaching activities.' It is important to be able to see at what point
and why these two phenomena, which utilize different methods to complement
each other in their relationship, need each other.
The ceremony concluded with the presentation of diplomas to students who successfully completed their graduate education.
