Our Rector Prof. Dr. Hanife Öztürk Akkartal told Hürriyet Eğitim as a guest writer about the value of women's labor in academia and life.

Regardless of factors such as education, age, marital status, experience, women are in a serious struggle to exist in every sector with their labor. From family to business life, there is a serious and very painful struggle for existence in the dimensions of identity, education, health and labor at almost every stage of life. The climate of inequality is felt differently in almost every sector, especially in working life.

This is an issue wherever gender as a transitional point of view prevails. Academic life is one of the areas that should be touched in terms of improvement and development in terms of women's labor. In fact, regardless of the area, the main point of the problems is ignoring the existence of situations that occur at sensitive points such as equality, violence, discrimination, marginalization, labor-value and seek solutions. It would not be wrong to say that seeing and accepting the problem first is an important starting point in solving problems. The second step is to take action by taking the necessary steps to solve the problem. As a lawyer, an academician, and an education manager, I believe in the importance of working on three basic issues and, most importantly, transferring this awareness to future generations with the studies to be carried out. The first is to carry out studies aimed at raising the awareness of rights and freedoms in the society as early as possible; secondly, to carry out studies and practices to create institutional awareness on equality in working life; and the third is to carry out studies to ensure that university-industry cooperation can produce value not only with women's labor but also within gender equality.

Rights and Freedoms Education Should Be Provided at a Very Early Age

Increasing supportive activities such as seeing, counting and empowering women's labor, providing a working environment without being exposed to violence, marginalization and discrimination, and protecting educational rights and freedoms for their personal development are human rights issues. It is not easy to find a permanent solution to the problems of gender inequality, violence, marginalization and discrimination before the awareness of basic human rights and freedoms is established. It is not something that can happen from today to tomorrow. For this reason, it is important to provide basic information about human rights and freedoms in society at an early age and to disseminate it at all levels of education for this purpose. Such an important issue can yield much more fruitful results with interdisciplinary cooperation and work. Lawyers, educational psychologists, and educators should work together to work on how this information can best be transferred according to the relevant age groups, at which stage of the education modules. We should not wait until the age of 18 to raise awareness of fundamental rights and freedoms such as equality and individual responsibilities. The individual should gain this awareness at an early age. The first way to protect our rights and freedoms is to know the "seeking rights" and "protection methods" depending on the situation in case the right is violated. For this reason, it is very important to provide basic legislative education. For example, our Law No. 6284 on the Protection of the Family and the Prevention of Violence Against Women; In the struggle carried out in our country for the prevention of violence, which is known to be an international problem, it is very important for the formation of social awareness that the protective and deterrent regulations in the legislation are explained to children and young people in a language appropriate to their developmental level, in terms of creating social awareness. Especially our young people studying in high schools should be aware of this law at a basic level. Likewise, our Civil Code is very important in creating awareness and mindset on gender equality. We must ensure that our children and young people acquire these titles in terms of fundamental rights and freedoms, combating violence, discrimination and marginalization, as soon as possible and in the appropriate period, under the guidance of educational sciences.

Corporate Awareness is a Must

All institutions and organizations carry out awareness activities and social responsibility projects on inequality between the sexes and discrimination triggered by prejudices. This sensitivity is of course very important and valuable. However, institutional awareness must be transformed into action in actions related to equality. Just as every institution has its annual budgets, investments, activity plans; If it is managed with basic steps such as plan, implement, control and take measures, the same systematic and institutional effort should be made to ensure equality and prevent discrimination.

A solid organizational psychology forms the basis of working peace. In this context, each institution should regularly review its gender equality policies and practices. Permanent steps must be taken. As a lawyer, I believe that; Success cannot be permanent in any business where equality is not sustainable. Universities should be both a role model structure and locomotive institutions in taking responsibility in this regard. It is important to ensure equality between men and women in both academic and administrative staff in universities where three basic missions are defined such as education, research and social responsibility. It is also important to show an exemplary stance towards students in this regard. Because universities are the first institutional structure in which the individual receives both education and impression regarding professional life. Therefore, students who observe gender equality in their academic staff and experience it personally in the climate of the university will be active advocates of equality in the business world as well.

Universities, as institutional structures, should allocate resources to provide an environment that can improve the professional development of women working in their academic and administrative staff. Women in the academy are both academics who have gone through a long and difficult journey, and academics working at all levels of the administrative staff working in the operation for the continuation of higher education service. Universities should be able to support women in their academic and administrative staff, from maintaining the work-life balance to building their career path in the most solid way, and allocate the needed resources in this direction. As a manager, I do not find it sufficient to provide the process only with title changes or assignments in such actions. For example, this year, we achieved a 50 percent balance in gender equality in our faculty deans. Ensuring the appointment is an important step, but the main thing is to maintain this balance. We are now planning our work to ensure the sustainability of equality in favor of women in academia.

University and Industry Should Also Collaborate for Gender Equality and Labor

I think that university-industry cooperation also includes very important opportunities to protect and strengthen women's labor in academia and to ensure gender equality.

Within the scope of this cooperation, the business world should be able to provide research and incentives to female academician candidates who are at the very beginning of their academic career. Likewise, universities should be able to support the business world by providing the education, research and mentoring support required for the equality-based projects of the industrial organizations and the business world. Our female colleagues who make their academic careers need facilitating mentoring support so that they can contribute to the training of qualified graduates by gaining practical experience. At the same time, university-industry collaborations should design options for women who have stepped into the business world, but could not complete their master's and doctorate degrees for various reasons, or who could not start even though they wanted to. The business world must support the academic education of female personnel, and universities must be stakeholders in this support process. To sum up, we should be able to support the labor and education struggle of women in every field, including academia, with knowledge, cooperation and high awareness, but most importantly, with the search for social awareness as a whole.

Istanbul Kültür University (IKU) launched the Dengeni Koru Social Equality Platform in order to raise public awareness against prejudices regarding professions and gender. Speaking about the subject, our Prof. Dr. Fadime Üney Yüksektepe, Dean of Engineering Faculty, stated that she observed the effects of prejudices in university and department preferences, especially in engineering branches. prof. Dr. Fadime Üney Yüksektepe said, “As of March 2022, the rate of female students in our university is 45 percent, while this rate is around 23 percent for engineering students. I think that our girls do not choose the engineering profession mainly for two reasons. The first of these is the family effect, while the second is the lack of role models.”

Families Should Be Aware of Profession and Prejudices

Referring to the impact of his point of view that the engineering profession is very difficult and tiring, our Dean made a statement on “Families direct their daughters to professions that they think are more comfortable and easier. On the other hand, the low number of female engineers who will be role models and their inability to (be) in the foreground are also important reasons. Both universities and non-governmental organizations have important duties in removing social prejudices. In order to raise awareness of families and increase the interest of girls in the engineering profession, informative seminars should be organized to introduce professions and promotions should be made to bring successful female role models in engineering to the foreground.”

Engineering Profession Should Be Introduced at an Early Age

Stating that the events that bring together successful female engineers at the beginning of high school education, will be effective in breaking the prejudices against engineering branches, Prof. Dr. Fadime Üney Yüksektepe said the following about the mission of enterprises in this regard: 

“Several government incentives and advantages to be given to companies that employ female engineers will also positively affect the attitudes of companies in this direction. In this way, the increasing demand for female engineers in the business world will increase the awareness of girls about choosing this profession.”

The Career Honorary Awards, organized for the fourth time this year by the Istanbul Kültür University (IKU) Career Club, found their owners on Friday, March 4th. In the night attended by many celebrities, names such as Müjdat Gezen, Zihni Gökay, Zeynep Bastık, Kenan Doğulu, Acun Ilıcalı, İlker Kaleli, Mabel Matiz, Nilperi Şahinkaya received awards.

The 4th Career Honorary Awards, organized by Istanbul Kültür University Career Club to support a different non-governmental organization every year, found their owners with a ceremony held at Akıngüç Auditorium and Art Center on Friday, March 4th. The proceeds of the ceremony were donated to the Muscular Diseases Association (KASDER), and nearly 40 names from the art, sports, media and business worlds were deemed worthy of awards.

The brief of the traditional 3rd High School Fictional Litigation Competition, which will be organized by Istanbul Kültür University with the theme of 'Digital Security' this year, was held on Friday, March 5, 2022 at Akıngüç Auditorium and Art Center. Nearly 140 students from different high schools across Turkey participated in the competition.

Before the first round of the competition to be held on March 19, 2022, the opening speech of the meeting, which was held to inform the applicant high school students, was made by our Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law, Assist. Prof. Tuğçe Karaçoban Güneş.

Assist. Prof. Tuğçe Karaçoban Güneş gave the following message in her speech: “We started out with the aim of promoting and popularizing a very valuable profession that serves to ensure order and justice in your daily life, is valid in every aspect of life, in short, is life itself, and therefore will never get old and its importance will not decrease. We are happy to meet you on this road. In these days when you have to make a career choice, I attach great importance to being instrumental in a process where you will develop your persuasion and expression skills by reviving the claim and defense sides of a legal event, and at the same time have the opportunity to experience working in the field of law. On behalf of our Dean Prof. Dr. Dr. Hc. Mult. Bahri Öztürk and our 67 professors, I wish you all success.”

The training speech titled “General Information About Competition and Digital Security” was given by Assist. Prof. Efser Erden Tütüncü, an academician from the Faculty of Law, Department of Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law. High school students were informed about the topics of protection of personal data, social media, digital security, march of criminal procedure and trial order.

At the meeting where our Faculty of Law faculty members Research Assistant Zeynep Güler, Research Assistant Merve Akbulut, Research Assistant Yıldız Dirdiri and Research Assistant Mehmet Can Tok provided information with a fictional case simulation before the competition, the students had the opportunity to experience all the processes before the competition. The event came to an end with a meeting between the mentors of our Faculty of Law students and the competing teams. Teams consisting of high school students, ideally to receive legal education, will hold the first round of competitions in specially prepared courtrooms on March 19, 2022 at the Şirinevler campus of Istanbul Kültür University Faculty of Law. 

The first 3 teams will be awarded 12 thousand TL and Lenovo Tab M10 TB-X505L Tablet (5 for each of the team members), 6 thousand TL for the second and 3 thousand TL for the third. The other 2 teams, excluding the top 3 teams, will receive the honorable mention. Honorable Mention Award amount is 1,500 TL for each team to be selected.

The 3rd High School Fictional Litigation Competition will be held with the support of the Supreme Court and sponsored by Microsoft - MakroNet.

The workforce agreement signed between Istanbul Kültür University European Career and Workforce Unit and Lower Saxony State 'Deutsche Management Akademie - Lower Saxony German Management Academy' (DMAN) was featured in the March issue of KobiEfor magazine.

In cooperation with the IKU Vocational School and the Civil Aviation Club, a conversation titled "Turkish Women Flying and Flying Airplanes" was held in two sessions on Tuesday, March 8, within the scope of "March 8, International Women's Day" and "March 7-13, International Women's Aviation Week". The first session of the event, moderated by Mere Eseoğlu and Civil Aviation Club President Adile Yusufoğlu, was hosted by writer Eriş Ülger, son of Sabiha Gökçen, the spiritual grandchild of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. In the second session, Flight Dispatcher Çağrı Sanıcı, Air Traffic Controller Saliha Ünsal Açıkel and Training Specialist Ayçe Bürüngüz shared their experiences in the aviation industry. At the end of the event, the sectoral questions of our students were answered.

The Founding Head of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (MOBIGEN), our valuable teacher Prof. Dr. Atilla Özalpan, was commemorated with an event held on the 10th anniversary of his passing. Prof. Dr. Ali Demirsoy, one of the academicians of Hacettepe University, attended the event held on Wednesday, March 9, with his speech titled “Bio-Geological Perspective on Global Warming”. At the commemoration event organized as a hybrid with the participation of Prof. Dr. Atilla Özalpan's family, Faculty of Arts and Sciences academic staff, academics from other universities, MOBIGEN students and graduates, the life story of Prof. Dr. Özalpan, his memories with his students and friends were shared with photographs. Prof. Dr. Ali Demirsoy conveyed detailed information about how the layers of the earth we live on were shaped by living organisms living in the past, accompanied by visuals. The event, which focused on the biological basis of global warming, which is one of the biggest problems of our age, solutions for the increase in carbon and methane gases and reducing their emissions, and our responsibilities, ended after the question-answer session.

Effective Communication Club organized an event titled “Entrepreneur Ecosystem and Being a Woman Entrepreneur” on the CATS platform on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Begüm Karslıoğlu, Founder of Jobtogo, was the guest of the event held as part of the "8 March International Women's Day". In the event, the successful works of women entrepreneurs were conveyed to the students on the occasion of "March 8 International Women's Day".

An event titled "Future'22" was organized by the Industrial Engineering Club between February 21-23, 2022. Akıngüç Auditorium and Art Center hosted the event, where the CEOs of nine giant companies were hosted in three sessions every day.

Turkcell Superonline General Manager Emre Erdem was the guest of the first session of the event, which aims to closely introduce the leaders of world-famous brands, to teach them about their development, success and experience in their business life, and to gain a new perspective based on these experiences. Telling his life story and the process of joining Turkcell, Erdem answered the questions of the participants. In the second session, Sneaks Up CEO Mustafa Ünal talked about the process of Sneaks Up since its establishment and how they have coped with the difficulties they have faced. In the third session, Tchibo General Manager Hasan Ulutürk talked about the adventure of coffee.

On the second day of the event, UPS General Manager Burak Kılıç met with the participants. Kılıç, who devoted most of his time to questions and answers, told the story of UPS and himself. He also adviced to the students by saying; “Do what you love and do the best of it.”. ETİ CEO Hakan Polatoğlu asked the students to ask him questions instead of sticking to the presentation. He continued the session by answering the questions in the light of these questions.

Mondelez General Manager İhsan Karagöz, who was the guest of the first session of the last day, gave information about Mondelez and the companies it covers. Talking about how to deal with the problems encountered in a large company, Karagöz answered all the questions of the learners. In the second session, Monster Notebook CEO İlhan Yılmaz talked about what he went through while establishing the brand, how the brand has grown with determination and hard work in 22 years, and his desire for this field since his childhood. He also gave a small talk to raise awareness for children with special needs. In the last session of the event, P&G CEO Tankut Turnaoğlu conveyed his P&G adventure and his own life story to the participants.

The Department of Architecture organized a field trip to the Fatih region on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, within the scope of the "Climate Crisis Research and Awareness Center" in the "MIM0080-B Diploma Project Group B". After the seminar given to the students about the selected project area, the area was visited within the framework of the cooperation with Fatih Municipality.

Istanbul Kültür University Technology Transfer Office Manager Assoc. Prof. Süleyman Hikmet Çağlar and Project Specialist Fatma Ünal attended the opening meeting and workshop of the "Added Value with Innovative Production: YAY-YÜKA Project" held at Marmara University RTE Campus on Thursday, March 3, 2022.

An event titled “The Role of Economy in the Media” was held by the Economy Club at the Basın Ekspres Campus Conference Hall on Monday, February 28, 2022. Financial Analyst Selçuk Gezer, who participated in the event as a speaker, gave detailed information about socialization and acculturation by explaining current economic events.

An interview titled "Conversations on the Industry" was held on the CATS platform on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, by the Effective Communication Club. Purple Media Solutions Founder Senem Şeşen Güler, who attended the event as a speaker, shared her sectoral experiences with the students.

"Dearest Graduates,

One of our members Atty. Nazlı Gülce Başak was the guest of our university with the talk titled "Woman = Life" held as part of "March 8, International Working Women's Day". İKÜMED staff member İlayda Turan also participated in the conversation, in which our Rector Prof. Dr. Hanife Öztürk Akkartal also took part, and supported our graduate.

Best Regards,
İKÜMED"

Kürşat Ulutaş, Chairperson of the Board of FUGO Ground Handling, visited our university and met with Assist. Prof. Sinan Kesici, Director of Vocational School, and Lecturer Evren Yılmaz, an academician of the Program of Flight Operations Management. During the meeting, which was productive for both parties, the development of aviation, the impact of the pandemic process on aviation, internship, training and sectoral cooperation were discussed.

Within the scope of "MIM4020 Building Science III" given by Assoc Prof Erkan Avlar and "ARC4020 Buildings Science III" conducted by Assist. Prof. Gamze Alptekin in the Department of Architecture; On Wednesday, March 9, seminars on waterproofing in buildings were given by civil engineer (m.sc) Jozef Bonfil in English and Turkish.

Within the scope of the seminar, insulation material selection criteria, application principles and details were explained to the students.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Vehbi Tosun and the students of the "Environmental Design" course started the registration and inventory work on Büyük Karaman Street within the scope of the street façade arrangements to be made in cooperation with the Istanbul Kültür University Department of Interior Architecture and Fatih Municipality. Büyük Karaman Street, which ends at Fatih Mosque, looks like an open architectural museum with its structures in different styles from different periods. With the revitalization project to be carried out, the tourism potential and economic cultural change of the region is aimed. The project includes Büyük Karaman Street and the streets in and around Kıztaşı, including the Roman Period (455) Markianos column.

Department of Atatürkist Principles and the History of the Turkish Revolution will organize a conference in order to commemorate Mehmet Akif Ersoy while emphasizing the meaning and the importance of our National Anthem. The event, in which Prof. Dr. Hasret Çomak from Istanbul Kent University is the speaker, will be on March 12, Saturday at 13.00 via Adobe Connect Virtual Classroom Application.

The Department of New Media and Communication will organize a seminar titled "Quality and SEO Compatible Digital Content Production" in order to inform students about the production of quality, original and SEO compatible content for different digital environments. The event, in which ZEO Agency SEO Executive Metehan Urhan will be the speaker, will be held on Monday, March 14 at 15.00 in the B1-1 auditorium.

Career Club will hold a talk titled "Career Counselling" on Tuesday, March 15 at 12:00. Önder Öztunalı Conference Hall will host the event, where the Instructor, Career Counsellor & Student Coach Tuğçe Güçlünar Kengil will be the speaker.

Program of Tourism and Hotel Management will organize an interview titled "Interview and Job Search Techniques" in order to prepare our students for business life. The event, where H&F Human Resources Consultancy Company Founding Partner Fatih Baycan will be the speaker, will be held on Tuesday, March 15 at 13.00 in our İncirli Campus.

An interview titled "Effective Use of Linkedin" will be held in cooperation with the Effective Communication Club, New Media and Communication Club, +1 Down and Autism Awareness Club, Department of New Media and Communication, Department of Communication Arts and Program of Public Relations and Publicity. The event, in which Migros Trade Training and Development Specialist Mücella Ezgin is the speaker, will be held on Tuesday, March 15 at 20:00 on CATS.

The Program of Opticianry will organize an event to inform students about endometriosis and raise awareness within the scope of the "Endo at School" project of the Turkish Endometriosis Association. The event, where Op. Dr. Salih Yılmaz from Altunizade Acıbadem Hospital will be the speaker, will be held on Wednesday, March 16 at 11:00 at Önder Öztunalı Conference Hall.

The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science will organize a meeting in order to learn the students’ requests-complaints and to find a solution to them on March 16 Wednesday at 14.30 Z-16 Conference Hall.

In cooperation with the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation and the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Club, an event titled "Career Days-I: Getting to Know Our Department Academics Closely" will be held on Wednesday, March 16, at 15.15 at the C Block B1 amphitheater in Şirinevler campus.

In cooperation with the Gender Club, Marketing Club and Health Club, in order to raise awareness about the meaning and importance of " March 8 International Women's Day", types of violence, the cycle of violence and women's rights; A conference titled " Not One Day, Every Day: March 8 and Women's Place in Society" will be held. The event, where Purple Roof Women's Shelter Foundation Volunteer Zuhal Güreli and Lawyer Nursaç Katırcı will be speakers, will be held on Thursday, March 17 at 11:00 in the amphitheater numbered 1A01.

Kültür Point will organize the "Thought and Idea Generating Workshop". The workshop, which will be carried out by trainer Numan Aydınoğlu, will be held on Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 17.00 over CATS.

In its 25th anniversary, Istanbul Kültür University (IKU) will bring art lovers together with the theater play “Ben Anadolu”. As part of the "International Women's Day" events, the play will be held on Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 19.00 at Akıngüç Auditorium and Art Center; Women who have created Anatolia for thousands of years will meet in Güngör Dilmen's classic work with their stories spanning a whole history.

Kültür Point will organize “Diction and Effective Body Language Training” so that participants can speak Turkish effectively and use body language correctly. The training, which will be given by trainer İlknur Güneş, will be held on Friday, March 18 between 14.00-17.00 at Önder Öztunalı Hall.

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