Inter-university Board

ARTICLE 11

  1. The Inter-university Board consists of the university rectors, a professor selected by the Chief of the General Staff from the Armed Forces, appointed for a period of four years and one professor from each university selected by their senates for a period of four years.

    2. The rectors act as the Chairperson of the Inter-university Board in turn and consecutively for a term of one year, in the order of the date of foundation of their universities since the establishment of the Turkish Republic.

    The Board may form permanent and temporary units and commissions in order to facilitate its activities and secure cooperation among the universities and with international institutions of higher education. The organization and working procedures of these units and commissions are specified by the Inter-university Board.

    The Board meets at least twice a year in the city where the Chairperson’s university is located unless otherwise specified, and the Board’s agenda is sent beforehand to the Ministry of National Education, the Council of Higher Education and the Board members.

    The Minister of National Education and the President of the Council of Higher Education may participate in the Board’s meetings if they deem it necessary.

  2. The Inter-university Board is an academic organ with the following duties:

  1. To coordinate, within the scope of higher education planning, the universities’ teaching, research, and publication activities, to evaluate implementations and to make recommendations to the Council of Higher Education and to universities,
  2. To propose measures to meet the needs of universities for teaching staff members, bearing in mind organization and academic staff positions and in line with the decisions of the Council of Higher Education,
  3. To prepare regulations on education, research, and publication activities concerning all universities or to express views on these matters,
  4. To ensure coordination in terms of principles and periods of education in faculties of the same or similar characteristics or in other institutions of higher education attached to the universities or faculties,
  5. To establish the principles regarding doctoral work and to evaluate the doctoral degrees and the academic titles of Associate Professor and Professor received abroad,
  6. To organize the Associate Professorship examinations and determine the principles for the evaluation of the publications and research work of Associate Professorship candidates, according to the relevant regulations, and to select the juries,
  7. To fulfill other obligations assigned by this law.