Appointment to Assistant Professorship

ARTICLE 23

  1. A vacancy for an Assistant Professor position in a unit of the university is advertised by the rectorate and applications are invited. In faculties and organizations attached to the faculties, the Dean, in graduate schools and schools of higher education attached to the rectorate, the Director assigns three Professors or Associate Professors (one of whom shall be from outside the university in question, and one an administrator of that unit) to give written statements upon each of the candidates. The Dean or the Director upon receipt of the opinion of the Administrative Board concerned submits his/her nominations to the Rector. The appointment is made by the Rector.

    2. The Assistant Professor(s) may be appointed to any one university for no longer than 12 years, each time for a term of two or three years. Appointment is not automatically renewable.

  2. Prerequisites for the appointment of Assistant Professors:

  1. To have acquired a doctorate, or specialist status in medicine, or proficiency in certain branches of the fine arts to be determined by the Council of Higher Education upon the recommendation of the Inter-university Board,
  2. To pass the foreign language examination, which will cover a translation in the candidate’s major field of about 150-200 words from Turkish into a foreign language and from the foreign language into Turkish to the satisfaction of a jury of three members, one of them a teaching staff member in the relevant language. The jury shall be selected by the Administrative Board of the Faculty, Graduate School or School of Higher Education.