BAU 2020-2021 Academic Year Opening Ceremony Held

Bahçeşehir University's 2020-2021 academic year opened with a ceremony held on Monday, 26 October 2020. Due to the global pandemic, the ceremony was held online.

The first speech at the ceremony was given by Selcan Çatal, a Bahçeşehir University student and Sustainable Development Coordinator at UN SDSN Youth. Çatal said, "At our multicultural university, we speak many languages and represent all international perspectives. We have all come here to pursue our dreams and make the world a more livable place. We know that on this journey the Bahçeşehir University family will always be with us for our academic, social and cultural development."

EDUCATION WILL CONTINUE IN HYBRID FORMAT

BAU President Prof. Dr. Şirin Karadeniz, who then took the floor, announced that the 2020-2021 academic year had started in hybrid format. Karadeniz said, "2020 has been a year of different experiences for all of us. In light of these experiences, we are starting our new academic year by maintaining our leadership in education within the framework of the measures we have taken since the beginning of the pandemic."

"WE WILL NOT INTERRUPT EDUCATION, WHATEVER IT TAKES"

BAU Chair of the Board of Trustees Enver Yücel began his speech by wishing Bahçeşehir University a successful 22nd academic year. "When we look at what universities around the world have done since the pandemic began, we see that Bahçeşehir University has continued education without interruption," he said, underlining that Bahçeşehir University is ahead in this respect compared with other major universities in the world. Noting that our student numbers have reached 30,000, Yücel said, "Our goal is quality; we are competing with the world. I am also very happy to see our faculty members producing more and more outputs every day." Wishing for a virus-free new academic year, Yücel added, "At the same time, we will not interrupt education, whatever it takes. Distance and hybrid education has already started."

Then BAU faculty member Prof. Dr. Necip Çakır gave the inaugural lecture .