Educational Cooperation with Columbia University!

Bahçeşehir University has added a new one to its international agreements. An educational cooperation protocol has been signed with Columbia University.

With the agreement signed with one of the world's leading schools of education, Columbia University Teachers College , the parties decided to cooperate on various educational matters, primarily the establishment in Istanbul of a Center for Education and Economic Development and a Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Education .

Under the protocol signed at the Columbia University Teachers College Campus in New York, cooperation will be carried out especially in Preschool Education, Measurement and Evaluation, English Language Education, Higher Education Administration, Educational Leadership and Teacher Training.

Chairman of the Bahçeşehir University Board of Trustees Enver Yücelnoted that their institution is a major education group in Türkiye and that they attach great importance to education in intercultural dialogue. Yücel also emphasized the importance of internationalization in education with the following words: "We educators now have to speak of education for global citizenship. Not an education and curriculum that considers only national values; new curricula must be created with a universal perspective. It is imperative to combine cultural and historical values from the past with today's educational technologies and modern educational approaches, and to create common curricula to be implemented all over the world."

Dean of Columbia University Teachers College Susan Fuhrman, after thanking Bahçeşehir Uğur Educational Institutions for their contributions to education, stated that such a cooperation agreement with Bahçeşehir University, located in Istanbul, an important world cultural center, is of great importance for Columbia University, and continued: "We also want to benefit from your deep-rooted historical heritage and educational experience. We want to carry out joint research, particularly in preschool education, language education and higher education. Columbia University Teachers College is now in Istanbul."

Within the scope of the cooperation between Bahçeşehir University and Columbia University, the first step will be to establish the Center for Education and Economic Development, and activities, panels and research studies will be launched on the effects of education on a country's economy.