Bahçeşehir University Chair of the Board of Trustees Enver Yücel Elected to the Board of Trustees of the New York University (NYU) School of Education

For the first time in its history, a foreigner is being elected to the Board of Trustees of the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, one of the leading universities in the United States. Michael R. Cunningham, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the NYU Steinhardt School of Education, came to Istanbul to offer Enver Yücel, Founding Chair of Bahçeşehir-Uğur Educational Institutions, membership of the Board of Trustees responsible for International Education.

On the Board of Trustees, to which a foreigner has been elected for the first time in its history, leading American educators, communicators and executives work to advance the NYU Steinhardt School of Education further in teaching, research and public programs. Bahçeşehir University Founding Chair Enver Yücel was deemed worthy of this position for the importance he attaches to international education and his extensive work in this field, in order to develop the international dimension of education and spread the idea of global citizenship education. The seventeen-member Board of Trustees of the NYU Steinhardt School of Education includes figures such as James Dolan, Chair of Cablevision Systems Corporation and owner of the NBA team New York Knicks; Dr. Daniel Fallon, Senior Advisor at Carnegie Corporation of New York; Corinne H. Rieder, Chair of the Board of The John A. Hartford Foundation; Courtney Sale Ross, heir of Steve Ross, Chair of Time Warner, the world's largest media company, and Founding Chair of the Ross Institute; and Michael H. Steinhardt, Chair of Steinhardt Management and one of the leading investors in the United States.