Good News from Enver Yücel on NYU Steinhardt

Enver Yücel held his second board meeting with the Board of Trustees at NYU Steinhardt on 6 December. Yücel announced the good news that the Board's first meeting abroad will be held in Istanbul in July.

Yücel, the first foreign member of the Board of Trustees, is also the Board's Chair for International Relations.

Making a statement after the meeting, Yücel said: "The area I chair is international education, and I made proposals on this subject. To touch on them briefly: we have important responsibilities in shaping the future. What kind of future do we want, what kind of world do we want? This is partly in our hands. In educating our young people, we face great problems both here and there. We must find and seize whatever eliminates ignorance. We must teach a culture of living together in peace, where everyone respects one another. We must see our cultures and civilizations as the common heritage of humanity. In other words, we must spread the culture of Global Citizenship. We must work so that our students become individuals who are aware of the world and of differences and respect them, and who become both local and universal leaders."

THE FIRST BOARD MEETING ABROAD WILL BE IN ISTANBUL

Expressing that he considers it important for the Board of Trustees meeting to be held once a year in different countries, Yücel proposed that the Board's first meeting abroad be held in Istanbul. Yücel explained: "This wish stems not only from my being from Istanbul but also from Istanbul being one of the world's most important centers where the culture of living together can be seen. Istanbul is a city that has hosted great empires and various civilizations and allowed many cultures to flourish. Everyone should benefit from the historical fabric of this city, through which many civilizations have passed." He also noted the significance of the fact that one of the co-chairs of the Alliance of Civilizations project, established under the United Nations, is the Prime Minister of the Republic of Türkiye, R. Tayyip Erdoğan. Saying that the proposal was warmly embraced, Yücel announced the good news of the decision to hold the first meeting abroad in Istanbul in July.

LEADING US BUSINESSPEOPLE AND EDUCATORS ON THIS BOARD

The NYU Steinhardt School of Education has 6,000 students, and its Board of Trustees includes important businesspeople and educators. The seventeen-member Board of Trustees of the School of Education includes figures such as the Chair of Cablevision Systems Corporation and owner of the NBA team New York Knicks, James Dolan; Senior Advisor at Carnegie Corporation of New York Dr. Daniel Fallon; Vice President of McGraw Hill publishing house Charlotte Frank; Goldman Sachs Global Department Head Harvey Schwartz; heir of Steve Ross, Chair of Time Warner, the world's largest media company, and Founding Chair of the Ross Institute Courtney Sale Ross ; and, having given his name to the school of education with his generous donation, Michael Steinhardt .