MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY--MORE COMMENTS, INFORMATION, UPDATES, LINKS WELCOME
First there was the appointment of an unqualified political hack to lead the university, now the Turkish President Erdogan has decreed the creation of two new schools, one of law, one of communications--and Erdogan could then appoint a hundred or so new faculty to these schools! A correspondent in Istanbul writes:
They announced the opening of these two schools overnight with absolutely no consultation with the university faculty. And this is clearly a way for them to stuff the university with party loyalists - and creating these two new faculties is probably a way to sidestep the current Boğaziçi requirement of international publications to be appointed as a faculty member. So there is the worry that this will lead to a large number of hirings where loyalty rather than academic qualifications will be the main qualification. The suspicion is that they will fill the new school of communications with the Turkish equivalent of Fox News talking heads and the law school with the Turkish equivalent of Kraken Lawyers.
Faculty at Bogazici have issued a statement denouncing this move: Download Autonomy (EN).
Meanwhile, a leader of the Turkish Mafia has come out in support of Erdogan's puppet at the university! No doubt the gangster feels a special affinity with Erdogan.
Comments are open for more information, links etc.
