Dr. Çetiner’s Blogs (Prof. Dr. Gültekin Çetiner)

What is 5ICE?
5ICE ((aka 5 I’CE)) is the acronym for the 6 dimensional mission of an International University developed by Gültekin Çetiner during his Rectorate at IUS.

The mission of an international university defined by Gültekin Çetiner has six dimensions as follows:-

1. Internationalized Higher Education
2. Intercultural Competency
3. Integrity with Universalism
4. Interdisciplinary programs
5. CIvic Engagement
6. Comprehensive Excellence

As a reflection of internationalization, the university aims at recruiting both academic and administrative staff from a wide range of countries as well as admitting students on the basis of internationalization processes. IUS at the beginning of semester 2009-2010 had currently more than 1,100 students from 22 different countries. The academic and administrative staffs are employed from a range of 18 countries.

As a result of Interdisciplinary mission of the university, the programs are designed in a way to promote the students’ works in interdisciplinary manner. Programs with transiency hence make the university highly adaptive to the built of more of newly produced programs when compared to other Higher Education Institutions (HEI). The students in the first year take general university courses then they choose their faculties and consequently their programs which later make double majoring and minor choices very easy. At the final stage, teher were currently 16 programs under four different faculties namely Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA), Faculty of Education (FEDU), and Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS).

At the university, we have added into the curriculum a set of co-curricular activities as compulsory courses. It was first to integrate co-curricular activities of Fareast countries (Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, etc) with the civic engagement activities (service learning) in Western countries. This new extracurricular activities planned to be effective from the academic year of 2009-2010 streamline the students into five main areas of Culture and Arts, Civic Engagement, Sports, Family Management and Parenting, and Leadership and Management with Entrepreneurship. We aim our students to perform in at least one community project before their graduation. Therefore, all students have to take at least 4 subjects followed by the required service learning course called Civic Engagement Projects. These projects volunteered by the students will direct the efforts to be engaged in community services by providing the required human capital. The key to this success is ‘A good turn everyday and no two days should be equal’.

The basic philosophy for Comprehensive Excellence is the design and implementation of quality processes to achieve the best outcomes. It covers three fields as academic and research excellence, administrative services, and high quality community development services. The academic curriculum is revised and redeveloped continuously according to a unique set of accreditation standards stemming from several practices such as Bologna criteria, Washington Accords, and ABET-type ones. They are based on the outcome-based education principles. The outcome-based approach is the guidance in all three fields of the services.

Announcement for all my Students for Fall 2010 Semester
This is announcement for all students at Yalova University and İstanbul Ticaret University for Fall 2010 Semester.

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Dear my students,
Please note that we will be using this semester my personal elearning site at elearning.drcetiner.com. This is mainly due to lack of elearning services at both universities, currently. You need to register in the website first and then you will receive activation email. By clicking on the activation link, you will become a member permanently in the website. For individual enrollment in courses, you need enrollment keys given separately either by me or assistants. Sorry we don’t include the enrollment keys for security reasons.

SQL Language Part of Courses
An interactive SQL site was designed for your convenience to be able use the SQL language statements that you will be learning in three courses namely: Introduction to Computer and Information Systems, Introduction to Computer Science, and Data Mining.

The SQL site to use is sql.drcetiner.com.
Please feel free to use it in other courses such as Database Design, Data Modeling and others.

You need SQL Database settings in Figure 1 in order to be able to use Interactive SQL Site and the settings should be as follows:-

Figure 1. The settings to use Interactive SQL Site at http://sql.drcetiner.com. Please note that the Database Managament System setup in the site is MySql. Therefore, you should use SQL statements compatible with MySql. I hope that the site will be useful for anyone who wants to develop his/her SQL skills in MySQL.

Website Design in Courses
By also acknowledging your needs for designing your personal websites, two separate subdomains were prepared for the students. The students at Yalova University should use the ftp address at yalova.drcetiner.com.

The students at İstanbul Ticaret University should use the link ftp.drcetiner.com.

All students should use the usernames and passwords given by me or my assistants.

Please use the relevant forums at elearning site any time on 7/24 basis.

All the best during Fall 2010.