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.

E-learning Courses
Dear students
I will keep again my e-learning courses for Semester Spring 2010 at http://e-learning.ius.edu.ba address. Please select the courses from Spring 2010. The courses I teach for Semester 2010 include Introduction to Management and Project Course (Civic Engagement Projects).

Please note that the technical administration of the e-learning site is done by the university (IUS). For all technical problems and difficulties with access, contact IT Department of IUS in writing.

I wish everyone a pleasant and successful semester.

Prof. Dr. B. Gültekin Çetiner

Academic Jobs in Bosnia
The following is the email from an academic fellow regarding the Academic Jobs in Bosnia. If anyone interested you can contact either me (drcetiner @ gmail.com) or directly the university’s web page.

Academic Vacancies in Bosnia/Sarajevo
International University of Sarajevo (IUS) is announcing academic vacancies for visiting or tenure – track positions for PhD holders in the following areas:

Faculty of Economy and Business Administration (FEBA)
1. Economics,
2. Management,
3. Finance and accounting,
4. International relations.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
1. Visual arts and communication design (History of art),
2. Psychology.

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS)
1. Computer engineering,
2. Bio-engineering,
3. Industrial Engineering,
4. Architecture.