Our university held a major event this year within the scope of the scholarship program it implemented with the theme "Make a Promise for the Future". All of the revenues generated from the event held together with the Alumni Meeting will be transferred to the Scholarship Fund and scholarship opportunities will be provided to successful students with inadequate financial means, especially earthquake victims.
Sabancı University organized a meaningful event on Tuzla Campus within the scope of the scholarship program it implemented with the theme "Make a Promise for the Future". Historian and writer İlber Ortaylı also attended the event, where Sabancı University President Yusuf Leblebici and Sabancı University Secretary General Ali Çalışkan made the opening speeches. Additionally, within the scope of the event, world-famous pianist-composer Fazıl Say and singer Serenad Bağcan performed the "Mother Earth" concert.
“Our aim is to increase the number of our successful students”
Speaking at the event, Sabancı University President Yusuf Leblebici said the following: “According to the results of the Higher Education Institutions Examination, we have proven this year that we are one of the leading universities in Turkey. Our goal is to increase the number of our successful students and make Sabancı University not only the best university in Turkey but also one of the leading universities in the world. For this purpose, we have to constantly improve the quality of both our education and research. In parallel, we continue to add expert faculty members from every country in the world to our team. We have added 58 new faculty members to our team in the last 3 years. 33 of them came directly from abroad to join us.”
Emphasizing that, in addition to these efforts, they have very important projects on entrepreneurship, Yusuf Leblebici said, “We are implementing a new entrepreneurship and incubation center on our campus. In this way, we want to provide the necessary environment for the projects that both our students and faculty members carry out on their own initiative to create successful start-up companies. We will be inspired, in this regard, by successful examples abroad."
Sabancı University Secretary General Ali Çalışkan made the following statements regarding the "Make a Promise for the Future" Scholarship Program: “At Sabancı University, we touch the lives of approximately 55% of our total students through both our success scholarship and range of need scholarship programs. Within the scope of the "Make a Promise for the Future" scholarship program that we launched last year, within 5 years, we aim to make this fund available to 20% of the students who join our university from Anatolia through the Higher Education Institutions Exam and need financial support. After the earthquake disaster on February 6, naturally, our priority this year was the earthquake region. We support 3 of our current students and 8 of our earthquake-affected, newly admitted students with this scholarship fund.”
At the event, plaques were presented to donors who covered the education, accommodation, cash needs and food support of at least one young person throughout their university life within the scope of the scholarship program.
During the Alumni Reunion, which lasted throughout the day, many activities took place, such as various workshops, live music, and medal ceremonies for 10th and 20th-year alumni, in addition to alumni, student, and academics’ network events.