Horticulture Department Quality Policies

Quality Policy

• Making academic and administrative staff resources more qualified and competent,
• Education-training activities should be oriented towards reason, science and the universal,
• Developing internationalization and efforts towards foreign students,
• Increasing the quality and quantity of research, project preparation of research and conversion into SCI publications,
• Conducting development studies on graduate education research methods and techniques on the way to becoming a research university,
• Sharing the scientific knowledge produced with stakeholders, surrounding public institutions and organizations and businesses,
• Adapting educational environments according to contemporary developments of the day, creating an organizational culture and ensuring its institutionalization.

Quality Assurance Policy

• To strengthen scientific studies and provide an innovative understanding by ensuring that students and faculty members continue their education and training activities in an environment where they can follow and contribute to contemporary developments.
• To carry out infrastructure studies that will pave the way for the integration of theoretical education with practice in all scientific fields.
• To develop relationships between internal stakeholders that will strengthen the organizational climate and to make synergy permanent (to develop and spread institutional awareness.
• To increase the effectiveness and efficiency of education by using the best technological data within the possibilities of our University in all education and training activities.
• To be able to produce creative and productive graduates who have developed analysis and synthesis skills, can transfer free thought to the field of scientific productivity, and can be not only the carrier but also the developer of information.
• To lead equivalent units in other universities with new methods and applications in education and training activities.
• Academic Research and Development Policies
• To provide the necessary administrative, managerial and motivational support for faculty members to produce interdisciplinary works.
• To motivate faculty members and students with effective methods in scientific studies and to ensure that they produce academic works that can stand out at the international level.
• To ensure that remarkable works and research are introduced in the best way at the national and international levels.
• In order to expand the scope of scientific research, to provide all necessary support for studies to be conducted not only nationally but also internationally and to lead the formation of teams in different disciplines.
• To develop research projects according to regional needs.
• To make the relations of academics with internal and external stakeholders more effective and efficient, and to ensure that the internal and external environment benefit more from scientific awareness within the scope of university-industry cooperation.

Education, Teaching and Student Policies

• To develop the quality of undergraduate and graduate education-training in a student-centered manner, taking into account all stakeholder expectations, in a way that can compete in regional, national and international areas.
• Developing educational programs in a way that is student-centered, output/result-oriented and application-oriented,
• Organizing orientation meetings for new students at the beginning of each new academic year to introduce the faculty and department,
• Making current materials (lecture notes, presentation files, etc.) related to undergraduate and graduate level courses more accessible by transferring them to the web page,
• Improving the educational infrastructure (classrooms, laboratories, library, course materials, etc.) in physical and technological terms,
• Ensuring that interdisciplinary research is encouraged and resources are used effectively and efficiently,
• Including student opinions and suggestions in internal evaluation activities,
• Increasing the number of applications regarding courses given within the departments and ensuring that students gain practice,
• Encouraging Student Exchange Programs (Erasmus-Mevlana) and increasing the number of students benefiting from these programs.

Regional and Social Contribution Policies

• To work on solutions for the social, cultural and economic problems of the region.
• To establish collaborations with the industrial and service organizations of the region that will contribute more to the development of the region.
• To expand the scope of the University-Industry Collaboration to include the entire region while effectively implementing it.
• Organizing awareness and training meetings to develop and spread the R&D culture,
• Giving priority to research that will contribute to the society in cooperation with the industry,
• Conducting research at the local level to promote the region, producing policies that will increase the added value of local products and creating employment and carrying out studies that will contribute to transforming this into a commercial commodity,
• Conducting research at the regional level to support regional organizations in transforming knowledge into material,
• Taking a role in strengthening the personnel of public institutions and organizations and businesses in the region,
• Conducting projects aimed at regional development in cooperation with TKDK, Development Agency,
• Cooperating with the Chamber of Agricultural Engineers, Chambers of Agriculture, Commodity Exchange, NGOs and companies in the region,
• Preparing the inventory of public institutions and organizations in the region,
• Sharing knowledge and experience with public institutions and organizations and businesses in the region.