{"id":303,"date":"2015-03-29T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T05:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/?page_id=303"},"modified":"2026-08-18T22:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:20:44","slug":"university-senate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/university-governance-and-organization\/university-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"University Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rector heads the University Senate. Its members are the Vice Rectors, deans, school directors and one representative from each faculty and institute, and the president of the student council. It is the decision-making body for academic matters. The Senate also makes recommendations to the Board of Trustees on issues presented to it by the Board, including the granting of honorary academic degrees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Members:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yasemin Afacan, Nail Akar, Arma\u011fan Ate\u015fkan, Alipa\u015fa Ayas, Orhan Ayt\u00fcr (Rector), B\u00fclent Batuman, Ba\u015fak Baysal, H\u00fcseyin Boyac\u0131 (Vice Rector),\u00a0Ay\u015fe Collins, Hilmi Volkan Demir, O\u011fuz G\u00fclseren, Ay\u015fe Ba\u015fak Tanyeri G\u00fcns\u00fcr, H. Altay G\u00fcvenir, Emin Karag\u00f6zo\u011flu (Vice Rector), Ezhan Kara\u015fan (Vice Rector), \u00d6zg\u00fcr K\u0131br\u0131s, Tufan K\u0131ymaz, G\u00fcl\u00fcm \u00d6z\u00e7elik, \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zdamar, Emrah \u00d6zensoy, Simon D. Vigley, Tolga Yayalar, Bahar Yeti\u015f,\u00a0Luca Zavagno<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/tr\/senato-kararlari\/\">Senate Decisions<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rector heads the University Senate. Its members are the Vice Rectors, deans, school directors and one representative from each faculty and institute, and the president of the student council. It is the decision-making body for academic matters. The Senate also makes recommendations to the Board of Trustees on issues [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/university-governance-and-organization\/university-senate\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":178,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-303","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28176,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions\/28176"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}