Prof. Dr. Üstün
ERGÜDER

EDUCATION

Ph.D., 1969 – Syracuse University, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Department of Political Science, Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.

B.A. in Administration, 1961 – University of Manchester, Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, Manchester, England

High School, 1957 – Robert College, İstanbul, Türkiye

RECENT POSITIONS

• Founding and Honorary Chair, Board of Directors, Educational Reform Initiative, a Sabancı University-backed education advocacy project supported by 20 institutions (2003 – present)


• Chair, Board of Directors, Hisar Education Foundation (2022 – present)


• Founder and Director, Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University (2001 – June 2010)


• Emeritus Professor, Sabancı University (from 2010)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Assistant, Middle East Technical University, 1961 – 1962


• Faculty Member, Boğaziçi University, 1969 – 2000


• Visiting Faculty, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 1974 – 1975


• Fulbright Visiting Faculty, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1983 – 1984


• Visiting Faculty, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University,  Spring and Fall 1984

ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES AT BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY

• Rector, Boğaziçi University, 1992 – 2000


• Chair, Department of Political Science and International Relations, 1989 – 1992


• Director, School of Foreign Languages, 1978 – 1981 and 1986 – 1989


• Vice Dean, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, 1982 – 1983


• Director, Institute of Applied Research, Faculty of Administrative Sciences, 1979 – 1981

MEMBERSHIPS AND BOARD SERVICE

• Council Member, Magna Charta Observatory of Academic Freedom and Institutional Autonomy in Higher Education, Bologna, Italy, 2004 – 2009; President, 2009 – 2013


• Board Member, Özyeğin University, 2007 – 2015


• Board Member, Kadir Has University, 2015 – 2019


• Board Member, Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), 1996 – 2000


• Board Member, European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam, 1996 – 2004


• Founding and Advisory Board Member, Türkiye Social and Economic Studies Foundation (TESEV), 1994 – present


• Honorary President, Third Sector Foundation of Türkiye


• Board Member, Koç University, 2000 – 2001


• Board Member, Aydın Doğan Foundation, 2004 – present


• Board Member, Vehbi Koç Foundation, 1997 – present


• Member, European University Association Quality Assessment Programme, 1997 – 2010


• Emeritus Board Member, Robert College


• Board Member, European Foundations Association, 2001 – 2011


• President, Boğaziçi University Alumni Association (BÜMED), 1987 – 1991

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

In the Stormy Waters of Higher Education: A Journey Beginning at Boğaziçi University. Istanbul: Doğan Egmont Yayıncılık ve Yapımcılık Tic. A.Ş., 2015

“Why a New Vision for Higher Education?” Mehmet Şahin, Tosun Terzioğlu, and Öktem Vardar (Istanbul Policy Center, 2009)

“Institutions’ Policies, Visions, Missions and Aims; Policies of Institutional Governance: Institutional Evaluation Programme Evaluation and Boğaziçi University,” in Essays on Supportive Peer Review, Alberto Amaral, Airi Rovio-Johansson, Maria Joao Rose, Don Westerheijden (eds.), Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2008

Higher Education in Türkiye: Institutional Autonomy and Responsibility in a Modernising Society, co-authored with Kemal Gürüz for the Magna Charta Observatory. Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2008

“Politics of Higher Education in Türkiye: How the System Fails to Produce Reform?” In Prof. Dr. Ergun Ozbudun’a Armağan: Siyaset Bilimi Cilt 1, Serap Yazıcı, Kemal Gozler, Fuat Keyman (eds.). Ankara: Yetkin, 2008

“The Turkish Party System and the Future of Turkish Democracy,” in Ciğdem Balım et al. (eds.), Türkiye: Political, Social and Economic Challenges in the 1990s. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995

“Liberalism and the Motherland Party,” İlber Ortaylı (ed.), Liberal Elements in the Programmes of Turkish Political Parties: Economic Policy and Industrialization, Türkiye - Esnaf Sanatkar ve Küçük Sanayi Araştırma Enstitüsü Yayın No:3, Ankara, March 1992

Türk Toplumunun Değerleri, Türk Sanayicileri ve İşadamları Derneği Türkiye Sosyo-Ekonomik Değerler Anketi’nin Sonuçları ve Değerlendirilmesi, Publication No: TÜSİAD-T/91,6.145, Istanbul, September 1991 (co-authored with Yılmaz Esmer and Ersin Kalaycıoğlu)

“The Motherland Party, 1983-1989,” in Metin Heper and Jacob M. Landau (eds.), Political Parties and Democracy in Türkiye. London: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 1991

“Agriculture: The Forgotten Sector,” in Metin Heper (ed.), Strong State and Economic Interest Groups: The Post-1980 Turkish Experience. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991

“Coalition Governments and Political Stability: Türkiye and Italy,” Il Politico, LV:4, 1990

“Patterns of Authority,” in Metin Heper (ed.), Local Government in Türkiye. London: Routledge, 1989

“The 1983 General Elections in Türkiye: Continuity or Change in Voting Patterns,” in Metin Heper and Ahmet Evin (eds.), State, Democracy and the Military: Türkiye in the 1980s, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1988 (co-authored with Richard I. Hofferbert)

“Decentralization of Local Government and Turkish Political Culture,” in Metin Heper (ed.), Democracy and Local Government: Istanbul in the 1980s. Walkington, England: Eothen Press, 1987

“Restoration of Democracy in Türkiye? Political Reforms and the Elections of 1983,” in Linda L. Layne (ed.), Elections in the Middle East: Implications of Recent Trends, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1987 (co-authored with Richard I. Hofferbert)

“The Penetrability of Policy Systems in a Developing Context,” Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 5:1 (1985), pp. 87–105 (co-authored with Richard I. Hofferbert)              

“Democracy in Türkiye: Achievements and Prospects,” in Metin Heper (ed.), Türkiye: Past Development and Future Prospects, Ankara: Kaya Matbaacılık, 1983

“Changing Patterns of Electoral Behavior in Türkiye,” Boğaziçi University Journal, Vols. 8–9 (1980–1981)

Seçim Sistemleri ve Türk Demokrasisi (Electoral Systems and Turkish Democracy), Istanbul: Boğaziçi University, 1981

Türkiye’de Tarım Fiyat Destek Siyasası ve Siyaset (Politics and Agricultural Price Support Policy in Türkiye), Istanbul: Boğaziçi University, 1981

“Politics of Agricultural Price Policy in Türkiye,” in Ergun Ozbudun and Aydın Ulusan (eds.), The Political Economy of Income Distribution in Türkiye, New York: Holmes and Meier, 1981

“Internal Migration, Politics and Integration: Türkiye,” in Helene Anne B. Rivlin and Katherine Helmer (eds.), The Changing Middle Eastern City, Binghamton, New York: State University of New York, 1980