Rector's Speech 7

We provide student counseling services to our students in social areas. We provide counseling services and support our students who experience problems. We also provide economic support to our students who are economically distressed. We provide scholarship opportunities with Inonu University Foundation and Malatya Theological Foundation. Thanks to The Young Boutique, a joint project with Kizilay, we provide free clothes to our students in need. In addition, our university offers our students the opportunity to work part-time. Those who want can work part-time in our cafeterias, library, workshops and agencies of our Communication Faculty and in different units of our university for a certain hourly fee. We, as a university, pay for this hourly rate. Our students pay their own expenses by working for themselves. We are an intermediary for our students who want to work in companies, especially in Teknokent, to reach the places where they can do business and work in subjects suitable for their fields of study. İşKUR and our university work in a very strong dialogue and communication. We have a very detailed protocol with Malatya İşkur. In line with this protocol, İşkur has a branch in our university and there are 3 ISKUR specialists working regularly here. These provide guidance to our students in terms of employment and in terms of all subjects in İşKUR's fields of study. We talk about career planning, background preparation, how to apply to İşkur and a comprehensive guidance on where there are job opportunities in Turkey and in our city. Of course, this branch also provides guidance on how to pursue these business opportunities and what to look out for when they go to the job interviews. We are working very strongly with İşkur on how to bring our young workforce together with the business environments of our country and city. Inonu University campus and other campuses are disabled-friendly campuses. Inonu University is a disability-friendly university. Both our educational units, social sciences, library, all open and closed areas in our university have received orange flags, which means disabled friendly. We have charging stations on campus for the battery-powered cars of our students with physical disabilities. We're mobilizing all means for them. We have vehicle facilities at our university where we can get our students with disabilities to the places they want to go. We have an organization for that. Our surface reliefs are everywhere for our visually impaired students. In the library, we have a visually impaired section consisting of nearly 5000 works for our visually impaired students, which we have opened outside. On our campus, we use an app that will be used by all our disabled students, especially by our visually impaired students, providing navigational support and guiding them. Our students with disabilities are able to reach the place they want to go without asking anyone within our university. Inonu University aims to open not only physical and social access for students with disabilities, but also some educational units for the disabled. We have an education center at our university that covers all students with physical and mental disabilities. Our Special Education and Rehabilitation Center is located inside our university. This center, of course, serves our own students, but mainly serves families with disabled children, young people with disabilities and children besides our university students.