On January 4 President L. Jay Oliva welcomed Dr. Sabih Tansol, president of Bosphorus University, to Washington Square for his first visit to NYU since graduating from the University's former School of Engineering in 1963. Bosphorus University, where Dr. Tansol was inaugurated as president last August, was founded in Istanbul in 1863 as Robert College and changed its name in 1971. It has faculties of engineering, arts and economics, administrative science, and education, as well as several affiliated institutes.
Instruction is in Turkish and English.