The mission of the Dicle University (DÜ) is to reach, produce, apply and promote knowledge, and to educate individuals with that knowledge for the social, cultural, economic, scientific and technological development of our society and humanity. This is to be done by bringing teaching, research and social services up to universal standards.
BASIC PRINCIPLES
1. Scientific Approach It is unconditionally accepted that a university’s mission is to ensure the understanding of current knowledge and the discovery of new knowledge. On this subject, there should be no hindrance to the discovery and sharing of new knowledge. An environment should be created in which research, creativity and student self-development can be fostered.
2. Academic Freedom The right to determine how, to whom, and by whom knowledge is taught is paramount. The university is opposed to dogmatic thought and ideas, under the principle of the scientific approach. The right to honest inquiry and legal protest is acknowledged and guaranteed by law.
3. Interdisciplinary Approach Interdisciplinary education and research are encouraged. The university enables academic staff to work on educational and research projects with educational centres and institutes outside their own academic units.
4. Lifelong Education The university encourages lifelong education for its own staff, graduates, and people from all walks of life, and provides these people with new scientific knowledge. In order that the people of our country benefit more effectively and efficiently from DÜ’s experience and culture, the university develops and applies exemplary educational models.
5. The Training of Qualified People For the good Totally DÜ (Faculty of Education) staff – 240, including 210 - academic staff of society, the university aims to develop students with humane and moral values, the skills for leadership, open-mindedness, and the habit of continuously re-educating themselves. Graduates are oriented to employ the skills they have learned at DÜ in the workplace. Students are encouraged to become scientists, and thus be among the nation’s most important human resources.
6. Student Support The duty to provide the necessary support in order to prevent those students with material difficulties from being deprived of higher education is acknowledged.
7. Communication with Society The university aims to continue performing its functions in order to benefit every sector of society and benefit more effectively and efficiently from DÜ’s experience and culture, the university develops and applies exemplary educational models.
5. The Training of Qualified People For the good Totally DÜ (Faculty of Education) staff – 240, including 210 - academic staff of society, the university aims to develop students with humane and moral values, the skills for leadership, open-mindedness, and the habit of continuously re-educating themselves. Graduates are oriented to employ the skills they have learned at DÜ in the workplace. Students are encouraged to become scientists, and thus be among the nation’s most important human resources.
6. Student Support The duty to provide the necessary support in order to prevent those students with material difficulties from being deprived of higher education is acknowledged.
7. Communication with Society The university aims to continue performing its functions in order to benefit every sector of society and remain in contact with its environment. The university is concerned with the finding and promoting of solutions to the problems of our nation, region and the international community. It plays a prominent role in providing communication in scientific, cultural and social fields.
8. Involved Administration The university encourages its academic staff, departments and administrative units to prepare, assess and continuously evaluate plans and concrete strategies in order to keep up with rapid change and globalization. To this end, an administrative policy which is based on knowledge, the delegation of duties and responsibilities, democratic principles, involvement, dynamism, flexibility and transparency is pursued. Respect for the individual and tolerance are our foremost concerns.
About Dicle University; The foundation of today's Dicle University dates back to the Diyarbakır Faculty of Medicine, which was first built as a subsidiary of Ankara University in 1966. Built on a twenty-seven-thousand-acre area in the eastern side of the historical city of Diyarbakır, Dicle University takes its name from the river which splits the university from the city. Apart from its main campus in Diyarbakır, the university has vocational schools in counties like Ergani, Çermik, Çüngüş, Bismil, and Silvan. The University encompasses 17,600 students, and about 3,500 staff from both academic and administrative type. In addition to mainstream activities, the University also serves as a regional health center with its 1,200-bed Research Hospital. By virtue of the sophisticated healthcare provided by the Hospital, people of the region only resort to hospitals in metropolitans like Ankara and İstanbul for severe health problems. Dicle University is one of the most prominent governmental institution, which provides training for almost all kinds of essential vocations that are most needed in the region, which conducts nationwide and international researches, and which produces projects for the regional economy. In an attempt to promote the living standards in the region by obtaining the maximum efficiency from the GAP (South Anatolian Project), the university emphasises the projects that would contribute to the regional economy initially through agriculture and livestock breeding. Further, students' cultural and artistic activities and their achievements in sports both serve as a facilitating act for urban life and as an incentive to lead the youth towards a "modern society" by way of luring them to the university life.