Within the scope of an event organized under the leadership of the Business Society, important insights were shared regarding ethical issues encountered in academic promotion processes and ways to prevent such problems.
Invited as the guest speaker, Prof. Dr. Fahri Apaydın delivered a presentation titled “Red Lines in Associate Professorship Applications: Ethical Violations and Ways to Prevent Them,” in which he comprehensively addressed the types of academic ethical violations, their consequences, and preventive practices.
Prof. Dr. Apaydın, who is the Founder and Vice President of the Association for Ethics in Academia, also shared his extensive professional experience gained through his academic roles at Yalova University. He particularly emphasized the critical issues that should be carefully considered during associate professorship application processes.
The event was moderated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Türkmenoğlu, Head of the Department of Business Administration. During the presentation, the following key ethical practices were highlighted:
Producing journal articles from theses published as books
Producing journal articles from conference papers
Ethical principles in thesis supervision
Producing articles from student assignments
Producing articles from theses
Advisors producing scholarly work based on theses
Students’ reluctance to publish articles derived from their theses
Publication processes and scoring of articles derived from undergraduate and graduate studies
Advisors’ refusal to publish articles produced from theses
Aiming to raise ethical awareness within the academic community, the event attracted significant interest from participants, supported by the covered topics and an interactive question-and-answer session.
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