Selma Tosun successfully defended her thesis titled “Predicting The Factors Affecting School Dropout in Open and Distance Education Students by Using Data Mining” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dilara Bakan Kalaycıoğlu, in the thesis committee consisted of Prof. Dr. İsmail Karakaya, Prof. Dr. Melek Gülşah Şahin, Assoc. Prof. Önder Sünbül and Assoc. Prof. Kübra Atalay Kabasakal, and received the title of Doctor. We congratulate our friend and wish her continued success.