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Academic support and guidance are a pillar of university education in the Kingdom, as it aims to guide students to get the best results and adapt to the university environment and seize the opportunities available to them, by providing them with academic skills that raise their level of education.
Given the importance of academic guidance in university colleges, a unit or committee should be formed to specialize in academic support and guidance.
General Concepts:
The Academic Support and Guidance Unit is a unit established by the decision of the Dean of the College and is concerned with planning, coordination and supervision of the implementation of the academic supervision process of the college, and the committee is responsible to the dean of the college or the college's undersecretary for educational affairs.
The responsibility for academic guidance rests with all faculty members, not just the Academic Support and Guidance Unit, so all faculty members will participate in academic supervision activities for students.
The academic guide is a member of the faculty who is in their judgment and is assigned by the Academic Support and Guidance Unit to perform the task of academic guidance for a group of college students.
The unit works in coordination and cooperation with the Department of Guidance and Guidance in the Deanship of Student Affairs.
The Mission of the Academic Support and Guidance Unit:
The Academic Support and Guidance Unit is concerned with providing support and guidance to the students of the college in an effort to benefit from their own abilities, work to develop their skills, encourage them to excel and academic creativity, to graduate in the specified time period after acquiring scientific expertise and practical skills that provide them with a successful opportunity to work as well as study their psychological, health, material and functional problems and contribute to solving them.
Objectives of the Academic Support and Guidance Unit:
Preparing students to get to know and adapt to university life.
Providing students with correct information, education policies, resources and study programs.
Promoting students' academic achievement, raising their abilities and overcoming obstacles during their education.
Reducing the chances of academic failure (preventive guidance).
Providing advice and assistance to academic problem-makers who are college students.
Caring for students with low and faltering academic achievements and taking care of them and following them up to their level of education.
Caring for and assisting students socially, physically, healthily, psychologically and functionally if necessary.
Caring for outstanding and talented students and providing what will enhance their abilities and support their creativity.
Academic Support and Guidance Unit tasks:
Develop a plan for academic supervision at the college.
Supervising the implementation of the academic supervision plan.
Spread awareness among students about what the unit is and its importance and how to benefit from its services through meetings, bulletins and the college's website.
Introducing students to the college's objectives and mission, educational programs, scientific departments, areas of work of its graduates, and the care and services it provides to its students, as well as informing them and guiding them to choose the appropriate disciplines that suit their abilities and capabilities.
Distribution of new students to academic supervisors and publication of lists on billboards and the college's website at the beginning of each year.
Periodically (mid-semester) report including the work of the unit as well as a report on student levels to the college administration.
Study and report cases referred to them by the college administration and submit them to the jurisdictions.
Consider the academic problems of students raised by mentors and seek to solve them with the management of the college.
Consider student complaints of an academic nature and devise solutions that suit them or raise them to manage the college if necessary.
Consider students' complaints about any course and find solutions and bring this to the college administration.
Raise awareness of the importance of academic guidance and the importance of communicating with the academic guide by publishing brochures and publications and using the college's website for this purpose.
Supervising mentoring programs for new students to introduce the college's study and testing system.
The Committee meets periodically every 4 weeks or according to the new reports to discuss periodic reports or exceptional reports from academic guides.
Contribute to solving students' psychological, financial, social and functional problems and, if necessary, submit to the Deanship of Student Affairs to take what is necessary.
Academic Advisor's tasks:
Familiarity with registration, deletion and addition dates announced by the Deanship of Admissions and Registration.
Know the college's study plan and graduation requirements for students.
Prepare and update the file of the academic guidance record for each student where the guide opens a special file for each student or student in the group includes the materials registered and the level of the student's grades, including the cumulative rate as well as the minutes of periodic meetings between the guide and the student or the student in addition to any reports or warnings directed by the course of the subject through which the level of the student can be assessed.
Organize regular interviews (at least once at the beginning of each semester) with each student or student they supervise with the aim of:
To learn about the performance of students in the past semester.
Urge the student or student to encourage him to work hard and praise him if he is distinguished in some courses.
Discuss difficulties if any and look for appropriate solutions.
Discuss the appropriate options for the student in the next semester (registering or deleting courses, raising the rate, choosing a specialty etc..).
Provide assistance to the student in case of difficulty in registering or opposing certain subjects.
Careful follow-up of the student's achievement in the materials registered in them, writing periodic reports and attaching them to the student's file.
Address faculty if the student's level is low.
In the event that the student does not attend or his level of achievement is impaired, the guide intensifies the periodic meetings and discusses the student or the student accurately about the reasons and tries to solve them or raise them to the Academic Guidance Committee.
Discovering and developing students' talents.
Help students make the most of the college's e-learning site.
Urge students to participate in academic and extracurricular activities.
It is preferable not to change the guide for the student from the time he or she enrolls until graduation
The dean of the college or his deputy does not sign a certificate of good conduct until after a letter received from the academic guide that this student has finished or completed all the requirements.
An academic friendship must be built between the mentor and the student or the student to dissolve the differences between them.
It is preferable to be the role of the mentor as a social and career advisor to the student to know his or her social circumstances or circumstances, to help her stability or the future of the student or the job student and to contribute to opening up the prospects for employment opportunities for him or her, training or continuing higher education.
Devote office hours to meeting students in his office to discuss the problems they face during school.
Introduce students to the college's objectives and mission, educational programs, scientific departments, areas of work of its graduates, and the care and services it provides to its students, as well as inform them and guide them to choose the appropriate specialties that suit their abilities and capabilities.
Submit a periodic report on the performance of students in the Academic Support and Guidance Unit (towards the end of the semester). The report includes the academic performance of the student (better or worse than before) and the procedures that have been done to address the worst performance.
Report problems that need unit intervention or college management.
Encourage students to take advantage of the library and manage time effectively.
Encourage students to study as groups and benefit from their peers.
Responsibility and role of the student:
Takes full responsibility for his academic performance as academic guidance is a mechanism of assistance.
Carrying out a guide to the college and a website to find out what the college and the university need.
Familiarity with the details of the academic calendar and critical dates that specialize in registration, withdrawal, apology, etc.
Knowing his academic guide and the dates of his office hours.
Interview the guide to consult on the study and professional objectives, the program and the curriculum, and inquire about all aspects in which he sees ambiguity.
Implementing the recommendations of the guide and continuing to meet the guide according to the agreed dates.
Notify the guide of any variables that may affect his program or academic performance.
The Directorate of Orientation and Guidance aims to realize the stability and familiarization of the students with the university environment, and follow up their scientific, social and psychological issues, to barricade them, and help them to overcome the problems facing them and affect their scientific attainment and hamper their scientific excellence.
Also, the directorate aims to recognizing the excellent and talented students through their scientific attainment and high marks records in the electronic system. Also, it identifies the creative students through their innovations during practicing the non-curricula activities.
Therefore, the Directorate established the Unit of Talents and Innovations which acts to offer suitable and supporting environment for the talented students, and presents programs which care of each category through encouraging and supporting them. In this regard, the Center of Innovation and Intellectual Property helps this Unit which cares for encouraging the students’ innovations and creations, and looks after the talented students.
The Center aims to:
Supporting the graduates’ projects which start by innovative ideas.
Spreading and enriching the culture of innovation and thoughts ownership and economic knowledge.
Encouraging invention and incubating the innovative ideas and participating in converting them to economic products.
Ideas protection and registration of patents in the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property.
Participating in strengthening the relation of the inventors and investors.
Supporting the students’ graduation projects which begin with innovative ideas.
Establishing strategic partnerships with bodies which concern about the innovation and rights of intellectual property and similar international centers.
The Department of Guidance and Counseling provides general services to students like issuing IDs and commuter orders for public transport and aviation, as well as working on the employment of male and female students in the faculties and units of the university.
If you need a private (academic, psychological, social etc.) consultation, you can book an appointment here.
The Deanship of Community Service, in collaboration with the Faculty of Science and Literature in The Eyes of The Atmosphere, is conducting a program (psychological and social consultations) according to the attached schedule.
For the second year in a row, the organizing committee for the university's "Awareness, Health and Education" campaign has dedicated a family counselling hotline implemented by the Asad Family Counselling Center (Boys and Girls), where the number (920012020) has been allocated to receive men's contacts, while women's consultations are received on the number (0163822999), and the campaign also provides a legitimate counselling service, where it receives contacts and is answered by Sheikh Dr. Fahad Ali Al Salami on the number (0560602041) for 7 days throughout the campaign.
Dr. AbdulRahman Al Nassian, Dean of Community Service at the University and Executive Director of the Campaign, explained that this service was provided to serve the community, and to answer all legitimate inquiries, as well as provide family advice to men and women, where the university provides an appropriate environment by providing a special and confidential atmosphere between the caller and the future, and offering appropriate treatment through specialists, as well as aiming to reach the beneficiaries in their places, who have not been able to come to the campaign and want treatment for their problems in particular.
Al-Nassian stressed that the university seeks to benefit the province of Aqla al-Saqour and its neighboring villages and instill Islamic values and intellectual awareness across all fields, where the campaign was keen to raise family, social and legal awareness through specialized courses and legitimate programs targeting mosques, schools and some specialized sites.
The efforts of the Secretariat of Research Chairs at the University in coordination with the Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Saleh Al-Saawi Chair for the Development of Positivity and a number of researchers specialized in the educational and psychological field and interested in the development of positivity inside and outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, resulted in the signing of 16 research grants in the fields of development of individual, university, institutional and community positivity, on February 22, 2018, with the support of His Excellency the Rector of the University, Prof. Dr. Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Daoud, and the presence of the Vice President for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, His Excellency Prof. Dr. Ahmed bin Ibrahim. Turkish.
Brief definition:
His Excellency the Vice President for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, Dr. Al-Turki, listened to a brief introduction to these research projects by the researchers, in addition to listening to a talk about the future projects of the Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Saleh Al-Saawi Chair for the Development of Positivity by the supervisor of the chair, His Excellency Dr. Abdullah bin Fahad Al-Mazairi, and the professor of the chair, Dr. Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al-Ahmed.
The Vice President for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research stressed the need to complete these research projects and highlight their results in their specified times and publish them for the benefit of various institutions of society.
Objectives of the grants:
These research grants launched by the Scientific Committee of the Chair aim to raise the quality of the scientific research outputs at the university, and to harness its research potential to focus on the different areas of research chairs, as well as to solve the research problems associated with them, and to benefit from the research energies inside and outside the university.
Enhancing the role of chairs:
For his part, the Secretary of Research Chairs at the University, His Excellency Dr. Abdulrahman bin Saleh Al-Muhaimid, expressed his happiness with the signing of these new research grants, indicating that they will enhance the role of research chairs in the service of scientific research and community partnership.
"These scholarships are the first research grants at Qassim University and will be followed by other research grants in the existing university chairs in the fields of Islamic studies, the Prophet's biography, the service of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and palm and date research," he said.
The signing of the contracts was witnessed by the representative of the chair financier, His Excellency Mr. Yousef bin Saleh Al-Saawi.
The Deanship of Community Service, in collaboration with the University's Intellectual Awareness Unit, holds a course entitled "Fortifying Thought".
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Community Service Deanship is pleased to invite you to attend a training course entitled "Self-Management" on Tuesday 2/26.
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Represented by the Dean of Community Service in collaboration with Nayef Arab University of Security Sciences, holds a training course entitled "Criminal behavior between adolescence and rationality".
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The Deanship of Community Service in collaboration with the Faculty of Education holds a training course entitled "University Life; Self-Formation and Building for the Future"
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The University, represented by the Intellectual Awareness Unit, concluded the "Intellectual Immunization" programme. Diagnosis and treatment," which lasted for two semesters in two phases, where during the first phase 20 awareness meetings were provided, benefiting 1,100 students from secondary school students coming to university education and students of the first division of the university colleges, and presented by a selected group of faculty members and specialists in intellectual awareness issues.
In its first phase, the programme relied on a scientific methodology based on field surveys to identify common intellectual issues among a sample of secondary school students coming to university education, thereby diagnosing intellectual, value and conceptual imbalances in those issues in preparation for the preparation of specialized preventive programmes for those issues.
The second phase included a package of training programmes and awareness meetings prepared by specialists to address intellectual issues in an integrated manner, providing 12 diverse programmes, benefiting approximately 650 high school students and first-level students from the Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies.
The second phase dealt with several vital topics, including the origins and threats of stability, intellectual immunity of purpose and purpose, the grand legal mandate of entitlements and effects, and the promotion of intellectual security, in addition to the danger of rumors and ways to combat them, according to the founding religiosity of moderation, the need for intellectual security, the introductions of extremism, and intellectual immunity in the light of the Prophet's Year.
The university, represented by the Deanship of Student Affairs, and The female students - conducted an exhibition entitled “The Day of Happiness”, which was held at the headquarters of College of Sharia and Islamic Studies in Buraidah over two days, With the participation of 14 community colleges, the exhibition included A number of different corners and shows, with the aim of spreading the spirit of Competition among female students and instilling a feeling of happiness among them, as More than 2,500 visitors visited the exhibition in two days.The Vice Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Amal, explained that this event came within the activities of the Deanship For student activities, this exhibition included performances Visuals about happiness, paintings, handicrafts, and drawing Neighborhood, To give and bring happiness to souls under one roof, In order to bring happiness to the community, Noting that a number of corners have been prepared for gift giving For children, the exhibition also included a visit to the home for the elderly “Rehabilitation”.
Comprehensive care for the elderly” and gifts were given and pleasures were introduced on their hearts. Al-Rubaish added that the day of happiness also included a presentation on The five best posts in the visual film about happiness, and then Honoring the first places in the competition, and honoring the participating colleges With souvenir shields.the exhibition also accompanied a training course entitled "How are you happy?" Presented by Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Ahmad In the presence of 200 students.
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The university Deanship of Student Affairs – Section Female Students - Last Wednesday, participated in the panel discussion that was held At the headquarters of the Girls Colleges Complex in the city of Sakaka, deanships of affairs Student at Saudi universities, Under the heading “Vision Suggested “To contribute to student activities Community development and its role in thinking Entrepreneurship among students”, which hosted by Al-Jouf University, Sponsored by His Excellency the Director of Al-Jouf University Prof. Ismail Benn Mohammed Al-Barshi where it represented the university,Dr. Amal Al-Rubaish, Vice Dean Student affairs, which occur During the second session of the episode Discussion about the most important annual activities Organized by the Deanship of Student Affairs For female students, it targets all colleges university, and an example of that is the day of The university student, the heritage of the peoples, As well as the forum “My Thought is Exalted” “My Homeland”, as presented by “Al-Rubaish” In conjunction with her talk show Visible about the effective role of the university In student activities and participation societal.
She lost her sight.. but she did not lose her insight, passion for life, excellence, love of science, yearning to learn and to go through life, defying all the difficulties she faced, to overcome her visual handicap at first, and then take a step by step towards achieving her ambitions that are no less than those of healthy female students. Rather, it surpasses it with determination, and conquering difficulties.
She is the blind student Jihan Muhammad Al-Majidel, one of the graduates of the eighteenth batch of the university, who graduated with distinction from the specialty of Islamic law at the university, relying on her abilities and self-confidence, and her skill in using modern technology and adapting it to suit her needs and health condition, and what qualified her for excellence and success in all her academic stages.
The university, represented by the Deanship of Student Affairs, organized several scientific meetings within the virtual program that was held on the occasion of the International Day for Persons with Disabilities entitled “Hamm”, in cooperation with the Special Education Department of the College of Education, on Thursday, 04/18/1442 AH. Several virtual meetings dealt with many aspects of the academic life of students of determination, and reviewed some of their university experiences and their academic excellence in successfully passing the university stage.
The first meeting was held under the title “People with Disabilities in the University Environment”, and it was presented by Dr. Muhammad Al-Ajlan, Chairman of the Permanent Committee for the Care of Persons with Disabilities at the University, Dean of the Deanship of Student Affairs, and Dr. Muhammad Al-Obaid, member of the Committee, and Head of the Special Education Department.
The meeting discussed a number of topics, including: University environment, educational support services, and support services.While the second meeting, which was held under the title "Student Illuminations" with a group of university students with disabilities, dealt with a number of themes, namely: the experiences of students with disabilities at the university (deaf, people with motor disabilities, and the blind).
Yesterday, Wednesday, 24/11/1441 AH, the university, represented by the Deanship of Community Service, concluded the activities of the third week of the virtual summer programs of the Deanship of Community Service, where the total number of training and educational hours for this week reached 24 training hours, benefiting 974 beneficiaries from all segments of society.
This week, the "Family Relationships Management" program was held in the virtual enrichment hall; For three separate training days, the program dealt with "Managing Marital Problems", presented by Prof. Dr. Ahmed bin Abdullah Al-Ajlan, a faculty member at the College of Arabic Language and Social Studies, in which he presented how to manage marital relations and resolve disputes in the easiest way.
Prof. Youssef bin Ahmed also presented Al-Rumaih, faculty member at the College of Arabic Language and Social Studies, a course entitled "Skills for Dealing with Adolescents", explaining the mechanisms of understanding and approach with adolescents.
At the same time, the Deanship offered a number of various short courses and programs throughout the year, as the “Family First Training Nights” program was presented to 309 beneficiaries, including four courses in the art of family management and education without violence, which give practical ideas towards distinct education and quadruple protection and how to Protecting children from harassment, and another titled My Family and Technology, which offers practical ideas for employing technology in the family.
Training programs and courses continued in the second semester, as the Deanship launched its training programs with the “Leadership Excellence in Community Service” program, benefiting 74 male and female trainees. With teenagers, in addition to offering a course in the secrets of resolving family disputes, where the number of beneficiaries reached 545, between male and female.
The Faculty of Education in Housing, represented by the Department of Psychology in cooperation with the Student Club Enrichment Club, activated "Happy Day" on Sunday 7/10/1440 AH.
In the lobby of the college, the exhibition contained paintings, gifts, distributions and gift cards, where there were large numbers of students and the corner received a distinguished presence.
The Faculty of Education – Housing, represented by Ithra Club, in cooperation with the Department of Special Education, initiated the establishment of "Awareness workshops on disabilities, their causes and ways to deal with them", Such as (autism disorder - mental disability - visual impairment), on Monday 30/6/1441 AH.
