First: the student services system
*Unit for people with disabilities
-Vision
Leadership in providing all student services and activities for people with
disabilities.
-the message
Working to support students with disabilities in all student services and
activities in order to achieve their independence and academic
progress.
-Objectives
Creating a suitable university environment for students with
disabilities.
Facilitating all services directed to students with disabilities.
Follow up on services provided to people with disabilities.
Evaluate all services provided to
people with disabilities.
Developing services provided to people with disabilities.
Educating the university community on how to properly deal with a student
with a disability.
Preparing guidance and training programs for students with
disabilities.
Prepare all available human, material and scientific capabilities to meet
their demands.
-Unit tasks
Coordination with university departments, deanships and colleges to serve
students with disabilities
Receiving new students at the beginning of each semester, making them aware
of the university’s systems and instructions, and assisting and guiding
them
Providing technological means for people with disabilities
**Guidance and Skills Development Unit
-Vision
That the Guidance and Counseling Unit be one of the leading units in
providing guidance services to build an academically superior university
generation, capable of self-actualization, psychologically healthy, and
compatible with its environment.
-the message
Providing advice, assistance, and a group of specialized developmental,
preventive, and therapeutic programs related to academic, social,
psychological, and educational matters for all students.
-Objectives
Helping female students achieve psychological, social, and professional
compatibility within the framework of community values and standards.
Helping female students develop their abilities, inclinations, and skills
and invest them in serving themselves and their community.
Helping female students overcome the problems and difficulties they may
face.
Providing opportunities for female students to develop skills in dealing
with stress and life events, thinking and decision-making skills, how to
solve problems, and others.
Working to discover and develop talent.
-Unit tasks
Religious guidance and counselling
Psychological and social guidance and counselling
Educational guidance and counseling
Individual guidance and guidance
Group guidance and counselling
Providing financial support
***Nutrition and Student Housing Administration
-Vision
Leadership in creating an integrated service environment that supports the
student in his academic achievement
-the message
Striving towards excellence in nutrition services, student housing, and
providing the comfortable family atmosphere necessary for university
students
-Objectives
Providing distinguished and diverse food services that meet the needs of
students
Achieving the minimum nutritional needs for low-income students
Spreading nutritional awareness through education programs provided by the
Nutrition Clinic
Providing suitable housing to achieve a comfortable stay for students and
support psychological stability
Harnessing all available capabilities to create a suitable atmosphere for
study and scientific research
Providing social, psychological and health care for resident students
Developing and enhancing skills by providing extracurricular activities
(entertainment, cultural and sports)
Strengthening the spirit of belonging to the homeland and the university by
participating in achieving the university’s identity (a university and a
nation of growth and sustainability)
-Unit tasks
Establishing the necessary requirements and specifications for the catering
guideline for providing food services and fully supervising the application
of health and technical requirements in preparing meals.
Determine the needs for nutrition services required at the university and
implement the university’s hospitality and programs.
Supervising contracting processes with companies specialized in providing
food services.
Working to spread nutritional awareness through educational and awareness
programs and providing field training opportunities for students specializing
in the field of nutrition.
Providing suitable housing for university students and scholarship
students.
****Alumni Office
-Vision
A distinguished graduate who meets the requirements of the local and
regional labor market
-the message
Opening communication channels between the university and its graduates by
following them up and providing services aimed at raising their efficiency,
developing their skills, directing them to the labor market, and coordinating
with their employers for purposeful and constructive cooperation to serve the
university, graduates, and society.
-Objectives
Keeping graduates in constant contact with the university and its colleges
to strengthen their loyalty and belonging to the university.
Continuously providing graduates with new information in their fields of
specialization to develop their academic and professional level and
skills.
Activating continuing education programs by colleges to establish training
programs and courses for graduates.
Motivating graduates and students expected to graduate to participate in
the programs offered by colleges and the alumni office.
Motivating graduates to participate in university activities by having some
of them participate in various activity committees, whether at the college or
university level.
Inviting graduates to university events and various activities
programs.
Providing the opportunity for graduates to optionally contribute to
financial and in-kind support for the development of their university, college,
or departments from which they graduated.
Holding an annual alumni day to which all graduates from one batch and from
all colleges are invited to attend, for the purpose of linking the graduate
with his fellow graduate.
Issuing a semi-annual or annual magazine or bulletin under the name:
(Graduates Magazine or Bulletin) containing news of interest to
graduates.
Study the extent to which graduates can be helped career-wise.
Identifying the job performance and professional problems of graduates and
benefiting from them in the proper planning of study programs at the
university.
-Unit tasks
The university's alumni office was divided into three main
departments:
First: Alumni Relations Department
1. Public Relations Group
Inviting graduates to participate in
various university activities.
Participation in graduation
celebrations and exhibitions for graduates.
Organizing visits, evenings, and
trips for graduates of colleges and (or) the university upon the approval of
the authorized person
Organizing a periodic meeting for
college and (or) university graduates.
Organizing the annual graduate day
in the second semester (including an open day for employment).
2.A group of publications and
publications
Coordinating with the Graduates
Department of the Deanship of Admissions and Registration in preparing the university’s
graduates guide.
Preparing a guide to employment
agencies that coordinate the recruitment of university graduates.
Preparing publications about the job
opportunities available to university graduates and publishing them in
university publications.
Preparing (various) statistics about
university graduates. Allocating bulletin boards to the Graduate Office, which
are distributed throughout the university buildings, to monitor job
advertisements for various specializations
Second: Job Rehabilitation
Department:
1. Group of qualifying courses
Coordination to organize seminars,
workshops and training courses presented by university graduates.
Coordinating the establishment of
training courses in the skill of writing a CV for students expected to
graduate.
Coordinating the establishment of
training courses in personal interview skills for students expected to
graduate.
Coordinating the establishment of
training courses in the art of searching for suitable job
opportunities.
2. Career guidance group
Guiding and directing graduates and
students expected to graduate in the process of searching for job
opportunities and employing them as much as possible.
Working to provide entities wishing
to employ university graduates with data on graduates and those expected to
graduate.
Working to identify job
opportunities for university graduates and updating them periodically.
Working to develop a mechanism to
follow up on the employment of university graduates with agencies requesting
graduate data.
The office follows up on the conditions
of graduate students and collects information about the jobs they obtained
from both the public and private sectors and from inside and outside the
Kingdom.
Third: Development and Follow-up
Department:
1. Computer group
Documenting data on university
graduates in a special archive (paper and electronic).
Updating the lists of graduate
students and updating their information periodically.
Creating a network of communications
among graduates.
Continuous updating of the office’s
website and the university’s website.
Coordinating with the University’s
Information Center to develop the work mechanisms of the Alumni Office by
exploiting available information technologies.
Coordination to create a special
information system for the office and establish a database for university
graduates.
2. Community service group
Assisting graduates in finding areas
to pursue their graduate studies through guidance and counseling.
Circulating announcements related to
the completion of postgraduate studies in various universities and providing
the necessary clarifications and information.
Benefit from graduates and their
experiences by participating in expressing their opinions on study programs
and plans.
Coordinating with university
colleges regarding their councils benefiting from the views of their
graduates to study a specific issue.
Creating a kind of financial and
moral support for the university’s programs and activities through graduates
and the institutions to which they belong.
*****Grant Student Care Unit
-Vision
Leadership in sponsoring scholarship
students to achieve cognitive and skill excellence in various
specializations.
-the message
Providing a stimulating environment for learning among scholarship students
and creating appropriate conditions for them in accordance with the future
vision.
-Objectives
The objectives of the Scholarship Student Care Unit at King Faisal
University emerge from Cabinet Resolution No. (94) dated 3/29/1431 and the
Resolution of His Excellency the Director of King Faisal University No. 2/38/124
dated 4/24/1439 AH, as follows:
Establishing scientific and cultural ties with Islamic scientific
institutions in the Islamic world.
Strengthening solidarity and
understanding between the university and other educational institutions
around the world.
Linking scholarship students with
faculty members at King Faisal University so that each group of them is
supervised by a faculty member to direct and guide them.
Creating a charitable fund at King
Faisal University to support scholarship programs based on subsidies,
donations, gifts, wills and endowments.
Providing all types of special care
and care for male and female internal and external scholarship students for
the duration of their stay at the university in accordance with what the
system requires.
Preparing programs for them to learn
about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, meet its scholars and officials, and
benefit from their knowledge and experience.
Strengthening ties between them and
Saudi students through joint activities and programs
Working on all the problems and
obstacles that scholarship students, male and female, encounter during the
course of their studies.
Academic, cognitive and
administrative guidance for scholarship students.
******Student Fund Management
The Student Fund seeks to provide academic, psychological, social and
financial stability for male and female students enrolled in studies at the
university through financial support for the programs of the Departments of
Student Activities and Guidance and Guidance at the Deanship of Student
Affairs and the provision of services to male and female students,
represented by advances, subsidies, financial loans and the student
employment programme. The Fund also supervises service centres. For students,
all of this is done in accordance with the tasks and programs assigned to the
Deanship of Student Affairs.
Student Fund Services:
The Fund aims to provide services to regular students, in particular:
Student subsidies
Student advances
Disbursement from the Fund in the
case of advances and subsidies shall be in accordance with the following
controls:
Submit a request for an advance or
aid on the form prepared for this purpose.
Study the student’s case and
coordinate with the relevant authorities, including the college and
department.
The applications are presented to
the Fund’s Board of Directors to decide on them and determine the amount of
the subsidy or the loan amount and its repayment period.
The loan amount (advances) will be
repaid on the scheduled date by deducting it from the student’s monthly
stipend, provided that the monthly deduction does not exceed 25% of the value
of the monthly stipend, unless the Board of Directors decides otherwise.
The student who is borrowing from
the university should not release it until it is confirmed that he has repaid
the entire loan. With the approval of the Board of Directors and based on the
recommendation of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, students may be
exempted from repaying the remainder of the loan in necessary cases.
Student employment:
It is one of the educational and social care programs provided by the
Deanship of Student Affairs through the Student Fund Administration. This
program focuses on refining the talents of university students and
accustoming them to working, bearing responsibility and giving by employing
them in one of the university’s departments, colleges or deanships in their
free time.
Supporting student activities and offering prizes to those who excel in
them:
The Fund is keen to support student activities in all their forms, such as
religious, social, artistic, cultural and sporting activities. The Fund also
contributes to securing in-kind prizes for outstanding and prominent students
in student activities.
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