Student Affairs Administration
Introduction
The Administration of Student Affairs occupies a unique position among the college's students, in terms of responsibility for managing student services, organizing student activities in various cultural, artistic and athletic areas, as well as publishing the journal, which embodies the voice of the students and reveals their talents and creativity.
The Administration of Student Affairs follows a strategic vision for work as it has an important role in fulfilling the needs of students and organizing extracurricular activities, this vision promotes the idea of belonging to the homeland in all its dimensions and the active participation in shaping its present and future, in addition to the development of creativity and initiative among students.
The Administration of Student Affairs has been established in the Prince Sultan College for Tourism and Management in Jeddah since the foundation of the College, whereas the Administration of Student Affairs has a special specifications that distinguish it from other departments in the nature of the tasks and responsibilities carried by it, it occupies a unique and distinct position so as being the closest to the students and the local community.
The Administration of Student Affairs takes care of all that concerns the student personality, i.e. physically, mentally, socially and psychologically through its various services and programs. Thus, it develops and refines the students' personality, prepares students to become future active leaders, equipped with the ability to take up responsibility with full confidence and aptitude, all leading to fulfilling the principles of good citizenships.
Vision:
The Student affairs Administration seeks to provide educational, scientific and academic environment so as to achieve comprehensive and integrated growth for the student in all of scientific, psychological, behavioral and skill aspects to be distinguished from other universities' graduates and to be a role model for others.
Mission:
Development and refinement of student skills which leads to excellent scientific qualified outputs to meet the needs of local labor market and achieve high level of quality in job performance to enable them to compete on the Arab and international levels .
The Goals of Student Affairs Administration:
- Rehabilitation of generation to serve his religion and country with honesty and sincerity through raising national awareness among students and refining their characters, socially , psychologically and educationally ;in addition , developing their personal skills and enhancing their loyalty through participation in various student bodies and clubs.
- Discovering the student's skills and activating the participation of students in decision-making through cultural, social and athletic activities.
- Giving a new dimension to the relationship between the student and the College members and enhancing this relationship.
- Facilitating the student's university life and providing the necessary care and services that enable him to achieve this goal.
- Preparing students for the labor market by providing them with the necessary skills to do so, and providing opportunities for support, training and rehabilitation, as well as helping them to identify suitable jobs for their majors.
- Supporting positive values and habits in building and developing young university students, as well as developing a culture of democracy, human rights, justice, equality and respect of the other.
- Spreading the spirit of group work and strengthening the national unity.
- Developing voluntary tendencies, social cooperation and the spirit of public service among students.
- Comprehending the students' personality and help them to overcome the obstacles they may face in their educational attainment.
- Taking care of students and developing their abilities to be active members in their community.
Sections of Student Affairs Administration:
- Students’ Services & Activities:
The Administration of Student affairs seeks to provide a university environment that is in compliance with the philosophy of civilization adopted by the College, the Administration takes care of various students’ issues through the office of Students Issues with a view to help them facing their private and public problems and searching for appropriate means to overcome the obstacles that may disturb their university lives through:
First: Students' Services:
- Welcoming the new students
- receiving grant and recruitment applications and providing a practical study about it to the Student funds Committee
- receiving the missing things and hand them over to their owners
- Following up the level of services provided to students and providing possible suggestions to improve them.
Second: Students’ Issues:
- receiving all various students’ complaints
- Following up and resolving students’ issues with various concerned parties within and outside the college
- Organizing behavior and guidance awareness campaigns among students with regard to the requirements of civilized behavior and disciplinary sanctions.
- Sport activities:
With respect to sport activities, the Student Affairs Administration seeks to achieve the following objectives:
- disseminating sport activities to include the largest possible number of students from the college.
- Achieving tendencies and desires of the students in practicing sport and scout activities.
- Assisting in building college generation of athletes who possess moral characters and straight behaviors.
- Creating bridges of good relations with local community in particular and with the Saudi society in general.
- Strengthening ties with various Saudi universities, educational institutions, sport and social bodies.
- Organizing, setting up and supervising local sport championships and courses as well as scout camps.
- Raising the level of technical skills of Sport Faculty teams in various games.
- Highlighting the role of the College in the local community through participating in sport activities and championships as well as scout activities at the university level and others.
- Honoring the winners in various sport activities at Saudi Arabia level and abroad.
- Participating in the activities of Sport Federation for Saudi Universities.
- Participating in religious, national, and social ceremonies within and outside the college.
- Social & Educational Guidance Section:
Within the interests of the Student Affairs administration in the students' mental health , it helps students in taking correct decisions regarding specialization and learning the necessary skills for academic and social success.
Hence, the Administration of Student Affairs provides its services to all College students whether they face problems or not, its objectives can be summarized as follows:
- Helping new students to get along with their new university lives and overcome obstacles they may face.
- Educational Guidance Services: This includes assisting students in facing the academic difficulties they face and improving their study skills.
- Vocational & Educational Guidance, which aims to assist students in taking appropriate decisions about specializations and career opportunities.
- Assistance services for psychological, social and family adjustment through mastering skills such as independence of thinking and communication methods.
- Developing guidance programs and brochures to be used in addressing the problems of students.
- Helping students with special needs to integrate into the university environment and overcome the difficulties they may face through making case studies for them.
The principles upon which the guidance services depend are as follows:
- Guidance is an educational process based on upgrading of trends, habits and skills that lead to mental health and psychological adjustment; it begins to reveal the factors that cause the adaptive problems and try to remove them.
- The objective of guidance process is not only solving the current problem, but also to helping the guided how to learn the method of solving problems.
- Guidance is optional process that respects the freedom of the guided in decision-making.
- The Guide shall examine the problem of the guided from all its sides and exert all possible effort.
- The Guide shall keep the secrets of the guided in all stages of guidance process.
- Employment & Graduates' Follow-Up Section:
Arising from the interest of the Administration of Prince Sultan College to provide the best and most prestigious student services , we also work on following-up the graduates in order to achieve the following objectives:
- Assisting in providing employment opportunities for students after graduation that are in compliance with their specializations ,interests and capabilities.
- Building information system for the Human Resources that includes graduates and labor market needs.
- monitoring the career situation of college graduates and preparing studies on their working lives in terms of harmonization of the nature of works with the specializations available in the College
- promoting a culture of productive work and encouraging students to reject the culture of shame through:
- encouraging students for employment and part-time work during the college study
- providing the students with necessary job skills
- setting training standards for the purposes of job
- providing technical advice for the job
- Partnership and integration with civil society institutions concerning human resources studies and developing them as well as recruiting and following-up the college graduates.
- assisting students through providing training opportunities after graduation permanently or temporarily during the undergraduate study level
- helping students through supporting them with necessary information to complete postgraduate studies
- Student Affairs Facilities:
- College Theater
- Cafeteria for Students
- Sport Activities Center
- Student clinic which provides immediate health care in case of harm, Allah forbid, in addition to providing advice and health education for students in the College
- The Student Council:
It is a Council of student elected by all College students, its seats are distributed according to the proportion of representation that is in conformity with the number of students in different specializations, it is responsible for following up student’s issues and carrying out different activities to achieve the goals and philosophy of the college. The college pays all attention and care for the council and it has an independent budget with a view to enable it to carry out the duties and tasks vested to it.
The Council’s Members are elected periodically through an election that is supervised by the College Administration and the administration of Student Affairs to ensure the security and count votes fairly.
Student Council Memebr (2011-2012):
- Mohammed Fahed Ghanim Al-Harabi (Chairman of Student Council)
- Mohammed Nedhal Ahmad Hamoudi
- Husam Fahed Al-shareef
- Mohammed Abdulrahman Badreeq
- Mohammed Saber Al-Ghamidi
- Ahmed Ghazi Al-sleimani
- Rateb Bassam Mohammed Jaa’far
- Abdullah Ahmed Asa’d