The student affairs unit aspires to promote a new concept for all services provided directly to students. It aims to have a distinguished services system without a large bureaucratic structure. It also seeks to enhance a new concept of E-services provided by the college to students. It intends to promote the uses of E-services. This will give tstudents an easy access for all services which will enhance their sense of security self- confidence.
Mission:
The unit seeks to solve the students' academic, social and behavioral problems. It also provides students with serves which enhance their develop and progress in order to help them overcome the obstacles during their educational process. It puts such emphasis on student self- reliance which is promoted through the easy access for the E-services. Achieving such a goal is what the university aims to accomplish as it concerns to develop the students' sense of self and skills of computer and information technology.
Objectives:
Many goals were established to guide and advise student in the fields of university and university education as the student is the main concern for the students affairs departments. They are a part of the department general goals, as follows:
Help students to discover their characteristics, ability and areas of interest. Exams, interviews and notes are the methods used to explore these aspects and student has to have an objective view to accept the results.
Help students to choose their specialization in light of their ability and interest. This means planning with them their academic and vocational future.
Help students with psychological problems to achieve a positive psychological adjustment.
Seek to identify and promote gifted students and provide them with available possibilities to develop their talents.
Focus attention on underachieving students, tackle the causes and provide the preventive services and required treatment.
Provide students with information they need and it includes the following:
Information about the internal and external educational opportunities, the colleges' admission requirements and others.
Vocational information about the jobs, their responsibilities and how to accomplish them successfully .
The personal information about the student's skills, interest, relationships, abilities and his personality which is an essential to develop his future plans.
Provide the advisory, preventive and developmental services which achieve productivity and efficiency in the field of educational attainment, as follows:
Providing advisory programs about the best methods for studying.
Providing advisory programs about the best methods for utilizing leisure time.
Providing advisory programs that help students to overcome disappointment, problems and stress.
Providing advisory programs to show the importance of education as the essential element of development.
Providing developmental advisory programs aim to build strong and committed person.
Providing guidance programs aim to help scholarship students to adopt with their new life.
in light of the foregoing, universities and colleges share the same goals which are the basic of deanships and departments dealing with students affairs. Students Affairs Unit adopted parts of these goals, as follows:
Contribute to achieve Islamic education and emphasize its uniqueness.
Develop the students relationship in light of Islamic values and principles and exploit this relation to benefit them scientifically and practically.
Acclimate students to work within a team to develop the sense of interdependence and cooperation during the team activities.
Identify and promote gifted students; develop their talents technical capabilities by providing them with opportunities to participate in activities either inside the college or outside and celebrate them as encouragement.
Invest the students’ leisure time in practicing activities suitable for their interest which develop balanced and integrated personality; provide students with all possibilities to motivate their creativity and innovation.
Develop love for work and respect for professions in students.
Help students to integrate into society through acquaintance and constructive experience exchange meetings with students from other internal and external universities.
Develop students’ sense of responsibilities towards national possessions.
Equip students with the ethics of disagreement, norms of scientific dialogue, artistic taste, feeling of beauty and skills of constructive criticism.
The importance of Student Affairs Unit:
Student Affairs Unit is pivotal due to its provided services and its role to meet students’ needs for care and attention. Students at university are confronted with two challenges the transaction from school to university and the physical and mental changes which are associated with adolescence(from 18-22).
Rules and regulations are established in the light of students’ needs. It aims to guide students. University and college have a major duties towards students education and all areas of students’ growth. This role is driven from one of our religion principles which is the responsibility towards individual and community affairs. One of the factors behind adolescent and young adult delinquency is wasted leisure time. It is well-known that young adults are fond of playing, adventure, picnic and nature. Educators have a major role to exploit this phenomenon and guiding students to use their free times in reading, picnic and different sports. This illustrate the importance of taking care of students’ affairs in the universities and colleges. Actually, it contributes to community through providing activities and programs. This is also kind of understanding for problems and needs in students’ environment. In this way the connection between them is established which will help students to understand and overcome these needs and problems. Actually, many educators emphasize on the necessity of establishing connection between the life in university and all other aspects of life.
