Overview of the academic counseling committee

 

Mission

To provide documented academic advising services for students in accordance with the latest developments in this field.

Objectives

-          To devise an effective plan for the academic advising at the level of the deanship.

-          To provide guidance and advising for students to make them adapt to the university regulations

-          To consolidate the process of academic advising and to stimulate the demand for it in addition to increasing the awareness of its importance in the preparatory year.

-          To identify the causes of frequent absences and to help students comply with the deanship regulations.

-          To identify the causes of poor academic performance and to develop appropriate solutions to resolve them.

-          To support the advisers and encourage them to do their duty

-          To develop a system peculiar to the deanship through the preparation of forms in order to facilitate the process of academic advising.

 

Achievements

Despite the novelty of the committee of academic advising in the deanship of the preparatory year, the achievements have been great:

-          The committee has been comprised of separate teams with a leader assigned to each one.

-          The committee meetings are held regularly to come up with recommendations to be disseminated by the chairman.

-          A file has been allocated to each member to archive his paperwork for the current semester.

-          All teams are being closely monitored by the leaders.

-          A detailed plan has been devised by the committee in addition to determining peculiar mission and vision

-          A new attitude has been created among the teachers on the basis of the idea that ‘every teacher is an academic adviser as long as he deals with classrooms’

-          New documents and procedural forms have been developed by the committee

-          All final work has been documented in both electronic and printed versions.

-          A table presenting statistical totals for the academic advising process in the first semester 1435 has been done and shown below:

 

Total number of students received 1st  warning letter

Total number of students received  2nd  warning letter

Total number of students deserved to be  prevented from appearing in final exams

Total number of students  undergone academic advising session due to their poor performance

267

86

81

51

 

-          All academic advising forms have been translated into English and activated

 

Vision

 

Distinguished academic advising offered to students to help them progress and successes in the future