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Vision:

Excellence in providing student services, activities and counseling programs.

Message:

Providing the best student services including psychological, educational and social counseling for Preparatory Year students. To adapt to the university environment, and to achieve academic goals.

Objectives:

• Introducing and guiding students in terms of university studies through preparing, organizing and implementing three basic programs during each academic year, namely: the orientation program for new students, the advisory program for preparatory year students, and the supervision program that help students to choose their major.
• Distributing students at the beginning of the academic year to academic supervisors from the faculty of the Deanship after verifying that these supervisors  are fully aware of the process of advising and guiding students academically, such as: introducing students to the rules and regulations of studying at the university at the beginning of the year, searching for academic defaulters and treating their conditions by guiding them on ways to overcome any study obstacles and problems, and follow-up after that and communicate with them.
• Organizing the training courses in the fields of activities that aim at providing students with the necessary knowledge and experience in these fields, in cooperation with specialized bodies from inside and outside the university.
• Preparing a periodical report on work, including the achievements and any difficulties or obstacles that face achieving the desired goals and proposals in order to overcome them and improving and developing the work. This report is submitted to the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs before the end of each semester.

General objective:

The main objective of this department is providing services to beneficiaries of preparatory year students and supportive studies, and following up the provision of services to them.

Mission:

• Executing the approved plans and programs.
• Setting up preparation programs for new students.
• Establishing basic life skills programs for students in coordination with the Student Skills Development Department at the Deanship of Student and Graduate Affairs.
• Registering students in cultural and sports activities in coordination with the Activities Department at the Deanship of Student and Graduate Affairs.
• It receives inquiries and responds to students' questions.
• It prints out identification letters and statement letters.
• It follows up the study progress of preparatory year students and responds to their inquiries in this regard.
• Keeps students' files and appropriately classifies them.
• It guides and advises students in coordination with the Deanship of Student and Graduate Affairs.
• It coordinates with the competent colleges to implement strengthening programs.
• Coordinating with the "Talented Academy" unit to discover gifted students.
• It informs the Department of Guidance and Counseling at the Deanship of Student and Graduates Affairs about cases of academic failure to be addressed.
• It helps in determining the department's needs of human resources, equipment and materials, and following up on their provision.
• It participates in identifying the training needs of the department's employees to nominate them for the appropriate training programs.
• It prepares periodic reports on the department's activities, achievements, and suggestions for developing its performance.
• Any other tasks assigned to the department within the limits of its competence.

Head's Message

Praise be to Allah and blessings and peace be upon His chosen ones.

The preparatory year is considered to be one of the most important programs in the university. It provides academic services, guidance and extracurricular activities that contribute to achieving the university's mission in accordance with the standards of quality and academic accreditation.

The Student Services Division has been interested in assisting students in adapting to university life and creating an environment that supports positive behavior for students through plans based on scientific foundations that are applied by a distinguished work team in order to achieve the goals of the preparatory year, and to achieve the desired goals of the establishment of the division. It, moreover, purposes to develop and refine the students' personality by creating a university environment suitable for practicing various activities, and providing programs and plans to develop their capabilities and raise their level. It also provides the opportunity to fulfill students' desires and practice their various hobbies in order to be adapted and positively integrated into the activities, events and programs offered by the Deanship, for discovering their talents and abilities. This certainly contributes to the development of their behavioral, cognitive, emotional, scientific and practical performance in a way that reflects on their performance and achieves distinguished academic achievement in accordance with the policy of the Deanship of the preparatory year and supportive studies and the goals of the university's strategic plan.

Allah may bless all 

 Head

Dr. Tariq Abu Al-Atta Al-Alfi

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