The College's University Guidance Unit
Vision:
The College's University Guidance Unit strives for leadership and excellence in providing academic guidance services that contribute to developing and enhancing college students' skills, in a manner that enhances and aligns with the quality of the college's and university's educational process.
Mission:
The College's University Guidance Unit is committed to implementing guidance programs and services with comprehensiveness, quality, and administrative and technical effectiveness, contributing to preparing scientifically, skillfully, and ethically qualified nursing specialists to serve the health sector and society, in fulfillment of the Kingdom's Vision 2030 targets and the university's strategic objectives.
Objectives:
1. Providing academic support to students and helping them adapt to the university environment, study requirements, and compliance with university regulations.
2. Enhancing the quality of college campus life through an integrated academic and psychological guidance system.
3. Improving students' academic performance by monitoring their academic progress and reducing academic struggling and dropout rates.
4. Promoting students' mental health to achieve academic and social stability.
5. Guiding students to benefit from available university services within and outside the college.
6. Strengthening effective communication between students and faculty members to create a supportive educational environment.
7. Developing positive values, discipline, and self-responsibility among students.
8. Providing a safe and confidential environment for dialogue to discuss students' academic, psychological, and social problems that may affect their academic progress, and referring them to specialized entities when needed.
Tasks:
The College's University Guidance Unit undertakes a set of organizational and advisory tasks to ensure academic, psychological, and social support for students throughout their university journey, empowering them to succeed and graduate efficiently. The main tasks include:
1. Preparing an operational plan that aligns with the requirements of the guidance process according to the university calendar, incorporating the unit's programs and implementing tasks per the procedural manual.
2. Orienting new students to university life through guidance and advisory programs introducing the study system, college regulations, and how to access necessary services, reducing their sense of alienation and providing a clear picture of managing their studies and university life.
3. Promoting the concept of academic guidance among students and how to benefit from its services.
4. Distributing students to academic advisors fairly and clearly, linked to the college's adopted electronic system.
5. Raising students' awareness of university academic life, its variables, and how to handle them through diverse academic guidance programs (introductory meetings, organizing workshops and training activities to enhance university life skills), increasing students' ability to meet university requirements successfully.
6. Monitoring students' academic performance through periodic meetings and continuous analysis of academic results, while raising awareness of study requirements, registration/add/drop deadlines, and exams.
7. Encouraging students to consult academic advisors during guidance hours to provide academic advice on course selection and registration, academic pathway planning, and organizing guidance throughout the academic year.
8. Building effective communication channels between students and faculty members.
9. Providing academic advisors with necessary information to perform their roles optimally.
10. Preparing forms and templates for academic guidance (academic guidance student’s form, individual guidance case form, academically struggling student form).
11. Intervening in academic struggling cases by developing individualized remedial plans in collaboration with faculty to provide special attention to struggling students.
12. Using digital tools for guidance services via the digital academic advising platform (Wajhni).
13. Providing psychological and social support in coordination with university psychological guidance entities, helping students integrate and adapt to the university environment.
14. Contributing to resolving academic and social problems referred to the unit through documented sessions and referring cases needing specialized intervention.
15. Preparing and submitting periodic reports to college administration on unit achievements, student issues, and addressed challenges.
