The Deanship of Student Affairs is responsible for managing academic and administrative operations related to students from the moment they think about registering at the university until graduation. It’s also concerned with maintaining friendly and continuous communication and relation with graduates in order to follow up with their professional progress
Vision
To become excellent and pioneering in providing student activities and services and improving university environment.
Message
Providing unique, attractive and meaningful students’ activities and services to produce highly skilled graduates qualified for the local and international labor market through high-quality extracurricular activities, and using facilities that are in conformity with international standards.
Student Activities
This administration supervises extracurricular activities aimed at equipping students with social intelligence skills, communication skills, interaction, participation, and personality development. These activities can be on and off-campus under the supervision of the Student Activities Officer, who adheres to the annual students’ activities plan which is generously financed by the university. Hundreds of students participate annually in organizing, preparing, decision-making, and communicating with people concerned inside and outside the university.
Exam Control Office
This office was established to supervise exams, organize, and facilitate the examination process at the university to provide rule-based test environment, including recording students’ entry to the examination halls, seating them, and conducting the exams according to the rules and regulations. In addition to that, the Exam Control Office is responsible for receiving exam papers, duplicating the required copies, and keeping them in the control archive. Further, it also distributes the exam papers with answer sheets to the examination halls heads, collects the answer booklets, and hands them over to the course instructors for marking. This Office is also responsible for supervising grades’ entry into the system, reviewing them, as well as issuing the results.
General Registrar's Office
This office is responsible for the registration process and providing academic services related to the students, such as withdrawal, or addition of courses; providing them with the required documents; as well as supervising their registration status and academic progress. This is done in cooperation with the faculties and academic departments, under the administration of the General Registrar
Central Library
This club aims to encourage students to read and acquire cultural, literary, and scientific knowledge. Meaningful books are selected, read, and then discussed in the presence of the university’s rector, the dean of student affairs, and interested professors. This activity enhances students’ academic and cultural intellectual level, with dozens of students participating in these seminars, which include discussions, questions, comments, explanations, sharing different opinions, as well as encouraging readers for more reading and critical thinking.
Central Library
The university has a rich central library with diverse books in all disciplines in both English and Arabic. The library is an important facility for students where they spend Fruitful time, benefiting from the quiet reading environment that encourages them to study. The library also holds many scientific and cultural events throughout the academic year. It remains open throughout the academic year from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
Psychological Counselling
This unit is responsible for dealing with the problems students face in the university under the supervision of a specialized psychologist. The unit conducts special sessions for the registered students and contacts any student who is in need for social advice and counselling. In case of any complicated cases, the unit recommends referring them to the concerned entity. Furthermore, the unit provides students with secure space where they can share their family or personal problems and receive guidance, advice, and counseling. This would enable them to focus more on their studies and overcome any psychological, academic, or social difficulties.
Goals
- Providing optimal and smooth admission and registration services.
- Implementing extracurricular activities for all students that are based on their specializations and the required scientific, social, and athletic skills
- Enhancing the institutional work in the deanship and cooperating with all university units.
- Providing appropriate student services, including education, communication, and transportation, housing, and entertainment.
- Supervising the Exam Control Office in order to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in exams process according to the rules and regulations
- Supervising library and reading activities to provide an excellent reading environment for students to increase their knowledge, intellectual abilities and scientific skills
أ.د. سيف سلام الحكيمي
Dean, Students Affairs
Dean’s Message
Ar-Rasheed Smart University has presented an attractive educational model since its establishment, as it has provided high-quality learning environment and first-class student services, as well as curricular and extracurricular activities students engage in. While developing Students’ Affairs Strategic Plan, there was a need for developing the university’s relationship with students by maintaining a continuous and steady relationship with them, from registration until graduation. This relationship with students should continue after they join the labor market to ensure having clear understanding of the market requirements and developing appropriate solutions to cope with them, as well as preparing for any sudden changes therein.
Therefore, the deanship exerts great efforts in coordination with the General Registrar’s Office, Exam Control Office, Library, Graduates Affairs Office, Student Activities Department and Transportation Unit to enable the students acquire more skills and make the university environment attractive to them and appropriate for developing their scientific and technical knowledge.
Indeed, institutional work requires provision of sufficient resources to provide students with services during their studies to develop their personality, encourage their creativity and excellence, which is a shared responsibility to all university outstanding staff.