Examination Unit

 About the Unit:

The examination unit at the College of Computer and Information Sciences works to improve the teaching process by ensuring efficient schedules that meets the quality standards and by the management of pioneering and distinguished exams.

 Vision:

Providing technical services that respond to quality standards by conducting both exams and study process on efficient scientific basics.

 Mission:

The examination unit at the College of Computer and Information Sciences seeks to professionally manage the academic process in a way that contributes to ensure leading and high qualified study outcomes.

Objectives:

• Scheduling lectures efficiently in order to improve the teaching process and to raise the performance efficiency of the college.
• Organizing the examination process by scheduling exams, establishing exam committees and following-up them to ensure that exams are conducted smoothly and under discipline.
• Reaching the highest rates to measure student achievement.
• Overcoming the difficulties faced by students during exams by providing an environment that suits the students' psychological and educational needs.
• Managing exams, including exams ‘documenting tasks and daily exams’ reports.

 Duties:

• Preparing timetables in accordance with the regulations approved by the Standing Committee for Schedules.
• To organize the testing process through the development of schedules, the preparation and supervision of test committees to ensure the conduct of tests easily.
• Support the academic departments to achieve the highest rates of accessing educational achievement of students.
• Submit periodic reports on the progress of tests and remarks being observed during tests.
• Duties for General supervision of the Mid-term and final exams.
• Coordinating with the academic departments to prepare the Mid-term and final test schedules.
• Follow-up of the Mid-term and final tests.
• The preparation of exam control and the formation of monitoring and supervision committees, the delivery and receiving of test papers.
• Solving students' problems related to tests.
• Raising cases of cheating and violations committed by students to the disciplinary committee.
• Prepare Mid-term and final exams reports.
• Approval of alternative test dates, in coordination with academic departments.
• Saving test files.
• Application of quality and evaluation systems and academic accreditation.
• Raising awareness and providing College members with rules and regulations governing the conduct of tests.

Members of the Unit:

Contact information:

 hbchikha@ju.edu.sa

Student affairs Unit

 About the Unit:

The Student Affairs Unit carries out the tasks related to the undergraduate students on the following subjects: excuses, re-registration, granting of opportunity, complaint, grievance, deprivation lists, student issues committee, sports and cultural activities.

 Vision:

To achieve leadership and excellence in providing services and support to students with high quality and accuracy with respect to the vision, mission and objectives of the college and university. Promotes student work to the highest levels, enrich the students cultural, intellectual and social, and sports activities.

 Mission:

contribute to the preparation of distinguished cadres, through the investment of leisure time and support, motivate the outstanding talents, develop the spirit of positive and participation, and promote belonging to the homeland and adherence to Islamic norms and values.

Objectives:

1. Providing various student services in easy and easy ways.
2. To work to adhere to the high Islamic behavior and morality, customs and traditions of good society.
3. Develop and strengthen the spirit of university discipline and adherence to academic norms
4. Supporting students with special needs in all possible ways and means.
5. Contribute to the preparation of a balanced student personality by helping to create a sound and distinctive academic environment.
6. Encouraging students and encouraging them to study university

 Duties:

1. Addressing the sections regarding the absence of students with excuses accepted and documented by the accredited official bodies of the university.
2. Assist the committees of student activity in all that falls within its competences and benefit from the committees of student activity in guiding and guiding students.
3. Participating in the membership of the Student Affairs Committee and processing the decisions issued by them.
4. Placement of student advertisements and work required in the Student Affairs Unit.
5. Prepare good conduct certificates for students after making sure that no disciplinary decisions exits against them.
6. To submit periodic reports to the College's Vice Dean on the progress of work in the affairs of students.
7. Study students' problems, suggest solutions and coordinate with the college's agent.
8. Organizing sports competitions and cultural competitions.

Members of the Unit:

Contact information:

 mchedly@ju.edu.sa

 E-learning and Distance Education Unit

 About the Unit:

 E-learning and Distance Education unit was established by an administrative decision to support the development of educational process which the university witnessed in general and the college in particular, through the implementation of the latest means of e-learning and distance learning adopted in the best universities of the world.

Accelerated progress in e-learning and distance education has made information technology a very important means of advancing education through modern methods and is necessary to facilitate learning for those who wish and help them achieve their goals even with distance. E-learning is a great contribution to the development of the educational system. The e-learning and distance learning unit was established to provide technical and moral support to students in College of Computers and information Sciences. The vision, mission and objectives of the Unit are summarized as follows:

Vision:

Achieving leadership and excellence in the e-learning system and distance learning.

 Mission:

Activate the role of e-learning and distance education in the development of the educational process according to the latest technical principles to achieve quality standards.

 Objectives:

1- Activating the system of e-learning and distance education in college

2- To spread the culture of e-learning among the members of society through the establishment of workshops and training courses.

3- Activating e-learning among students in electronic, integrated or regular courses.

4- Activating e-learning among faculty members to keep abreast of progress in this modern technology.

5 - Ensure the members of the faculty to access the system of e-learning and distance education

6 - Coordination of communication between the College and the dimensions of e-learning and distance education at the university.

7 - Implementation of the annual plan received from the Deanship of e-learning at the University

Duties:

1. Preparation of the strategic plan of the unit.
2. Providing technical support to faculty members in the faculty.
3. Dissemination of e-learning culture among faculty members and students through seminars, workshops and so on.
4. Provide training courses for students to enable them to use the e-learning system in cooperation with the Deanship of e-learning and distance education at the university.
5. Follow-up faculty members and periodic reports on the extent of   activation of each member of the system of e-learning.
6. Follow up on contemporary developments in e-learning and seek to benefit from them.
7. Preparation of a quarterly report on what was accomplished during the semester, including the evaluation of electronic courses on the Blackboard.
8. Raise the assessments of faculty members at the end of each semester to the Deanship of e-learning.

Members of the Unit:

Contact information:

E-mail of e-learning coordinator: nselmitwally@ju.edu.sa

Academic Advising Unit

 About the unit

The student guidance is the incubator and helps the student in creating the educational environment in support of his positive behavior, helps the student to adapt and actively integrate in activities and events that take place inside and outside the college, by finding the best and most appropriate solutions to overcome academic, psychological or behavioral problems, Or social, that may be exposed to the student and reflected negatively on his performance, and achieve academic achievement expected. The Vision, mission and aims of the unit are as follows:

 Vision:

Quality and integrated guidance services.

 Mission:

 To raise the level of academic, behavioral, vocational and educational students to achieve an effective relationship between the students and the university.

  Objectives:

• Develop students' talents and creativity.
• Promote students' self-confidence and the importance of self-reliance.
• Support positive behaviors, work on their development, and address negative behaviors.
• Assist students who have failed to study, to improve their academic situation.
• Assisting students who have completed studies to maintain their academic status.
• Provide advice on psychological and academic counseling.
• Attention to cases of absence, and identify the causes, and methods of treatment.
• To develop the psychological, social, behavioral, professional and cognitive aspects of the students, so as to ensure the adaptation to university life.

Duties:

1. Meeting academically challenged students.
2. Meeting with students in the case of repeated absence in any of the semester's courses.
3. Meeting with students in case of withdrawal from a course.
4. Discuss how to activate academic guidance.
5. Meeting with students receiving academic warning, due to low Cumulative GPA.
6. Address the behavioral and psychological problems faced by students.
7. Presenting lectures, seminars and training courses in the field of guidance and guidance.

  Academic Advising Unit members

Contact information:

E-mail of academic advising coordinator: aoalmejri@ju.edu.sa

E-mail of academic advising Unit: cu-csi@ju.edu.sa

Alumni Unit

About the Unit:

The unit is concerned with following up and easing the integration of its graduates in the already competitive labor market. Also, UGA helps provide scientific and practical help to promote the graduates skills. In addition, UGA maintains a state of perpetual and firm contact with the  graduates, so that their graduation is not the end of their relationship with the college and the university.

Vision:

• To excel in serving and following up the college’s graduates,
• To open communication channels between the college and its alumni, and employers for meaningful and constructive cooperation to fulfill the college’s mission, alumni’s ambition and society’s goals.

Mission:

• Establish UGA as an effective communication channel between the college and its graduates, and
• Contribute to the development of the graduates' skills to find job opportunities that meet the requirements of the labor market and the needs of the community.

Objectives:

• Developing graduates' skills in line with the needs of the labor market.
• Providing a database of institutions and companies that the graduate can join.
• Evaluating the level of college graduates after joining work and determining the extent of governmental and private civil society institutions on the quality of college graduates.
• Providing a database for graduates and updating them for recent graduates.
• Coordination and cooperation with institutions and companies with the aim of training and creating job opportunities for graduates.
• Benefiting from distinguished graduates in their work sites in support of recent graduates and developing the programs and activities of the college.
• Studying the extent of the graduates' satisfaction after a period of their joining the labor market with the various academic programs.
• Creating job opportunities for college graduates in line with their specializations.
• Providing graduates with new developments in their field of specialization.
• Attaining community confidence in college graduates.
• Issuing a non-periodical magazine with the aim of providing graduates with all that is new in their field of specialization to develop their level and develop their scientific and professional skills

Duties:

• Preparing training and rehabilitation programs based on the graduates' desires to develop their skills to match the needs of the labor market.
• Identifying the needs of the labor market from the different areas of speciality that pertains to the college domain.
• Building a database of graduates with their various specializations.
• Building a database of institutions and companies that the graduate can join.
• Coordinating and cooperating with institutions and companies with the aim of training and creating job opportunities for graduates.
• Studying the extent of employers' satisfaction with the quality of college graduates.
• Studying the extent of the graduates' satisfaction in regard to the academic programs they graduated from after a period of time of joining the labor market.

Members of the Unit:

Contact information:

gu-csi@ju.edu.sa

Post Graduate Unit

About the  Unit

As an independent higher education institution, the College of Computer and Information sciences aims to be a destination for students and scientists who aimed to succeed in a dynamic and supportive learning environment. The role of the Postgraduate Unit in the College is to establish and deliver a high quality postgraduate programmers for the different areas in the computer science, computer engineering, and information. Research is considered as an important role of the Postgraduate Unit. The research in the college can be carried out as individual research, research within a team or within a research projects and it should play a substantial role in enriching the scientists within the college learning experience by broadening and deepening the experience of the college and enhancing the curriculum for staff as well as the students.

Vision

The College of Computer and Information Sciences should be a platform for postgraduate students and a leading College for the development of the academic process for postgraduate studies.

Mission

Continuous development of scientific research and graduate programs at the college and providing service to postgraduate students, and faculty members.

Objectives:

1. Develop graduate programs at the college and raise the efficiency of institutional performance.
2. Support for graduate students during their studies.
3. Coordinating the work of the graduate committees of the college, and benefiting from joint efforts.
4. Supporting faculty members in postgraduate studies and providing assistance to them.
5. Activating the scientific research in the college and raising the efficiency of the research for the faculty members.

Duties

1. Establishing a graduate programs and coordination among the program heads of various departments.
2. Propose plans for the development of graduate programs in coordination with the program Heads in the different departments.
3. Prepare an annual report on the progress of graduate programs and propose recommendations to the dean of the faculty.
4. Coordinate with other units in all relevant areas.
5. Prepare an annual report on the progress of the scientific research in the faculty.
6. Create an initial index of a database that includes the university publications and research projects for the members of all the departments.
7. Organizing specialized courses and seminars for the staff and the students in the skills of scientific research.
8. Updating the graduate unit section on college website.

Members of the Unit:

Contact information:

  mkelfaki@ju.edu.sa

Vision

Leadership in supervising the quality and academic accreditation aspects of the college and being among the best quality assurance and academic accreditation units of national colleges of Computer and Information Sciences.

 Mission

Excellence and effective supervision of all aspects of quality and academic accreditation in the college of Computer and Information Sciences.

 Objectives

1. Drawing up academic accreditation plans and policies in the college.
2. Achieve international academic accreditation (ABET) for all programs in the college.
3. Achieve national academic accreditation by aligning academic programs with NCAAA requirements and standards and applying the quality management system in college.
4. Assist in achieving the university's goals in the field of quality and academic accreditation.

Structure

Members of the unit

Contact information:

qacis@ju.edu.sa

Email of unit's supervisor: omalsayed@ju.edu.sa

Vision:

Demonstrate excellence and leadership in academic affairs within the college.

Mission:

Achieve the regularity of the academic process through carrying out the unit tasks according to the strategic plan of the college.

Objectives:

• Supervising on the conduct of the educational process in the college.
• Coordinating with department chairs in all issues related to academic affairs.
• Follow up the commitment of academic staff to the times of lectures.
• Follow up the readiness of different educational tools in the college.

 Members of the unit

  Contact information: 

afucis@ju.edu.sa

Email of unit's supervisor: nalmashfi@ju.edu.sa