Academic Advising is a scientific method for taking care of university students in all scientific, social, psychological and cultural aspects. It also means giving advice and advice to everyone who needs it.
organizational link: The Educational and Academic Affairs Agency directly.
Academic Advisor Role and Duties:
The role of the academic advisor must be positive in facilitating student’s academic path. Advisor tasks can be concluded as follows:
- Printing the names of female students who are affiliated with the academic advisor (without university ID numbers or contacts) and hanging them in front of member’s office. Explaining the means of contact with the advisor and her office hours.
- Establishing a channel for communication (Telegram) with affiliated female students to notify students about academic regulations, and advisor communication-related matters
- Assisting female students with enrollment in courses at the beginning of each semester.
- Assisting students with course addition and dropping procedures, and signing and printing the relevant forms
- Allocate a special file for each faltering student and make a case study for her through the form designated for that.
- Following up female students during their studies, especially those who are faltering or are expected to falter. Following up reports submitted by heads of departments about the notes provided by professors on students who are frequently absent from lectures (exceeding 15% in the fourth week and 20% at the end of the eighth week) or about some frequent phenomena such as sleeping during lectures, or mental wandering, etc.
- Identifying and contacting outstanding female students in various departments to urge them to continue their excellence and overcome obstacles that stand in their way.
- Spreading academic awareness, developing positive skills, raising the academic level of female students, and increasing the quality of female students’ academic life, female students are encouraged to attend courses and activities of the Academic Advising Unit, and to join the communication channels established by the Unit.
Academic Advising Programs Offered to Students and Counsellors:
It was divided into six areas:
1. Counseling Week Programs: They take place at the beginning of each semester and target new students, through which they are presented with an introduction to the academic, social and psychological counseling unit, and the university’s regulations and bylaws, and students’ rights and duties are presented.
2. General Academic Advising Programs: They are often presented in the theater or workshop halls and are conducted through a declared plan from the beginning of the semester and target students in general and faculty members.
3. Programs offered to academic guides.
4. A program offered to outstanding students.
5. Programs for the prevention and treatment of tripping.
6. Programs offered to strengthen students academically: each department determines them according to the needs of its students, and it is submitted internally and under the supervision of the department’s academic advising coordinator.
Formation:
Head of the unit: Mrs. Seham Aienazi
Unit Secretary: Mrs. Manal Alsaif
Communication with Guidance and Counseling Unit:
Ext No: 0115887230
e-mail: foed-guidance@psau.edu.sa
