Applied Science

STUDENT WELFARE COMMITTEE

Vision:

The Student Welfare Committee seeks to provide support to the educational process to advance the students' academic and personal abilities. It aims at enabling them to face problems that hinder their academic success or the academic process, with the end of qualifying them professionally upon the national and regional levels.

Mission:

The Student Welfare Committee abides with the programs set by the University to provide a unique academic environment based on positive interaction among the students and the University, and to help the students overcome all personal, social, and academic hindrances.

Objectives:

The Student Welfare Committee aims at achieving numerous objectives for improving the academic process:

1.       The Student Welfare Committee helps the students understand their unique personal abilities and tendencies through interviews and assessment tests.

2.       It also helps students with psychological issues achieve reconciliation with the self and the other.

3.       In cooperation with the Student union and the Faculty Administration, the Student Welfare Committee fosters the gifted and below-average students as well as students with special needs and helps solve their academic, social, and psychological problems.

4.       It helps overcome educational difficulties in languages and suggest appropriate solutions.

  

5.       It helps develop the students' interactive skills, such as translation, communication, and teaching skills.

6.       Help students to solve problems associated with the mahapola and bursary scholarships.

7.       Help student obtaining laptop loans and other guidance.

8.       Help student to organize education related excursions and field trips.

  

9.       It fosters discovering and boosting the students' skills through the proper social, sports, and cultural activities, which help:

·      Maintain a strong relationship among the student and his/her colleagues on the one hand, and among the student and the faculty, staff, and administrative members on the other.

·      Boost the students' individuality, autonomy, and self-dependence through giving them the freedom to choose, maintain, and organize their activities of interest.

·      Boost the students' desire to learn, qualifying them to face various educational situations and interact with the Faculty services offered.

·      Compile and manage a portfolio with personal information and the needed papers for the students (if possible) in cooperation with the academic coordinators for the different levels.

·      Review, organize and categorize the names recommended by the Committee.

·      File the recommendations to the Faculty Board to take the necessary actions.