A Delegation of students from Al-Faisal Secondary School visited PSU

On Wednesday, 5 March 2008, a delegation of 30 students from Al-Faisal Secondary School visited PSU.
At the beginning of the meeting - which was held in the auditorium on 9:30 AM - Dr. Abdul Hamid Abdul-Jabbar; Dean of Student Affairs; received the students and spoke about the importance of the secondary stage in determining the course of study for the student and the total desired direction in the university which is a golden opportunity to develop the capabilities of students before getting occupied by other things such as work, marriage and children.

The delegation then watched a documentary film reflecting the establishment of the university since its inception as a college and then transferred to a university. It was stated in the film that the first glimpse of the emergence of the university as a private college was after the joy of the people of the successful trip of HRH Prince Sultan Bin Abdul-Aziz; where HRH agrees on the emergence of the Prince Sultan College with HRH generous donation. The university depends heavily - after God’s support -on his efforts and the efforts of Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, Riyadh Region Prince, board chairman of the Riyadh Charitable Foundation of Sciences.

Turning back to the movie colleges existing in the university is the college of business administration, which include departments of financial, marketing, accounting, and business administration; College of Computer Science, which include computer and information systems departments, and College of Girls and its components. The university now offers a bachelor degree in all of its departments and a masters degree in MBA only.

The movie also dealt with scholarships and grants provided by the university for high achievers and the top ten in the secondary school, and sections of these grants.

Turning to the program of cooperative education at the university and that once the student access to the final year, it has to coordinate with a specialized workplace to allocate the student himself, and then begin the process of training in the concerned field for a period of seven months, during which students are trained in the area of specialization in practice.

The film mentioned also the various departments of the university like the Deanship of Student Affairs, Deanship of Admission and Registration, the office of international relations, the office of community service and continuing education, the netversity network established by the university in collaboration with Cisco for computer networks, and the Academic Assessment and Planning Center.

Then Dr. Abdel Qader Al-Khateeb, the student activities director, guided the visiting delegation on a tour of the sections of interest to students starting by the central library and computer labs and the university network and sports halls and the newspaper (Taif Al-Jameah), then via some administrative sections.

In conclusion we were distributing booklets about the University and then showing the delegation pictures of former university graduates and their workplaces. The delegation left the university after they were delighted about the evolution of PSU.