Objectives

Strategic Objectives:

• Develop the organizational structure of the faculty, its decision-making processes, systems, and performance review.
• Develop leadership capacities academically and administratively.
• Develop and automate administrative processes.
• Develop administrative processes and transactions and automate them.
• Enhance transparency.

Initiatives:

• Review the faculty's organizational structure and develop and activate systems and regulations.
• Establish a mechanism for periodic evaluation of faculty services and performance review.
• Develop a system for training and evaluating academic and administrative leaders.
• Support the transition to electronic services and automate procedures.
• Improve and frame administrative communication between faculty units.
• Frame empowerment, transparency, and grievance procedures in the faculty.

Strategic Objectives:

• Expand undergraduate and graduate programs.
• Engage in technical education.
• Develop teaching and learning methods.
• Enhance and establish skills in curricula.
• Enhance students' practical and field experiences.
• Develop assessment methods.
• Enhance and activate e-learning.
• Engage in continuing education programs.
• Enhance partnership with industry and business.

Initiatives:

• Introduce bachelor's and master's programs that meet labor market needs and contemporary requirements.
• Introduce technical education programs.
• Develop continuing education programs (introduce professional diploma and short training programs).
• Develop field and practical training programs and integrate them into curricula and network with industry and business.
• Review academic programs and study plans and develop assessment methods.
• Establish skills, values, and belonging in curricula.
• Introduce e-learning programs (blended learning and technology-based learning).
• Develop teaching and assessment methods (evaluate teaching and learning processes).

Strategic Objectives:

• Enhance multidisciplinary research programs.
• Motivate researchers to develop their research by providing administrative and professional support, active infrastructure, and necessary equipment.
• Enhance and expand graduate programs.
• Provide continuous research methodology through basic and applied research and technology development.
• Enhance innovation culture, patents, and their marketing.
• Enhance student scholarship programs for graduate studies.
• Enhance international cooperation with global institutions and universities.

Initiatives:

• Establish procedures to enhance research culture and motivate less productive researchers.
• Launch support programs to enhance applied and community research.
• Develop a sustainable plan for scholarship programs.
• Activate and support the innovation center, research centers, and business incubators in the faculty and enhance faculty and student participation.
• Establish plans to develop research equipment and facilities in the faculty.
• Define and activate a mechanism to enhance research partnerships with international universities, research centers, and industrial entities.
• Adopt entrepreneurial projects.

Strategic Objectives:

• Develop policies and mechanisms to attract and retain distinguished faculty members.
• Innovate a comprehensive evaluation system for faculty members.
• Improve and motivate staff performance.

Initiatives:

• Employ highly competent faculty members, retain and motivate them.
• Ensure a competitive salary and benefits package for faculty members.
• Provide efficient training programs to develop and enhance faculty performance.
• Develop a comprehensive and computerized system for faculty performance evaluation.
• Provide efficient training programs to develop staff performance and evaluate them.
• Establish a human resources strategy for the faculty.

Strategic Objectives:

• Ensure maximum utilization of buildings and facilities.
• Improve internet connectivity between faculty and university units.
• Provide facilities that stimulate student extracurricular activities.
• Adopt best practices in financial planning and risk management.

Initiatives:

• Develop the faculty's infrastructure and facilities.
• Ensure high efficiency in operating faculty facilities and managing resources.
• Enhance maintenance work and establish proactive maintenance plans.
• Prepare appropriate conditions for people with special needs.
• Develop electronic networking between all academic and administrative faculty and university units and continuously update computer services.
• Establish a plan to develop extracurricular activity facilities in the faculty.
• Develop short and long-term financial plans to maintain financial resource sustainability.

Strategic Objectives:

• Develop plans to attract, retain, and motivate students.
• Adopt best practices in student guidance and counseling.
• Enhance the social climate in the faculty and promote belonging and student extracurricular activities.
• Develop student services.
• Enhance employability and competitiveness of graduates.
• Enhance student awareness of different cultures through integrative activities.

Initiatives:

• Develop mechanisms to attract students, especially those with distinguished competencies, for undergraduate and graduate programs.
• Establish mechanisms to develop academic and career guidance services.
• Establish mechanisms to develop extracurricular activities and their facilities and enhance student participation.
• Establish mechanisms to enhance cultural diversity and global experiences for students.
• Improve student proficiency in English.
• Establish procedures to develop employability skills such as communication skills.
• Develop a system to improve the quality of student services.

Strategic Objectives:

• Enhance partnership with the local community to make the Faculty of Information Technology at Philadelphia University a vital area for it.
• Activate effective communication with alumni.
• Enhance and activate partnership with academic, industrial, and service entities.
• Enhance relations with international institutions.

Initiatives:

• Develop a mechanism to frame participation between the faculty and community.
• Prepare studies related to local community development and improving the faculty environment.
• Frame the role of public and international relations in the faculty.
• Develop a communication mechanism with alumni and benefit from their experiences.
• Activate the alumni club.
• Activate and support community consulting center activities in faculty units.
• Develop and activate partnership agreements with academic, professional, industrial, and business entities.
• Establish marketing plans for the faculty.

Strategic Objectives:

• Adopt a role characterized by professional marketing and external communication.
• Enhance the faculty's presence and development in the local, regional, and global landscape.
• Provide necessary support for academic units to obtain accreditation and quality from governmental and international bodies.
• Develop the evaluation process for academic and administrative units.

Initiatives:

• Establish mechanisms to improve the faculty's image in the labor market and society.
• Develop and activate a system to evaluate the faculty's academic, administrative, and service units.
• Develop an integrated system for quality management assurance in the faculty.
• Review the faculty's performance indicators and evaluation methods.
• Prepare awareness and training studies and programs in the areas of program evaluation and accreditation locally and internationally through the Deanship of Development and Quality.
• Establish a mechanism for applying for local and international quality certificates.