Governance
First Strategic Goal:
Ensure efficient governance that meets the faculty's requirements
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.
Academic Programs
Second Strategic Goal:
Develop and enhance teaching and learning processes
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).
Scientific Research, Scholarships, and Innovation
Third Strategic Goal:
Advance scientific research and its outcomes, market them, and stimulate creative initiatives
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.
Financial, Physical and Human Resources
Fourth Strategic Goal:
Enhance the competence of faculty members and staff
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.
Fifth Strategic Goal:
Provide stimulating learning infrastructure, maintain it, and ensure financial sufficiency and sustainability
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.
Student Services
Sixth Strategic Goal:
Attract, retain, and motivate students and improve their services
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.
Community Service and External Relations
Seventh Strategic Goal:
Engage in activities that develop the community and enrich the faculty
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.
Quality Assurance Management
Eighth Strategic Goal:
Enhance the faculty's competitiveness, improve its public image, and ensure the quality of its processes
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.
