Duties and Responsibilities
The Vice-Chancellor performs the following tasks, duties and responsibilities:
- Advises and assists the Chancellor and provides leadership to the academic and academic-related units of the university;
- Oversees, evaluates and approves faculty recommendations for hiring, appointments, promotion and dismissal;
- Plans, implements and coordinates the educational programs of the university;
- plans, organizes and implements educational research programs;
- provides leadership in creating and maintaining academic standards and policies;
- Makes the plans of education council and presents it at the first education council meeting at the beginning of each year in order to approve and implement;
- Prepares submits, meetings and agendas for education council and implements the decisions made by the council;
- Files the decisions made by the education council to the relevant departments for performance and ensures that they are implemented;
- Reviews and evaluate regulations, statutes and procedures for academic research
- Monitors and oversees the affairs of the library, information technology and the Internet services and takes the necessary steps to improve equipment;
- Provides guidance to committees;
- Participates in the planning of new facilities for the purposes of instruction and student services;
- Supervises the affairs and activities of the departments relating to the vice chancellor;
- Provides guidance to, and receives recommendations from the Faculties and other representative organizations regarding the planning, implementation and review of academic programs, services, activities and related matters;
- Oversees academic planning, academic program review, and curriculum development;
- Provides a report on the performances and annual activities of the deputy head of the university;
- Oversees and ensures that education council’s decisions are implemented in the academic field;
- Provides resources necessary to achieve academic goals and objectives;
- Provides and arranges statistics related to members of the academic staff and other academic matters;
- Facilitates and co-operates in the development of the university’s strategic academic plan;
- Directs and supervises academic conferences of the professors;
- supervises and oversees faculty exams procedures;
- Provides guidance and supervision related to university Journals;
- Provides guidance to and has oversight of the issues related to publications, academic research, library and professors;
- Performs other duties assigned to the vice chancellor according to the law.