About Us
I would like to welcome everyone to our page. You are invited to visit the Center for Academic Advising's pages and to communicate with the Center through email and through the advisors personally. We have listed our contact information for your use.
The Center for Academic Advising is a newly developed center, established in 2012. While the Center has met with a well-received and productive start, we would like to encourage you all to help in developing it further. We believe that your opinion as a stakeholder is the most important element in creating a lively center which attends to the students' expectations, challenges and needs.
The Center for Academic Advising plays a very important role in the retention and persistence of Qatar University students. The secret is that we as advisors are trying to establish a close relation with the students, so we can identify and attend to their academic and non-academic needs. Walking this path, we will not settle for being someone who provides the students with a piece of paper containing what courses to register for. We want to help students in understanding the university's environment. Also, we would like to create communication channels between the students and the university's community in general.
We are a group of full-time academic advisors who are completely dedicated to spending the sufficient time with students individually to help them reach their academic goals for which they joined the university. Thus, we consider retaining and supporting students till graduation is the fruit of this relationship.
As a student at QU, there are always numerous new opportunities before you. We encourage you all to take advantage of the wonderful resources available, and to meet with your academic advisors within the first week and through of each semester. We wish you all at QU a fulfilling and mind-opening journey of personal and academic growth.
Best Wishes,
Wedad Abdulla Rebeeh
Director, Center for Academic Advising
Vision:
To develop a responsive academic advising program that has regional recognition for excellence and in accordance with student learning need.
Mission:
The CAA mission is to promote students' learning and holistic development by empowering them to make decisions and enhancing their virtues of responsibility and self-reflection. At CAA, the Academic Advisors strive to create a community of learners by helping students identify their life,career and educational goals, building trust and relationship with students and collaborating among each other and with different campus offices and resources.
Objectives:
- Promote student learning from academic advising.
- Support the development of special populations of students.
- Enhance students' success, engagement and satisfaction with the quality of academic advising services.
- Improve productivity of and communication with academic advising stakeholders.
- Provide professional learning opportunities to staff based on CAS Standards for Academic Advising. and Standards of Professional Learning by Learning Forward Association.
What is Academic Advising?
A decision-making process which assists students in realizing their maximum educational potential through communication and information exchanges with an advisor; it is ongoing, multi-faceted, and the responsibility of both student and advisor.
Professional Academic Advisors
The advisor serves as a facilitator of communication, a coordinator of learning experiences through course and career planning and program progress review, and an agent of referral to other campus services as necessary. The advisor is responsible to:
- Be accessible for meeting with advisees via office hours for advising, appointment through Appointment Manager Program , telephone, email, or web access.
- Maintain confidentiality.
- Understand and effectively communicate the curriculum, graduation requirements, and university and college policies and procedures.
- Provide students with information about the available resources and services on campus.
- Guide students to develop realistic goals.
- Assist students in understanding the purposes and goals of higher education and its effects on their lives and personal goals.
- Monitor and document students' progress toward meeting their goals.
- Assist students in gaining decision-making, problem-solving, and evaluation skills.
To check out Center of Academic Advising Committees, click here.
To check out the steps on accessing Academic Advising Survey, click here.
