Under the patronage of Minister of Education and the attendance of Prof. Abdul Aziz Al Hammed Rector of PSAU and 25 representatives of the Saudi university endowments and investments, the fifth meeting of the secretaries and officials of the Saudi universities endowments was held on 24/4/2018 at Moruj Hall in Holiday Inn, Riyadh.
The meeting was launched by Dr. Abdulrahman Al Jerawi, Secretary General of the Endowments of PSAU and head of the Secretariat of the Coordination Meeting of Saudi Universities Endowments. He welcomed the participants and thanked them for the blessed efforts they made to prepare for this meeting. General of Endowments reviewed the second axis of the first session, which was a review of the initiatives of the previous coordination meetings of the secretaries and officials of the Saudi universities endowments, after which the participants reviewed the plan of the Secretariat of the Coordination meeting of the secretaries and officials of endowments Saudi universities for the year 1439 - 1440 AH, which is supervised by the Secretariat of PSAU Endowments.
At the second session of the meeting, the secretaries met with the Governor of the General Authority for Endowments, Mr. Imad Al-Kharashi, where he was received by Dr. Al-Jarawi who started the meeting by welcoming the Governor and thanking him for attending this meeting. Then, Dr. Essam Kawthar, Executive Director of the Scientific Endowment at King Abdulaziz University presented the proposed recommendations to the General Endowments Authority, and the officials of the universities' endowments. Later on, The participants listened to the suspension of the Governor of the General Authority for Endowments, who impressed everyone with his interaction and his positive and enabled him to contain these demands and recommendations. He adopted some of recommendations and claims and reassured the universities and their endowments. And his presence to meet and understand the recommendations of the trustees and officials of the universities and then they took memorial pictures.
Furthermore, The third session began to discuss the needs and requirements of emerging universities. The meeting was attended by Prof. Al-Hammed on behalf of the Minister of Education. He reviewed the report of the work of the Secretariat of the Coordination Meeting for the Endowment of Saudi Universities, presented by Mr. Ahmed Al Hussein, Executive Director of PSAU Endowments. He reviewed the most important achievements of the Secretariat during the last two years. After which, Rector inaugurated the new identity of the Secretariat of the Coordination Meeting of Saudi University Endowments. Then, the recommendations were presented to the Ministry of Education on the endowment of universities, which was presented by Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Olayan, Director of the University of Taibah University. In conclusion, everyone thanked the Director of the University of Prince Sattam for his presence on behalf of the Minister and the University's sponsorship of the Secretariat of the Coordinating Meeting for the Secretaries and Officials of the Saudi Universities Endowments, and then took the commemorative photographs with Rector.
The meeting was concluded by Dr. Al Jerawi, thanking Rector for his great support and for his interaction with these recommendations and adopting them. Then, he thanked the attendance hoping to meet them at the sixth meeting at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals during the first semester of next year.
