Headed by Dr. Nasser Alqahtani Vice-Rector for Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research, The Scientific Council held on 10 am, Wednesday, 1443/2/1 AH it first session to the academic year 1443AH.
At the beginning of the meeting, Dr. Alqahtani thanked Members of the Board whose membership expired in the previous Board session, as well as to all members of the Scientific Council, and the permanent committees emanating from the Scientific Council for their time and effort in enriching the discussions and decisions that have been taken over the past years. In addition, Dr. Alqahtani welcomed the new members of the University's Scientific Council. He urged them to exert more effort to continue the work of the Council with the same activity and to set executive and procedural controls, which would place the university among the most advanced universities in the Kingdom. Moreover, The Council congratulated Prof. Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Khudairi on his appointment as Rector of Najran University.
The Scientific Council set several recommendations as follows:
- Approval of internal transfer controls between university colleges.
- Approval of setting deadlines for receiving transactions received from the university’s colleges and departments to be presented to the Scientific Council before the end of the current academic year 1443 AH.
- Approval of the promotion of a number of university faculty members to the rank of professor.
- Approval of the promotion of a number of university faculty members to the rank of associate professor.
- Disapproving the promotion of a number of university faculty members to the rank of professor and associate professor.
- Approval of the re-formation of committees to examine the scientific production of a number of university faculty members applying for promotion to the rank of associate professor.
- Approval of the resignation of two university faculty members.
- Approval to postpone the date of attending a specialized training course for a university faculty member at the Medicine College.
- Approval of the annual report of the Journal of Educational Sciences at PSAU for the academic year 1442 AH.
At the end of the session, Dr. Nasser Alqahtani congratulated the promoted faculty members for their scientific achievements and wished them further success.
