Faculty Development Plan Activities - Spring Semester - Academic Year 2022-2023

Date

9:00 - 10:00 am

10 February 2023

• Goal (3): Recruiting qualified diverse students, enriching their experiences, and serving their various needs in a student-centered environment. ▪ Objective 3.2: Provide a university experience centered on student development and success.

• Goal (5): Achieving operational excellence in university services. ▪ Objective 5.1: Enhance quality of the University services.

Prof. Sayed Elwakeel s.elwakeel@ustf.ac.ae

Summary

• Conduct surveys for obtaining students’ feedback on services and activities.

• Conduct surveys to measure satisfaction of faculty, staff, and students regarding services and take actions to enhance the services based on feedback and findings of surveys results.

• The ERT members visited USTF for RIL noticed the low satisfaction rates of USTF employees and asked for remedial action. In this important seminar Prof. El Wakeel, based on long and excellent experience, will take to us about the design, analyses, and application of faculty, staff, and students satisfaction surveys, and the possible mechanisms for enhancing the survey results.

Attendee

Date

USTF Goal and Objective

Topic

Lecturer

9:00 - 10:00 am

17 February 2023

Prof. Tamer Abdelbari Hassan t.hassan@ustf.ac.ae

Summary

• Stakeholders are those persons who have an interest in the higher education. The primary stakeholders include students, faculty, staff, and the management of the educational institute. Other stakeholders are government, professional bodies, employers, parents, non-teaching staff, and alumni.

• USTF is planning to involve all the above stakeholders in revision and update of its vision, mission, core values and strategic plan for the period 2023-2028. The process has already started and will take a few months to finish, before the end of the current strategic plan 2018-2023.

• Prof. Tamer Hassan, Dean of the College of Dentistry, is the chair of the Focus Group, members of USTF’s Strategic Planning Committee (SPC), in charge of leading the process, trough linking of the stakeholders to the SPC, till achievement of this task, which he will be addressing in his FDP seminar.

Attendee

Date

08:00 - 09:00 am

24 February 2023

Prof. Zeinelabidin Rizk zrizk@ustf.ac.ae

Summary

• This seminar discusses research and scholarly activities at USTF, including: ▪ University research strategy for the academic year 2022-2023; ▪ policies and procedures for submission, evaluation, and offering internal research grants; ▪ faculty financial reward for publications in reputable international journals; ▪ ethical bases of scientific research at USTF; and ▪ policies and procedures of faculty delegation for a research conference.

Attendee

Date

Topic

Lecturer

09:00 - 10:00 am

03 March 2023

Dr. Elsayed Abdelrahman elsayed.m@ustf.ac.ae

Summary

•   كز عىل األ اتيجية، فالت ر عىل غايات الجامعة وأهدافها االست ر ك تز ر يمثل التدريس أحد المحاور الرئيسة من محاور عمل الجامعة من خالل الت هداف والغايات، أي عىل ما يريد المعلمون نقله )التدريس(، لكن السؤال هو هل ُيقدر الطالب ما يريد المعلم أن ينقله بنفس العمق )التعلم( أو بعبارة أخرى، قد ال يمنح زض التدريس الجيد التعلم الجيد ورة أن تلعب الرؤية واالهداف، يفت ر ض بال اتيجية للعالقة ب يز ر ، فالنظر بصورة است LOs التدريس الجيد سد الفجوة ب يز ي من خالل ما هونظري وما هوتطبيق ر ي هذا االطار تعمل الدورة عىل الربط ب يز ز والتعلم والجيد، وف طرح أمثلة واقعية.

Attendee

Faculty and Teaching Staff

Date

09:00 - 10:00 am

10 March 2023

Dr. Bilal Ahmed b.ahmed@ustf.ac.ae

Summary

• Students’ engagement throughout learning environment, will ensure that both CLOs and PLOs will be achieved in the best possible way. The following steps are implemented to ensure the full engagement of the students in USTF learning environment: ▪ Prepare students for learning experience: Providing students with manuals, video, and tour on the Moodle LMS and its different features and functions and showing them how to find materials, assignments, and assessments, and how to effectively communicate with faculty and classmates using this LMS. ▪ Describe CLOs to the students: Telling students what they will be able to do after taking of the course not only what information the curriculum contains. Obtain students’ academic evaluations: Students must fill the questionnaires uploaded, by the OIPE on the Moodle LMS, regarding the assessments of the course, instructor, academic advisors, CLOs. The instructors should make use of the assessment results for improvement of course delivery and attainment of the CLOs in the next course offering. ▪ Obtain Regular feedback from students about their satisfaction with course delivery: Results of these surveys are distributed to faculty to improve their course delivery and to maximize students’ satisfaction. Ensure efficient role of students in the learning activities: Provide opportunities for student to student and student to instructor activities in class, more than just listening to lectures and taking tests. Group and individual activities that require students to analyze ideas and issues, express themselves in meaningful ways, compare their experiences with others and reflect on their achievements.

Attendee

Date

USTF Goal and Objective

Topic

Lecturer

09:00 - 10:00 am

10 March 2023

Dr. Khalid Khogali k.khogali@ustf.ac.ae

Dr. Asmaa Higazi a.hegezy@ustf.ac.ae

Mr. Eid Mohammed eid.m@ustf.ac.ae

Summary

• Declining of students’ enrollment is a serious problem facing many HEIs in the UAE, and USTF is no exception. Unconventional promotion methods, use of student recruitment agencies, improve student services are some examples for increasing student enrollment in the University.

• Dr. Khalid Khogali, Coordinator of Public Relations and Advertising, and Mr. Eid Mohamed, Responsible for Digital marketing will present their views about: ▪ Setting up a professional marketing team to increase the intake and diversity of students. ▪ Developing strong outreach and recruitment programs for high school students. ▪ Providing funding for the provision of scholarships to talented and promising students. to revert the declining students’ enrollment during the last few years.

Attendee

Date

USTF Goal and Objective

Topic

Lecturer

08:00 - 09:00 am

17 March 2023

Dr. Faisal Almatalka f.almatalka@ustf.ac.ae

Summary

• USTF maintains records of its students’ role and active representation in the decision-making at the institutional level through membership of student council representatives in USPC and UCEC.

• USTF’s student council members (both male and female students) attend college and department council meetings, expressing their viewpoints regarding course delivery, exam timings, and all issues related to their study plans, programs and course level issues, and exams scheduling.

• Faculty engage students in organizing and participating in events and activities and in activating student associations and clubs.

• Hold regular meetings between students, faculty, and staff to plan activities that serve the students’ best interest.

• Form a community engagement committee to promote volunteering and social responsibility.

• Encourage students’ participation in voluntary activities and community engagement, utilizing established relationships with national organizations.

Attendee

Date

USTF Goal and Objective

Topic

Lecturer

09:00 - 10:00 am

17 March 2023

Prof. Sumia S. Mohamed s.elkhatem@ustf.ac.ae 

Summary

Attendee

Date

USTF Goal and Objective

Topic

Lecturer

09:00 - 10:00 am

24 March 2023

Dr. Asmaa Ahmed asmaa.ahmed@ustf.ac.ae 

Summary

• Academic advisor is the most important person in students’ lives after their parents. Academic advisors guide their students towards achieving excellent academic standing, building their personalities, facing academic advice, gaining life experience, engagement in university life, receiving career counseling, and contributing to social and cultural activities.

• USTF colleges assign students’ academic advisors once they join the University. The academic advisors are well-trained faculty members, who are fully aware with the study plans of the academic program students are enrolled in. They have the experience to safeguard the students interests to the best of their abilities to make student succeed in their study and their lives.

• Dr. Asmaa Ahmed believes in the holistic approach of students’ advising process and would like to share us her experience in this regard.

Attendee

Date

USTF Goal and Objective

Topic

Lecturer

09:00 - 10:00 am 24

March 2023

Dr. Ahmed Zain Elabdin a.zainelabdin@ustf.ac.ae

Summary

• USTF integrates risk management and internal Auditing by ensuring that the internal audit's annual plans and work programs appropriately consider the university's primary risks and controls and provide assurance of their effectiveness.

• USTF continually reviews and optimizes its risk management function, framework, processes, and practices, to ensure effectiveness and comprehensiveness of its risk management plan.

• Deliver, maintain, and renew the university infrastructure and IT resources to support academic, research, and business needs of the university in a financially responsible way.

• Ensure that information technology services and infrastructure support the access, security, and privacy needs for information stored within the infrastructure.

• Ensure effective financial planning for services and infrastructure projects.

• Optimize the use of the existing space.

• Make environmental sustainability a guiding principle in the management of the university's facilities and resources.

• As the chair of the URMC, HE Dr. Ahmed Zain Elabdin, Vice Chancellor for Administrative and Financial Affairs, will talk to USUF’s faculty and teaching assistants about Risk assessment and risk assessment at the University.

Attendee

Date

USTF Goal and Objective

Topic

Lecturer

08:00 - 09:00 am

07 April 2023

Dr. Srinivasan Ramamurthy s.ramamurthy@ustf.ac.ae

Summary

• USTF ensures high academic standards and good quality of university graduates. The University also assures its full compliance with the CAA Standards, and commitment to maintaining the integrity and high quality of the CAAaccredited academic programs offered by the University.

• Turnitin is a plagiarism checking tool that generates a Similarity Reports which provide a summary of matching or highly similar text found in the submitted document. This user manual provides the guidance to create Turnitin assignment in MOODLE, generate similarity report and use it to make final judgment regarding plagiarism.

• Based on his experience in application of Turnitin in evaluation of graduation projects, Dr. Srinivasan will present the best practices in implementing Turnitin in assessing the similarity index of graduation projects and assignments with higher weightage.

Attendee

Date

USTF Goal and Objective

Topic

Lecturer

09:00 - 10:00 am

07 April 2023

• Goal 1: Promoting excellence of education in an inspiring environment of teaching and learning. ▪ Objective 1.3 Undertake regular assessment of teaching and learning activities according to pre-specified standard. ▪ Objective 1.5 Enhance the diversity of co-curricular activities and participation of students in a full and rich student life program.

• Goal (3): Recruiting qualified diverse students, enriching their experiences, and serving their various needs in a student-centered environment. ▪ Objective 3.2 Provide a university experience centered on student development and success.

Dr. Abdallah Elamin a.elamin@ustf.ac.ae

Summary

• Organize workshops and seminars to train faculty on assessment methodologies and academic accreditation processes.

• Conduct comprehensive assessment process of academic programs.

• Conduct surveys for obtaining faculty and students’ feedback on learning and teaching activities.

• USTF colleges assign students’ academic advisors once they join the University. The academic advisors are well-trained faculty members, who are fully aware with the study plans of the academic program students are enrolled in. They have the experience to safeguard the students interests to the best of their abilities to make student succeed in their study and their lives.

• Based on his wide experience in this field, Dr. Abdullah Elamin, College of Business Administration, will speak to us on how USTF’s faculty and teaching assistants can improve their students’ assessment and evaluation techniques in the future.

Attendee

Date

USTF Goal and Objective

Topic

Lecturer

09:00 - 10:00 am

14 April 2023

• Goal 4: Building reciprocal relationships and long-lasting ties with external communities. ▪ Objective 4.1 Develop and implement strategies for increased collaboration with industry in academic as well as co-curricular activities. ▪ Objective 4.2 Join forces with the public and private sectors in Fujairah to strengthen the positioning of USTF as a destination for learning. ▪ Objective 4.3 Seek external funds and resources required to satisfy the needs and expectations of the external communities.

Dr. Haytham Elmessiry h.elmessiry@ustf.ac.ae

or

Mr. Khalid Alshaikh khalid@prognica.com

Summary

• Utilize colleges advisory boards (CABs) to provide connections with practitioners in the field to enrich academic programs through exchange of information and ideas.

• Form joint committees with reputable public and private sectors to activate cooperation agreements between both parties.

• Provide scholarships in all academic programs offered by USTF to the main Fujairah Government departments to support their missions and achieve their goals.

• Strengthen USTF’s role as an accredited international texts center and provide courses to prepare the participant for international certified examinations and continue lifelong learning.

• Provide customized training courses to meet the needs for development of employees of public and private institutions.

• Offer professional training programs required by the employment market.

Attendee