The Various Deanships

It should be made clear that this discussion is not based on any existing University structure in the country and instead will based on our decisions on the "mythical" university including that of establishing cost centers in each of the Deanships.

This implies that colleges should supervise either directly or indirectly all that relates to the college itself from the building to the educational content. This section does not cover the deanship of student affairs, and do note that registration is no longer a deanship.

Every Deanship must have a prestated mission that is more than just a group of words that are written to show the ideals that they wish to take place. The mission must be practical and achievable. An example, is to set a mission to educate students to an internationally accredited level of knowledge.

Goals:

This is followed by setting a number of specific goals that may include;

1. If the college has less students than other colleges than its goals should include increasing the student body to say 2000 students. The aim is to market the college to students till it is utilized to full capacity. The job market may dictate finding specializations that accomodate the students but we must never forget that existing faculty are an asset that should not be wasted on colleges with a low number of students.
2. Establishing a system of student progress and comparative levels of knowledge with students around the world, by constantly comparing curriculums and testing students with international test questions to identify any points of weakness in the faculty styles or student learning in order to find a remedy for any weakness.
3. If the college is in a high student population scenario than this may result in that a large number of students get expelled. One possible solution is to accept all students who apply to any field as diploma students and after two years to evaluate their progress. If they are weak, they are asked to take a 6 month thesis option to get a diploma and if they strong, they can go on to take a bachelors having completed the first two years of study. This way the University does not have to invent new courses that it is not acquainted with how to teach them, or offer subjects that require devices, equipment or software that is not available for the regular mainstream students.
4. Program plans for any specialization usually describe all the courses that students take during their period of study. In various universities these change so often that both students and advisors are confused as to what would allow a particular student graduate. I would like the reader to imagine a hypothetical scenario where an instructor would ask a chairman about a specific course and whether it is required or elective to a group who joined the University at a specific year and the chairman replies, "we'll discuss that later, now concentrate on advising students." How can that instructor or others advise if their chairman does not know all the rules?
5. Building requirements must be made clear for the college as a whole and this should include security requirements for computer laboratories, and necessary connections for Internet access, prayer areas for students etc.
6. General statistics of student flow through the years, can be calculated to show what is the minimum graduation time in any program in the college, versus the maximum, to enable the administrators at the college level to assess whether the requirements set are achievable or imaginary
7. Research supervision is ALWAYS done by the dean of any college in all Universities in the world. It is the dean who encourages faculty and supports them by trying to help them get grants and it is the dean who is questioned on why faculty did not conduct the minimum amount of research set for that college in any particular year. Unfortunately, although the rule books here do include the words that all faculty have to conduct research, they are just words, because Google scholar does not show a lot of names along with published papers.