Committee Chair

  • University President: Dr. Abdul Rahman Ibrahim Al-Khodairi


Members of the Committee

  • Vice President for Academic Affairs: Dr. Bandar bin Muhammad Al-Shuhri
  • Representative from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development
  • Representative from one of the Government Sectors related to the College's Programs
  • Representative from the Private Sector with Experience and Relationship to the College’s Programs
  • Representative from the Non-Profit Sector with Experience and Relationship to the College’s Programs
  • Additional Representative from one of the Government, Private, or Non-Profit Sectors


Committee Secretary

  • Executive Director of the Applied College: Dr. Balqasim Hassan Al-Jafri


Committee Duties

The committee supports strategic partnerships with the public sector, the private sector, and non-profit organizations, and activates the role of the Applied College in achieving developmental requirements and current and future labor market needs, regionally and nationally, regarding supply and demand, and it undertakes the following to achieve this:

  • Follow-up and coordination with the university to determine admission numbers, targeted programs in order to guide students towards specializations that support localization according to labor market supply and demand forecasting reports.
  • Coordination with relevant sectors and agencies through localization to direct the required support to the Applied College
  • Following the progress of the College of Applied Sciences and its branches at the University and reviewing their reports
  • Proposal for Strategic Partnerships with the Public Sector, Private Sector, and Non-Profit Sector
  • Establish criteria for selecting and evaluating the CEO and his Deputy, as well as Executive Assistants and Senior Executives
  • Proposal of Performance Indicators and Annual Targets for the Applied College to be presented to the University Council for Approval