The HCC Forum For Understanding & Dialog (FUD)

by Dr. basil Abdel Gader, Department of Sciences. Office Phone: 122. E-mail: Basil.abdelgadir@worldonline.fr
 

 		  
 

The Students Guidance & Counseling Office (SGCO) provides individual counseling to students. This service is producing results, thanks to the referral basis which guides its approach.

The SGCO receives a growing number of students seeking advice. We listen to students who need to talk to someone. We initiate contact through direct interaction with students. We are involved (in an informal way) with students’ discipline. 

Recently, the SGCO has created its “Forum for Understanding and Dialog”. The FUD organizes:

  •  Forums on the standards of behavior required at college level. These forums would stress on the importance of self-responsibility, self-reliance, and the values of self-discipline, efforts, and honesty. They could conclude agreements regarding expectations and responsibilities.

  • Forums on the requirements of academic success, re-enforcing the values of efforts and the merits of achievement.

  • These forums could help more students become successful. They should promote excellence. They represent the occasion for some students to “shine” and to become recommendable for a future HCC mini reward program with the aim of promoting academic excellence, leadership, and teamwork.

  • Informative meetings of information on College regulations. These meetings would only transmit and explain official and reliable information.

  • Forums on Time Management, Study Skills, and other such disciplines.

In this way, the FUD contributes to an improved climate of confidence and collaboration by developing new channels of information and communication between the students and the College.

Bringing together students and faculty to discuss new ideas/common concerns, the FUD contributes to develop interpersonal skills and fruitful relations.  

Being a forum by the students, for the students, the FUD should increase the students’ ties to the College; it should make them active participants in the life of their College. 

 We hope that understanding, communication, and dialog will become an integral part of the general culture and values of the College.

 Dr. basil Abdel Gader,

Department of Sciences.