The University President’s message on the occasion of the launch of the strategic plan of the University of Jordan

2023-04-16 22:17:04

Watan Al-Youm – Dr. Nazir Obeidat sends the following message on the occasion of launching the strategic plan of the University of Jordan

With the announcement of the strategic plan of the University of Jordan for the next five years, and with the beginning of a new era for the university, it is necessary to emphasize the fact that the University of Jordan was and will remain the source of ideas and solutions capable of making the difference represented in enhancing the well-being of the individual and the group, and contributing to the modernization of our dear Jordanian society.

In the next five years, we have to chart the path that we want and the Jordanians and their leadership want for the University of Jordan. University education began with the University of Jordan, and higher education continues with it in its new form that simulates all the geopolitical changes and the massive technological revolution.

We are proud of all that has been accomplished at the university, but the rapid pace of world change requires us to reshape higher education in Jordan, to move forward and not to lag behind.

And here is the University of Jordan announcing its new plan (2022-2027), which was drafted by students, faculty members, employees, members of the Deans’ Council, alumni, and community members, to receive the blessing and approval of the University’s Board of Trustees.

The new plan built on the university’s previous successes. The Jordanian company, which enjoys a distinguished reputation in providing our region with business leaders, health care providers and innovators from various specializations, always stresses the need to continue to grow, develop and innovate.

And since knowledge is the basis for the development and development of societies, the University of Jordan realizes that this knowledge and its applications must follow a variety of paths, taking into account the needs of Jordanian society and the moral legacy that Jordanians have carried generation after generation.

In its new strategic plan, the University of Jordan focuses on increasing the impact of each of the scientific research and educational programs, intending to create new directions that would emphasize the integration of the values ​​of love, ethics, transparency and civic responsibility in those programs, with an emphasis on the need for the university to establish effective partnerships with stakeholders. Business, industry and money, which allows them to transfer ideas to a broader horizon that allows interaction and dealing with partners outside the walls of universities, and learning from them as well, and gives us hope to narrow the gap between our academic and research products, and the needs of society locally, regionally and globally.

The strategic plan focuses on our academic and research programs and how to deal with the university campus, keeping in mind the growing climate threats, which requires us to reorganize and expand the university’s programs to achieve the desired effect. This requires creating new programs and policies that include academic inspiration to ensure scientific and research production that possesses a new critical understanding. For the existing links between the natural laws of science and human societies, which requires the launch of bold scholarships, grants and employment programs to create teaching and research faculties capable of understanding the new reality and its requirements that bear the greatest challenges and the fastest changes that the world has witnessed, perhaps through the ages.

The university must also realize the urgent need to develop the university campus, by improving the various university facilities, and ensuring a safe, sustainable and attractive university environment. We note that this plan takes into account the great technological revolution, which requires us to develop plans and policies that lead towards automating all procedures And the university’s various operations, including administrative, financial, academic and research operations, to become an integral part of the university’s digital transformation project, without ignoring the economic, social and humanitarian repercussions of such a transformation.

In order to achieve all this, the university must work to consolidate the principles of justice, equality and equal opportunities for its students, professors and employees, so that the university becomes an example for all the institutions of the country to follow, and in a manner that keeps pace with the royal directives in its quest for political and economic modernization and administrative reform, which began and continues with royal directives. .

Nazir Obeidat
President of the University of Jordan