University discusses students' life adaptation in the university and its effect on dropout.

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King Khalid University, Media Center

King Khalid University, represented by the Deanship of Student Affairs organized a course entitled "compatibility with university life". The venue was the Academic Complex in Almahala. The course was presented by Dr. Mubarak bin Salem Al-Saif a member of the American Leadership Development Association (ALDA).

During the course, Al Saif showed how it is necessary to have compatibility with university life requirements, because it is a leading factor to student's success or failure in his or her university study. Compatibility with university life varies to include the variability of the academic disciplines, the distracting events of university life, social and emotional relationships with classmates, the pressures of the university environment, and the problems of students who leave their smaller towns and move to big cities seeking for education and knowledge.

Al Saif also clarified that those students who could adapt to university life with its various dimensions are characterized by positivity, maturity, emotional consistency, the ability to cope with life events, as well as having the motivation for academic achievement. He said" Student's academic compatibility is considered one of the strongest indicators to a student's mental health, as he or she spends long time of his or her life in the university. Adapting to University environment and feeling satisfied about his or her life in the university contribute to determine student's willingness to accept the attitudes and values that the university is working on to grow and develop inside its students." He added, "students' expectations and impressions about university life are different, as they are exposed to pressures in university life; academic, psychological, economic, social and moral pressure... etc. These pressures surely have a negative effect on the students' acceptance to responsibilities of university study." Al Saif further pointed at the negative consequences of lacking the ability to adapt with university life such as the dropout, which means a student of an institution  of higher education leaves for more than a year. In case he or she does not coming back, he or she would be counted as a dropout, even he or she has moved to another educational institution.

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