10.6.6 Support For Underrepresented Groups

  • 1. Psychological and Social Counseling

 The Department of Psychological and Social Counseling provides free services to university students that help them deal with many of the problems and challenges they face, including academic delay, poor achievement, poor self-confidence and acceptance of others, in addition to topics related to anxiety, depression and dealing positively with various stressors.

Note that the Department of Psychological and Social Counseling provides these and other services within an attractive, stimulating environment dominated by warmth and multicultural trust through support and empowerment sessions.

The office meets with university students and sometimes some staff and faculty members so that they can discuss confidentially about their problems or psychological trauma. 

Here are some of the services provided:

  1. Provide students and staff with free mental health support
  2. Academic motivation and making schedules with students and study plans 
  3. Doing psychological exercises with some students who suffer from psychological symptoms 
  4. Intervention by the psychologist to solve some students’ problems with their teachers 

To book an appointment for psychosocial counseling, you may contact Marwa Alqaisi

  1. tel.: 05609999 ext. : 1156
  2. email :m_alqaisi@asu.edu.jo​​
  • 2. Support Services for Mother Students

Mentoring scheme for female students

The Deanship of Students’ Affairs has established a new department with the objective of supporting female students studying at the Applied Science Private University. The department provides the following services and mentorships:

  1.   Counselling for new mothers – Providing support with regards to time management and handling of different responsibilities simultaneously.
  2. Personal assistance for pregnant female students while conducting different transactions at the university campus.
  3. Provide guidance and assistantship in relation to completing their studies and assignments within the timeline specified.
  4.  Medical health counselling regarding issues related to female students’ health and wellbeing
  5. Physical activity mentoring to help in maintaining the wellbeing and physical activity of female students
  6. Coordinate with the relevant academic departments to offer flexibility in the assessment procedures and components to accommodate the needs of female students with special needs and circumstances.

For further enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the Deanship of Students’ Affaires to join​ our mentoring groups

  • 3. Support Services for Students with Special Needs

ASU believes in serving all the segments of the community. Therefore, it attempts hard to offer male and female special-need students equal opportunities to their healthy counterparts to join all the educational programmes. To make available all quality facilities to such people represents one of the fundamentals of ASU’s planning and decision-making processes. In order to provide them with an appropriate environment with individual and collective services, there are special parks, lifts and lavatories, and the library is equipped with; PCs for visually impaired students, pathways and toilets designated for people with special needs to help them play their role completely at ASU.

Based on the evaluation of each individual case and the availability of resources, the university through the Deanship of Students’ Affairs, and upon approval of relevant departments, provides the necessary support and services for students with disabilities. This includes:

  1. Personal assistants to help students with mobility impairment and physical impairments move around the university campus (this is governed by the number of available staff).
  2. Examination adjustments can be arranged by recommending extra timing and permission of usage of assistive technologies including PC’s and related software.
  3. Early access to large-scale events for students who would face mobility difficulties or are nervous in crowds.
  4. Extended library material borrowing time. This will allow students with disabilities to keep library materials for longer, giving them more time to process the required information.
  5. Priority in booking the university accommodation. Students that require reasonable adjustments made to their accommodation arrangements can access higher specification rooms and given the priority to occupy the ground floor rooms at no extra charges.

Guidebook for Students with Special needs

Among the facilities provided by the university to students with special needs:

  1. The Registration Department considers the case of a student with special needs by choosing classrooms that are prepared or easily accessible and trying to avoid buildings where elevator service is not available.
  2. The university provides parking spaces for students with special needs.
  3. All university faculties are equipped with elevators, and the concerned authorities are currently working to install an elevator in the building of the Deanship of Student Affairs.
  4. All faculties are equipped with prepared facilities such as (bathrooms and corridors for the entrances to the faculties) for use by students with special needs.
  5. Students with special needs are granted a discount of up to 50% of university fees.
  • 4. Students Learning Development Unit​

The Students Learning Development Unit (SLDU) focuses on helping the students to progress throughout their academic journey and programs of study by offering trainings, workshops, and counseling services. The SLDU aims to enhance the students’ learning skills and improve their academic progression, thus they are able to complete their programs of study successfully with maximum benefit and best experience of their university life.

The SLDU conducts its activities on semesterly basis by offering a wide range of learning activities that are carried out by skilled and professional fulltime trainers, and volunteered faculty members and invited guests.

 The SLDU activities and services include: 

1. Support for all students in all aspects of academic writing, and communication skills.

​2. Improving the students essential study skills .

3. Trainings on use of MS Office and other IT skills.

4. Organizing teamwork capacity building programs ​.

5. Prebooked 1:1 or group tutorials. Contact us at: L_ammoury@asu.edu.jo​

Our team of professionals include: