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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7467872

Recibido: 14-05-2021 •Aceptado: 14-06-2021

Asociación comunitaria en la Universidad de Jazan

Qassem Aail Alharbi

Jazan University, Saudi Arabia

d.k-alharbi@hotmail.com / kharbi@jazanu.edu.sa

Maryam Ali Yahya Daghriri

Jazan University, Saudi Arabia

eh-sas999@hotmail.com

Resumen

Destinado a revelar las diferencias estadísticamente significativas

entre los promedios de las estimaciones de los profesores sobre la

realidad de la práctica de los requisitos administrativos en términos de

(planificación, organización y coordinación) para activar la asociación

comunitaria en la Universidad de Jazan y las variables: género, tipo de la

universidad, años de servicio. Se utilizaron los métodos descriptivos y el

cuestionario con una muestra aleatoria (290) de miembros de la facultad

de posición académica durante el 2do semestre (2019). Los resultados,

existe acuerdo entre la muestra para practicar los requisitos

administrativos relacionados con (planificación, organización y

coordinación) para activar la asociación comunitaria en la Universidad de

Jazan.

Palabras clave: Requisitos administrativos; Universidad de Jazan;

Asociación comunitaria.

Community Partnership at Jazan University

Abstract

Aimed to reveal the statistically significant differences between the

averages of the faculty members’ estimates of the reality of practicing the

administrative requirements in terms of (planning, organization, and

coordination) to activate the community partnership at Jazan University

and the variables: gender, type of college, years of service. The descriptive

methods and the questionnaire with a random sample (290) of faculty

members of academic position during 2nd semester (2019) were used.

The Results, there is an agreement among the sample to practice the

administrative requirements related to (planning, organization, and

coordination) in order to activate the community partnership at Jazan

University.

Keywords: Administrative requirements; Jazan University;

Community partnership.

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1. INTRODUCTION

Saudi Arabia is witnessing a comprehensive renaissance as a

result of what technological progress and knowledge flow impose on

society, which is concerned with the connection between state-owned

institutions and the partnership between them to serve the society and its

members(AL-AMEER &AL-OMARI, 2020).

Society is the place in which man lives, keeps pace with its

progress, coexists with its members. Its personal individuality shall not be

formed and its identity shall not be formed unless this individual plays an

active role in the development of society and positive participation, so

the individual must participate in it society. (AL-AMIRI, 2018)

Since the educational process is the effective tool in the

occurrence of any development, progress or growth. Any country

interested in education and succeeds in achieving its goals, actually

become among the ranks of developed countries because education is an

effective tool to serve all segments and categories of society (AL-

JAWAHIRI and AL-SHAMRI, 2011). Human development in the

contemporary world has become the true capital for the progress of

mankind, and to the extent that the nation possesses creative minds, its

place is among peoples, and for the sake of creating good outcomes and

powerful outcomes keeping pace with the rapid changes, community

partnership has become a necessity to advance education and improve its

outcomes. (KABR, 2015)

In addition, the educational process at the present time does not

depend entirely on the educational institution alone, but has evolved and

spread to include the family and society in all its categories and with the

introduction of these new elements of the educational process, the

concept of community partnership appeared. (AL-QAHTANI, 2015)

In order to enhance and advance the educational process and

achieve cultural and professional development, we must increase the

activation of community partnership in aspects of education, and

decentralize the management of the educational process, thus achieving

effective management, expanding the base of responsibility, and

producing new leaders capable of making decisions (SALIM, 2005).

Since universities have expanded their mission and extended to

include community service and leading the development movement in it

in addition to their scientific function, they contribute to solving

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problems, and also help to develop research capabilities, as they are a

pillar from which the state derives its human energy capable of carrying

and maintaining the burden of development (MUTAWA, 2003). The

success of an educational institution in achieving its mission depends

mainly on its connection and partnership with the community in which it

lives. Hence, it becomes necessary for it to consolidate this partnership

with its community and its surroundings taking into consideration that its

success in its duties and the achievement of its mission depends mainly

on the strength and durability of this relationship and partnership. (AL-

AJAMI, 2000).

The first major duty of educational institutions management is to

carry out effective programs to achieve successful relationships between

educational institutions and society, and these programs must take into

account the characteristics of the society they serve, its potentials, the

extent of its ambition and aspirations, and what is expected from them,

linking the community’s members with the educational institution, and

enlightening the individuals of society with the activities and efforts

carried out by the educational institution and what it expects from them

in terms of support and assistance to achieve its goals. (MORSI, 2010)

In order for the university to play its appropriate role, it must take

into account the balance between what it is preparing and what the

community needs, and its preparation shall be at the level and quality that

the community needs (MAHMOUD, 2015). Therefore, the university

must seek to activate community partnerships that can help

administrators, faculty members and students to enhance their missions

and provide opportunities for their participation with the community.

Community partnerships with the university must be viewed as a critical

tool to address urgent social problems for advancing social change by

focusing university resources on real-world issues in the local community

(DAVIS, 2013).

In order for the university to engage in community partnership, it

must have several features, including: that community development be

part of the university’s mission and within perception of its objectives,

that the university participates in research with institutions, that the

university participates in research and development issues, and that the

university motivates faculty members to participate in activities

Development (AL-DALAMI and JAD, 2017). As well, the university is

required to provide individuals who are able to serve the community,

through knowing the requirements and needs of society. (MUSE, 2018).

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The study conducted by AL-AHMAD (2015) concluded that

many countries depend on partnership as a fundamental factor in

achieving comprehensive development in various fields, as partnership

contributes to the concerted efforts of institutions in various sectors

which maximize the benefit of the institutions parties to the partnership.

Universities' tendency to communicate with the community is a

good example and evidence of the influencing role for them, and that

they do not work in isolation from members of society, but rather seek to

engage between groups of society through social partnerships and

research that have a direct impact on society, and the university’s job in

community partnership is not waiting to seek service. In fact, the

university must, with its competencies and capabilities, go out by itself to

provide service to the members of society. (MINISTRY OF HIGHER

EDUCATION, 2014).

In recent years, interest has increased in the status of universities

and their role in contemporary society, the future of university education

and its objectives, the challenges that universities face in various social,

economic, political and cultural fields, and the methods and means that

universities can use to face these challenges and overcome them or

overcome them and adapt them to their advantage to achieve its

objectives and serve its scientific mission. (AL-MARAGHI, 2016)

Because of the role of Jazan University and its contribution to

achieving development for the Saudi society, it is therefore necessary to

activate the community partnership at Jazan University with various

sectors in society.

Therefore, the university administration must give the community

partnership great care and attention, starting with laying the proper

foundations for it in planning, then organization, coordination and

developing it continuously to contribute to achieving the needs of society

(AL-AMEER &AL-OMARI,2020).

2. DISCUSSION OF RESULTS

In order to identify the faculty members’ estimates of the reality of

practicing the administrative requirements to activate the community

partnership at Jazan University, the arithmetic means and standard

deviations of the estimates of the study sample respondents were

calculated for each of the administrative requirements and for the

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requirements as a whole, then these requirements were arranged in a

descending order, according to the arithmetic mean for each of them, as

follows:

It is evident from Table (4-1) that the research sample

respondents' estimates of the reality of practicing the administrative

requirements to activate community partnership at Jazan University

include three axes, which are respectively according to their arithmetic

mean (planning-related requirements, organization-related requirements,

and coordination-related requirements). All of them came with a

response score (agree), where the arithmetic means of the axes ranged

between (4.0 and 4.12), and these means fall into the fourth category of

the 5-point scale categories, which indicates the degree of response

(Agree).

The general arithmetic mean of the axis is (4.04 out of 5.0) with a

standard deviation (0.69), and this indicates that the practice of

administrative requirements to activate community partnership at Jazan

University came with a degree of (Agree), where planning-related

requirements come first with a general arithmetic mean (4.12) and a

standard deviation (0.68), followed by organization-related requirements

with an arithmetic mean (4.01) and a standard deviation (0.78), and then

coordination-related requirements come among the least administrative

requirements for activating community partnership at Jazan University in

terms of practice with an arithmetic mean (2.4.0) and a standard deviation

(0.76).

The results of the current study were also in agreement with the

result of the study conducted by MUHAMMAD (2017), which

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concluded that the level of activating community partnership among

heads of department in private universities was at a high level, and the

result of the current study agreed with the result of the study

conducted by EUBANKS (2017), which concluded that the university

preparedness can be improved using community partnerships.

Whereas the results of the current study differed with the result

of the study conducted by DRAKE and MAYA'A (2014)

&(ALQAHTANI &AYENTIMI,2020),which concluded that the

estimates of faculty members showed that the level of partnership

between universities and private sector institutions was medium for all

areas of partnership, and the result of the current study differed with

the result of the study conducted by KHATER (2015) which

concluded that the Egyptian universities' implementation of the

partnership is achieved at a very weak degree, as well as the result of

the current study differed with the result of study conducted by

MAHMOUD (2015), which concluded that the partnership between

the Syrian public universities and the local community was medium,

and the results of the current study also differed with the result of the

study conducted by AL-HAMMAD (2017) which concluded that

there is a deficiency in the partnership between universities and public

education institutions in the Kingdom.

In the following, we discuss in some detail the reality of

practicing administrative requirements to activate community

partnership at Jazan University:

2.1. Planning-Related Administrative Requirements

Frequencies, percentages, arithmetic means, and standard

deviation of the responses of the study sample respondents were

calculated, and these phrases were arranged according to the

arithmetic mean of each of them, and the results concluded the

following:

The axis of the reality of practicing planning-related

administrative requirements to activate community partnership at

Jazan University includes (9) phrases, the arithmetic means of which

ranged between (4.13 and 4.41), and these means fall into the two

categories (fourth and fifth) of the 5-point scale categories. The

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previous result indicates that the responses of the study respondents

about the axis phrases range from the degree of response (agree -

strongly agree).

This indicates that there is agreement among the study

respondents to practice planning-related administrative requirements to

activate the community partnership at Jazan University, and this may be

attributed to the importance of the planning process and its role in

providing a common understanding within educational institutions of the

goals and achievements that the organization seeks to achieve, and the

steps necessary for the implementation process as it contributes to the

good and integrated planning of the community partnership processAs

stated in a study MELLAHI &WOOD. (2013).

As well it includes determining the policies, rules and procedures

necessary for its implementation, and this is what is emphasized by

(DÖTTERWEICH, 2006), where he indicated that there are axes for

building an effective community partnership represented in: A clear

definition of the common vision and objectives between the parties of

the partnership and the establishment of an organizational structure for

the partnership, the development of cooperative work procedures while

adhering to the specific role of each partner according to what has been

agreed upon, in addition to continuing the implementation of partnership

projects in light of political and economic changes.

2.2. Organization-Related Administrative Requirements

Frequencies, percentages, arithmetic means, and standard

deviation of the responses of the study sample respondents were

calculated, and these phrases were arranged according to the arithmetic

mean of each of them, and the results concluded the following:

The axis of the reality of practicing organization-related

administrative requirements to activate community partnership at Jazan

University includes (8) phrases, the arithmetic means of which ranged

between (3.77, 4.15), and these means fall into the fourth category of the

5-point scale categories, and the previous result indicates that the

responses of the study respondents about the axis phrases came with a

degree (Agree).

The general arithmetic mean is (4.01) with a standard deviation

(0.78), and this indicates that there is agreement among the study

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respondents, and this may be attributed to the important role of the

organization process in effectively achieving the objectives of

institutions, by defining the roles that each individual should play and

the work assigned to him, and the suitability of his job to other jobs.

The organization process would achieve coordination between

various collective efforts, and this is what AL-SALEM &AL-

DAOUD (2001), GIBSON, DAVIES (2008) and AL-RASHED

(2018) emphasized, as they explained that the organization has a

fundamental role in activating the process of community partnership

by forming a mechanism to link the university with other community

institutions, especially the institutions of production and services, and

to interact with them so that they contribute to solving development

problems, and to provide joint programs aimed at raising the level of

community members, improving the efficiency of the workforce, and

increasing production levels.

2.3. Coordination-Related Administrative Requirements

Frequencies, percentages, arithmetic means, and standard

deviation of the responses of the study sample respondents were

calculated, and these phrases were arranged according to the

arithmetic mean of each of them, and the results concluded the

following:

General arithmetic mean is (4.0) with a standard deviation

(0.76), and this indicates that there is agreement among the study

respondents to practice coordination-related administrative

requirements to activate the community partnership at Jazan

University, and this may be attributed to the important role of the

coordination process in enhancing the efforts of institutions in a way

that contributes to achieving common goals, as coordination

contributes to achieving cooperation and balance with other

institutions to achieve goals away from conflict and duplication.AL-

THUBAITI (1997) explained that coordination is necessary and

important to unify efforts in various departments and units inside and

outside the institution to achieve the general and corporate goals, and

to integrate the efforts of institutions to achieve the objectives of

society.

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3. RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS

In light of the results concluded by present study, the following

recommendations can be proposed that may contribute to improving the

activation of community partnership at Jazan University:

1. Establish a center or unit specialized only in managing

community partnership at the university (AL-GHAMDI, 2018).

2. Give sufficient powers and authorities to those qualified to

plan and implement community partnership at the university

(ALLUI&SAHNI,2016)

3. Provide an appropriate budget to support the activation of

community partnership at the university.

4. Reduce administrative transactions upon establishing

community partnership and reducing the bodies that must be

addressed. (ALQAHTANI&AYENTIMI,2020)

5. Strengthen coordination between the various departments and

colleges at the university in activating community partnerships

between them or between them and other institutions and

universities.

6. Provide facilities in each of the university's colleges so as to

active the community partnership.

7. Provide training and qualification for faculty members to

activate community partnership.

8. Encourage the activation of community partnership and

linking its activation with material and moral incentives

(EUBANKS, 2017).

9. Spread awareness of the importance of community partnership

between faculty members and students.

10. Demonstrate the administrative mechanism to activate the

community partnership of institutions and faculty members.

11. Provide a guide in the university magazine that clarifies the

mechanisms of the university's partnership with community

institutions.

12. Conduct a periodic meeting to discuss developments and

proposals to activate community partnership at the university.

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Research proposals for Future Studies

In light of the results concluded, the girl-researcher proposes

some suggestions that will hopefully contribute to enriching the

educational field in that field:

I. Conduct a similar study dealing with the reality of practicing

the administrative requirements to activate community partnership

in other universities and in other regions.

II. Conduct a study dealing with the administrative challenges

facing the activation of community partnership.

III. Conduct a study dealing with community partnership and its

role in developing education.

IV. Conduct a study that deals with a proposed vision to activate

the community partnership in universities.

V. Conduct a study on the importance of activating community

partnership at the university in light of the Kingdom's vision

(2030).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Praise is due to Allah , It is also our pleasure to extend our sincere

thanks to Jazan University, represented by the university administration ,

its vice-chancellors, the staff of the College of Education, and the

teaching staff in the Education Department for all their help, the Jazan

University Library, KFNL, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic

Studies , Saudi Digital Library for the facilities they provided and the

distinguished professors who contributed to refereeing the research tool.

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