King Khalid University
| جامعة الملك خالد | |
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Former names
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King Saud University, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University |
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| Type | Public State University |
| Established | 1998 |
| Budget | 812,884,554.62$ (2012 academic year) |
| President | Abdulrahman Al Dawood |
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Academic staff
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Mer'ai Hussain Alqhtany |
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Administrative staff
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Saad Abdullah Aleisa |
| Undergraduates | 72,000 |
| Postgraduates | 1500 |
| Location |
Abha,al-Namas, 'Asir Province, Saudi Arabia 18°14′58″N 42°33′35″E / 18.2495°N 42.5597°ECoordinates: 18°14′58″N 42°33′35″E / 18.2495°N 42.5597°E |
| Colors | Green, White, Grey |
| Nickname | KKU |
| Website | www |
King Khalid University (KKU; Arabic: جامعة الملك خالد) is a public university, distributed over several towns in the 'Asir Province in south-west Saudi Arabia, including Abha and al-Namas. On 26 July 1998, King Saud University and Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University merged to become King Khalid University.
King Khalid University is a rapidly growing institution of higher education in Saudi Arabia. With around 70,000 students, it is one of the biggest centers of learning in the Middle East region with a reputation as a major provider of both further and higher education. The eLearning Center (eLC) at KKU was established in 2005 as part of the university’s continuous efforts to provide the latest scientific methodologies to improve the educational process.
Abdullah al-Rashid was the president of King Khalid University until 1 July 2012, when he was replaced by Abdulrahman al-Dawood following massive student protests in May and calls for his resignation.
One of the deans is Shanaifa Al-Qarni, Dean of the Women's College.
The university offers e-learning at KKU and inculcate learning to more than 70 thousands of students. Coordinating with international standards and sector leading players practices, e-learning in KKU have been approved at three levels:
The web facilitated level has already started the second semester of the academic year 1429–1430.
The eLearning Center (eLC) has a world-class technology infrastructure to support e-learning and e-knowledge processes at KKU. Students, faculty members, and administrators achieve authorized/authenticated access through the center portal to a robust, fully integrated Learning Management System (LMS) and supporting applications and knowledge resources which extracts data from the Student InformationSystems (SIS), and in the future the KKU library, and Blackboard's e-Portfolio. It also is supported by the Classroom Capture Application, Authoring Tools, e-Assessments, Virtual Classroom Tools, and a highly capable Learning Object Repository (LOR) that can share learning objects drawn from a variety of international open learning resources and content providers.
On 7 March 2012, during the 2011–2012 Saudi Arabian protests, women students of the University protested against "injustice and inequality" and "discrimination and mistreatment" by university security staff. The students were attacked by security forces and on 10 March held a sit-in calling for the rector Abdullah Al Rashid to resign. On 1 July 2012, Rashid was fired by King Abdullah and replaced by Abdulrahman Al Dawood.
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