Promoting Values and National Identity through Student Activities from the Perspective of Students of the Applied College at Northern Border University

Abstract

The research aims to determine the role played by the student activities division in universities to enhance values and national identity among their students. The research focuses on students in the Applied College at the Northern Border University. A stratified random sample of all academic programs in the college was used. A sample of 225 male and female students from the College of Applied Sciences at the Northern Border University participated. The researcher adopted the descriptive survey approach by using a questionnaire to collect the needed data. The results show an increase in the trend towards developing student activities for the student's personality, the presence of a healthy university environment and an appropriate educational climate, ensuring student activities to develop and enhance the spirit of university discipline, activating the role of volunteer and charitable work towards society, and employing student activities in sports aspects. While the aspects of a healthy university environment and an optimal educational climate that keep pace with students’ inclinations were given a moderate degree. The study recommended the need to expand on national values and identity while paying attention to the role of student activities in two areas: the presence of a healthy university environment and an ideal, appropriate educational climate that keeps pace with students’ inclinations, and the expansion of the availability of new student activities at the university, represented by opening subscriptions to health clubs concerned with physical fitness at a special discount for students of the Applied College.