Sapir College
| Sapir Academic College | |
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| motto | Lighthouse in the Negev |
| founding | 1963 |
| Sponsorship | Sha'ar HaNegev County |
| place | Sha'ar HaNegev |
| state | Southern District |
| country | Israel |
| president | Omri Yadlin (since 2012) |
| Students | 7480 (May 2010) |
| Employee | 1200 |
| including professors | 100 |
| Website | www.sapir.ac.il |
The Sapir College ( Hebrew המכללה האקדמית ספיר HaMikhlela HaAkademit Sapir ), named after Pinchas Sapir , is a university located in the Israeli district of Scha'ar HaNegev with currently around 7,480 students. In 2010, 5290 of these were enrolled in academic bachelor 's and master' s degrees . 2190 students are enrolled in a non-academic associate degree program. This makes Sapir College the largest public college in Israel . In the academic further qualification, one works closely with the Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Scheva , where students with a bachelor's degree can pursue a master’s degree.
100 university lecturers are permanently employed in the 12 departments. In addition, around 950 external lecturers teach in the various subjects. The relationship between university teachers and students can therefore be regarded as very good. In Germany, the Sapir College entered into an academic partnership with the Trier University of Applied Sciences in December 2005 . Since autumn 2008, the Sapir College has also been represented by two honorary representatives in Germany.
history
The history can be traced back to 1963. The humble beginnings with a few simple buildings of a military base abandoned after the Suez crisis on a hill near the Gaza border lay in an evening school for adult education . Those in charge of Scha'ar HaNegev County quickly recognized the need for qualitative expansion and relocated the early college in the buildings of their own high school , using the classrooms that were empty in the evening.
The early move of the college made it possible to expand the range of courses in close cooperation with the Open University of Israel, which is currently being set up. At that time, the first contacts were also to young Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva made, which had to build its profile as more complex oriented teaching and research institution in the 1960s itself. Both institutions, the Sapir College as well as the Ben Gurion University, were aware of their outstanding importance for the development of the southern parts of the country.
In the early 1970s, 15 regional authorities including the Bedouin minority in the Israeli Negev, under the leadership of the district of Scha'ar HaNegev, started an initiative for the long-term establishment of a regional university , which should serve the tertiary education and training of the inhabitants of the northern Negev.
As early as the mid-1970s, the Jewish Agency recognized the importance of the regional universities, which were formed in development zones away from the country's centers. This broke the resistance of the country's established higher education institutions, which had slowed down the development and funding of the new colleges for years.
In 1975, the then chairman of the Jewish Agency , Arieh Dulzin , established a link between the college and the Zionist Workers' Party ( Poalei Zion ) in New York and the Zionist Youth Organization in Paris. Donations from these two organizations laid the foundation stone for a center for technical education, which later became the department for applied engineering . At the beginning of the 1980s, a department for communication studies was founded, which formed the academic core of what later became known as Sapir College.
The next turning point in university history came in the early 1990s with the wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union. Thousands of young people were striving for an academic education that the established institutions were not up to. During this time, the Israeli government under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Education Minister Amnon Rubinstein decided to strengthen the regional colleges instead of building more universities. On the occasion of this decision, the so-called student village was built in Ibbim, in which around 400 students with immigrant backgrounds live today. With the establishment of the student village by the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency at the end of the 1990s, Sapir College finally established itself as the leading higher education institution between Ashdod on the Mediterranean and Beersheba in the Negev desert and between Kiryat Gat in the east and the Eshkol settlements in Established southwest. One million people live in the region, around 120,000 of whom are Bedouins .
Since 2002, the College of Audio and Visual Arts has organized the international Cinema South Festival annually in Sderot and the surrounding area .
Departments
There are 12 departments, these are:
- Communication Sciences (BA)
- Film (BA)
- Personnel Management (BA)
- Social work (BA)
- Administrative Sciences (BA, MA)
- Logistics (BA)
- Business Administration (BA)
- Social Sciences (BA)
- Industrial Management (BA)
- Computer Science (BA)
- Technology Management (BA)
- Engineering (only 1st year of study)
Four more courses and faculties are planned for the next few years. Corresponding plans have already been submitted to the Israeli University Council for academic recognition. The new faculties are:
- Mass Communication Media (MA)
- Nursing Sciences and Health (BA)
- Law (LL.B.)
- Free Art (BA)
In addition, 10 non-academic courses are located at the “School of Practical Engineering”. These are:
- Architecture and interior design
- biotechnology
- Media technology
- Film and television technology
- Communication technology
- Sound engineering
- electronics
- Electrical engineering
- Industrial management
- Software systems and computer technology
In addition, there is an art school in the non-academic sector and the "Sapir Tech" center for distance learning and language courses.
Student body
Around 10% of the students are of Arab origin, 95% of whom come from Bedouin families based in the Negev . 31% of the students come from Scha'ar HaNegev , the neighboring districts and the city of Sderot , which is directly adjacent to the campus. 39% of the students come from the south of Israel and the remaining 30% from the greater Tel Aviv , Jerusalem and the north. The percentage of new immigrants ( Olim ) among the students is very high. 300 students (mainly from Ethiopia) have only been in Israel for a maximum of 5 years, another 600 between 5 and 15 years. A special language course ( ulpan ) is offered for newcomers .
campus
The campus is located in Ibbim, near the city of Sderot . In addition to the faculty buildings, there is the central library with over 150,000 titles, the student house including the canteen and cafeteria and the university administration. But central facilities of the Scha'ar HaNegev district can also be found there, such as B. the nationally known hydrotherapy center , the regional center for the elderly, the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional School (high school and elementary school), two sports halls and a large sports field. Also on campus is the studio and the transmitter of Radio Kol Hanegev , the "voice of the Negev", which can be received on the frequency 106.4 MHz in the entire north-western Negev .
A major problem for the university is the security measures to be taken due to the Kassam and Katyushar rockets fired at Israel by terrorists from the nearby Gaza Strip . The government obliges Sapir College to make all buildings missile-proof. This has required major investments in recent years and still leads to an acute shortage of space, as the construction work has not yet been completely completed.
Rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip
In 2007, around 1,050 rockets and mortar shells were fired from the Gaza Strip in the area around Sapir College . One student was killed and some injured in college. Many suffer from post-traumatic symptoms and are looked after by the university's psychological service. Three buildings of the college were damaged by rocket attacks and 45% of the building area is not allowed to be used due to the security measures not yet completed. Due to the difficult security situation, there was a significantly lower number of new enrollments for the coming academic year in 2008, especially among foreign students. More information about the missile attacks can be found in the article on the city of Sderot .
Web links
- Sapir College website (Hebrew)
- The Sapir College website (English)
- Website of the campus radio Kol Hanegev incl. Live stream
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sapir College appoints representatives in Germany . (PDF) malereimedizinmusik.de
- ↑ The School of Audio and Visual Arts at Sapir College. In: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Israel Office. October 2016, accessed July 2, 2017 .
- ^ The Cinema South International Film Festival. In: Embassy of Israel, London. July 2, 2014, accessed July 2, 2017 .