She sees great importance in her activities for the sake of society and the community, for this reason a series of prestigious projects for social and community assistance was conducted. Currently, about 3000 students (including paying students) from all over the country are studying at the college, 92% of them are female students in the tracks: early childhood, elementary and post-elementary, in the specializations: Islamic studies, Arabic, Hebrew, sciences, mathematics, computers, English, special education and kindergarten teachers and grades 1-2.
The students arrive at the college with value conflicts, divided identities and rigid attitudes towards modernism and towards the other, the different, according to the feedback and assessment they receive. The process of training them enables desired changes that indicate more openness and fewer value conflicts. The constant pursuit of excellence underlies the way the college works. This ambition is expressed in the selection of students with a relatively high grade point average, in the selection of talented academic staff, in the construction of appropriate and prestigious academic and physical infrastructures in order to maintain an academic and educational atmosphere and in the adoption of innovative teaching norms and tools. The college has advanced study centers, the level of computing and IT is one of the highest in the country’s academic institutions, a library that is the most developed in the Arab sector and includes over 55,000 titles and physical infrastructure suitable for a proper academic institution). The presence of the college within the Arab sector allows a considerable part of the female students to obtain a higher education; Something that was not possible before.
The college as a first and unique academic institution in an Arab city constitutes a very important precedent. The families, most of whom are conservative, allow their daughters to study at a college that has managed to gain a lot of trust from the majority of the population in the Arab sector of Israel. Providing an Arab woman with a higher education can herald a process of social change and a narrowing of gaps between the two sectors: the Arab and the Jewish. Al-Qasmi College, which began as a religious institution founded by Altrika Alkhaluatiya Al-Qasmi, is today a model for changing the face of Arab society; It has become an authentic institution that receives legitimacy from the Arab society that is characterized as a traditional, religious and developing society that is in constant interaction with the Jewish society that is characterized as a modern society. Another model doubted if it could succeed. The educational vision of the college is based on processes that lead the learner to think about the conventions and the basic beliefs on which he grew up, to analyze them, to free himself from the therapist and to strengthen the human values appropriate to being a citizen of the State of Israel who pretends to be a citizen of the enlightened world: knows how to listen, analyze opinions logically, solve problems in an intelligent way, express an opinion and understand the other, from a place of true respect and appreciation.
Milestones in the college’s work:
Results-oriented management, working according to standards
academic standards
Integrating the college into social life in Israel and taking responsibility for our problems as a minority
Management by objectives
An organizational culture built on shared values, which creates pride among employees
Knowledge management and its transformation into the common domain within a culture of learning, research, innovation and continuous improvement
A constant process of acquiring knowledge.
public responsibility.
The above factors bore fruit: the college succeeded in positioning itself as a state academic institution despite the objections from within and from the Arab leadership that pressed to bend the college’s management approach as a system based on planning, standards and transparency. This success proves that it is also possible otherwise in the Arab sector characterized by a culture based on the codes of the “clan” culture, promotion based on family closeness and protection, a low level of exposure and transparency. At the same time as the academic activity, the college is a focal point for extensive activity among the Arab society in particular and the Israeli society in general and promotes the interreligious and intercultural discourse.
Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education won the Quality and Development Award under the supervision of the Civil Service Commission Division and became a national model in the issue of quality and excellence thanks to the National Award for Quality and Excellence awarded to it in 2009 and in 2012 it won the Mossad Prize for Partnership and Achievements and in 2015 the college won the C2E European Commitment to Quality and Excellence award. At the beginning of 2017, Al-Qasemi College received the first certification in the Arab society and became a Green Campus, also Al-Qasmi recently received the award for excellence in industry – North District on behalf of the Association of Manufacturers in Israel.
