ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
INTRODUCTION
“A 10% failure rate in Lebanese universities! What happened?” wrote the famous editor and write Khalil Hanna in one of the newspapers. He continued his piece talking about the elections in the universities.
One can’t but ask those questions: Should university heads allow such event on campus? Are students benefiting from their university’s educational experience, or are they investing their time in preparations for elections, thus risking the whole semester?
Our universities are now encountering a dangerous phenomenon, which they are not aware of, and they are not dealing with it seriously. The community we are living in is suffering from young damage of brains. How? The elections taking place at the universities are burning the students’ efforts and causing loss of skills and capabilities they possess.
As a result of this matter, this proposal has been executed with high accuracy and consideration mainly for the students involved in such act, and on the other hand to the parents who are not aware of their children’s entourage at the university. This way, the problem will be uncovered and it will be proved whether or not the student elections are affecting the grade point average of the students.
PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE STUDY
Here, the problem will be illustrated and emphasized by the sub-problems addressed. For instance, the elections that take place at universities have many negative influences on the students’ lives.
In other words, during the election period, most of the students pass through a critical stage that confuses them. Thus, they begin losing contact with the university as a place to learn, having less time to study, getting involved in extracurricular activities, grouping together, and participating in electoral meetings. This will lead them to miss their classes, drop their courses, and eventually have a low grade point average.
To help investigate
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