Location

This university is located in Oluvil, coastal area in the Ampara district, 350 kilometers away from Colombo. Oluvil site is a charming and lively place bounded on the East by the sea shore of Bay of Bengal, the river Kaliodai on the North, the vast stretch of paddy fields on the West and array of coconut estates in the center and extensive mixed farms in the surrounding. All these added up to a scene of absorbing interests.

Undergraduates

Started with 35 displaced students in November 1995, today SEUSL has a total of undergraduate strength of 1200. After Tsunami a substantial number of undergraduates and their families are rendered displaced or refugees in the camps.

Academic Programme

SEUSL has at present three Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Culture (FAC); Faculty of Management and Commerce (FMC); and Faculty of Applied Sciences (FASc). It is also proposed to establish the Faculty of Agricultural Technology and the Faculty of Islamic Studies to diversify the courses to provide more Opportunities.

The FAC offers BA (General-3 Years Course) and BA (Special -4 Years Course). It has two departments: Department of Social Sciences; Department of Languages.

The FMC, which has two departments namely Department of Management and Department of Accountancy and Finance, offers Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of Commerce degrees in Marketing, Accounting, Finance, Management Information Systems and Human Resources Management. The thrust of this Faculty is towards hands on professional studies.

The FASc offers Bachelor of Science Degree and Master of Science in environmental studies. It has three Departments: Biological Sciences; Physical Sciences and Mathematics and Computer Sciences. The FASc has been functioning from September 1997 at Sammanthurai north-west of Oluvil.

There are vast opportunities at the SEUSL to diversify the advanced scientific studies and research. Fishing, a principal activity in the district, is also capable of being studied scientifically. Conservation of reservoirs and wet lands and In-land fishery may be spin-offs from that discipline. The presence of wildlife sanctuaries and protected forests affords scholars the opportunity to study them, as scientific disciplines.

Library

SEUSL Library is a dynamic and integral part of the institution. It is an essential tool of education for both teachers and undergraduates to do self learning and research works. Today the library, even within the very short period of 8 years of its existence, has a stock of 53,000 books. The Library is being continuously updated. SEUSL is on the mailing list of many academic and scholarly journals. As a novel step, SEUSL has begun a library endowment scheme. It has requested all those in possession of academic and archival material to donate them to SEUSL library on the undertaking that the material will be preserved and carefully maintained. It is implementing projects to provide multi media facilities to the students and staff for learning and research.

STUDENTS’ UNION

The university student union of the south eastern university of Sri Lanka shall be representatives of the entire students’ community of the University.

The university union shall consist of all elected office bearers and elected members of each faculty students’ union and such shall elect the following office bearers.

(a) president
(b) Vice President
(c) Secretary
(d) Editor
(e) Junior treasurer

Each faculty students’ union shall be representatives of all students of the respective faculty and the office bearers of each faculty shall be elected by the students’ of each faculty by secret ballot for that academic year.

For the purpose of electing office bearers and members to a faculty union the students of the faculty of the university shall constitute a constituency.

FACULTY UNION

A Faculty Union shall consist of

(a) President
(b) Vice president
(c) Secretary
(d) Editor
(e) Junior treasurer
(f) Such other members as follows

There shall be a senior treasurer for each faculty union who shall be a senior lecturer, nominated by the office bearers elected members of such union and appointed by principle executive officer of the university.

No student of the university shall be eligible to vote or to stand for election

(a) Unless he/she has been duly registered as a student such faculty for the academic year in which the election is held.
(b) If he/she under suspension from the university.

MEETINGS OF THE UNION

The quorum of a meeting of the union shall be one-third of its total membership, where owing to absence or other causes both the president and the vice president are unable to preside at a meeting the members present shall elect from among themselves a member to preside at such meeting.

The president or vice president or any other member presiding at a meeting of the union shall have an original vote, and where the voting is a casting vote, would have the privilege of an additional vote.

THE UNION FUNDS

There shall be established a students’ union fund and the respective faulty union funds, for the general financial purposes of the union.

All monies received by the union shall be credited to the respective fund and all payments made and on behalf of the union shall be met from the fund.

All monies payable to the fund shall be lodged with the bank of Ceylon or the peoples’ bank to be credited to an account which shall bear the name of the individual union.

The senior treasurer shall be a signatory to every cheque drawn on the account referred to the proceeding sub paragraph.

No payment shall be made from the fund unless such has provided for in the budget or a supplementary estimate approved by the senior treasurer. Provided that in exceptional circumstances payment made with the authority of the senior treasurer and such payment shall be reported by the junior treasurer to the union at the first meeting held after such payment was made.

The books of accounts of the union shall be made available by the junior treasurer for inspection by the senior treasurer or any student of the university concerned or any student of the faculty concerned as the case may be.

 Resources of the Library

The main Library contains primarily materials in Humanities, Social sciences and Management Sciences and serves the Faculty of Arts & Culture, Management & Commerce and also Applied Sciences. It also contains reference and general reading material for the entire university patrons. The collection including multiple copies of textbooks is approximately 45,000 volumes
The Library is systematized for easy access to the books in the following manner

Lending Section
Scheduled Reference Section
Reference Section
Periodical Section
Uwise Sri Lankan Islamic Studies Collection

Getting to the Main Library

Turn left from the main road on the Kalmunai -Akkaraippattu road, proceed along the Road to university Park. Go along the road leading to the Administrative Building and turn wright at the security point to the Main Library.

Using the Library

Checkpoint at the Entrance

There is a security check point at the entrance to the library. Please show your identity card to the security staff to enable them to establish your identity. The students are expected to show their valid student identity card at the check point. Visitors may show their National Identity Card to the security and seek the assistance of Counter One (Ground Floor) with regard to their enquiry.

Cloakroom

As you enter the Library Building on your left hand side you will find the Counter of the Cloak Room. Cloakroom accepts raincoats, umbrellas, books, loose-leaf files etc. of readers, which are not permitted inside the library. The cloakroom due to security reasons does not accept the bags of any size, suitcases, and boxes including lunch boxes. The readers are therefore advised not to deposit any valuable items in the cloakroom since the process of accepting and returning items left in the cloakroom is carried out using numbered tags.

Mobile telephones are not permitted inside the library. Neither are they accepted in the Cloakroom for safe keeping. Therefore the readers wishing to use the library should make prior arrangements regarding their mobile phones

Matters requring special attention of the Users

Co-operation of the Users is earnestly solicited by:

Library Hours

• Mondays to Saturdays 8.15 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. (Except Public Holidays and Sundays)
• It is subject to extension in accordance with the Academic Programme

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