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independent Vice-Chancellorship out of the Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs in 2010 in compliance with the objectives set forth in the country's upper cultural and social documents for higher education.

The Vice-Chancellor oversees general and specialized activities related to cultural affairs and extracurricular activities for students as well as academic and non-academic staff. It identifies the students' potentials and capabilities, provides the necessary facilities, and organizes activities to elevate the students' artistic and cultural levels.
The Vice-Chancellor for Social and Cultural Affairs includes secretariats for academic publications and organizations, a secretariat for the university's cultural council and a general office for extracurricular and cultural activities which in turn constitutes offices for cultural-artistic centers, cultural affairs in dormitories, students' scientific societies, student expeditions and Umrah (Pilgrimage to Mecca not during Hajj time), student publications, an audio-visual office and an office for cultural planning, supervision and evaluation. There are at present 33 scientific student associations, 13 cultural-artistic centers and over 40 publications supervised by the social and cultural Vice-Chancellor office, all run by the students themselves.

The main responsibility of the Office for Cultural and Social Affairs  is to pave the ground for the students' cultural and artistic activities to develop and promote the Revolution's and Islamic values and to strengthen collective collaborations and to coordinate these activities with the objectives set forth at the cultural council and executes its decisions. The office has focused its activities in the framework of cultural, artistic and social centers, scientific societies, student publications (with over 50 publications) and various cultural, scientific, tourist and pilgrimage tours and expeditions.