Launching BAU’s New Campus in Tripoli
Beirut Arab University celebrated the launching of its new campus in Tripoli in a press conference held within its premises on the 24th of June 2010 attended by the Secretary General Mr. Issam Houri, BAU directors and administrators, President of BAU Alumni in Tripoli, and many mass media representatives. President El Adawi announced that the Faculties of Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Science, Commerce and Business Administration and Health Sciences will commence their classes for the academic year 2010/2011 in Tripoli on the 20th September 2010. It is expected that 700 students will be enrolled in the university in Tripoli campus with the beginning of the new academic year. Professor El Adawi stated that this campus consists of a terrace, a building for the administration, four other buildings each of which consists of an underground floor, a ground floor and three upper floors designated for the faculties, in addition to a central library, 15 halls used as classrooms and special places for the 39 laboratories 11 of which are already equipped. He hoped that the next step in the future will be the launching of the Maritime Studies and Shipping Department which is linked to the Faculty of Science by an underground tunnel and is allocated to the Maritime Property facing the campus. The president also mentioned that in the next few years the university will try to establish new Faculties in this campus and to get official licenses from the Lebanese Government in this respect. President El Adawi also affirmed that the high standards of both the academic and administrative guidelines were taken into consideration especially that all of the staff members are BAU graduates and Tripoli residents bearing in mind that some were selected from the other northern regions according to their qualifications and expertise. Moreover, Professor El Adawi stated that Beirut Arab University got the absolute endorsement of the Lebanese governmental and non-governmental organizations and institutions, and of the University of Alexandria in Egypt. He mentioned that some contributions were made by Ex-Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Minister Mohamad Safadi whom he thanked on the behalf of Beirut Arab University. Regarding the expansion plan scheduled for the university, he stated that Beirut Arab University intends to establish a new campus in Bekaa and that the university has actually accomplished the first step via the purchase of a piece of land with an area of 185,000 m2 where BAU campus is to be established. At the end of the press conference, President El Adawi and the attendees had a tour on the various sections of the finished buildings during which he clarified the different phases of construction that will proceed in the near future.