Document Type : Reasearch paper
Abstract
The Lebanese University is considered the first official University in Lebanon, whose founding dates back to the year 1951. It went through multiple stages in the expansion and development of its area between 1959 and 1975 in expanding its faculties. During that era, it played a pioneering role at the national and Arab levels and achieved in a short period of time lots of successes and achievements that enabled it to achieve the highest position in higher education in Lebanon and historical intellectual, cultural and social production in reality and in practice, therefore the University becomes the unique national institution as it is the most important source for the state in developing its apparatus in terms of resources, systems, planning and institutions within Lebanon, as the University became in the mid-seventies a major pole in education in Lebanon attracting the students and professors from the private sector. It faced the Lebanese University during the civil war 1975-1989. There was a significant decline and deterioration as a result of the devastation and destruction that befell it, especially the damage and theft of its buildings, such as the building of the College of Science in the event. The University also witnessed the division of educational bodies and intellectual elites between supporters and opponents of the application of the branching law in 1977, which led to the fragmentation of the University, changing its function, and limiting its role scientifically and academically, which made it underestimated in Lebanon and the Arab world.
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