Celebrating the Class of 1975
On the occasion of Reunion 2025, the University Libraries Archives & Special Collections Department has prepared this “virtual exhibit.” All of the images (photographs, posters, publications, etc.) in the document below are hyperlinked – either to larger versions of the images or to the original full text of the publication.
From President Samuel Kirkwood
This is a critical year and one of special importance to AUB. He said that AUB faces a period in which its program and perhaps even its purpose will be examined, and ths.t this will be a year in which the daily operation of the University assumes an unusual importance….
…The President defined the university as «scholars in a community» and spoke of the scholar's dual responsibility Academic to scholarship and to service. In discussing the academic program and financial planning, he said that AUB's funds, present and as now projected, cannot support the program AUB now has….
President Kirkwood said further that the area we live in is one of vast potential development which, above all else, needs trained manpower, and that AUB exists to take its part in meeting this need. The President concluded by saying AUB will succeed if financial support for its program is found, adding: «We will succeed if we are willing to make the University a place of scholarship and not an arena for political and factional conflicts. » [1]
Some numbers
Faculty: 570 academic staff (426 full time teaching equivalent):
205 in Arts and Sciences
137 in Medical Sciences
50 in Engineering and Architecture
34 in Agricultural Sciences
Of these 138 are on tenure 228 are Lebanese, 94 American, 110 other nationalities 72 % come from Middle Eastern countries Total enrollment
Student body: 4823 students or 4136 full-time equivalent students distributed in the following manner:
2553 FTE in Arts & Sciences. Student faculty ratio 12.4
634 FTE in Medical Sciences 701 FTE in Engineering & Architecture. Student faculty ratio 14.0
248 FTE in Agricultural Sciences. Student faculty ratio 7.3 [2]