AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT
AUB
FACTS
AUB has around 800 instructional faculty and a student body of around 8,000 students .
The University , which was granted institutional accreditation in June 2004 by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools in the United States and reaffirmed in 2016 . It has a 350-bed capacity medical center which holds Joint Commission International accreditation .
Includes six faculties : Agricultural and Food Sciences , Arts and Sciences , Health Sciences , the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture , Medicine ( which includes the Rafic Hariri School of Nursing ), and the Suliman S . Olayan School of Business .
Offers more than 130 programs leading to the bachelor ’ s , master ’ s , MD , and PhD degrees . very start of this journey , Asfour and AUB recognised it needed to reorganise the university ’ s IT team to make it more aligned with the digitisation strategy . This saw a new IT function develop , one made up of multiple sub teams .
There is the service delivery team , the “ face to face ” operation that meets with the faculty , students and administrators . Asfour describes its main role as the “ field support ”, what people would typically think when it comes to IT .
Then there is the IT management group , or the “ mini CIOs ”. This level sits with the different faculties and departments and communicates with the dean and with directors to understand their IT strategies and business strategies in order to define their technology alignment , and ensure it aligns with AUB ’ s wider global strategy . In the beginning , Asfour was heavily involved with the running of these teams and this new IT function , something he feels was crucial in developing trust .