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The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (Frch: Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik (USEK); Arabic: جامعة الرّوح القدس – الكسليك, Jāmiʿah al-Rūḥ al-Quddus – al-Kaslīk), is a private, non-profit, Catholic university in Jounieh, Lebanon. The university was founded in 1950 and ratified under the new Higher Education Law of 1962. USEK is the first university in Lebanon to be established by Lebanese citizs.
The university began as a one-building scholasticate founded by the Lebanese Maronite Order (OLM) in 1938 before expanding in 1950 to include new buildings leading to the currt purpose-built twelve acres (49, 000 m2) campus at the same site. The campus buildings for six schools and one faculty, a nursing institute, a cter for learning and teaching, a cter for continuing education, an infirmary, administration offices, library, amphitheater, archeological museum, sports cter, bookshop, female dorms, and guest house which are arranged around a ctral tree-lined walkway, connected to a ctral plaza and gre spaces.
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Wh USEK officially became a higher education institution in 1962, it already stood out as a liberal arts university, adding a new faculty or school every 5 to 10 years to include all the major academic fields - the arts, architecture, business, gineering, humanities, and scices. Initially, these were taught primarily in Frch and Arabic until the university converted to the American Credit System in 1997, and since th almost all courses are taught in glish.
USEK has rankings in three major league tables for the Near/Middle East. In 2021, it was ranked 2nd best university in Lebanon according to SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR). Also, in 2021 it was ranked 1st Gre University in Lebanon for the 4th consecutive year, 3rd in the Arab World and 117th worldwide according to UI GreMetric World University Ranking. In 2020 it ranked 30th in the Arab region according to QS Arab University Rankings and among the top 650 universities in the world according to QS World University Rankings.
With a focus on comprehsive internationalization, the university has more than 250 international partnerships worldwide and is a member of around 150 international associations specialized in differt fields. USEK was the only university outside the Americas to be part of the Internationalization Laboratory of the American Council of Education in the USA.
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Along with sev other universities in Lebanon, it is a member of E-TALEB, an EU co-funded professional standards framework for excellce in Lebanese universities. The currt presidt is Father Talal Hachem, since 2019.
Religious treasures on campus include relics of Saint Charbel placed in the foundations of the original chapel in 1948, and Our Lady of Ilige, a 10th-ctury icon represting the Virgin Mary, the oldest Maronite icon, is conserved in the university archeological museum.
The USEK Library is home to one of the few surviving copies of the Book of Psalms, printed in 1610 on the first-ever printing press of the Levant region. This version is writt in Garshouni, a script that Turkish rulers at the time could not understand.
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Gibran Khalil Gibran, undoubtedly Lebanon’s most famous literary figure, features promintly at the University, which has restored hard copies of his works. As a show of gratitude, a licse has be granted to keep digitalized copies of the complete collection for research purposes.
Lebanon’s iconic Martyrs’ memorial statue, which was damaged during the civil war in Beirut, was transported to USEK a few years after the d of hostilities to be restored by the university’s Sacred Art Departmt and local experts. It was returned to Downtown Beirut after its restoration.
Locally, whether in the meadows, under a tree or inside churches or monasteries, Maronite monks have be schooled from the 17th Ctury onwards, shaping and developing the Maronite idtity and its values in knowledge, education, and humanity, passed on and upheld at USEK today. This early influce in Mount Lebanon and later in differt parts of the world created the popular expression at that time “erudite like a Maronite.”
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1584 Pope Gregory XIII’s established the Maronite College in Rome which provided full scholarships to promising young Maronites who returned to Lebanon to educate their communities.
In 1624, the first Maronite seminary, the school of Hawqa, was founded in Mount Lebanon by returnees from Rome, and taught liturgy and theology, Arabic, Syriac, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Italian languages, in addition to logic and mathematics.
In 1789, the educational mission of the OLM became much more inclusive. The Ain Warqa School ran for two hundred years. This school made education accessible to the wider community until it was closed in 1940.
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The educational gap was strongly felt across the country and led the OLM to establish its scholasticate (a college-level school of geral study for those preparing for membership in a Roman Catholic religious order) in 1938 in Kaslik, which was transformed into the university in 1950. It was one of the first educational establishmts to be validated by the new education law in the Ministry of Education.
The Kaslik site has be expanded and remodeled at regular intervals over the last 50 years. The north side of the campus has a view of the southern d of Mount Lebanon (بْنَان, Jabal Lubnān) and the west side the Mediterranean Sea and bay of Jounieh. The campus buildings are positioned around a tree-lined walkway. The walkway runs from south (main trance) to north (Scice Building) and is flanked by beautiful landscaped gre spaces, specifically designed, to integrate social and teaching areas.
Building F - USEK is a mostly non-residtial university except for a modest residce for female studts, providing common living spaces, 24/7 on-site staff and security. It has one of the most distinctive interiors building on campus. Nautically themed, it resembles the inside of a ship, with portholes, a network of fixed gangplanks and a small chapel at the position of a control room.
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The university oped its three regional university cters (RUCs) in 2000 and 2001 as part of its sse of duty to make education accessible across the country. The educational mission and objectives of the RUCs are the same as those of the University.
RUC Chekka – located 65km north of Beirut - offers undergraduate courses from USEK Business School and the School of Law and Political Scices.
RUC Zahle - Located 55km east of Beirut - offers undergraduate programs across most core disciplines, including applied arts, architecture, agriculture, business and commercial scices, gineering, fine arts, food scices, humanities, law, philosophy, and scices.
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The Medical School The latest expansion of the university was completed in 2018 with the official oping of the Francois Bassil Medical Building, an off-campus Medical School, which is located 24.5 km north of Kaslik in Hboub, Jbeil. To complemt this, the University Hospital Cter was created in partnership with Notre Dame de Secours hospital in Jbeil for USEK medical studts to receive hands-on medical training.
The monasteries and seminaries of the Lebanese Maronite Order (OLM) have always had well-appointed libraries. In the 1980s and 1990s, gerous donations to the university abled the library to transform and develop its collection, and from 2000 onwards, in addition to newly acquired collections of print books and journals, the library updated its systems and increased its range of electronic resources.
The library has notable collections of rare books and incunabula of historical and cultural significance and are an invaluable research source. The libraries rare books and incunabula include works in Arabic, glish, Frch, German, Italian, Latin, Ancit Greek, Syriac, and Garshuni. Special collections include approximately 2, 000 manuscripts, handwritt in Syriac, Arabic, Latin, and Greek, covering theology, Islam, philosophy, Syriac and Arabic grammar, literature, astronomy, history, and more. Many of these manuscripts are translations from Latin to Garshuni (Arabic in Syriac letters), and some are unique, like OLM 263, which is claimed to be the oldest Maronite Syriac Liturgical textbook for the Palm Sunday Office of Readings, copied at Qozhaya Monastery in 1493. The newspapers and periodicals collections acquired by USEK since the oping of the library include titles of research and heritage importance include Al-Hoda, New Lebanese American Journal, Al-Muhajjer, AlHaqiqa, Al-Maarad and Al-Moktataf. Betwe 2015 and 2016, the library was extsively remodeled to accommodate the major cultural heritage cters of the university under
