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History

The School of Nursing was approved by the LAU Board of Trustees in 2007.

Benefactors Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury gifted LAU with a generous donation, after which the school was renamed in honor of Mr. Chagoury’s mother, Alice Ramez Chagoury.

Planning for the school began in 2007, with an advisory committee of six leading nurses in Lebanon was commissioned by LAU to write the feasibility study for the school, which was approved by the Board of trustees. In 2009, Nancy Hoffart, Ph.D., RN, was hired as founding dean and professor to continue with the planning of the school. The first B.S.N. clas enrolled in fall 2010. Myrna A.A. Doumit, Ph.D., RN was hired as assistant dean and associate professor in spring 2011 and other faculty were hired in subsequent years. Students from all areas of Lebanon are now enrolled in the school, and the first class graduated in July 2013.

The LAU Alice Ramez Chagoury School of Nursing received accreditation by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) in March 2014.
The interior of the medical school building is divided into teaching, research, and administrative spaces.
The health sciences library, home to thousands of volumes and books, supports the academic needs of the three health schools.
The Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury Health Sciences Center, inaugurated in 2014, is home to LAU’s three health schools.

The launch of ARCSON paralleled the opening of the Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine in 2009. LAU was granted licensure for both schools, with a vision of interprofessional education and modern modes of instruction. The physical facility for ARCSON is unique as is housed in the same building as the schools of Medicine and Pharmacy.