Faculty Rules and Regulations

Suliman S. Olayan School of Business

1. Advisers List for the Fall Semester 2006-2007

2. Admission

3. Graduation Requirements

4. Academic Rules and Regulations

Advisers List for the Fall Semester 2006-2007 

Name	Office	Tel. Ext	Email
Dr. Hanin Abdallah	OP 210	3939	haninabd@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Fida Afiouni	OP 212	3725	fa16@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Bizhan Azad	OP 211	3745	ba20@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Salim Chahine	CEC 201	3722	sc09@aub.edu.lb
Mr. Jamal El Den	OP 212	3726	je01@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Tony Feghali	BADM 208	3936	feghali@aub.edu.lb
Mrs. Rita Geutcherian	CEC 107	3744	rg00@aub.edu.lb
Ms. Bassima Hout	CEC 306	3738	bh03@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Ahmad Ismail	CEC 106	3732	ai05@aub.edu .lb
Dr. Dima Jamali	OP 206	3727	dj00@aub.edu.lb
Mr. Tarek Kettaneh	CEC 205	3742	tk08@aub.edu.lb
Mr. Michael Kfouri	CEC 300	3749	mk47@aub.edu.lb
Ms. Leila Khauli-Hanna	CEC 301	3751	lk02@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Nelson King	VD 108	3731	nk50@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Armond Manassian	CEC 201	3747	am47@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Ibrahim Osman	BADM 310	3953	io00@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Charalambos Pattichis	OP 208C	3728	cp00@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Karim Rebeiz	BADM 304	3937	kr03@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Assem Safieddine	BADM 306	3949	as57@aub.edu.lb
Dr.  Nadia Shuayto	CEC 109	3737	ns19@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Yusuf Sidani	BADM309	3952	ys01@aub.edu.lb
Mrs. Randa Sioufi	CEC 300	3741	rs55@aub.edu.lb
Mr. Marwan Stambuli	CEC 308	3739	ms72@aub.edu.lb
Mrs. Rania Uwayda-Mardini	CEC 308	3740	ru00@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Imad Zbib	BADM 307	3730	iz02@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Phillip Zgheib	OP 208B	3729	pz00@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Mohamad Zeidan	BADM 207	3942	mz25@aub.edu.lb
Mr. Antoine Sabbagh	CEC 108	3736	as21@aub.edu.lb

Admission to the BBA Program

Direct Admission

For complete and detailed information regarding admission to the University, including recognized certificates; see the Admission section in the 2006-06 Catalogue .

Transfer Requirements from Other AUB Faculties for Non-Business Sophomore or Junior Students

Eligibility requirements for a non-business junior or sophomore student for transfer include

� completion of at least 30 credits (or 60 credits including freshman)
� maintaining a minimum overall cumulative average of 77 as an eligibility requirement
   (subject to competition based on the number of available slots)
   Majorless or late freshman students who have taken more than 30 credits are treated as
   sophomores for transfer purposes (i.e., they must meet sophomore transfer requirements).

No more than 18 business credits taken prior to formal admission to OSB are transferable to
the BBA program

Admission Requirements for a Minor in Business

Students already working on a bachelor�s degree outside business who wish to obtain a minor
in business must apply for the minor before taking any business courses. The OSB admissions
committee evaluates all applications for a business minor and makes recommendations to the
dean.

A student is eligible to be considered for a minor in business after completing 30 credit hours
in a major (starting at the sophomore level) or 60 credit hours (starting at the freshman level)
with a cumulative grade average of 75. Students admitted to a minor in business administration
are required to complete a minimum of 18 credit hours in the school, distributed as follows:
ACCT 210 (Financial Accounting, 3 cr.), DCSN 200 (Managerial Decision Making, 3 cr.), FINA
210 (Business Finance, 3 cr.), INFO 200 (Management Information Systems, 3 cr.), MKTG 210
(Principles of Marketing, 3 cr.), and MNGT 215 (Principles of Management, 3 cr.). Computer
Science and Engineering students must obtain approval from the Business Information and
Decision Systems track convenor prior to registering for DCSN 200 and INFO 200. Students
must also maintain a cumulative grade average of at least 70 in those courses. It must be
noted that no business courses required in the major faculty may be counted in the business
minor. In such a case the student must take an additional business elective(s) to achieve
the total 18 credits required for the minor. In all cases, prerequisites as stipulated in OSB�s
curriculum may not be violated.

Students applying for a minor are normally NOT allowed to have taken business courses
before they are formally admitted. However, on an exceptional basis, not more than a total
of three credits may be transferred from courses taken prior to a student being officially
accepted into the business minor. Such an exception is a business course taken in satisfaction
of an elective in the major faculty may be counted toward a minor in business

� a business elective taken as part of the social science elective may be counted toward
  a minor in business
� courses taken at the major faculty may be considered equivalent to business courses
  depending on the judgment of the OSB administrative committee If equivalency is
  approved, minor students must take another business elective.

Graduation requirements for the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) are as follows:

� A minimum of six semesters beginning with the sophomore class.

� A maximum of six calendar years is allowed for graduation of students who begin with
   the sophomore class, four calendar years for juniors, and two calendar years for seniors. A
   student who fails to complete his/her degree program within these specified times must
   petition the OSB administrative committee for an extension of time.

� A student transferring to AUB from other recognized institutions of higher learning must
   register in the final three regular semesters and must complete at least 45 credits at AUB,
   of which a minimum of 21 credits must be in business before s/he is allowed to graduate
   with a BBA. For purposes of this requirement, two summer sessions shall be considered
   equivalent to one semester.

� A transfer student from within AUB must meet the residency requirement of spending
   a minimum of two semesters in the school during which s/he completes a minimum of
   24 credits, out of which 12 are business credits, before s/he graduates with a BBA. For
   purposes of this requirement, two summer sessions shall be considered equivalent to one
   semester.

� A minimum of 90 credits for students who enter as sophomores. With the approval of the
   OSB curriculum committee, tracks may establish programs that exceed these minimum
   credit requirements.

� A minimum of 33 credits in core business courses with a cumulative average of 70.

� A minimum of 15 credits in the concentration (or generic) field with a cumulative grade
average of 70.

When a student repeats a course, the highest grade obtained in the course is used in
computing the student�s average for graduation purposes; however, a student may not
repeat a course in which s/he has originally obtained a grade of 70 or above unless his/her
concentration track requires a grade higher than the original score.

� Grades of 70 or more in at least 50 credits numbered 200 or above for students entering at
   the sophomore level.

� All Arabic-speaking business students (except those officially exempted) must take the
   Arabic language requirements. Students entering at the sophomore, junior, or senior levels
   must take one Arabic course as determined by the Arabic Placement Test (APT). Based on
   the APT results, a student may take ARAB 201A or 201B or ARAB 211 or higher (ARAB 213,
   214, 217, and 218 are excluded).

� All business students must take English communication skills courses as determined by
   placement upon matriculation, and these required courses must be begun immediately on
   matriculation and must be continued without interruption until completed through ENGL
   208. For example, a student entering at the lowest level must take five semesters of English
   (Intensive ENGL 100A or 100B if required, 102A, 102B, 203, 204, and 208); a student
   entering at the third level must take three semesters (203, 204, and 208 (i.e., nine credits
   of English)). A student who enters at ENGL 204 must take, in addition to this course, ENGL
   208 and any other elective course from the offerings of other AUB faculties.

� All business students must take MATH 203, MATH 204, and CMPS 209. A student who is
   exempted from MATH 203 must take, in addition to MATH 204 and CMPS 209, any other
   elective course from offerings at other AUB faculties.

� All business students must take ECON 211 and 212.

� All business students must take one of CVSP 201, 202, 205, or 207, and one of CVSP
   203, 204, 206, or 208. In addition, the student must take six credits of electives from
   the humanities series as listed by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Civilization Sequence
   Program, and as explained in footnote 1 on page 316. ENGL 102 or its equivalent is a
   prerequisite to all CVSP 201-208 courses.

� Students already holding a bachelor�s degree outside business and wishing to obtain a BBA
   must complete, after admission to OSB, up to 48 business credit hours (but no fewer than
   the minimum of 30 business credit hours) as well as fulfill other non-business graduation
   requirements for the degree, with a minimum average of 70 in those requirements.

For more information on Registration Requirements, Categories of Students, Class Attendance,
Correct Use of Language, Cross Registration, Course (and Credit) Loads, Dean�s Honor List,
Directed Study, Disclosure of Student Records, Grading System, Graduation with Distinction
and High Distinction, and Policy on Transfer within the University, see pp. 51�65) General
University Academic Information in the 2006-07 catalogue.
Other academic rules and regulations follow.

Academic Advisers

Each student has an academic adviser who must approve the student �s schedule each semester. See p.51 in the 2006-07 catalogue  for general information regarding academic advisers.

A student is placed on academic probation if

� his/her overall average is less than 68 at the end of the second regular semester

� the semester average is less than 69 at the end of the third or fourth regular semester

� the semester average is less than 70 in any subsequent semester, excluding the summer term

A student placed on probation must abide by the credit load allowed, as specified in the credit
load section.

For evaluation purposes , in all cases, the minimum number of credits at the end of the second
regular semester should be 24, and 12 in each subsequent fall or spring semester.

Courses/credits taken during a summer term count toward the semester average of the next
regular semester. If the number of credits taken in any one regular semester is fewer than 12
(for approved reasons), courses/credits taken during that semester are counted toward the
semester average of the next regular semester.

Students carrying a reduced schedule of fewer than 12 credits are not subject to probation
regulations until they have accumulated a minimum of 12 credits including summer session.
The counting of accumulated credits starts from the beginning of the reduced schedule. In all
cases, where 12 or more credits have been accumulated, probation regulations apply.

Credit for incomplete courses is included in the semester in which the incomplete courses
were taken. The evaluation for that semester is carried out as soon as the grades for the
incomplete courses have been finalized.

If a student on probation drops the whole semester, then that semester is not counted for
continued probation purposes.

Probation should be removed within two regular semesters, excluding summer, after the student is placed on probation or when the student completes his/her graduation requirements.

Classification of Students

An undergraduate student shall be considered to have completed a class when s/he has taken and passed 30 or more credits beyond the requirements for the previous class.

A student will not be granted a certificate stating that s/he has completed a class until s/he has completed the specified courses in the regular program for that class and has acquired the requisite number of credits.

The credit requirements are as follows:

� For completion of the freshman class:             30 credits

� For completion of the sophomore class:           60 credits (cumulative)

� For completion of the junior class:                  90 credits (cumulative)

Credit Load

Students can normally register for up to 17 credits per semester and 10 credits during the
summer term. Sophomore students are not allowed to register for more than 17 credits.
Junior and senior students who wish to increase their credit load to 18 credits per semester
must complete ENGL 203 and ENGL 204 first and must petition the OSB administrative
committee for permission to do so. It is normally expected that junior and senior students
with an overall average of at least 80 or an average of at least 80 in the last two semesters will
be allowed to register for 18 credits. All other requests are handled on a case-by-case basis.
For the purpose of meeting the credit load conditions, a zero-credit course is considered
equivalent to a one-credit course.

The credit load of a student who is in his/her first semester on probation (P1) shall not be
fewer than 12 credit hours and shall not exceed 16 credit hours. The load of a student who
continues to be placed on probation (P2) shall not be fewer than 12 credit hours and shall not
exceed 13 credit hours. This applies to students who were put on probation for consecutive
semesters as well as to students previously placed on and removed from probation.

Students who are registered in the BUSS 245 Internship course can only register for another
three credits as long as the other course(s) taken do not conflict with the working hours of
the summer internship. Honor students may petition to be allowed to register for a maximum
seven credits including internship.

A business student who wants to register for a course at other recognized institutions must meet all requirements for cross-registration as stated in the beginning of the 2005-06 Catalogue.

� If the student�s overall average is less than 60 at the end of the second regular semester.

� If the student fails to clear his/her academic probation within two regular semesters, excluding the summer term, after being put on probation.

� If the student is placed on academic probation for a total of four regular semesters. A student can be dropped for this reason even if s/he is in the final year at AUB.

� If the student is deemed unworthy by the faculty to continue for professional or ethical reasons.

English Proficiency

See pp. 37, 38 in the 2006-07 Catalogue .

Examinations and Quizzes

Business courses normally have final examinations, except in cases where special approval
of the OSB curriculum committee and the dean have been obtained. Final examinations are
not required in tutorial and seminar courses, but the instructor may choose to give a final
examination. In all courses in which final examinations are given, a student cannot receive a
passing grade without taking a final examination.

At the beginning of each semester the instructor announces the policy that s/he intends
to follow in the matter of examinations and quizzes so that students are fully aware of this
policy. The instructor will assume final responsibility for dealing with students missing an
examination or a quiz. Normally, students who miss an announced examination or quiz
during the semester must present an excuse considered valid by the instructor of the course,
and the instructor can then require the student to take a make-up examination.

Failing and Repeating Courses

A student may repeat any course for which s/he received a grade of less than 70. If a student fails a course, no re-examination is permitted. A student who fails a required course must repeat the course at the earliest opportunity. No course, however, may be taken more than three times. When a course is repeated, the highest grade will be considered in the calculation of the cumulative average. All course grades will remain part of a student�s permanent record. Occasionally the OSB Administrative Committee may consider a fourth registration under special circumstances.

A student at the end of his/her senior year fails to attain a cumulative average of 70 in business or in the area of concentration will be required to take additional business courses in that field, or to repeat courses in which that student has scored low grades, provided s/he is permitted to continue at the University.

Incomplete Grades

Students missing a major requirement at the end of the semester (e.g., final examination or
term project or paper) must present an excuse considered valid by the instructor and approved
by the OSB administrative committee. The student must complete a request to make up the
incomplete work, known as Form 1, available on the OSB website, and submit the request to
the OSB administrative committee within two weeks of the date of the scheduled final exam
or assignment, and receive permission to complete the course. In this circumstance, medical
reports and/or qualified professional opinions issued by an AUB employee, AUBMC doctor,
or by the University Health Services may be accepted. Should there be a question about the
validity of any excuse presented by the student, the OSB administrative committee may not
allow the student to sit for a make up exam. Once granted an incomplete, course work must
be completed within one month of the start of the next regular semester. In exceptional
circumstances the OSB administrative committee may decide to give the student additional
time to complete a course.

Incomplete course work is reported as an �I� followed by a numerical grade reflecting the
evaluation of the student available at the end of the semester. This evaluation is based on a
grade of zero on all missed work and is reported in units of five. If the work is not completed
within the period specified, the �I� is dropped and the numerical grade becomes the final
grade.

Readmission

A student will normally be considered for readmission only if, after spending a year at another
recognized institution of higher education, the student is able to present a satisfactory record
and recommendation. Exceptions may be made for students who left the University for
personal or health reasons.

Transfer credits are considered after evaluation of a student�s course work. The student must
achieve a grade equivalent to the grade of 75 at AUB in each of the courses for which transfer
credits may be granted.

The foregoing regulations on readmission also apply to students who are dropped from other
AUB faculties and apply for admission to the Olayan School of Business.

Readmission of students dropped from the school by the administrative committee requires
approval by the latter committee, whereas readmission of students dropped from other AUB
faculties requires approval by the OSB admissions committee.

Study Abroad

A business student who wishes to study abroad may seek prior approval from the academic
committee at OSB to spend up to one year and earn up to 30 credits at another university;
however, the student must spend his/her last semester at AUB.