The Ecole Supérieure et Internationale de Gestion (ESIG) located in Aïntoura - Kesrouan organized its third graduation ceremony in the presence of the ambassador of Canada in Lebanon HE Louis de Lorimier, the Archbishop of Sarba His Lordship Guy Boulos Njeim, the Rector of the Holy Spirit University father Antoine Ahmar, the director of the Orfan schools Sheik Sami Abou Al Mona, General Elia Francis representing the general manager of the Interior Security Forces Major General Achraf Rifi, Mr. Fadi Barakat representing MP General Michel Aoun, Mr. Rophael Maroun representing the minister Mr. Pierre Gemayel, Dr. Elie Yachoui from Notre Dame University, the administrative inspector Leila Majdalani, Dr. Michel Bédard representing the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Dr. Eric Lamarque representing the University of Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV in France, the director of the Jounieh division Antoine Boustany, as well as a large number of directors of official schools, parents, guests and friends.
The ceremony began with the Canadian, French and Lebanese national anthems played by the members of the security forces. The director of studies Mr. George Khoury pronounced a welcoming speech insisting on the quality of the degrees ESIG takes care each day of strengthening i.e. the relevance compared to the labor market, in particular, and the economy, in general, and, especially, the value in the society of knowledge.
Then, Dr. Michel Bédard congratulated the students wishing them a continuous success in their life. "If you come to Montreal, you will be most welcome; for UQAM and the School of business administration trust you and count on you so that you maintain the reputation they carved during the past years. I personally invite you to keep the contact with them and remain always faithful to them". He added: "You have the right to take pride in your Canadian diploma, which more, is signed by the University of Quebec at Montreal, a diploma recognized on the international scale. On the other hand, I would like to mention the contribution of the ESIG authorities in obtaining your diploma. It is thanks to their entrepreneurship, their pride with regard to the Lebanese environment and their eagerness to open large all the doors of knowledge to the Lebanese youth eager to put forward their talents".
In his turn, Dr. Eric Lamarque the representative of the University of Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV delivered his speech in which he said: "I would like to express the happiness of being with you for this first graduation of the ESIG and the University of Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV students. When we chose this university to delocalize our Master in Financial Management in Lebanon, we found attentive persons in charge, concerned by the quality of the program, quality of the speakers and ready to answer our requirements as regards the selection of students, but also ready not to graduate the students when those do not satisfy our criteria of success. The Master in Financial Management was chosen as one of the best three French university programs of the same specialization and among the best 10 if counting the equivalent diplomas in well known schools like HEC or ESSEC". Addressing the graduates, he congratulated them for their success, adding: "Success and future can be assured only if three conditions are met: an effective administration, powerful teachers and active students-graduates. We implemented the first two conditions. Implementing the third is up to you".
The Archbishop of Sarba His Lordship Guy Boulos Njeim spoke addressing the students a word of hope in these dark circumstances the country and the whole area know. "Some among you think of traveling, others intend to stay. Whatever you decide, whatever you make after obtaining your degree, do not forget that you are carrying a noble mission. You were armed, in this place, thanks to your parents and your teachers, of knowledge, so that you can reflect on your environment the dynamism, the goodness and the peace you carry in you". Addressing the Dean Abi Nakhlé: "The university you founded is a work of great human value. Since knowledge, as you offer it in partnership with well established French and Canadian universities which are in direct relation with Lebanon through the Francophonie, is an invaluable treasure. You continue to offer it in spite of all the difficulties which faced and still face you. May God come to your assistance so that you propose, in addition to knowledge, principles of wisdom by the words, acts and love".

The ESIG Dean, Mr. Rony Abi Nakhlé, delivered a speech of faith and firmness in the ESIG position, and a promise of always seeking the best. He congratulated the graduates for their achievements and the distinguished academic level they reached. He then invited them to always be the ambassadors of brilliance and creativity, undertaking that ESIG was and will be true to the principles that guided its way namely the principles of distinction, uniqueness and academic quality. "Through the confidence you invested in us and your support, we characterized ourselves by the programs and curricula of excellence, as by the distinguished place we carved among the established old universities. Therefore, we affirm to the whole world that this young institution is worthy to build the coming generations on education, values, innovation and excellence so that Lebanon will truly remain the headlight of the East".
Thereafter, the first of promotions Viviane El Kareh, Patrick Khalil and Levon Kahvedjian pronounced their word. The ceremony was strewn by musical interludes played by the members of the security forces. Then, the double degrees: Lebanese-French and Lebanese-Canadian were distributed to the graduating students. The ceremony was concluded by the ESIG anthem. A cocktail followed.
 

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The Lebanese Canadian University (LCU) / Ecole Supérieure et Internationale de Gestion (ESIG) – Aintoura – Kesrouan inaugurated a conference room in the name of the Martyr Gebran Tueni in the presence of his widow Mrs. Siham Tueni and his daughter Michelle. Were, also present at the inauguration: Mr. Melhem Karam, Head of the Order of Journalists, Mr. Fady Barakat representing MP Michel Aoun, Mr. Souheil Matar, Director of Public Relations at Notre-Dame University in Louaizeh (NDU) and Mr. Rony Abi Nakhlé, Dean of the ESIG, as well as a large number of professors, journalists and students.

At first, Mrs. Siham Tueni cut the ribbon as an inauguration of Gebran Tueni's conference room.
Then, Mr. Gharios Ziadeh pronounced a welcoming speech praising Gebran: "Your voice will forever stay the hymn of generations; this hymn combined to your noble blood will help Lebanon to bloom, you the Martyr of martyrs".

Mr. Rony Abi Nakhlé, Dean of the ESIG, took the floor and said: "We are here today to pay tribune to the one who paid his blood as a price of his nobleness and fidelity to his country; to pay tribune to the one who has taught us transparency and love of the country until he died as a martyr".
Mr. Abi Nakhlé then announced the inauguration of Gebran Tueni's conference room by repeating the famous promise Gebran pronounced on the 14th of March 2005 at the Martyr Square.

Mr. Melhem Karam, Head of the Order of Journalists enchanted the audience starting his speech by a nationalist poem and continued: "words are not enough to express the loss of the great Gebran Tueni who has worked day and night for Lebanon and who has always wanted to protect the sovereignty and independence of the country".

In conclusion, Mrs. Siham Tueni thanked the ESIG for paying tribute to Gebran Tueni. She insisted in her speech on the fact that "Gebran has always bet on culture because he knew that only culture was capable of teaching Men to be open to others and to accept the differences of everyone, which is an essential principle to follow in a country like Lebanon". She added: "each time young students will enter this conference room, they will remember Gebran, they will remember the one who gave everything, his life, so the Lebanese new generations may benefit from a promising future"; assuring that "those who thought that, by killing Gebran, they killed his thoughts and dreams, have failed to do so".

At the end, everybody had lunch at the ESIG teachers' room.
 

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In accordance with its educational mission and advisory policy, the Ecole Supérieure et Internationale de Gestion (ESIG), located in Aïntoura - Kesrouan and partner of the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) and of the University of Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, organizes an "Open Doors" on Tuesday April 11, 2006 from 9h00 till 21h00 in the presence of His Excellence Mr. Louis de Lorimier the ambassador of Canada in Lebanon to which will participate many financial, commercial and banking institutions.

Several cultural, social and political figures, as well as the secondary school students of all the Lebanese areas and the media are invited to this event.

You are all warmly invited to discover what LCU / ESIG has to offer, we look forward to seeing you all.
 

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The ESIG students elected yesterday their representatives in the students committee in an animated but calm atmosphere. The Free National Movement Al-Tiyyar and the Lebanese Forces party competed on the committee seats; the results were as follows:
- The free National movement Al-Tiyyar won 7 representatives: Joseph Saadé, Jean Chamoun, Philippe Hobeika, Rodrigue Zoghbi (by nomination), Fadi Tannoury, Joseph Houkayem and Roy Waroujan.
- The representatives having won for the Lebanese Forces were five: Joseph Kalaydjan, Jacques Fahed (by nomination), Joseph Sleiman, Wissam Abdel Nour and Elie Zaidan
- Charbel Chamoun (Independent).

At the end, both parties congratulated each other and undertook to work hand in hand for the sake of the institution and the students.
 

Conference on the operations management at the military school

On the occasion of Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys’s day, a mass on the intention of the martyr Gebran Tuéni was celebrated at ESIG
 

A ceremony at ESIG on the occasion of the issue of the Master’s degree equivalence.
 

On the occasion of the publication of the ESIG Executive and Research MBAs equivalence, issued by the Commission of equivalences in the Lebanese Ministry of Higher Education, the students organized a ceremony in the university campus. In his speech, the president of the ESIG Alumni Association, Mr. Antoine Naggear treated "the seriousness and the quality of the academic level which distinguishes and characterizes this young institution that obtained, worthily, the MBA equivalence after diligent and hard work, caring to ensure all the means necessary to the uplifting of university education in Lebanon and striving to continuously respect all the technical and academic criteria, the rules in force without forgetting the creation of new job opportunities to all its graduates".

The director of the UQAM Master program, Dr. Naoufel Daghfous, who came to Lebanon especially to participate in this ceremony, mentioned the high academic level ESIG realized in such a short period, praising "its engagement to offer excellence in education, its continuous attachment to quality and innovation. ESIG proves once again that it well deserves the distinctive place it has among the Lebanese university institutions and the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). This fact reinforces our faith in this institution and justifies our will to strengthen the cooperation bonds between UQAM the university I represent and ESIG which promises a prosperous future".

In his turn, the Dean Rony Abi Nakhlé, after having welcomed the audience, thanked UQAM for the great confidence which crowned the relation ESIG-UQAM" and indicated the close cooperation with UQAM administration members and faculty, at their head Dr. Naoufel Daghfous". The cooperation with the University of Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV is as constructive and fructuous" noted Dean Abi Nakhlé mentioning the exchange of expertise and programs with this French university which, trustfully, collaborated with us in order to go hand in hand with the life changes in all its levels".

At the end, the Dean Abi Nakhlé thanked all the persons in charge and employees in the Lebanese Ministry of Higher Education, namely His Excellency minister Khaled Kabbani, the General Director of higher education Dr. Ahmad El Jammal and all the Commission of equivalences members for their efforts, their confidence and absolute support to the future generations aspiring to education and knowledge.

A reception followed the meeting.
 

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The emission of the Executive and Research MBA diplomas equivalence and the agreement of all the technical committee members of the ministry of Higher Education were an excellent occasion for the ESIG students to organize a dancing party at Al-Zawat restaurant – Jeita. The Dean Rony Abi Nakhlé, the directors of the departments, a great number of Lebanese, Canadian and French professors as well as the students and the administrative staff were present. On the rhythm of music, the party continued until dawn.
 

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Within the framework of their continuous academic activities, the ESIG students organized, under the supervision of the administration and specialized professors, a Job Fair in the university campus at Aïntoura – Kesrouan. Around twenty banking, commercial, industrial and service institutions were present as well as number of interested people, parents and students from official schools coming from the various Lebanese areas.

The students made a variety of studies and presentations in marketing in cooperation with the institutions taking part in this event. Committees of experts evaluated their work and transmitted the final results to a committee of arbitration.

The participating institutions are: Ministry of Environment, Rectangle jaune, Bassoul & Hneiné, Dunkin Donuts, Benta Trading, Nestlé, Radio One, Adonis Rent a Car, Bank of Beirut, Banque Crédit Libanais, Coca Cola (Light), Alfa, Byblos Bank, Comfort Zone, Banque Audi, Red Bull, Société Générale des Banques au Liban, Pepsi (7UP), Snow Extreme, Peugeot.

The ESIG Dean Mr. Rony Abi Nakhlé concluded this meeting at 18h00 by thanking all the visitors, professors and students.
 

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A delegation from the University of Baghdad, composed of Dr. Ali Youssef Houssein, Dr. Nebrass Maarouf and Mrs. Nada Mohammad Amine, have visited ESIG for a period of three days. The guest delegation, the ESIG Dean Mr. Rony Abi Nakhlé and the administrative directors held several work sessions and discussed all the scientific, academic and cultural issues as well as the means of cooperation between both institutions as for the exchange of expertise and the organization of training seminars for the Iraqi students and employees in order to develop their competences and to stimulate their capacities. In this context, the Dean Abi Nakhlé expressed his willingness to offer the best academic, scientific and training level for the interested Iraqi on the basis of the duty which imposes on each one of us to join efforts in order to attenuate the severity of the situation the wounded Iraq is living today.

As for him, the president of the delegation Dr. Ali Houssein praised this young and promising institution especially regarding its cooperation with large foreign universities and its membership of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF); and spoke highly of the ambitious achievements the Dean Abi Nakhlé made in such a short time. He also mentioned the hospitality they witnessed during their stay in Lebanon particularly at ESIG.

Thus, the delegation left Lebanon for Iraq after having agreed with the ESIG authorities on a total cooperation between both institutions and on organizing new meetings soon.

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Dear ESIG students,

Your university LCU/ ESIG is happy to announce you its participation in Beirut Marathon 2005, November 08th till 12th in the “Cultures Mix & Match” Village. The Marathon will take place on November 13th 2005.

We are constituting the runners team for the LCU/ ESIG. You will wear the university’s colors in order to support the associations engaged in this event.

To be part of the team, register on the boards set all over the campus.

You’ll find more information in the Admission Office.

Thank you.

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Under the auspices of the Minister Dr. Assaad Rizk
ESIG celebrates its graduates in Business Administration

By the end of the academic year and the elections with all their clamor and turmoil, the Ecole Supérieure et Internationale de Gestion (ESIG) located in Aïntoura – Kesrouan organized a graduation ceremony for its business administration students under the auspices of the Minister of Higher Education, Dr. Assaad Rizk, represented by the Director General of Higher Education Dr. Ahmad Al Jammal and in the presence of a large number of guests.

 In the vanguard, we name Archbishop Guy-Paul Njeim representing His Eminence the Maronite Patriarch Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, the MP of Kesrouan – Jbeil, Dr. Youssef Khalil, representing General Michel Aoun, the head of the Security Forces, Brigadier General Sarkis Tedros, General Elia Francis representing the Director General of the Interior Forces Major General Achraf Rifi, Mr. Nehmet Ephrem representing Mr. Georges Ephrem, Dr. Wadih El Safi, the MP in the Canadian Parliament and Ambassador of Canada at UNESCO the Honorable Yvon Charbonneau, the Director of the Business Administration program in the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Mr. Michel Bédard, the Regional Director of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) Mr. Michel Bennasar, the Director of the Graduate program in Business Administration in the Université Montesquieu – Bordeaux IV Mr. Eric Lamarque, a multitude of religious men and sheikhs, the heads of private universities and official schools, in addition to the students’ parents, guests and friends.

The ESIG Dean, Mr. Rony Abi Nakhlé, delivered a speech of faith and firmness in the ESIG position, and a promise of always seeking the best. After welcoming the audience, he congratulated the graduates for their achievements and the distinguished academic level they reached allowing them to earn a double degree: Lebanese and Canadian. He then invited them to always be the ambassadors of brilliance and creativity, undertaking that ESIG was and will be true to the principles that guided its way namely the principles of distinction, uniqueness and academic quality so as Lebanon will truly remain the highlight of the East. He added: “Today, we celebrate our first Bachelor of Business Administration graduates and second Master of Business Administration graduates. In the near future, there will be many others to follow right here in the campus of the Lebanese Canadian University, for we engage to apply what we believe in, i.e, building the coming generations on education, values, truth and brilliance.
 

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Dr. Ahmad Jamal held a conference at ESIG
on the reality and future of higher education

On the invitation of the Ecole Supérieure et Internationale de Gestion (ESIG), Dr. Ahmad Al Jammal, the General Manager of Higher Education in Lebanon, held a conference entitled: "Higher Education in Lebanon: reality and visions". The audience comprised a large number of key figures in the fields of education and culture, the ESIG directors of departments, the directors of the official and private schools.

First, Dr. Al Jammal thanked the hosts for this praiseworthy initiative, congratulating the Ecole Supérieure et Internationale de Gestion (ESIG) on the various achievements made in such a short time. He then stated the reality of higher education and the innovations that occurred on the levels of the newly-established university institutions, the programs and curricula, the special attention of the administration of higher education, the observation of the rules in force, the respect of the standards in order to go hand in hand with modern life and to have Lebanon of yesteryear, “the University of the East par excellence”.

In fact, Dr. Al Jammal treated the reality of the newly-established institutions and university institutes, subjecting them to a detailed examination. He indicated the contravening institutions due to their illegal state and their non-observance of the rules and standards in force. On the other hand, he spoke highly of the new institutions, ESIG at their head, which worked unceasingly under the aegis of the law, done significant achievements on the scientific and academic levels and reached the required quality in all fields.

He then gave credit to the work and role of the Technical Commissions charged by the Ministry of Higher Education with carrying out field studies and investigations embracing all the institutions, old and new. While mentioning the report prepared by the Swiss Committee of inquiry SGS on ESIG, Dr. Al Jammal congratulated ESIG which applies the vast majority of the standards initially adopted to evaluate the work of these institutions. Broaching the question of equivalences of the Research and Executive Master’s degrees delivered by ESIG, he reassured that they will be issued in the near future; noting that this delay is due to the routine and administrative procedures in the Ministry and that ESIG is in the vanguard of all the institutions worthy of obtaining these equivalences.

In answer to a question about the concept of "decision in principle" according to which equivalences are granted, Dr. Al Jammal explained that all the decisions are issued under this nomination for all the universities without exception. This drives these institutions to permanently work in order to reach the best since they are constantly subjected to the State control.

Another question treated the distinction between the university institutes and universities, Dr. Al Jammal confirmed that there is no difference between the two types of institutions on neither the degree level nor the quality of that degree. The university is distinguished from the university institute only by the fact that it must include 3 faculties at least. In this respect, he mentioned the partnership of ESIG with large universities: the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) and the University of Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV. Answering a question related to the transformation of ESIG into a University LCU, Dr. Al Jammal clarified that this file meets all the legal conditions and is listed on the Council of the Higher Education’s agenda on its first meeting. Considering the specifications and characteristics, this file augurs well.

At the end, the Dean Mr. Rony Abi Nakhlé thanked Dr. Ahmad Al Jammal for this esteemed meeting which shed light upon the reality of higher education courageously, frankly and expressly, praising his transparency in the treatment of various questions and thanked him for his cooperation and the special attention he pays to the improvement and reinforcement of higher education in Lebanon in order to make Lebanon regain its title "the University of the East par excellence ". A reception followed the meeting.
 

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Under the patronage of the Crédit Libanais Bank
First "Student Smart Card" in ESIG, Aïntoura – Kesrouan.

 
Under the patronage and in the presence of the board chairman of the group Crédit Libanais S.A.L., Dr. Joseph Torbey, the Ecole Supérieure et Internationale de Gestion (ESIG), Aïntoura – Kesrouan celebrated the launching of the Student Smart Card, the first of its kind in Lebanon, designed in collaboration with the Crédit Libanais bank.

Dr. Joseph Torbey, the Senior Mr. Rony Abi Nakhlé like numbers directors of the various departments of the group Lebanese Crédit, the directors, professors and students of the ESIG, personalities of the fields educational, social, political and intellectual were present at the ceremony.

The director of the businesses external with the ESIG, Mr. Gharios Ziadé, pronounced a word of welcome, followed by the senior Mr. Rony Abi Nakhlé who in general rented the co-operation constructive and profitable with Lebanese the Crédit bank and chair it of his Board of directors Dr. Joseph Torbey in particular. He then returned to homage to the avant-gardist role of this banking institution pionnière in the economic development and which constitutes, with the other financial institutions, the pillar of the Lebanese economy, which, in spite of all the challenges, could cross all the obstacles. This could not have been possible without the wise direction which governs the bases of this Lebanese economy and which enabled them to hold good against winds and tides. It concludes: "Lebanon will remain upright as long as honest, creative and zélées people work for general good and disparage all the individual and pecuniary interests".

For its part, the assistant general manager with the bank Lebanese Credit, Mr. Antoine Raad, underlined the positive and profitable co-operation with the ESIG, and explained the identity of this "student card to chip", his effects and services on all the in particular estudiantins levels.

He mentioned that this new product, the first in its kind in Lebanon, is a student card made by the Higher and International School of Management in collaboration with the Bank Lebanese Credit. It is a smart card which gathers several functions at the same time. It allows:

• To identify the student: it is used to facilitate the entry at the university and the various rooms of course and laboratories…
• To ensure the payment of the purchases and the various services offered to the university (photocopies of the documents, the cafeteria, the bookshop…) in an easy and fast way without having for resorting as much to the currency.
• To regulate the schoolings automatically and easily.
• To make possible the payment of the purchases and services out of the campus on all the points of group CCM distributed everywhere to Lebanon.
• To withdraw currency and to provide other banking services, to ensure the refill of the units for the portable telephone on the network of the slot-machines of tickets (ATM) of the Lebanese Credit.
• To control and make the follow-up of the expenditure through the electronic banking service and service SMS.
• To enter to the programs of fidelities adopted by the bank and which provide various services and price.

Finally, Dr. Joseph Torbey, after having congratulated the Higher and International School on Management (ESIG) of his various achievements made during a short period, affirmed that the Lebanese Credit appears on the Lebanese market under a new aspect and a technological project first in its kind in Lebanon, in order to place at the disposal of all the institutions, in particular the university institutions in particular the ESIG, his products and banking services ensuring the major part of the university students, which constitute the base of the Lebanese economy, the means easiest and most economic for a better life.

Thus, this chart which offers the Lebanese Credit to the students of the ESIG constitutes the first bond of these students with the aforementioned bank. By opening a bank account in one of its 56 branches spread on all the Lebanese territory, the students will be able to profit from the various banking products which meet their needs and which are available through all the modern channels of distribution to carry out electronic bankings with knowing the Internet, the portable telephone and services SMS and other modern techniques which entered the everyday life of the student and which offers the bank to its customers translating his famous slogan once more "Closed to you".

 

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Under the high patronage of the “Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie” (AUF), the students of the Ecole Supérieure et Internationale de Gestion (ESIG) of Aïntoura - Kesrouan organized an "Open Doors" event to which participated many commercial and banking institutions. This event allowed the school students who flowed from all over the country to discover the ESIG current and future programs of studies, buildings and modern technological infrastructure.

An opening ceremony was organized, during which the Director of Studies, Mr. Georges Khoury, delivered a welcoming speech followed by the ESIG marketing professor, Dr. Fouad Choueifaty who praised the students’ serious work and quality activities. As for him, the Dean, Mr. Rony Abi Nakhlé, paid tribute to the dynamic role the AUF plays in Lebanon and stressed the deep belonging feeling the ESIG has towards the large French-speaking family. He also confirmed that ESIG will always work to maintain this cooperation and to constantly improve the quality of its programs since "it is the only way that will lead our promising institution to achieve its goals of excellence".

Finally, the regional manager of the AUF Middle-East Office, Mr. Michel Bennasar greeted the affiliation of ESIG at the aforementioned agency noting that "this institution firmly established its position among the large French-speaking universities members of AUF in spite of its youth. That was possible only through the quality curricula and programs, the academic level, and the respect of the standards and regulations in force. Therefore, I am completely convinced that this institution will obtain in the near future, the decree of "baptism" in the name of the Lebanese Canadian University (LCU) it well deserves considering the challenge it confidently and surely took up in such a short time".