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AUB Task Force for Reconstruction and Community Service

The AUB Task Force for Reconstruction for Reconstruction and Community Service (TFRCS) was formed by Dr. John Waterbury, President of AUB, during Summer 2006, in response to the July 2006 war on Lebanon.

The TFRCS, which is an interdisciplinary advisory body to the president, is composed of a group of faculty members who were involved in the relief and reconstruction efforts during and immediately after the war period. The task force also includes ex-officio members, a student representative, and support personnel.

The TFRCS was set in order to look into the university's strategies in trying to relieve human suffering and the effects of the war. Its aim evolved to encompass community service and development as a strategic goal for the university, and to seek to set and integrate this goal into AUB's educational mission and objectives.

The TFRCS has set for itself the following objectives in order to fulfill its mission:

To raise awareness of public service as a core value and lobby for public service to be recognized as a criteria toward faculty evaluation and promotion.
To match AUB's community interest and expertise with interested donors and funders.
To encourage submission of proposals, approve them, recommend their funding to the president, streamline their processing by relying on existing administrative units, and monitor outputs.
To recommend to the President future directions for sustaining AUB's involvement in relief, early recovery, reconstruction, and community service.
To highlight AUB's contribution to post war reconstruction efforts and community service.

The focus of the TFRCS is the entire University community: AUB faculty and students from all disciplines, together with staff from the main campus and the medical center, who are interested in engaging in post-war reconstruction and community service. It will play multiple roles as

an advocate of public service.
a resource in on-going discussions within AUB about how to evaluate public service in faculty promotion.
a link between community needs, AUB's intellectual resources, and funding sources.
an advisor to the President on spending funds designated for reconstruction.