The University Council is the governing body responsible for formulating the general policies related to education and scientific research at the University, as well as devising plans to achieve its objectives:
- Management, investment, and allocation of university funds.
- Approval of the University’s draft budget and final accounts, and their submission to the competent authorities.
- Distribution of funds to the university faculties.
- Overseeing the general administration of the university, its faculties, academic departments, and affiliated scientific and technical research centers.
- Promulgation of administrative, financial and technical regulations.
- Support scientific research and establishing research centers at university level.
- Develop plans and programs to encourage teaching staff to write, translate and publish their work.
- Establishing academic departments and branches of research centers within university faculties, as well as merging or abolishing them based on proposals from faculty councils.
- Proposing the establishment, merger, or abolition of faculties at the university based on recommendations from faculty councils.
- Approval of the draft internal regulations for faculties and research centers at the university level.
- Defining the study system at the university based on proposals from the faculties, and approving the required programs and curricula at both the faculty and university levels.
- Proposing the admission requirements for students to the university, along with other matters related to their university affairs, and establishing the executive regulations for their disciplinary system.
- Awarding academic certificates and honorary degrees.
- Supporting quality assurance programs at the university. departments, and affiliated scientific and technical research centers.
- Approving the nomination of faculty members, renewing and terminating their contracts, transferring them to permanent positions, promoting them, seconding, transferring, and granting them leaves of absence, accepting their resignations, and enforcing disciplinary measures on those who violate regulations.
- Approving sabbatical leaves and special unpaid leaves for faculty members.
- Establishing criteria and approving the evaluation of faculty members’ performance, teaching methods, scientific research, and making decisions based on the relevant assessments.
- Assigning faculty members, teaching assistants, and university staff to missions, scientific assignments, and training courses in accordance with the university’s delegation system.
- Proposing regulations governing academic, financial, and administrative matters.
- Approving scientific and cultural agreements with universities, faculties, institutes, and research centers, both domestically and internationally.
- Sponsoring social, sports, cultural activities, and artistic programs at the university.
- Forming permanent or temporary technical committees to carry out specific tasks.
- Developing a plan for the completion and construction of buildings, as well as supporting laboratories, equipment, and libraries associated with the university.
- Establishing and setting regulations for the organization of university healthcare facilities, farms, workshops, and other units with a service and consultancy nature.
Members of the University Council:
The President of the University of Benghazi
Dr. Ezzeddine Younis Hussein Al-Derssi
Vice-Chancellor for Scientific Affairs
Dr. Abdelkarim Abdallah Al-Ghazali
Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs
Dr. Yahya Mahmoud Lamloum
The Secretary-General of the University
Dr. Jamal Saleh Almoughrby
Dean of the Faculty of Arts
Prof. Dr. Abdulkarim Ajweili Abdul-Aali
Faculty Members’ Representative
Mr. Mesaad Abdul Salam Ali
President of the University Workers’
Mr. Tareq Alshareef Almoughrby
Secretary of the University Council
Mr. Muhammed Khalil Aljahmy
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Benghazi
Dr. Adam Mohamed Mousa Al-Barghathi
Dean of the Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine
Dr. Arhim Hamida Al-Awami
Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Benghazi
Dr. Idris Mohamed Al-Mahdi Boukhmada
Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, Benghazi
Dr. Mohamed Faraj Madi
Dean of the Faculty of Nursery
Prof. Ibrahim Abdulhamid Al-Gweil
Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Technical Sciences
Prof. Muftah Abdel-Aty Al-Fetouri.
Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Benghazi
Prof. Abubakr Faraj Shariaa
Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Benghazi.
Prof. Abdul Karim Ajwaili Abdul Ali.
Dean of the Faculty of Law, Benghazi
Dr. Salwa Fawzi Al-Dughayli
Dean of the Faculty of Media
Dr. Abubakr Mubarak Al-Ghazali
Dean of the Faculty of Education, Benghazi
Dr. Jamal Zidan Ali Sireer
Dean of the Faculty of Languages
Prof. Nuwara Mohammed Muslim
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Benghazi
Dr. Abdelhamid Hussein Al-Hassi
Dean of the Faculty of Science, Benghazi
Dr. Hussein Mohamed Al-Barassi
Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology
Dr. Abdel Salam Maatouq Al-Fakhri
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Al-Marj
Dr. Jibril Saad Al-Obeidi
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Al-Marj
Dr. Younis Ali Tayeb
Dean of the Faculty of Education, Marj
Dr. Hamed Mubarak Saleh
Dean of the Faculty of Accounting and Business, Marj
Dr. Abdul Salam Adam Al-Derani
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Al-Abeiyar
Dr. Mohammed Salem Quider
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Sloug
Dr. Khaled Omar Amehidi Al-Raqas
Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Sloug
Dr. Abdullah Mohammed Saleh Al-Alwani
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Tobruk
Dr. Ahmed Amraj Najm
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Al-Wahat
Dr. Ali Hassan Abubakr
Director of the Benghazi University Language Center
Prof. Ahmad Mohammed Abunawara
Dean of the Faculty of Law, Al-Kufra
Dr. Hakim Abdelrahim Nasouf
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Al-Kufra
Dr. Younis Misadf Younis Badr
Dean of the Faculty of Education, Qaminis
Dr. Awad Hamdi Al-Sharif
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Petroleum, Jalo
Dr. Magdy Hussein Mubarak Al-Ojaily
Dean of the Faculty of Education, Awjila
Dr. Sami Hussein Mubarak Al-Ojaily