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JANUARY - JUNE 2016 VOL. IV NO. 4 CHED grants 41 PACU Member Schools Autonomous, Deregulated Status

The Commission on Higher (CHED), in a Memorandum Order issued last April 13, 2016 (CMO No. 20, series 2016), granted 75 Private Higher Education Institutions (PHEI’s) Autonomous and Deregulated Status. Fifty-nine (59) of these PHEI’s were conferred Autonomous Status while 16 received Deregulated Status. Forty-one (41) of them are members of the Philippine Association of Colleges and (PACU), and they represent 54.6% of the total number of PHEI’s in the list. Leading the pack is the of Santo Tomas, which was granted Autonomous Status for a period of five years. Twenty-eight (28) other member schools were granted Autonomous Status for a period of three years, namely: Colegio de Dagupan Presidents and administrators of different Higher Education Institutions in the join Dr. University of Luzon Patricia B. Licuanan (seated, fourth from left), Chairperson of the Commission on Higher Education St. Paul University Philippines during the awarding of Autonomous and Deregulated Status. Angeles University Foundation Holy Angel University University of the Visayas La Consolacion University Philippines Liceo de Cagayan University Jose Rizal University Lyceum of the Philippines University University of Mindanao Lyceum of the Philippines University Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation Saint Louis University Mapua Institute of Technology Saint Michael’s College of University of Baguio Our Lady of Fatima University - Valenzuela City University of Perpetual Help System of Laguna University of the Cordilleras Technological Institute of the Philippines Technological University of the Philippines Q.C. Cebu Institute of Technology University Centro Escolar University Turn to page 16 PACU Member Schools among PHEI’s designated Centers of Excellence, Development The Commission on Higher Education a total of 138 public and private Higher ANGELES UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (CHED), in accordance with a series of Education Institutions (HEI’s) as COE’s • COE in Criminology, Information Technology, en Banc Resolutions, established new and COD’s in several programs. Thirty- Teacher Education • COD in Computer Engineering, Centers of Excellence (COE) and Centers eight (38) of them are member institutions ASIAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION of Development (COD) for various of PACU and they represent 27.5% of the • COD in Information Technology disciplines. Accordingly, CHED issued total number of HEI’s in the list, namely: • COD in Information Technology Memorandum Order No. 38, series of 2015 ADAMSON UNIVERSITY and its amendments; Memorandum Order • COD in Chemical, Computer, Civil, Electrical, CAGAYAN DE ORO COLLEGE • COE in Criminology No. 15, series of 2016; and Memorandum Electronics, and Industrial Engineering, Order No. 17, series of 2016, designating Teacher Education Turn to page 16 2 PACU Newsletter President’s Report Dr. Karen Belina F. De Leon

s I end my two-year term as Assistance System for Tertiary Education the President of the Philippine (UniFAST). The law seeks to provide AAssociation of Colleges and adequate funding and such other Universities (PACU), I would like to thank mechanisms to increase the participation my colleagues and friends, presidents and rate among all socio-economic classes in administrators of PACU member schools tertiary education2 . This should enable for all their support and assistance. them to successfully pursue and complete This school year, we are witnessing their tertiary education programs in quality the transition of our respective Higher institutions, thereby promoting equitable and rationalized access to quality tertiary Educational Institutions during the historic 3 K-12 reform in the Philippine education education . landscape. We have also been active partners with To help mitigate the potential economic the Department of Education (DepEd) in impact of the full implementation of the implementation of the K-12 program. K-12 in our educational institutions, DepEd issued two policy guidelines for the the Commission on Higher Education implementation of the Senior High School (CHED) lobbied the Congress to allot Voucher program. DepEd Order No. 11, funds to finance a program of assistance series 2015 or Policy Guidelines on the for our affected teaching and non-teaching Implementation of the Senior High School personnel. The use of the fund will be Voucher Program Under the Government spread out during the five-year transition Assistance to Students and Teachers period beginning academic year 2016-17 (GASTPE) Program contains a Senior High and ending in academic year 2021-22 when School Voucher Policy Brief that outlines implementation has been fully achieved. the policy guidelines on the implementation Initially, CHED pressed Congress to include of the said program to inform and motivate the fund as a line item in the 2016 General Appropriations Act to all stakeholders, including students, parents, and non-DepEd Senior High School providers, to prepare and mobilize for the full jumpstart the program. After which, it hopes to institutionalize 4 the process through a law passed by both Houses of Congress. implementation of Senior High School in academic year 2016-17 . On December 10, 2015, the President signed Republic Act Further, DepEd Order No. 46, series 2015 or the Detailed No. 10717 or the General Appropriations Act of Fiscal Year 2016. Guidelines on the Implementation of the Senior High School Immediately, CHED, on January 12, 2016, issued Memorandum Voucher Program provides details on the conditions, requirements Order No. 3, series 2016 and Memorandum Order No. 4, and processes with regard to the implementation of the Senior series of 2016 to carry out its mitigation program during the High School Voucher Program, such as Student Eligibility and K-12 transition. The former contains Guidelines on Graduate Voucher Value, Voucher Validity and Redemption, Conditions Education Scholarships for Faculty and Staff Development for Voucher Program Beneficiaries, Provider Eligibility and Requirements, Voucher Tiers, Processing of Vouchers and during the K-12 Transition Period, while the latter contains the 5 Guidelines for Graduate Education Delivery for Faculty and Payment to Schools, and Monitoring and Program Compliance . Staff Development. Through the Senior High School voucher, DepEd engages The goals of the Graduate Education Scholarship Program the non-DepEd Senior High School providers to enroll qualified voucher recipients from both public and private Junior High are two-fold. First, it mitigates the impact on labour of our 6 educational institutions. Second, it gives our faculty the Schools . Once qualified, voucher recipients are enrolled in opportunity to upgrade their qualifications, thus, effectively non-DepEd Senior High School providers, DepEd will provide leveraging the transition to invest in the future of higher assistance to these students through a voucher subsidy paid to education1. The Graduate Education Delivery Program allows the non-DepEd Senior High School providers. our institutions to offer graduate programs to affected faculty We commissioned a study that projected the demand or and staff during the transition. This is another way of mitigating level of migration of Grade 10 students from public schools to the impact of the transition on the private higher education the private education sector. The study, conducted by a private sector. Turn to page 12 I am privileged to be part of the Technical Working Group of the K-12 Transition Team which is co-chaired by our Trustee, 1 CMO No. 3, s. 2016 Dr. Ester Garcia. 2 Republic Act No. 10687 or the UniFAST Act 3 Ibid During my term, we saw the passage of Republic Act 4 DepEd Order No. 11, series 2015 No. 10687 otherwise known as the Unified Student Financial 5 DepEd Order No. 46, series 2015 6 Ibid PACU Newsletter 3 Academic Management Seminar Series 2015-2016 held

he Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU) Tcompleted the second and third series of seminars under the Academic Management Seminar Series for 2015- 2016 which attracted a good number of participants mostly composed of school executives like vice-presidents for administration and academics, school principals, and faculty members. The seminar dubbed as “Managing Administrative Concerns on Senior High School” was attended by a total of 118 participants from 60 different schools nationwide on November 26 and 27, 2015 at the University of Perpetual Help DALTA in Las Piñas City. Highpoints of the two-day seminar included discussions about investing in the future of higher education and the transition to K-12, the The seminar on Managing Administrative Concerns on Senior High School which was held on November 26 and 27, 2015 at the University of Perpetual Help in Las Piñas was attended by 60 experiences of the University of different schools nationwide. and the about their respective Senior High School modelling program, Don Bosco’s experience in its Technical-Vocational Education and Training program, the K-12 voucher system, industry expectations, and legal concerns on K-12 and ASEAN integration. On the other hand, the University of Mindanao in Davao City served as the venue of the “Philippine Qualifications Framework and ASEAN Qualifications Framework” seminar, a two-day event which was attended by 61 academics from 31 different member schools on January 21 and 22, 2016. The globalization of Participants of the Seminar on Philippine Qualifications Framework and ASEAN Qualifica- tions Reference Framework held on January 21 and 22, 2016 at the University of Mindanao education and cross-border movement of in Davao City. students were the underlying principles for conducting this seminar. Furthermore, across all member states. At the local and development of national standards it also emphasized that across the region, level, the Philippine Qualifications and levels for outcomes of education and governments are developing common Framework was developed, as a national training, skills, and competencies that and transparent regional standards to policy, to harmonise these standards. will align with regional and international enhance student mobility and the ASEAN It will describe the levels of educational qualifications to support national, Qualifications Reference Framework qualifications and set standards for regional, and international mobility of and should function as a devise to qualification outcomes. Accordingly, the workers. enable comparisons of qualifications objective is to support the establishment 4 PACU Newsletter

6th COCOPEA DepEd grants National Congress held 179 PACU

he Coordinating Council of Education System: Public-Private Private Educational Associations Partnerships -- Good Practice in Cost Member T(COCOPEA) held its 6th National Studies Sharing and Financing Philippine Congress last February 18 and 19, 2016 Education”. Dr. Fahrney, on the other Schools Permit at the Novotel Hotel in Araneta Center, hand, spoke about “Transforming Cubao, . With the theme, the Learning Environment through “Roadmap for Philippine Education: Professional Learning Communities”. to offer SHS Pursuing Inclusive and Equitable Quality The concurrent sessions were he Department of Education Education, Lifelong Human Flourishing evenly divided between the topics “On (DepEd) recently announced and Sustainable Development”, the event Promoting Effective School Leadership on its website that 5,990 public drew a close to 720 participants from and Governance” and “On Promoting T schools will begin offering Senior the private education sector nationwide. Effective and Professional Facilitators of High School (SHS) for school year The highlight of the two-day event was Learning for the 21st Century Learners”. 2016-2017. Aside from this, DepEd a round-table discussion with the 2016 In turn, these topics were divided into also gave 5,046 private high schools, presidential candidates. three sub-topics, respectively. The first private and public universities and The Congress consisted of two consisted of the sub-topics “Leading colleges, technical-vocational schools, plenary sessions and six concurrent Change: Effective Leadership at the and Philippine schools overseas, sessions split into two clusters. Delivering Time of the K to 12 Reform,” “Teacher permission to offer SHS as well. their respective keynote addresses at Evaluation: A Catalyst for Dynamic Included in the list are 43 Senior the plenary sessions were Sec. Armin Instructional Leadership and Learning,” High Schools offering Maritime Luistro of the Department of Education, and “Financial Management Quotient Specialization. Dr. Tereso Tullao, Jr. of the De La Salle for School Leaders, Educators and University - Angelo King Institute for Academicians”. The second consisted Close to 96% of the total number Economic and Business in Education, of the sub-topics “Developing Effective of PACU member institutions are and Dr. Darin Fahrney, Principal of the Facilitators of Learning for the 21st in the list of HEI’s that were given Singapore American School. Sec. Luistro Century Learners: The Dynamic Learning permission to operate SHS. Of the spoke on “Shaping Public Policy and Program,” “A Lexicon for Educating the total number, 50 of these schools are Legislative Agenda Towards Inclusive Whole Child and Preparing the Whole located in the National Capital Region and Equitable Quality Education, Lifelong Adult: From School to Workplace,” and (NCR) while 83 are in Luzon, 21 are in Human Flourishing and Sustainable “Crisis Intervention for Children and the Visayas, and 25 are in Mindanao. Development” while Dr. Tullao explained PACU schools are indeed valuable the topic on “Financing the Philippine Turn to page 6 partners in supporting government’s roll-out of the Senior High School program. Senior High School covers the last two years of the K-12 program and includes Grades 11 and 12. In Senior High School, students will go through a core curriculum and subjects under a track of their choice and these are the Academic Track, Technical-Vocational Livelihood Track, Sports Track, and Arts and Design Track. There are four strands under the Academic Track and these are Accountancy, Business, and Management or ABM; Humanities and Social Sciences or HUMSS; Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics or STEM; and General Academic Stand Participants of the 6th COCOPEA (Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations) or GAS. National Congress with Sec. Armin Luistro (seated, right) of the Department of Education. PACU Newsletter 5 Board convenes for Regional Expanded Meetings n top of the Regular Board Meetings, the Philippine On May 20, 2016, it was the turn of Centro Escolar University Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU) held (CEU) in Mendiola, Manila to host the Expanded Board Meeting Oon the second term of fiscal year 2015-2016 two more for NCR. There was a large contingent of 37 attendees from Expanded Board Meetings in the campuses of its member different PACU member institutions across the regions. They institutions in Mindanao and the National Capital Region (NCR). were warmly welcomed as well by Dr. Ma. Cristina D. Padolina, On January 22, 2016, the University of Mindanao Campus President of CEU. in Davao City hosted the Expanded Board Meeting for Visayas The Officers and Board of Trustees would like to extend their and Mindanao. Dr. Guillermo P. Torres, Jr., President of the heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Torres and Dr. Padolina for graciously University of Mindanao warmly welcomed all 22 attendees hosting the Expanded Board Meetings of PACU in the Visayas from the different PACU member institutions nationwide. and Mindanao regions and in the NCR.

The Expanded Board Meeting for Visayas and Mindanao was held on January 22, 2016 at the University of Mindanao Campus, Davao City.

Centro Escolar University (CEU) in Mendiola, Manila hosted the Expanded Board Meeting for the National Capital Region on May 20, 2016. 6 PACU Newsletter

Executive Director Pascua PACU member retires institutions are The Board of Trustees and Officers of the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU) congratulates Mr. Gregorio M. Pascua on his retirement now DHEI’s for last March 9, 2016. During the ceremonies at the Oakwood Premiere Joy - Nostalg Center Manila last March 18, 2016, the Board of Trustees awarded Mr. Pascua a K-12 Transition plaque/certificate of recognition for his exemplary work as PACU Executive Director for close to three decades. While PACU is saddened to see him go, it is confident that Mr. Pascua will be as successful and happy in retirement, just as he was during his time in PACU. The Association wishes Mr. Pascua the best in his future endeavors. Retirement will surely offer him many new opportunities, which he will surely embrace whole- heartedly, just as he did in PACU.

s of May 24, 2016, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has approvedA a total of 148 Delivering Higher Education Institutions (DHEI’s) across 17 regions that will offer Master’s degree and Doctoral degree programs for teachers and non- teaching personnel that will avail of the K-12 Transition Scholarships. The approval encompasses over 1,600 Mr. Gregorio M. Pascua, (fourth from left) Former PACU Executive Director, is joined by (from Master’s degree and 400 Doctoral left) Atty. Anna Maria D. Abad, PACU Legal Counsel; Dr. Peter P. Laurel, President, Lyceum degree programs. of the Philippines University – Batangas & Laguna; Prof. Dhanna Kerina B. Rodas, President, Several PACU member institutions University of Baguio; Mr. Anthony Jose M. Tamayo, President, University of Perpetual Help are on the list and in total, there are 43 System-DALTA; Dr. Patricia Bustos-Lagunda, President, Baliuag University; and Dr. Vicente K. Fabella, President, Jose Rizal University during the awarding of the plaque of recognition. member institutions that were given authority to become Delivering HEI’s. Sixteen (16) are from the National Capital Region (NCR) while the rest (CHED) updated everyone on the are from Luzon with 17, Visayas with 4, “CHED-DepEd Programs to Mitigate the and Mindanao with 6. This shows proof 6th COCOPEA... Impact of the Implementation of the SHS of PACU’s commitment, as a valuable From page 4 Program”. partner of government, in supporting In between the plenary and the roll-out of the K-12 program. Adolescents, Mental Health Programs for concurrent sessions was a round-table The list of all approved DHEI’s can Students with Suicidal Ideation”. discussion with the 2016 presidential be downloaded from www.ched.com.ph Before the concurrent sessions, Ms. candidates. Only Sec. Manual A. Roxas and through https://chedk12.wordpress. Rhodora Angela F. Ferrer, Executive II attended among the candidates while com/dhei/. Director of Fund for Assistance to Private Prof. Tomas B. Lopez, Jr., President of The Association is extremely glad Education (FAPE), gave an update on the the , represented to have its member institutions as Educational Service Contracting (ESC), Vice-President . They gave DHEI’s. Hopefully, this will ease some Senior High School (SHS) Vouchers, their respective takes on “Re-envisioning of the economic burden wrought by the and Teacher Salary Subsidy (TSS) while the Philippine Educational System” and K-12 transition. Dr. Ma. Cynthia Rose B. Bautista of gamely answered questions propounded the Commission on Higher Education by the moderator, Dr. Vicente K. Fabella. PACU Newsletter 7

PACU welcomes passage of UniFAST Act

he Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU) Twelcomes the passage of Republic Act No. 10687 or the “Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education Act (UniFAST)” which was signed into law by President Benigno C. Aquino III last October 15, 2015. UniFAST empowers Filipino students to pursue good quality education at the tertiary level by gaining access to all modalities of publicly-funded Student Financial Assistance Programs (StuFAP) such as scholarships, grants-in-aid, student loans, government programs in partnership with other stakeholders, among others, and which are funded and/or implemented by national and local government agencies, branches and instrumentalities. It also streamlines the allocation and utilization of government resources and improves access to quality and National Youth Commission as tertiary education for those who need it. members. Noticeably excluded was the UniFAST empowers private education sector. Furthermore, it will serve as a mechanism that will direct beneficiaries to Filipino students PACU was hoping to address this priority courses important for economic deficiency by pushing for COCOPEA’s growth and development. A student to pursue good inclusion as an observer by way of the enrolling in tertiary education, whether quality education at law’s Implementing Rules and Regulation in public or private, in a national or local (IRR). The UniFAST Board seemed open institution, can avail of any one or more the tertiary level by to the idea but PACU has yet to see in the of the said modalities of StuFAP. final draft if COCOPEA will be granted gaining access to all this status. After several meetings, the Section 14 of the law provides for IRR is now ready for approval, but it is the creation of a UniFAST Board that modalities of publicly- still unknown, whether or not, COCOPEA will supervise the implementation of the will be granted observer status in the financial assistance to students. It will funded Student UniFAST Board. also monitor, assess, and make impact evaluation of the student financial Financial Assistance A Congressional Oversight assistance programs and projects to Committee will be created to oversee the determine its adoption, continuation, or Programs (StuFAP) implementation of UniFAST, including termination. The UniFAST Board also inquiries into the book of accounts of Department of Science and Technology, has the authority to create other student the UniFAST Board. The UniFAST Department of Education, Director- financial assistance programs. Board shall be required to submit to the General of the Technical Education and Congressional Oversight Committee, on The UniFAST Board shall be attached Skills Development Authority, and a a periodic basis, the financial statements, to the Commission on Higher Education representative each from the Department policy statements, issuances and other (CHED) and will be headed by the CHED of Labor and Employment, National documents and information of the Board, Chairperson with the Secretaries of the Economic and Development Authority, subject to existing laws and regulations. 8 PACU Newsletter 2015 - 2016 Supreme Court Cases

Mallo was constrained to file the instant Mallo had attained regular status, there complaint against respondents. was no overt or positive act on the part For its defense, the School claimed of the College to terminate him. The CA that it never dismissed Mallo. He was ruled that the totality of Mallo’s acts, i.e., POINT OF given his teaching assignment for the not attending his classes, his refusal to first semester of SY 2011-2012 as Clinical work, and obtaining new employment, INFORMATION Instructor to be assigned at the National clearly constituted abandonment of Dean Antonio H. Abad, Jr. and employment. Dean Anna Maria “Ada” D. Abad Center for Mental Health but he twice failed the qualifying exam required for Mallo sought the reversal of the Court the teaching of said course. However, of Appeal’s decision with the Supreme CASE NO. 1: Melvin P. Mallo vs. the College alleges that it gave Mallo a Court. , et al., G.R. No. teaching load as Clinical Instructor for Issue: 212861, 14 October 2015. Preceptorship Program to be conducted Question: May a teacher who had not at United Doctors Medical Center. Did Mallo abandon his job, as to be validly terminated? been attending his classes, be deemed The trouble started however when to have abandoned his job as to validly Mallo requested for a change of schedule Supreme Court ruling: dismiss him? due to an alleged conflict with another There was no abandonment; but there Facts of the case: school. The College denied Mallo’s was also no illegal termination. request because it would entail a reshuffle Melvin P. Mallo was hired as a In the petition for review, while the of the entire schedule of the College. Probationary full-time faculty member Supreme Court concurred with the CA of the school’s College of Nursing and On June 23 to 25, 2011, Mallo did not that Mallo was not illegally dismissed, Midwifery with the rank of “Assistant attend his classes at UDMC. The College the Supreme Court ruled that neither did Professor C” for the 2nd Semester of alleges that it contacted Mallo to inquire Mallo abandon his work. As such, Mallo the school year 2007-2008. The College if he would report for work the following should simply be reinstated to his position renewed his employment for the day, and to which Mallo allegedly replied as Assistant Professor without any award succeeding semesters until the summer of in the negative as his schedule with of backwages or damages. the College conflicted with his other SY 2010-2011. Rationale for the Supreme Court employment. Thereafter, the College On June 2011, Mallo inquired about Decision: never heard from Mallo again until he his teaching load for the 1st semester of filed the instant case. The Supreme Court based its decision SY 2011-2012. He alleges that the College on two principles of labor law, to wit: How the case went up to the Supreme only responded that teaching assignments (a) to constitute abandonment, there Court: for the semester were yet to be given must be a clear and deliberate intent on to faculty members. To his dismay, he The Labor Arbiter declared Mallo to the part of the employee to discontinue learned from a co-professor that faculty have been illegally dismissed and found one’s employment without any intention meetings were conducted on June 9 and that Mallo did not abandon his job. As of returning; and (b) the burden of proof 10, 2011 whereby teaching loads were such, the Labor Arbiter ordered Mallo’s is upon the employer to show said distributed to the professors. reinstatement with full backwages. When abandonment. the College appealed to the National Upon learning of this development, (a) Mallo did not abandon his work. Mallo alleges that he confronted the Labor Relations Commission, the NLRC Dean of the College of Nursing, Dr. affirmed the Labor Arbiter’s decision. For a valid termination on account of abandonment, two elements must concur: Clarita D. Curato (Dr. Curato), claiming Not satisfied with the NLRC’s (1) failure to report for work or absence that the College was obliged to give him Decision, the College went up to the Court without valid or justifiable reason; and (2) teaching loads because he was already of Appeals which thereafter reversed the a clear intention to sever the employer- a permanent faculty member after four NLRC and the Labor Arbiter’s ruling. employee relationship manifested by years of teaching. However, Dr. Curato The Court of Appeals declared Mallo some overt acts. (The second element simply retorted that the school was under to have abandoned his job and, thus, being the more determinative factor.) no obligation to give him any teaching Mallo was not entitled to backwages, loads for the semester because he was separation pay in lieu of reinstatement, Here, Mallo insists that respondents merely a contractual employee. As such, and attorney’s fees. While it is true that illegally dismissed him because the latter PACU Newsletter 9 failed to give him any teaching load for the fact of abandonment. Fortunately for or Code of Conduct or similar memoranda, the First Semester of SY 2011-2012. On the College, the Supreme Court found then Mallo may also be disciplined the other hand, respondents vehemently that Mallo was not terminated either accordingly for non-compliance thereto. deny Mallo’s claims, maintaining that for which reason, it was not required to CASE NO. 2: Divine Word College of they promptly gave him his teaching pay Mallo any backwages, damages and Laoag (DWCL) v. Mina, G.R. No. 195155, assignment and that the latter even attorney’s fees. In any event, the College 13 April 2016 initially accepted the same, but such was directed to reinstate the faculty assignment was eventually turned down member to his position, for reasons of Questions: May a faculty employee be due to a conflict in schedule with his new equity. divested of teaching load and transferred employment in another school. to a non-teaching job, in the exercise of A closer reading of the facts reveal that its management prerogative? May the Records are bereft of any indication Mallo was assigned another teaching load, acceptance of retirement benefits in this that Mallo’s absence from work was after having failed to qualify for teaching regard, preclude said employee from deliberate, unjustified, and with a in the original load given. The College questioning the transfer? clear intent to sever his employment alleges that Mallo initially accepted the relationship with the school. Additionally, new teaching load but “requested for Facts of the case: while the College claims to have assigned a change of schedule due to an alleged Mina was first employed in 1971 as a Mallo as Clinical Instructor at UDMC conflict with another school.” Note in this high school teacher, and later on as a high after failing the qualifying test at NCMF, instance that the College alleged that: (a) school principal, at the Academy of St. there is no proof that Mallo was informed it denied Mallo’s request because it would Joseph (ASJ), a school run by the SVD. of such assignment. entail a reshuffle of the entire schedule of On 01 June 1979, he was transferred the College; (b) it inquired from Mallo (b) The College was not able to to another SVD educational institution, whether he would report for work the substantially prove that Mallo abandoned the Divine Word College of Laoag, following day; and (c) Mallo allegedly his work as faculty member. and was accorded a permanent status told the College official that he would not after a year of probationary status. He It bears stressing that a party alleging report to work as the schedule conflicted was subsequently transferred in 2002 a critical fact must support his allegation with his other employment. with substantial evidence for any decision to DWCL’s college department as an based on unsubstantiated allegation To prove the fact of abandonment as Associate Professor III. to justify his termination, and assuming cannot stand as it will offend due process. Thereafter, on 01 June 2003, Mina that the College asked whether Mallo (General Milling Corporation vs. Casio, was assigned as the College Laboratory will report for work after his absence of 629 Phil. 12 [2010]). Thus, the Supreme Custodian of the School of Nursing and several days, the College should have Court noted that the College failed to was divested of his teaching load, effective formally written Mallo a letter stating discharge the burden of proof that Mallo June 1, 2003 until May 31, 2004, subject the following: had every intention of disengaging from to automatic termination and without his employment. (a) that he had been assigned a new need for any further notification. He Moreover, Mallo’s filing a complaint teaching position; was the only one among several teachers for illegal dismissal, coupled with his (b)the College had denied his request for transferred to the college department who prior acts of actively inquiring about his a change of schedule; was divested of teaching load. teaching load, negate any intention on his (c) to record his absence of x number In early June 2004, Mina was offered part to sever his employment. of days, plus a written directive to early retirement by the College. He Indeed, it is simply absurd for Mallo explain his absences and to report for initially declined the offer because of his to serve the College continuously for work on a specific date. family’s dependence on him for support. more than three (3) years in order to gain a The letter should also contain a He later received a Memorandum regular status, only to leave his job without warning that his failure to give an from the Office of the Dean enumerating any justifiable reason and, thereafter, file explanation and to return to work on the specific acts of gross or habitual negligence, a case in an attempt to recover the same. stated date will constrain the College to insubordination, and reporting for work Abandonment of position is a matter of consider this as an abandonment of his under the influence of alcohol. intention and cannot be lightly inferred, work, as part of the due process clause. He answered the allegations against much less legally presumed, from certain him; sensing, however, that it was equivocal acts. (Macahilig vs. NLRC, 543 Had it been able to do so, then the pointless to continue employment with Phil. 683 [2007]). College would have been justified in declaring Mallo to have abandoned his College, he requested that his retirement Ada’s notes: What should the College position as faculty member after due date be adjusted to September 2004 to have done in this situation so that process. enable him to avail of the 25-year benefits. Mallo may be validly terminated for He also requested for the inclusion of his abandonment? Lastly, as an additional note, and eight years of service in ASJ, to make his assuming that the College had an existing total years of service to 33 years pursuant Note that the Supreme Court ruled in “exclusive teaching policy” clearly this instance that the College failed to prove enunciated in the College Faculty Manual Turn to next page 10 PACU Newsletter to the portability clause of the Divine ASJ and thus making his creditable dismissal, Mina is therefore entitled to Word Educational Association retirement number of years of service to 33 years. reinstatement without loss of seniority plan, which read to wit: According to the LA, his length of service rights, and payment of backwages When a member who resigns or in both institutions will be taken into computed from the time compensation is separated from employment consideration in determining his total was withheld up to the date of actual from one Participating Employer years of continuous service since the reinstatement (or until his death, as in this and who is employed by another DWEA Retirement Plan has a provision case). Participating Employer, the on portability. Rationale of the Supreme Court decision: member will carry the credit When Mina appealed to the National While management has the right to he earned under his former Labor Relations Commission, the NLRC transfer its employees in the exercise of Participating Employer to his reversed the Labor Arbiter’s decision its prerogatives vis-a-vis the operations of new Employer and the length of and ruled that Mina was constructively its business, it is required to respect the service in both will be taken into dismissed when he was appointed employee’s right to security of tenure. consideration in determining his as College Laboratory Custodian and total years of continuous service divested of his teaching load without any In the case of transfer, the employer on the following conditions: justification. It also ruled that Mina was is charged with the burden of proving that its conduct and action are for valid a. The transfer is approved by not deemed to have waived all his claims against DWCL as quitclaims cannot bar and legitimate grounds such as genuine both the Participating Employer business necessity and that the transfer whose service he is leaving employees from demanding benefits to which they are legally entitled. The NLRC, is not unreasonable, inconvenient or and the new Participating prejudicial to the employee. Otherwise, Employer; however, disregarded Mina’s eight years of service in ASJ in the computation of the transfer is tantamount to unlawful b. The Retirement Board is his retirement pay because of his failure constructive dismissal. notified of the transfer; and to show compliance with the portability a) The faculty member who was c. The member is employed by provision. divested of teaching load and another Participating Employer Dissatisfied with the NLRC ruling, given a custodial position on the next working day after the College raised the case to the Court without justification, was his resignation. of Appeals, which agreed that College effectively demoted leading to The College denied Mina’s request to constructively dismissed Mina. However, constructive dismissal. include the eight years of service, but paid the Court of Appeals made a different Constructive dismissal is a dismissal him P275,513.10 for and as retirement pay. computation of the monetary awards, viz: in disguise. There is cessation of work It was made to appear that his services backwages at one-month for every year in constructive dismissal because were terminated by reason of redundancy of service from the time that Mina was ‘“continued employment is rendered to avoid any tax implications. Mina was hired in 1979 until his death in 2005, plus impossible, unreasonable or unlikely, as also made to sign a deed of waiver and damages and attorney’s fees. an offer involving a demotion in rank or quitclaim stating that he no longer has Hence, this case was brought up to a diminution in pay’ and other benefits.” any claim against College with respect to the Supreme Court for final disposition. To be considered as such, an act must any matter arising from his employment be a display of utter discrimination or in the school. Issues: insensibility on the part of the employer A few months after the receipt of Was there constructive dismissal on the so intense that it becomes unbearable his retirement pay in September 2004, part of the College, when it divested for the employee to continue with Mina filed a case for illegal dismissal Mina of his teaching load and made him his employment. The law recognizes and recovery of separation pay and other College Laboratory Technician? and resolves this situation in favor of monetary claims. Is Mina precluded from questioning the employees in order to protect their rights severance of his employment, when he and interests from the coercive acts of the Pending resolution of his case, Mina employer. passed away on 18 June 2005. accepted his retirement benefits from the College? In this case, Mina’s transfer clearly How the case went up to the Supreme Supreme Court ruling: amounted to a constructive dismissal. Court: For almost 22 years, he was a high school The College won with a favorable YES, there was constructive dismissal teacher enjoying a permanent status in decision from the Labor Arbiter, when Mina was divested of his teaching DWCL’s high school department. In declaring that there was no constructive load without justification. 2002, he was appointed as an associate dismissal. The LA ratiocinated, however, NO, Mina is NOT precluded from professor at the college department but that the computation of Mina’s retirement questioning the termination despite shortly thereafter, or on June 1, 2003, he pay based on redundancy is illegal. He receipt of retirement benefits from the was appointed as a college laboratory modified the computation, by adding College under the circumstances. custodian, which is a clear relegation from his previous position. Not only the number of years he worked for Given the finding of constructive PACU Newsletter 11 that. He was also divested of his teaching actual period when the employee was offer to voluntarily retire is constitutive of load. His appointment even became unlawfully prevented from working.” bad faith. contractual in nature and was subject Thus, the computation of Mina’s e) No portability of retirement benefits to automatic termination after one year backwages should be from the time he absent proof of compliance by “without any further notification.” Aside was constructively dismissed on June 1, employee from this, Mina was the only one among 2003 --- and NOT from the time he was the high school teachers transferred to the hired in 1979. Lastly, the Court affirms the NLRC’s college department who was divested of findings that the eight years of service c) Separation pay; basis and correct teaching load. More importantly, DWCL rendered by Mina in ASJ shall not be computation failed to show any reason for Mina’s included in the computation of his transfer and that it was not unreasonable, Aside from the foregoing, the CA retirement benefits. No adequate proof inconvenient, or prejudicial to him. should have also awarded separation is shown that he has complied with Also, the CA correctly ruled that pay since reinstatement is no longer the portability clause of the DWEA As Mina’s appointment as laboratory viable due to Mina’s death in 2005. Retirement Plan. The employee has the stated before, the award of separation pay custodian was a demotion. There is burden of proof to show compliance with is distinct from the award of backwages. demotion when an employee occupying the requirements set forth in retirement Additionally, the award of separation pay a highly technical position requiring the plans, being in the nature of privileges is also distinct from the grant of retirement use of one’s mental faculty is transferred granted to employees. Failure to overcome benefits. These benefits are not mutually to another position, where the employee the burden of proof would necessarily exclusive as [r]etirement benefits are a performed mere mechanical work – result in the employee’s disqualification form of reward for an employee’s loyalty virtually a transfer from a position of to receive the benefits. and service to an employer and are dignity to a servile or menial job. The Ada’s notes: What should the College earned under existing laws, [Collective assessment whether Mina’s transfer have done in this situation so that Mina Bargaining Agreements], employment amounted to a demotion must be done could not have been demoted and contracts and company policies.” in relation to his previous position, that constructively dismissed? Separation pay, on the other hand, is, from an associate college professor, he The determinative point in the present is that amount which an employee was made a keeper and inventory-taker controversy appears to be when Mina, receives at the time of his severance from of laboratory materials. Clearly, Mina’s as an associate professor, was suddenly employment, designed to provide the new duties as laboratory custodian were assigned as the College Laboratory employee with the wherewithal during merely perfunctory and a far cry from his Custodian of the School of Nursing and the period that he is looking for another previous teaching job, which involved the divested of his teaching load. use of his mental faculties. employment. Note that the NLRC, CA and Supreme In the computation of separation pay, And while there was no proof Court all found that such divestment the Court stresses that it should not go adduced showing that his salaries and and appointment from a highly technical beyond the date an employee was deemed benefits were diminished, there was position as professor requiring the use to have been actually separated from clearly a demotion in rank. As was stated of one’s mental faculties, to a menial/ employment, or beyond the date when in Blue Dairy Corporation v. NLRC, “[i]t custodial job is equivalent to a demotion. reinstatement was rendered impossible. was virtually a transfer from a position of If at all, the College failed to substantially The period for the computation of dignity to a servile or menial job.” prove that the justification for such a separation pay Mina is entitled to shall b) Correct computation of backwages demotion leading to constructive dismissal. therefore begin to run from June 1, 1979, The Supreme Court noted that the when he was transferred to DWCL from If it were true that Mina had committed Court of Appeals committed a mistake ASJ, until his death on June 18, 2005, or several infractions earlier, viz., gross or in the computation of the backwages, for a period of 26 years. habitual negligence, insubordination, and when the CA ruled that the amount to reporting for work under the influence d) Damages proper in case of bad faith be awarded as backwages from the time of of alcohol, then the College should have in termination Mina’s hiring on June 1, 1979 until the time simply followed through with the due of his death on June 18, 2005, apparently The award of damages was also process requirement. Assuming that there interchanging backwages and separation justified given the CA and NLRC’s finding was substantial evidence establishing pay. Aside from this, the CA omitted to that DWCL acted in a manner wherein the above infractions meriting his include a separate award of separation Mina was not treated with utmost good termination, then the College should NOT pay. faith. The intention of the school to erase have offered to give him retirement pay him out of employment is too apparent. The Supreme Court clarified and and instead, ought to have terminated stressed that the basis for the payment The Court upholds the CA’s finding him for just cause. of backwages is different from that that when DWCL’s act of unceremoniously (The authors would like to thank our Lyceum of the award of separation pay. “The demoting and giving Mina contractual OJT law students Mr. Paolo Ricasia and Ms. basis for computing separation pay is employment for one year and citing Rizel Sabanal-Adlawan for their invaluable usually the length of the employee’s past him for numerous violations of school help in researching for the 2016 cases). service, while that for backwages is the regulations when he rejected the school’s 12 PACU Newsletter

President’s Report From page 2 K to 12 Regional Dialogues of PBEd. We students. Accordingly, on May 19, 2015, also contributed in drafting the 2014 and Commissioner Mison issued Immigration 2015 Manila Declaration as well as its Memorandum Circular No. SBM-2015- market research firm and funded by Policy Memorandum, and the Education 007, which seeks to streamline the PEAC, showed that there was generally Nation Reform Agenda for the Next issuance of a student visa to a foreigner a positive reaction with 40% of the Philippine President. We attended the wishing to study in the Philippines. respondents positively predisposed to conferences organized by the Department transfer their children to a private Senior We also signed a Memorandum of Labor and Employment (DOLE), High School. However, a significant of Agreement with the Rotary Club especially in relation to education- number of respondents, about 30%, of Midtown Quezon City (RCMQC) industry mismatches and employers’ believed that it was still expensive to send for a scholarship program to selected sectoral consultation. their child to a private school due to the public high school graduates from low remaining top-up value. We also continue to engage with income families who wish to pursue Philippine Association of Colleges a baccalaureate course in college. We also participated in several and Universities Commission on Beneficiaries of the scholarship are selected meetings and activities conducted by Accreditation (PACUCOA) in our effort from the Kabayan Ten Outstanding Public various organizations that are promoting to help our member schools that are School Students program. The grantees and championing the education agenda interested in getting their programs are endorsed by PACU to member higher like the United States Agency for accredited. The Commissioners of educational institutions which will International Development (USAID), PACUCOA even took time to participate provide scholarships/grants to enable Philippine National Volunteer Service in two seminars organized in this regard them to complete their tertiary education, Coordinating Agency (PNVSCA), and the by PACU’s Accreditation and Quality subject to compliance with conditions of Philippine Business for Education (PBEd). Assurance Committee entitled “Kapihan the institution. We have a seat in the Advisory Board sa PACUCOA” and “Seminar on Other Before I end my term as President, I of the Science, Technology, Research, Accreditation Options”. would like to acknowledge the activities Innovation, and Development (STRIDE) We met with then Commissioner and accomplishments of the various program of USAID. We also became a Siegfried B. Mison of the Bureau of Committees led by the hardworking part of the the Multi-Sectoral Advisory Immigration (BI) to discuss our concerns Officers and Trustees of PACU: Board (MSAB) of PNVSCA during and the concerns of our international PACU’s tenure as Chair of COCOPEA. Membership students regarding the issuance We attended the President’s Summit, and reissuance of visas to foreign Led by First Vice-President Dhanna Education Nation Council Meetings, and Kerina B. Rodas, the Membership

PACU SEMINAR ON MANAGING ADMINISTRATIVE CONCERNS ON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL University of Perpetual Help – Las Piñas November 26 – 27, 2015 PACU Newsletter 13

PACU EXPANDED BOARD MEETING - VISAYAS & MINDANAO University of Mindanao, Davao City January 22, 2016

Committee endorsed Cainta Catholic ASEAN Integration” which was held on which had no accredited programs College as PACU’s 187th member school. September 24 and 25, 2015 at the Manila or with candidate status only, for the She also spearheaded a tour to reconnect Tytana College in Pasay City. This was purpose of benchmarking and to get more with several member school presidents followed by a seminar, “Managing information about accreditation. The in Cebu and encourage participation and Administrative Concerns in Senior High visit also fostered further collaboration attendance in our activities. School” which was held at the University between the schools to encourage the of Perpetual Help DALTA in Las Piñas other to undergo accreditation. Programs City last November 26 and 27, 2015. The participating schools were PMI Under the able stewardship of Dr. Lastly, the seminar on the “Philippine Jose Francisco B. Benitez, the Programs Colleges, Mariners Polytechnic Colleges Qualifications Framework and ASEAN Foundation-Legaspi City, Mariners Committee organized a series of seminars Qualifications Framework” which was called the Academic Management Seminar Polytechnic Colleges Foundation- held at the University of Mindanao in Naga City, and Pines City Colleges. Series for academic years 2014-2015 and Davao City last January 21 and 22, 2016. 2015-2016. There were three seminars Institutions with at least Level III during my first year as President. First, Collectively, the Academic accredited programs that signed-up for was the seminar on “Student Mobility Management Seminar Series for the mentoring program were Arellano and ASEAN Integration” which was academic years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 University, Baliuag University, Capitol held last November 24 and 25, 2014 at attracted a large number of participants University, Centro Escolar University, the University of Asia and the Pacific composed mostly of school executives Far Eastern University, Foundation (UA&P) campus in Pasig City. Following like vice-presidents for administration University, Jose Rizal University, Lyceum this was the “Philippine Qualifications and academics, school principals, and of the Philippines Batangas, Lyceum Framework and Quality Assurance” faculty members from various academic of the Philippines Manila, Manila seminar which was held last January 22 institutions. Central University, Misamis University, Technological Institute of the Philippines, and 23, 2015 at the University of the East Accreditation and Quality Assurance University of Asia and the Pacific, campus in Manila. Next was a seminar on Chaired by Dr. Ma. Cristina D. “Blending Digital Tools and Techniques University of the East, and West Negros Padolina, the Quality Assurance/ University. Amidst Current Trends in Education” Accreditation Committee organized a which was also conducted at the UA&P Benchmarking and Outreach Program (or Relative to this, the Committee, with campus last April 16 and 17, 2015. Mentoring Program) to encourage some the financial support of Private Education The committee added three more of our member institutions to undergo Assistance Committee (PEAC), conducted seminars during my second year. The first accreditation. In this regard, participating four seminars on accreditation. The first seminar was on “Faculty Development member institutions with at least Level was “Accreditation: Boon or Bane” which in the Senior High School Program and III accredited programs agreed to host was held at the Bayleaf Hotel of Lyceum a visit from another member institution Turn to next page 14 PACU Newsletter of the Philippines Manila last October Committee for the last two years. She our academic freedom. Thank you also 20, 2014. The second, “A Look at Other oversees the publication of our semi- for updating us and clarifying the latest Quality Assurance Options” was held at annual Newsletter and our online decisions of the Supreme Court, as well as Jose Rizal University in Mandaluyong last resources and website. She has also your policy inputs and recommendations May 15, 2015. The third was a “Kapihan organized our fellowship activities for the on the pronouncements of relevant with PACUCOA” that was held last board and our members. government agencies. October 16, 2015 at Far Eastern University PEAC Representation Finance in Manila and late last year a seminar on “Other Quality Accreditation Options” As PACU president, I sit in the board of Special mention goes to Mr. Anthony was held at Lyceum of the Philippines PEAC, the governing body of the Fund for Jose M. Tamayo and the Finance Batangas on November 20, 2015. Assistance to Private Education. We would Committee for the monthly audit, like to acknowledge and thank PEAC, as safekeeping, and monitoring of PACU’s Industry-Linkage we would not have been able to deliver our finances. Our finances have consistently Dr. Michael M. Alba conceptualized projects, researches, and seminars during my improved owing to the efficient and a program to conduct workshops where term if not for the assistance and funding from effective management of PACU’s funds. representatives from leading industry our FAPE grants. PACU Secretariat conglomerates, allied organizations, and We have been ably represented at PACU member schools meet to identify Special mention as well goes to the the PEAC Grants Committee which men and woman of the PACU Secretariat and define specific areas of collaboration, recommends the approval for funding of level expectations, and develop symbiotic for their untiring support to the Officers PACU’s programs by Dr. Patricia Bustos- and Trustees of the association, as well as partnerships. Thus, the “Leveling of Lagunda. Expectation between Academe and to all 187 member institutions. They have Industry” was born wherein a series of Policy Committee worked tirelessly to assist the Committees fora was held between the academe and I would like to acknowledge fulfill their mandates and have assisted representatives from industry led by and thank Dr. Vicente K. Fabella for CHED and other related agencies the Business, Finance, and Accounting representing PACU and the whole private secure the data they need to support the Sectors; Information Technology and education sector in policy meetings called government’s mitigation programs for Engineering Sectors; and Hotel and by CHED, DepEd, and other related teaching and non-teaching personnel that Restaurant Management and Tourism agencies. Together with Dr. Alba, they are affected during the K-12 transition. Sectors. Representatives from both the are credited for commissioning a study to Many of our activities and programs academe and industry agreed to further find the optimum pricing for the Senior would not be successful without the meet, collaborate, work-out and address High School offering of private schools, complete support of the Secretariat, the the general concerns of this program, and considering the government’s voucher. Officers, the Board of Trustees and the to sign a Memorandum of Agreement in The study, “Project K-12: A Pricing Study PACU membership. More importantly, this regard as well. Participants of the fora for Senior High School Offering” will help I would not have been able to perform assembled during an Academe-Industry project demand or level of migration of the required task bestowed upon me as Linkage Summit last June 8, 2015 to sign Grade 10 students from public schools to President of PACU without your untiring and pass a resolution institutionalizing the private education sector. Dr. Fabella support and cooperation. Thank you very this program. also represented PACU and COCOPEA much. Dr. Alba, Dr. Vicente K. Fabella, Dr. as a member of the Technical Working I also wish to thank all the member Jose Francisco B. Benitez, and Dr. Ma. Group that drafted the Implementing schools that hosted our Expanded Board Cristina D. Padolina are spearheading a Rules and Regulation of the Unifast Bill. Meetings in the last two years, namely: Critical Thinking Initiative that will track Dr. Fabella, together with Dr. Benitez, Saint Louis University, Capitol University, the development of the critical thinking and Dr. Alba were the representatives of Jose Rizal University, Far Eastern skills of students and develop critical PACU in crafting the COCOPEA Roadmap University, Lyceum of the Philippines thinking interventions. The main goal for Philippine Tertiary Education. The Batangas, University of Mindanao, and is to develop our college students to be COCOPEA Board recently approved Centro Escolar University. contributing members in our society by the Roadmap and a copy of which will I am extremely confident that I being good citizens with moral sensitivity be given to President-elect Rodrigo R. will be leaving PACU in good hands as and civic engagement. Through PACU, Duterte after its publication. we have the best academic minds and they are planning to commission a study leaders who continue to chart the course that will take stock of the critical thinking Legal and Legislative of private higher education. We will initiatives that are already in place in the My appreciation and thanks to Atty. remain supportive of the government’s Philippine college setting. The study will Ada Abad and the Legal and Legislative quest to continue its education reforms also identify the people that have done Committee for their active participation by providing sound policy and direction, critical thinking initiatives, as well as in the numerous hearings and meetings while promoting and looking after the identify relevant memorandum orders in Congress, CHED, and various related interests of the private higher education issued by CHED. agencies and organizations. She continues to defend private higher education from sector. Public Relations anomalous attempts to rewrite laws and Maraming salamat sa inyong lahat at Dr. Caroline Marian S. Enriquez has administrative orders aimed to further Mabuhay ang PACU! tirelessly served the Public Relations regulate our institutions and undermine PACU Newsletter 15

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6th NATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS (COCOPEA) Novotel Hotel, Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City February 18 and 19, 2016

PACU SEMINAR ON PHILIPPINE QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK & ASEAN QUALIFICATIONS REFERENCE FRAMEWORK University of Mindanao, Davao City January 21 – 22, 2016

PACU REGULAR BOARD MEETING Oakwood Premier Joy – Nostalg Center Manila March 18, 2016 PACU EXPANDED BOARD MEETING - NCR Centro Escolar University, Mendiola, Manila May 20, 2016 16 PACU Newsletter

CHED grants... PACU Members... Engineering, Medical Technology/Medical From page 1 From page 1 Laboratory Science Baliuag University, Cebu Doctors’ ST. PAUL UNIVERSITY PHILIPPINES University, and Philippine Women’s CAPITOL UNIVERSITY • COE in Nursing, Teacher Education • COD in Teacher Education • COD in Information Technology University were granted Autonomous CEBU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF THE Status for a period of one (1) year. UNIVERSITY PHILIPPINES (Manila and Quezon City Nine (9) PACU member schools were • COE in Information Technology Campuses) CENTRO ESCOLAR UNIVERSITY • COE in Computer Engineering, Electrical granted Deregulated Status for three (3) • COE in Teacher Education Engineering Electronics Engineering, years. They are Lorma Colleges, Lyceum- • COD in Business Administration, Optometry Information Technology Northwestern University, Northwestern COLEGIO DE DAGUPAN • COD in Business Administration, Chemical University, Saint Louis College, Misamis • COD in Information Technology Engineering (Manila Campus only), Civil University, Foundation University, Emilio FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY Engineering, Industrial Engineering, • COE in Teacher Education Aguinaldo College, University of Asia Mechanical Engineering • COD in Business Administration UNIVERSITY OF ASIA & THE PACIFIC and the Pacific, and the University of HOLY ANGEL UNIVERSITY • COD in Teacher Education Perpetual Help System. • COD in Business Administration, Industrial UNIVERSITY OF BAGUIO In line with this, on May 16, 2016, Engineering, Teacher Education • COE in Criminology JOSE RIZAL UNIVERSITY • COD in Teacher Education an awarding ceremony was held for • COE in Business Administration UNIVERSITY OF BATANGAS such purpose by CHED. Present at the LICEO DE CAGAYAN UNIVERSITY • COE in Teacher Education ceremony were the top brass of CHED • COD in Radiologic Technology, Information • COD in Business Administration led by their Chairperson Dr. Patricia B. Technology UNIVERSITY OF CEBU Licuanan, as well as the Presidents of the LORMA COLLEGES • COD in Criminology • COD in Information Technology PACU member institutions who made it UNIVERSITY OF THE CORDILLERAS LYCEUM OF THE PHILIPPINES • COE in Criminology, Information Technology, in the list. UNIVERSITY - BATANGAS Teacher Education PACU congratulates all its member • COE in Hotel and Restaurant Management, UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST Tourism, Medical Technology/Medical schools that were granted Autonomous • COE in Information Technology Laboratory Science UNIVERSITY OF LUZON and Deregulated Status. • COD in Business Administration, Information • COE in Criminology Total No. of PHEI’s Granted Technology • COD in Information Technology, Teacher Autonomous Status 59 LYCEUM OF THE PHILIPPINES Education PACU Schools Granted UNIVERSITY - MANILA UNIVERSITY OF MINDANAO Autonomous Status 32 • COE in Business Administration, Customs • COE in Business Administration, Percentage of PACU Schools Administration, Hotel and Restaurant Criminology, Teacher Education Management, Tourism vis-à-vis Total 54.2% • COD in Accountancy, Computer MANILA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY Engineering, Electrical Engineering, • COE in Optometry Information Technology, Mechanical Total No. of PHEI’s Granted MANUEL S. ENVERGA UNIVERSITY Engineering Deregulated Status 16 • COE in Criminology UNIVERSITY OF PERPETUAL HELP - PACU Schools Granted • COD in Information Technology BIÑAN Deregulated Status 9 MAPUA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY • COD in Information Technology, Teacher Percentage of PACU Schools • COE in Chemical Engineering, Computer Education vis-à-vis Total 56.2% Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS Engineering, Electronics Engineering, • COE in Hotel and Restaurant Management, PHEI’s Granted Autonomous and Mechanical Engineering, Sanitary Tourism, Chemical Engineering, , Deregulated Status 75 Engineering, Information Technology Medical Technology/Medical Laboratory PACU Schools Granted Autonomous and • COD in Industrial Engineering Science, Nursing, Pharmacy, Philosophy, Deregulated Status 41 MISAMIS UNIVERSITY Library and Information Science, Biology, Percentage of PACU Schools • COD in Criminology, Information Chemistry, Psychology, Teacher Education vis-à-vis Total 54.6% Technology, Teacher Education • COD Physical Therapy, Literature, NAGA COLLEGES FOUNDATION Information Technology, Communication, • COD in Criminology Journalism, Civil Engineering, Electrical NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Engineering, Electronics Engineering, • COE in Information Technology Industrial Engineering, Mechanical A project of the PACU Committee on OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY- Engineering Public Relations: VALENZUELA CITY UNIVERSITY OF VISAYAS • COE in Hotel and Restaurant Management Dr. Caroline Marian S. Enriquez • COD in Business Administration • COD in Pharmacy Chairperson and Editor PACU congratulates all its member SAINT LOUIS COLLEGE Dr. Patricia Bustos-Lagunda schools that made it to the list. This Ms. Candice Gotianuy • Teacher Education Dr. Ma. Socorro M. Eala SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY will serve as catalysts for world class • COE in Nursing, Information Technology, scholarships, best practices, innovative Secretariat: Teacher Education Mr. Gregorio M. Pascua curriculum, research and extension, • COD in Business Administration, Mr. John Antonio B. Dionisio and professional development in the Entrepreneurship, Chemical Engineering, Ms. Ria C. Lascano programs indicated. Mr. Airol M. Alfiler Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mining