CSU prexy reports accomplishments to PGMA

Tuguegarao City (1 September) — Cagayan State University (CSU) President Roger P. Perez has presented his accomplishments as president of the university to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, in her visit to Cagayan.

Perez said when PGMA appealed to State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) to try to freeze any tuition fee increase, CSU responded not only by freezing but by decreasing tuition fee by 25 percent, the only university in the entire Philippines that decreased its tuition fee.

He further reported that CSU offers free tuition fee for Agriculture, Fishery and Marine Biology.

As to the standing of the university, Perez proudly informed the President that CSU is the Center of Excellence in Fisheries, Center for Development in Marine Science, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering.

For internationalization program, CSU has 265 foreign students; 10 Pakistanis, 12 Africans, 1 American, 45 Indians, 10 Nepalis, 1 Koreans and 186 Chinese.

“On quality, 100% passing rate in 2009 board exam for medicine and we ranked 27th out of 105 raw schools in the Philippines,” Perez said.

On infrastructure, Perez also reported that they have built 6 academic buildings and 3 administrative buildings worth 130.5 million pesos, which highlights the modest contribution of the university in building a strong republic.

“100 percent of the funds used to build the infrastructure projects in all campuses came from our own income, tuition fees of students,” Perez said.

Perez explained that since majority of their students come from poor families, it has been his advocacy to construct excellent facilities to raise their level of aspiration because he considers that the best way to help the poor is to inspire them to dream a better quality of life.

He further said that their accomplishment is a paradigm shift towards management will to transform the SUC’s as partners of the government in poverty alleviation.

Perez also lauded PGMA’s administration for giving sufficient, more than enough for salaries of teachers and for allowing SUCs to keep what they earned and not to remit them to the national treasury. (Oliver B/PIA 2)