The UPV Supra-Level Strategic Planning Conference and the College-Based Planning Session for 2021-2023 were conducted at the College of Management, UP Visayas Iloilo City campus on February 5, 2021.
Chancellor Clement Camposano encouraged the participants who attended the face-to-face sessions and Zoom to bring their knowledge and expertise to chart UPVs path over the next three years.
The Camposano administration’s catchphrase “Ways Forward” will be piloted by a five-point agenda guided by the plan that UPV becomes a higher learning institution known for excellence in teaching, research, and public service. The University is to be a leader in community engagement and inspire meaningful change in education. It must be distinguished by a robust commitment to diversity, inclusion, and democratic governance.
The following five-point agenda will define UPV’s route:
- Building on strengths in teaching, research, and public service that will harness UPVs strengths and capabilities. Initial activities for this will require the identification/designation of extension, research, and instruction cluster areas (including the Antique Extension Campus in Pandan) and the creation of UPV Miagao campus as a Biodiversity Hub (this will include the Constructed Wetland Project, Beach Forest, and SoTech’s Bambusetum).
- Deepen engagement with communities, which will mobilize UPVs capabilities to address concrete community problems and issues. UP Visayas must become a publicly engaged university. This will include DRRM and Climate Change advocacy/engagements with LGUs, initiatives in the study and protection of cultural heritage (to include the elevation of CWVS into a supra level center, engagement with the National Museum of Visayas for ethnographic and other related activities), and the pursuit of media excellence as well as other media advocacy activities/initiatives.
- Lead towards meaningful change in education by making a difference in people’s lives. This includes the revision of the Professional Education curriculum (the introduction of educational technology as an area of specialization); Civic Education Initiatives in UPHSI, and digital transformation of education through remote learning.
- Defend and promote diversity and inclusion in our campuses. Central to all these is academic freedom, which can only be affirmed and measured by how diverse and inclusive life is in the University. Programs planned for this are the Continuing Fund Drive for students and other constituents in distress and the strengthening of the Gender and Development Program.
- Reinvigorate democratic governance in the University by establishing sectoral dialogues, reviewing the decision-making process, comprehensive staff development plans, participatory planning, and regular consultation with the alumni.
The Strategic Planning workshop was organized by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Planning and Development under Dr. Rhodella Ibabao in coordination with the College of Management Strategic Planning Team composed of Prof. Louise Annette Escoto, Dr. Joy Lizada, Prof. Duvince Zhalimar Dumpit, Prof. Reynold Tan, Prof. Nathaniel Samson and Prof. Ma. Theresa Albaña. (Anna Razel Ramirez/IPO)
