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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 2019
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 2019 -
CONVERTING THE WEST VISAYAS STATE COLLEGE IN ILOILO CITY INTO A
UNIVERSITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE WEST VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY AND
INTEGRATING THE ILOILO NATIONAL COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE IN THE
MUNICIPALITY OF LAMBUNAO, PROVINCE OF ILOILO INTO THE UNIVERSITY AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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WHEREAS,
the Philippines is committed to the growth and development of its
educational system; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the West Visayas State College established under RA 4189, as
amended, started as the Iloilo Normal School in 1924 has, since then,
or for a period of 62 years, dedicated itself to the achievement of the
educational goals of an institution of higher learning in the
Philippines: instruction, research and extension;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, West Visayas State College has been offering university level
courses such as nursing, medicine, agriculture, forestry, liberal arts,
education, graduate and post graduate courses in education and, from
the time of its founding, has always been the center of academic
excellence in the Western Visayas region;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the Iloilo National College of Agriculture is a premier
agricultural school in the Western Visayas with adequate resources for
agricultural expansion and research;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the establishment of a regional state university in Western
Visayas will be in response to the current thrust of the Ministry of
Education, Culture and Sports of establishing regional state
universities in order to provide linkages with other agencies and
institutions of learning for the purpose of achieving national and
developmental goals;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the conversion of WVSC into the West Visayas State University
will fill the pressing need of Region VI for a university that will
provide quality education at reasonable costs;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the West Visayas State University will also decongest the
already over-crowded Metro Manila universities and minimize drop-outs
as well;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in line with existing development plans the West Visayas State
University will hasten the socio- economic development of the region.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
order and decree to be part of the laws of the land:cralaw:red
Section 1. The West Visayas State College in the City
of Iloilo is hereby converted into a university to be known as the West
Visayas State University, hereinafter referred to as the University.
Section 2. The Iloilo National College of Agriculture
situated in the Municipality of Lambunao, Province of Iloilo, is hereby
integrated into the University.
Section 3. The University shall be governed by a
Board of Regents, hereinafter called the Board, whose composition shall
be in accordance with Presidential Decree Numbered Fourteen Hundred and
Thirty-Seven. The presidents of the faculty organization and of the
alumni association shall likewise be members of the Board.
Section 4. The incumbent President of the College
shall continue to serve as the President of the University until the
expiration of her term of office as provided for in P.D. No. 1437.
Section 5. The University shall continue to offer
university level courses it is presently offering and such other
courses as the Board may subsequently approve.
Section 6. The University shall have the samems,
powers, rights and privileges and obligations and responsibilities
prescribed in the laws creating the West Visayas State College and the
Iloilo National College of Agriculture and those provided for in P.D.
No. 1437 and other pertinent laws not otherwise herein repealed and/or
amended.
Section 7. All funds, records, properties and assets
and all obligations of West Visayas State College and of the Iloilo
National College of Agriculture are hereby transferred to the
University.
Section 8. The Board shall, with the approval of the
Minister of Budget and Management, adopt a staffing pattern for the
University; provided, however, that no officer or employee of the West
Visayas State College and of the Iloilo National College of Agriculture
shall be separated from the service except for cause; provided,
finally, that any such officer or employee may be given another
position of the same compensation and privileges in the
University. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 9. All laws inconsistent with the provision
of this Decree are hereby repealed or amended accordingly.
Done in the City of Iloilo,
this 27th day of January, nineteen hundred and eighty-six.
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