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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4189 - AN ACT
CONVERTING THE PRESENT ILOILO NORMAL SCHOOL INTO THE WEST VISAYAS STATE
COLLEGE Section 1. The present Iloilo Normal School located in Iloilo City, Philippines, is hereby converted into the West Visayas State College, offering general education and teacher education courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (A.B.), Bachelor of Science in Education (B.S.E.), and Master of Arts (M..) in Education. Sec. 2. The main purpose of said college are to give general cultural education and to provide professional and technical instruction in the field of elementary education in the West Visayas region. Sec. 3. The head of this institution shall be known as the President of the West Visayas State College. He shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines upon the recommendation of the Board of Trustees. The powers and duties of the President of the West Visayas State College, in addition to those specially provided for in this Act, shall be those usually pertaining to the office of the president of a college. Sec. 4. The West Visayas State College shall have
the general powers set out in Section thirteen of Act Numbered Fourteen
hundred and fifty-nine, as amended, and the government and
administration of said college and the exercise of its corporate powers
are hereby vested exclusively in the Board of Trustees and in the
President of the College insofar as authorized by said Board. The Board
of Trustees shall be composed of the Secretary of Education, who shall
be ex-officio Chairman of the Board, the Chairman of the Committee on
Education of the Senate, the Chairman of the Committee on Education of
the House of Representatives, the Director of Public Schools, the
President of the College, and the President of the West Visayas State
College Alumni Association. In the absence or the inability of the
Secretary of Education, or in the event that there is no incumbent
Secretary of Education, the Undersecretary of Education shall act as
ex-officio Chairman of the Board of Trustees. When both the Secretary
and the Undersecretary of Education and unable to exercise the powers
of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, the members of the Board may
elect among themselves a temporary chairman who shall act as Chairman
of the Board of Trustees. Sec. 5. The Board of Trustees shall exercise for
the West Visayas State College all the powers of a corporation as
provided in Section thirteen of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and
fifty-nine, as amended. It shall have the following powers and duties,
in addition to its general powers of administration: Sec. 6. A quorum of the Board of Trustees shall consist of a majority of all its members. Sec. 7. On or before the fifteenth of June of each year, the Board of Trustees shall file with the President of the Philippines a detailed report, setting forth the progress, conditions and needs of the College. Sec. 8. There shall be a College Council consisting of the President of the College and of all instructors and professors of the College. The Council shall have the power to prescribe the curricula and rules of discipline, subject to approval of the Board of Trustees. It shall fix the requirements of admission to the College, as well as for graduation and the receiving of degrees. The Council alone shall have the power to recommend students or others to be the recipients of degrees. Through its president or committee it shall have disciplinary power over the students within limits prescribed by the rules of discipline approved by the Board of Trustees. Sec. 9. The body of instructors and professors
shall constitute the faculty of the College, with the President of the
College as the presiding officer. In the appointment of professors or
instructors of the College, no religious test shall be applied. Approved: May 4, 1965 |
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