REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4337 - AN ACT
ESTABLISHING THE TARLAC COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
Section 1. There shall be established in the Municipality of
Tarlac, Province of Tarlac, a college to be known as the Tarlac College
of Technology; by converting the present Tarlac School of Arts and
Trades, located at Tarlac, Tarlac, and the Tarlac National Agricultural
School, located at Camiling, Tarlac, as such.
Sec. 2. The Tarlac College of Technology is an
effective institution for the Government's moral regeneration and
socio-economic programs, as well as for the educational mandate,
Article XIV, Section V of the Philippine Constitution. The college
aims, among their things, the following:
(1) To train and develop junior technicians (skilled
workers and craftsmen), technicians and technologists needed by
industries;
(2) To train and develop rural industrial leadership
for barrio and community industries; and
(3) To increase productivity by upgrading the
technical skills and related knowledge of workers, foremen,
supervisors, managers, and executives of industries through adult
technical and technological extension courses.
Sec. 3. No student shall be denied admission to
the Tarlac College of Technology by reason of age, sex, nationality,
religious belief, or political affiliation.
Sec. 4. On or before the tenth day of June of each
year the Board of Trustees shall file with the President of the
Philippines a detailed report setting forth the progress, condition,
and needs of the College.
Sec. 5. The Government of the College is vested in
a Board of Trustees to be known as the Board of Trustees of the Tarlac
College of Technology. 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
Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the Secretary of Labor,
the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, the president of the
biggest labor union in the service area, the president of the
industrial management group in the service area, the Governor of
Tarlac, the Director of Vocational Education, and the President of the
College, as members.
The members of the Board of Trustees shall serve without compensation
other than actual and necessary expenses incurred either in attendance
upon meetings of the Board or upon other official business authorized
by resolution of the Board.
Sec. 6. The Board of Trustees shall have the
following powers and duties, in addition to its general powers of
administration:
(a) To receive and appropriate to the ends specified
by law such sums as may be provided by law for the support of the
College;
(b) To provide for the establishment of a College of
Arts and Trades, a College of Agriculture, College of Engineering, a
College of Architecture and Fine Arts, a College of Forestry, and such
other colleges and schools as the Board of Trustees may deem necessary.
(c) To establish Chairs in the colleges mentioned in
paragraph (b) and to provide for the maintenance or endowment of such
Chairs, as well as to provide for such other positions as professors,
assistant professors, instructors, tutors, and lecturers as the
progress of the College may make necessary, and to fix the compensation
pertaining to such position;
(d) To appoint on the recommendation of the President
of the College, professors, instructors, lecturers, teachers and other
employees of the college; to fix their compensation, hours of service,
and such other duties and conditions as it may deem proper; to grant to
them in its discretion leave of absence under such regulations as it
may promulgate, any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding,
and to remove them only for cause after an investigation and a hearing
have been had;
(e) To approve the courses of study and rules of
discipline drawn up by the College Council as hereinafter provided; to
fix the tuition fees required of students, as well as matriculation
fees, graduation fees, and fees for laboratory courses, and all special
fees; and to remit the same in special cases;
(f) To provide fellowships and scholarships and to
award the same to students showing special evidence of merit;
(g) To prescribe rules for its own government, and to
enact for the government of the College such general ordinances and
regulations, not contrary to law, as are consistent with the purposes
of the College as defined in Section two of this Act;
(h) To receive in trust legacies, gifts, and
donations, real and personal property of all kinds, and to administer
the same for the benefit of the College or of a department thereof, or
for aid of any student, or students, in accordance with the direction
or instruction of the donor, and, in default thereof, in such manner as
the Board of Trustees may in its discretion determine.
Sec. 7. A quorum of the Board of Trustees shall
consist of a majority of all the members. All processes against the
Board of Trustees shall be served on the Chairman or secretary thereof.
Sec. 8. The head of the institution shall be known
as the President of the Tarlac College of Technology. He shall be
appointed by the President of the Philippines upon recommendation of
the Board of Trustees, subject to the confirmation of the Commission on
Appointments.
Sec. 9. There shall be a College Council,
consisting of the President of the College and of all instructors of
the College. The Council alone shall have the power to recommend
students or others to be recipients of degrees. Through its president
or committee, it shall have disciplinary power over the students within
the limits prescribed by the rules of discipline approved by the Board
of Trustees.
SECTION 10. The body of instructors of each college
shall constitute its faculty, and as presiding officer of each faculty
there shall be a dean elected from members of such faculty by the Board
of Trustees on nomination by the President of the College. In the
appointment of professors, instructors, teachers, and other employees
of the College, no religious test shall be applied nor shall the
religious opinions or affiliations of the instructors of the College be
made a matter of examination or inquiry: provided, however, that no
instructor in the College shall inculcate sectarian tenets in any of
the teachings, nor attempt, either directly or indirectly under penalty
of dismissal by the Board of Trustees, to influence students or
attendants at the College for or against any particular church or
religious sect.
SECTION 11. Professors, instructors and other
personnel of the College shall be exempt from any civil service
examination or regulations as a requisite to appointment and from the
Wage Position Classification Office rules and regulations as to salary
scales and promotions.
SECTION 12. There shall be a secretary of the College
to be appointed by the Board of Trustees. He shall be the secretary of
that Board and also of the College, and shall keep such records of the
College as may be assigned to him by the Board.
SECTION 13. The Treasurer of the Philippines shall be
ex-officio treasurer of the College and all accounts and expenses
thereof shall be audited by the Auditor General, and all disbursements
shall be made in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed
by him.
SECTION 14. Head of bureaus and offices of the
National, provincial, municipal governments and government corporations
and other instrumentalities, upon request of the President of Tarlac
College of Technology, are hereby authorized to loan or make available
without cost, laboratory apparatus, shop tools, instruments and
equipment and to make available their shop and laboratory and
facilities for instructional purposes, and to detail employees for duty
at the Tarlac College of Technology, when in the judgment of the head
of the bureau or office such employees can be spared without serious
detriment to the public service. Employees so detailed shall perform
such duty as is required under such detail, and the time so employed
shall count as part of their regular official service.
SECTION 15. The President of the Philippines, the
President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives
shall constitute a Board of Visitors of the College whose duty shall be
to attend the commencement exercises of the College and to make visits
at such other times as they may deem proper, to examine the property,
course of study, discipline, and the state of finances of the College,
to inspect all books and accounts of the institution, and to make
reports to the Congress of the Philippines thereon with such
recommendations as they may find necessary.
SECTION 16. The Tarlac School of Arts and Trades in
the Municipality of Tarlac and the Tarlac National Agricultural School
in the Municipality of Camiling, both in the Province of Tarlac, are
hereby abolished.
SECTION 17. The present faculty and employees of the
Tarlac School of Arts and Trades and the Tarlac National Agricultural
School, including all unexpended appropriations, records, assets,
liabilities, properties and equipment, are transferred to the Tarlac
College of Technology. Salaries of the personnel shall be adjusted at
the discretion of the Board within the amount available for
appropriation: provided, however, that no personnel of the converted
schools shall be laid off, demoted in rank or reduced in salary.
SECTION 18. In addition to the present appropriations
for the Tarlac School of Arts and Trades and Tarlac National
Agricultural School, one million pesos is hereby authorized to be
appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the operation and maintenance of the Tarlac College
of Technology during the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-six.
Thereafter, such sums as may be necessary for the same purpose shall be
included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
SECTION 19. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: June 19, 1965
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