REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5705 - AN
ACT CONVERTING THE PRESENT PANGASINAN NORMAL SCHOOL INTO THE CENTRAL
LUZON TEACHERS COLLEGES, PROVIDING FOR A BOARD OF TRUSTEES, DEFINING
THE BOARD'S RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Section 1. The present Pangasinan Normal School, located in
the Municipality of Bayambang, Province of Pangasinan, is hereby
converted into a college, to be known as the Central Luzon Teachers
College, which will offer not only its present four-year course leading
to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and its
graduate course leading to the degree of Master of Arts in Education
but also other baccalaureate and graduate degrees in teacher education
as may be deemed appropriate by the Board of Trustees.
Sec. 2. The purposes of the said college shall be
to provide professional, technical and special instruction and
progressive leadership in the field of education, and to promote
education research.
Sec. 3. The head of this institution shall be
known as the President of the Central Luzon Teachers 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 College, in addition to those specifically provided
for in this Act, shall be usually pertaining to the office of the
president of a college.
Sec. 4. The government of said college is hereby
vested in a Board of Trustees of the Central Luzon Teachers College.
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 Central
Luzon Teachers College Alumni Association, as members.
In the absence or inability of the Secretary of Education, either one
of the Undersecretaries of Education shall act as ex-officio Chairman
of the Board.
When the Secretary and both the Undersecretaries of Education are
unable to exercise the powers of the Chairman, the members of the Board
may elect from among themselves a temporary chairman.
Members of the board 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. 5. The Board of Trustees shall exercise for
the Central Luzon Teachers College all the powers of a corporation as
provided in Section thirteen of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and
fifty-nine, as amended, and 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 confer to successful candidates for graduation
such degrees as are offered or to be offered in consonance with Section one of this Act.
(c) To appoint, on the recommendation of the
President of the College, instructors, professors, lecturers, 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 other provisions of law notwithstanding, to remove
them for cause after an investigation and hearing shall have been had;
and to grant academic ranks to the members of the faculty of the
College;
(d) To approve the curricula and rules of discipline
drawn up by the College Council as hereinafter provided;
(e) 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 for faculty members and
scholarships to students showing special evidence of merit;
(g) To provide 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 of real and personal property of all kinds and to administer
the same for the benefit of the College or for aid to any students, in
accordance with the directions and instructions of the donor, and, in
default thereof, in such manner as the Board of Trustees may in its
discretion determine.
Sec. 6. A quorum of the Board of Trustees shall
consist of a majority of all the members holding office at the time the
meeting of the Board is called. All processes against the Board of
Trustees shall be served on the president or secretary thereof.
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 regular
instructors and professors of the College. The Council shall have the
power to prescribe the curricula and rules of discipline, subject to
the approval of the Board of Trustees. It shall fix the requirements
for admission to the College, as well as graduation and the receiving
of a degree. 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.
Sec. 9. The body of instructors and professors of
the College 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, nor shall the religious opinions or affiliations of the
faculty of the College be made a matter of examination or inquiry:
Provided, however, That no instructor or professor 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 10. Professors and other regular instructors
in the College shall be exempt as such from any civil service
examinations or regulations and from the rules of the Wage and Position
Classification Office as a requisite to appointment.
SECTION 11. There shall be a secretary of the
College, appointed by the Board of Trustees. He shall be the secretary
of such Board and also of the College, and shall keep such records of
the college as may be designated by the Board.
SECTION 12. Heads of bureaus or offices of the
National Government are hereby authorized to loan or transfer, upon
request of the President of the College, such apparatus or supplies as
may be needed by the College, and to detail employees for duty therein,
when in the judgment of the head of the bureau or office such supplies
or employees can be spared without serious detriment to the public
service.
SECTION 13. The President of the College, with the
cooperation of the Division Superintendents of Schools of Central Luzon
provinces, may use one or more of the high schools and/or elementary
schools under their supervision as training or laboratory school of the
College.
SECTION 14. In order not to interrupt the smooth
functioning of the present Pangasinan Normal School, the faculty of the
school, as well as the other personnel, shall be absorbed by the new
College. Salaries of this personnel shall be adjusted at the discretion
of the Board of Trustees within the amount available for appropriation.
SECTION 15. In order to further assure the continuity
of the present program of the institution at the time this Act is
implemented, the incumbent superintendent of the Pangasinan Normal
School shall act as the President of the Central Luzon Teachers College
until such time as the Board of Trustees shall have recommended, and
the President of the Philippines, as a consequence, appointed a
President of the College.
SECTION 16. The division staff and personnel of the
Philippines-UNESCO National Community Training Center and the Applied
Nutrition Project at Bayambang, including all their facilities,
equipment, buildings, all other properties and projects, and respective
annual appropriations from the National Government, shall be
incorporated into and absorbed by the Central Luzon Teachers College:
Provided, however, That the elementary schools of Bayambang and
Bautista shall be reintegrated with the division of
Pangasinan.
SECTION 17. All properties, records, obligations and
appropriations of the Pangasinan Normal School are hereby transferred
to the Central Luzon Teachers College.
SECTION 18. The Treasurer of the Philippines shall be
ex-officio Treasurer of the College and all accounts and expenses shall
be audited by the Auditor General or his duly authorized
representative.
SECTION 19. Such sums as may be necessary for the
operation and maintenance of the Central Luzon Teachers College
including that of the Philippines-UNESCO National Community Training
Center and the Applied Nutrition Project which are being absorbed by
the College by virtue of Section sixteen of this Act, shall be included
in the annual General Appropriations Act.
Sec. 20. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: June 21,
1969.
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