REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5923 - AN ACT
CONVERTING THE MOUNTAIN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF LA
TRINIDAD, PROVINCE OF BENGUET, TO A STATE COLLEGE TO BE KNOWN AS THE
MOUNTAIN STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
Section 1. The present Mountain Agricultural College in the
Municipality of La Trinidad, Province of Benguet, is hereby converted
into a state college to be known as Mountain State Agricultural College
effective upon availability of funds.
Sec. 2. In addition to its present four-year
secondary agricultural homemaking courses, one-year farm mechanics
course, and four-year teacher education courses leading to the degrees
of Bachelor of Science in Home Technology, the College will offer the
following collegiate and graduate courses:
a) Four-year technical curriculum leading to the
degrees of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture;
b) Graduate course leading to the degree of Master of
Science in Agricultural Education;
c) Graduate course leading to the degree of Master of
Science in Home Technology; and
d) Graduate course leading to the degree of Master of
Science in Agriculture.
Sec. 3. The aim of the said College shall be to
provide professional, technical, and special training and promote
research, extension services, and progressive leadership in the field
of agriculture and home technology.
Sec. 4. The head of the institution shall be known
as the President of the Mountain State Agricultural College. He shall
be appointed by the President of the Philippines upon recommendation of
the Board of Trustees as hereinafter provided. The powers and duties of
the President of the College, in addition to those specifically
provided in this Act, shall be those usually pertaining to the office
of the President of a college.
Sec. 5. The Mountain State Agricultural 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 in the Board of Trustees. 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 Vocational Education, the
Director of Public Schools, the President of the College, and the
President of the Mountain State Agricultural 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 are 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.
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 end specified by
law such sums of money as may be provided by law for the support of the
College;
b) To confer the degrees of Bachelor of Science in
Agricultural Education, Bachelor of Science in Home Technology,
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Master of Science in Agricultural
Education, Master of Science in Home Technology, and Master of Science
in Agriculture;
c) To appoint, on the recommendation of the President
of the College, professors, instructors, lecturers, administrative and
supervisory officials, and other employees of the College as may be
necessary for the effective implementation of the college program; to
fix their compensation, hours of service and such other duties and
conditions as it may be deem proper; to grant to them, in its
discretion, leave of absence under regulations as it may promulgate,
other provisions of law notwithstanding; to prescribe rules of academic
discipline for the educational and professional growth of faculty
members and other personnel; and to remove them for cause after an
investigation and hearing shall have been held;
d) To approve the curricula and rules of discipline
drawn up by the College Council as hereinafter provided;
e) To fix the tuition fees, as well as matriculation
fees, graduation fees and fees for laboratory courses, and all special
fees, and to remit the same on special cases;
f) To provide fellowships for faculty members and
scholarships to student showing special evidence of merit;
g) To provide rules for its government, and to enact
for the government of the College such general ordinances and
regulations, not contrary to law, as are consistent with the purpose of
the College, as defined in Section three of this Act;
h) To receive in trust legacies, gifts, and donations
of real and personal property of all kinds and to administer the sum
for the benefit of the College or for aid to any student, 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;
i) A quorum of the Board of Trustees shall consist of
a majority of all its members holding office at the time the meeting of
the Board is called.
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 as presiding officer and of
all professors and instructors of the College as members. 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 for
graduation and the receiving of a title or a degree. The council alone
shall have the power to recommend students or others to be recipients
of titles or 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 professors and instructors of
the College shall constitute the faculty of the College. In the
appointment of professors or instructors of the College, no religious
test shall be applied nor shall religious opinions or affiliations of
the faculty of the College be made a matter of examination or inquiry:
Provided, however, That no professor or instructor in the College shall
inculcate sectarian teachings, nor attempt either directly or
indirectly, under penalty of dismissal by the Board of Trustees, to
influence students attending the College for or against any particular
church or religious sect.
SECTION 10. Professors and other teaching personnel
of the College shall be exempt from any civil service examination or
regulation 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.
SECTION 12. To help the Mountain State Agricultural
College achieve its educational, research and extension aims, the
College Council is hereby empowered to negotiate or make arrangements
with sister government colleges or universities, private colleges and
universities, other government agencies, and private or semi-private
organizations for cooperative projects in instructions, research, and
extension; and to seek the assistance of educational foundations in
promoting the programs of instructions, research, and extension.
SECTION 13. Subject to the approval by the Board of
Trustees, the President of the College, upon the recommendation and by
authority of the College Council, is hereby authorized to negotiate and
contract financial loans, for and in behalf of the College, from the
Government Service Insurance System, Development Bank of the
Philippines or Philippine National Bank, to finance self-liquidating
construction projects such as dormitories and cottages of students
faculty and employees cottages, and housing and other physical
improvements for income and non-income producing projects of the
College: Provided, That the total yearly amortization of such loans,
including interests, will not exceed seventy-five per cent of the total
expected yearly production net income of the College.
SECTION 14. Heads of bureaus or offices of the
National Government are hereby authorized to loan or transfer, upon
request of the President of the College, equipment, 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 15. The College, by arrangement with the
Director of Vocational Education and Director of Public Schools, may
use one or more vocational or general public schools as training or
laboratory schools of the College.
SECTION 16. The present faculty of the college, as
well as the administrative and supervising officials and other
personnel of the former college as well as the present buildings,
equipment and facilities and other properties, real and personal, shall
be absorbed by the new College Salaries of these personnel shall be
adjusted at the discretion of the Board of Trustees within the amount
available for appropriation.
SECTION 17. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without executive
approval, June 21, 1969.
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