Western Visayas College of Science and Technology submits today to AACCUP Accreditors two of its programs for preliminary Survey.

                One of the programs that will be under the survey is the Masters of Arts in Mathematics in the Main Campus and the other program is the Bachelor of Industrial Technology in Dumangas Campus.

                The OIC to the Office of The President, Dr. Carmelo V. Ambut, is very hopeful that these two programs will pass the accreditation and expects that before year 2014 ends, all the programs of WVCST will be completely accredited by the AACCUP.

                This undertaking, according to Dr. Luis M. Sorolla, Jr., AACCUP President and at the same time the OIC, VPRE, is very important and should be done continuously to be able to achieve the vision and mission of the College in serving its clientele. On the other hand, Dr. Ester L. Forlales, of Romblon State University, the Team Leader of the survey group, appealed to the local Task Force to work hand in hand with them for the success of the survey visit.

                The other members of the AACCUP Team of Accreditors who will be working with Dr. Forlales are Dr. Genelita E. Hernandez and Dr. Pinky B. Carig, both from Mindoro State College of Agriculture and Technology.

                The survey starts today, April 28 and will be finished on April 30, 2014.

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Based on CHED Special Order No. 36, Series of 2014, dated April 2, 2014, Dr. Carmelo V. Ambut , WVCST Vice President for Research and Extension, was appointed as the Officer-In-Charge to the Office of the President of Western Visayas College of Science and Technology.

This appointment is in pursuant to the pertinent provision of Republic Act No. 8292, known as the “Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997, Article VII, Section 30 of its Implementing Rules and Regulations and in the demand of service.

He was appointed OIC to the Office of the President effective April 5, 2014 and is directed to perform the routinary duties and responsibilities of the College President. He is also required to submit reports to the Board of Trustees regarding his actions taken in the performance of his duties as OIC and shall maintain stability and regularity of the academics and administrative operations.

To start with his new designation, Dr. Carmelo Ambut directed to retain all designated positions on a hold-over capacity and expressed his hopefulness for the cooperation, diligence and commitment of everybody in performing their usual tasks and functions in the WVCST.

Dr. Ambut will stay as OIC of the College until a new President is installed following the processes of selecting one.

                The Quality Management System of WVCST hosted an in house training for ISO 9001:2008 QMS Documentation for its employees and staff which was conducted in 2 batches in the new Board Room of the College on April 1-4, 2014. Mrs. Cynthia R. Ramirez, ISO Consultant, conducted the said seminar.

                Topics discussed in the training were ISO 9001 Documentation Requirement, Hierarchy and types of QMS Documents, Writing ISO 9001 QMS Documents, Controlling QMS Documents and Demonstrating QMS Documentation Adequacy and Implementation Effectiveness.

                The training was divided in 2 batches with the first session conducted for the 1^st batch on April 1 & 2 and was participated by the offices of the VPAF, Student Affairs, Registrar, Library, Administrative Services, HRMO, Supply, Finance Services, IIRGP, Planning and MIS/EDP. The second batch which was composed of the offices of VPAA/CA, CAS, CIT, CEA, COE, President’s Office, Board Secretary, VPRE, Research, Extension, Placement/ILDO and Internal Auditors had their session on April 3-4.

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                The Western Visayas College of Science and Technology – Leon National College of Agriculture, Leon Campus, held the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Clonal Nursery Complex that will soon rise in the said campus. The event took place last March 26, 2014.

                This project is in connection with the National Greening Program of President Aquino’s Administration together with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and with the help of the State Colleges and Universities in the country. It aims to protect the environment and likewise to share responsibilities in protecting Mother Earth to State Universities and Colleges in the Philippines.

                Dr. Alicia L. Lustica, Regional Technical Director, ERDS, DENR REGION 6, was pleased that WVCST conducted the groundbreaking ceremony for the Clonal Nursery Complex. According to her, despite that Region 6 has the most number of Clonal Nurseries in the country, the College is the first to have the groundbreaking for its building. She only hopes that the construction will be started soon and be finished before the year ends.

                Presently the DENR has already put up 22 Clonal Nurseries throughout the country and 27 more nurseries are also existing through the help of the SUCs. In Region 6, based on the report of Dr. Lustica, 3 nurseries were put up by the DENR and 7 by the SUCs. The National Greening Program has a 6 year plan to continuously develop the entire Philippines by planting 1.5 million seedlings to a 1.5 million hectares of land for the reforestation program. Aside from this, they also target to assist in the food security, biological diversity, poverty reduction and climate change.

                For this year 2014, WVCST-LNCA is expected to produce 60,000 high quality seedlings that will also be the start of the regreening of Leon. In line with this, Dr. Luis M. Sorolla promised that the college will continuously breed seedlings that will help achieve the goals of DENR and the Philippine government. He assured that the college will be planting high quality seedlings of different fruit trees and come up with a genetic ID or brand. This, he said will surely make Leon popular, as well as energy efficient, environment conscious, would be able to preserve energy and would become disaster free. The building will not only serve as demonstration area but also a training venue for quality planting.

                Also present in the ceremony were Mr. Porferio Candado, Executive Assistant to the office of the Municipal Mayor, as well as some DENR personnel.

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