Urdaneta finally owns a university
URDANETA CITY – It’s a university status at last for the 40-year year old City College of Urdaneta (CCU) following the approval by the provincial board of a resolution passed by the city council here effecting the institution’s conversion.
Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr., chairman of the board of trustees of the CCU, revealed that only a resolution of the municipal council, approved by the provincial board was all that was needed for the CCU to be upgraded into a university.
Saying the university status of CCU is already a “fait accompli”, Perez revealed that the city council decided to convert CCU into a university based on its present number of enrollees, facilities and track record in education as a school of higher learning.
“The CCU as of the present time is a university already,” said Perez, adding that the school has now been in fact renamed University of the City of Urdaneta.
He cited other local government units with colleges of their own even if they had only some 500 enrollees and even without the nod of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
The CHED, a national agency, oversees the operation of the school but overall management and supervision belongs to the city government of Urdaneta, which owns it.
Dr. Elizabeth Montero shall become the first university president soon after her formal installation in a rite to be scheduled by the board of trustees.
The CCU was founded by the then municipality of Urdaneta in 1966 and is one of the oldest educational institutions in the province of Pangasinan.
To date, the school has some 6,000 enrollees with the college of nursing having the biggest number at almost one-half of the total enrollment.
UCU becomes the sixth university in the province of Pangasinan after the University of Pangasinan, Lyceum Northwestern University and University of Luzon, all in Dagupan City; Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation in San Carlos City and Pangasinan State University with its main campus in Lingayen and satellite campuses in Sta. Maria, Urdaneta and San Carlos Cities, Bayambang, Binmaley and Infanta. – LM
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