TWO colleges in Pangasinan operated by local governments received the Gawad Parangal from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in ceremonies held at the Monarch Hotel in Calasiao on February 9.

CHED Chairman Prospero de Vera III bestowed the recognition to Binalatongan Community College in San Carlos City and the University of Eastern Pangasinan in Binalonan (The Ilocos Sur Community College was also an awarded).

The award effectively made them “eligible to avail of the benefits of Republic Act 10931 otherwise known as the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act for having complied both the requirements for institutional recognition by virtue of Commission En Banc Resolution No. 176-2019 and certificate of program compliance for all program offering as certified by CHED Region 1 Office 1”.

De Vera said the award recognized that their systems and processes have met the  standards, from staffing pattern to selection of key officers and their certificate of program compliance (COPC) that measure the quality standards in the colleges’ degree programs.

The quality standards refer to the LUC’s faculty, curriculum, laboratories, reading materials among others as CHED sends experts to evaluate each degree program, de Vera added.

If the LUC has COPC, the students are assured that they get quality education, he added.

De Vera said the award is part of the 25th anniversary celebration of CHED.

Fifth District Rep. Ramon Guico III, under whose father Mayor Ramon Guico Jr’s administration the University of Eastern Pangasinan (UEP) was founded, acknowledged the award as a milestone not just of UEP but as well as the whole of the 5th District.”

Guico said UEP was his doctoral dissertation way back 2004 “to help establish a local university (and) to make the town of Binalonan a university town just like (UP) Los Baños and Siliman University in Dumaguete or the famous university towns abroad just like Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard”.

“That was the vision, to see each family should at least have one college graduate because education is the great equalizer,” Guico said.

For his part, San Carlos City Mayor Julier Resuello said the Binalatongan Community College (BCC) was jointly founded by Engr. Marcelo Casillan Jr and his father, the late mayor Julian Resuello in 2006, to help poor but deserving students to finish college.

Resuello also presented the plan of his administration to build a new BCC complex in Barangay Ano. (Eva Visperas)

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