Rehabilitation of PSU facilities urged
LINGAYEN—Paging the alumni of the various campuses of the Pangasinan State University (PSU).
The classrooms where they attended to get to where they are today are already dilapidated to the disadvantage to the present crop of students in the nine campuses who have to suffer the rundown state of the rooms.
According to PSU’s new president, Dexter Buted, 95% of the classrooms in the nine campuses already need to be rehabilitated.
He made the assessment after visiting all the PSU campuses shortly after he assumed his post last December.
Still, Buted said despite the poor condition of the facilities, PSU students are doing well as evidenced by the new graduates who continued good performance in licensure examinations in nursing, engineering and criminology.
He said, “We have good students…what they need is good environment, good facilities.”
He said he can only turn to the private sector in the province owing to present budget constraint of the university.
Further, the university is planning to put up medical/dental clinic, he said.
He also attributed to the lack of resources as the reason why the plan to establish a College of Law in the flagship university campus in Lingayen did not push through.
The new president said the present resources of the university cannot support the minimum standard and facilities for a college of law, i.e., library, computers, teachers, and classrooms.
Presently, the PSU continues to focus on its baccalaureate programs. There are also satellite campuses for graduate schools and an open university system.
He said he is presently validating complaints and suggestions submitted during students’ fora he organized.
Under his watch, Buted committed to a vision for the university – is to be “an ASEAN premier state university by 2020″ coupled with the mission “to make quality education accessible to to all sectors, especially to the less privileged.”
“I would also like to see a self-sustaining university,” he concluded, citing the need to develop income-generating projects to augment its resources.
Apart from its main campus in Lingayen, PSU has other campuses in Binmaley, San Carlos City, Bayambang, Urdaneta City, Asingan, Sta. Maria, Infanta and Alaminos City. (Johanne Macob)
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