Notes from the Institutional Affairs Office
By: Mr. Vicente Racaza Jr.

POSTED: AUGUST 4, 2008

Mr. Vicente Racaza Jr.
IAO Head
Ms. Linda Mancera
Community Extension Service Coordinator
Mr. Carlo Sigua
Planning Assistant

            The Institutional Affairs Office, created in 2002 to assist the Rector in tracking developments and implementation of institutional plans, has placed providing assistance to the grade school department in their efforts at accreditation on top of its work priorities.  Arrangements with Miss Dantes, the GS Principal, have already been made as to what role the IA Office shall play in their preparation for accreditation which may happen in January 2009.

            In its six years of existence, the IAO, has played a major role in facilitating and expediting PAASCU accreditation works in both the grade school and high school departments.  Instrumental to establishing the IAO as an institutional arm for development was Miss Mena Enore who recently left the school to fully concentrate on family business.  The office is now headed by Mr. Vicente E. Racaza Jr., former HS Principal for eleven (11) years, who promised to intensify the role of the IAO in the school’s implementation of development programs.  He was appointed by Fr. Paul Bicomong, Rector, to be the new head and his appointment took effect last May 1.  To date, Mr. Racaza has already lined up a number of activities mostly geared towards assessment and evaluation of strategic plans.

            Another newcomer to the office is Mr. Carlo Sigua, formerly a HS faculty member teaching Economics since 1999.  He is the IAO Planning Assistant, a position held by Miss Lowina Fernando who also left her job to focus on family business.  Though his work experience was mostly done in the classroom, Mr. Sigua is no stranger to the nature of the work he will be doing in the IAO. 

            If the school’s awareness on environmental concerns is increasing, it’s because Mrs. Linda Mancera, the Community Extension Service Coordinator, has made efforts work along this line.  This environmental concerns were added to the nature of her work which was then mostly on social action programs.  She and Mr. Sigua are two aces Mr. Racaza relies on to get the work at IAO going.