NEWS & EVENTS
SPUS committees meet, present 3-year action plans
Date posted: 03.13.2010
Dubbed as “SPUS in Retrospect, Status and Prospects,” the committees’ meeting of the St. Paul University System (SPUS) was held at Mere Madeleine Hall, St. Paul University Philippines (SPUP), Tuguegarao City, March 8.
The one-day meeting was attended by standing committees’ and subcommittees’ chairpersons and their members, who are at the same time key administrators of the SPUS-member institutions.
Sr. Remy Angela Junio, SPC, SPUP president and concurrent SPUS chancellor, led the participants down memory lane, as she related the history of SPUS. She also presented the system’s standing committees and subcommittees, along with the system’s strategic directions for 2003-2006 and 2006-2009.
Sr. Marie Rosanne Mallillin, SPC, chairperson for Research Committee, posed to the group to rethink the “three-legged” functions of universities, namely: instruction, research and community outreach. She also suggested the inclusion of other standing committees under encompassing ones.
The group deliberated on Sr. Marie Rosanne’s suggestion, and eventually, resolved to introduce changes on the standing committees and subcommittees under each encompassing standing committee.
As a result, the group agreed to trim down seven standing committees into five. Some committees, like Finance and Information System Development, were subsumed by encompassing standing committees; whereas, other standing committees and subcommittees were renamed or assigned to another standing committee.(See page 4 for the complete list of the chairpersons of the standing committees and subcommittees as of March 8,2010).
To know their status vis-a-vis the strategic directions for 2006-2009, the standing committees and subcommittees met to draft their strategic directions for 2010-2013.
In the afternoon, the outputs were presented to the group for critiquing.
The issue on retirement plan for employees propped up, but because of lack of time, it was suggested that such issue would be discussed in later assemblies.
After the meeting, the group was invited to watch Festive Praise II, the dance-choral concert staged by the Chorale and Dance Troupe of SPUManila and SPUP.