Extension
True to its mandate of empowering communities, the Extension Services of Cebu Technological University (CTU) aims to provide the small, marginalized communities of the province of Cebu the opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills for sustained productivity, profitability and well-being. It also aims to upgrade the technical capabilities of extensionists and other development workers of its satellite schools to deliver vital services and ecologically sound technologies to its surrounding communities.
The University Extension Services Office, in line with the government’s thrust for inclusive social and economic development through mobilizing knowledge and technology towards generating employment, reducing poverty, and taking good care of the planet, has been actively conducting extension programs that are responsive to a community-defined need and that contribute to the attainment of the world’s sustainable development goals.
Through capacity-building mechanisms, strengthened engagements with stakeholders, enabling institutional policies, and sustainable community extension practices, the university community of extensionistas hope to transform the self, the institution, and the society for a sustainable future.
VISION
A premier, multidisciplinary technological university.
MISSION
The University shall primarily provide advanced professional and technical instruction for special purposes, advanced studies in industrial trade, agriculture, fishery, forestry, aeronautics, land-based programs, arts and sciences, health sciences, information technology and other relevant fields of study. It shall also undertake research and extension services and provide progressive leadership in its areas of specialization (Sec. 2 of RA 9744).
GOALS
- Increase the capabilities of extension personnel to upgrade the delivery modes of extension services
- Maximize the impact of extension/production program for sustainable development
- Facilitate the well-timed delivery of extension services to the community
- Initiate collaboration with stakeholders to improve community relations; showcase transfer of technology; and disseminate packaged information on relevant skills
- Generate employment for extension beneficiaries
- Designate extension centers in all campuses to display the products of the different extension programs of the university.
OUTCOMES OF THE OFFICE
- Enhanced capability, efficiency, effectiveness and equity among target beneficiaries in agriculture, forestry. Fishery and trade industry.
- Sustainable technology toward development.
GENERAL/KEY/CORE FUNCTIONS
- Create extension programs relevant to the objectives of the different curricular programs of the university
- Utilize research outputs to formulate extension/production programs that are responsive to the needs of the nation and the community
- Align procedure on the delivery of extension/production services to the growing and changing needs of the university and the community
- Review and enhance the process of allocating GAA Extension Budget to comply with the budget requirements of the strategic plan
- Tap the resources of other agencies and educational institutions to satisfy the extension programs’ diverse needs
- Promote functional linkages among government, non-government organizations in undertaking development programs
HISTORY AND BACKGROUND
Extension Services has been part of the daily activity of the University in its pursuit of its goals, yet it is less acknowledged as an entity. This, however, changed when in 1994, the CSCST-System President Barillo ordered the inclusion of the Extension Services as an additional function of the College. This was earmarked with the budget allocated from the Congressional Development Fund of Senator Raul S. Roco. In the same year, a request for a distinct Extension Services budget was submitted to the Department of Finance and Management. The request was granted in 1995. Not long after, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) mandated all state colleges and universities to include Extension Services among their functions.
On November 10, 2010, the Cebu State College of Science and Technology was converted into a state university named Cebu Technological University under Republic Act (R.A.) 9744. Extension Services as one of the four functions of State Colleges and Universities tasked to deliver relevant research outputs and other services to the community.