After more than a decade for the operation of the Cebu Technological University-Main San Fernando Extension campus in the municipality of San Fernando, Cebu, Philippines, the Hon. Mayor Lakambini G. Reluya inked the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Cebu Technological University (CTU) on November 18, 2021, as it was one of the highlights and the most awaited event for the university students and stakeholders during the State of the Children’s Address of the town executive.
In attendance of the event were the CTU Vice-President for Administration and Finance, Dr. Jerlito A. Litrondo, CTU-SF campus director, Engr. Evalinda A. Pelimer, selected municipal and barangay officials, San Fernando District-I and II officials, teachers and other guests.
The university in the town started its formal operation last June 21, 2010, through its B.O.R. Resolution No. 16, Series of 2010, which was approved on May 28, 2010 as an extension campus of the main campus, Cebu City which is a 29 Km from San Fernando town.
Initially, the campus was offering three curricular programs namely: Bachelor in Elementary Education Content Education (BEED-CE), Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Business Technology (BSED-BT), and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology major in Computer Technology (BSIT-CT). Formal classes and other school activities were held at the 2nd floor of the South Poblacion Barangay Hall, through its barangay resolution which was approved by the barangay chairman, Hon. Gerondio “Rudy” Taping.
Students and school personnel sustained for three (3) consecutive academic years from 2010 to 2013 at the South Poblacion Barangay Hall, which was located in between the two (2) cement factories (The Taiheiyo Cement Philippines Inc., and the Mabuhay Filcement Inc.). The barangay hall which served as the temporary classrooms was located beside the national highway. Noises and the dusts from the cars, trucks and the factories were always the challenges of the teaching-learning process among the students and the teacher’s inside the barangay hall.
From academic years, 2013 to 2016 Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Department of Education (DepEd) Region-VII, represented by the late Dr. Carmelita T. Dulangon and the Cebu Technological University through the then president, Dr. Bonifacio S. Villanueva agreed that classes and other school activities would be held at the San Fernando National High School(SFNHS) due to the increase of enrollment. Seven (7) DepEd classrooms were utilized by the university students and personnel for three (3) another consecutive academic years. Challenges were also felt by the university stakeholders since a school campus was shared by two entities, the secondary and the tertiary learners.
CTU-San Fernando has its now a third temporary location, the San Fernando Sports Complex since the start of the second semester of the academic year 2016-2017 until this present. Mayor Reluya issued an Executive Memorandum dated October 8, 2016 that the university classes and other school activities be held at the San Fernando Sports Complex from Monday to Friday every week.
In spite of all these different temporary locations of the CTU-San Fernando Extension campus in the town, the extension campus was able to produce and still producing successful graduates of the non-board and board courses who are now employed at the DepEd schools, private schools and to the different industries in the country and abroad.
As of this writing the MOA between CTU and the local government unit of San Fernando, Cebu which was signed by the town executive last November 18, 2021 is still under review by the CTU officials, if the provisions entered to it are consistent with the university charter, since, there are provisions added to it by the LGU.
The highly publicize promised two (2) hectare lot of the LGU executive for CTU-SF which is now with a finished two-storey building with six (6) classrooms donated by the Cebu provincial government and with an ongoing construction of another two-storey building with four (4) classrooms donated by the congressional district-1 of Cebu.
Presently, the extension campus is offering four (4) curricular programs namely: Bachelor in Elementary Education (BEED-Gen Ed), Bachelor in Technology Livelihood Education major in Home Economics (BTLED-HE), Bachelor in Industrial Technology major in Computer Technology (BIT-CT) and Bachelor in Industrial Technology major in Electrical Technology (BIT-ET).
The key officials of the extension campus are the following: Engr. Evalinda A. Pelimer as the Campus Director and the Extension Services chairperson, Prof. Wilfredo G. Anoos as the Head of Instruction, College of Education Chairman, Registrar designate, Research chairman, and soon the Director for the Center of the Media Communication and Research of the campus, and Prof. Stevie B. Manugas as the chairman of the College of Technology, HRMO designate, MIS chairman and the NSTP Coordinator. Prof. Roma M. Anoos is a regular faculty under the College of Education department, who is now a scholar of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) taken-up Doctor of Philosophy in Math Education (Ph.D-Math-Educ.) at the University of the Philippines-Open University, Los Baños.
The campus has more or less twenty (20) Contract of Service (COS) faculty both serving in the College of Education (COEd) and the College of Technology (COT) respectively, and none none-teaching, casual and job order employees, and with more or less six hundred officially enrolled undergraduate students through an online classes since pandemic started in the country in 2020 as of this academic year 2021-2022.
Graduate school extension classes of the main campus of the Master of Arts in Education major in Vacational Education (MAVED), Mater of Arts in Education major of Administration and Supervision (MAEd-AdaS) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) were opened during the second semester of the academic year 2016-2017 but after two (2) academic years of operation, it was stopped by the main campus graduate school dean. CTU-San Fernando students, school personnel and the university stakeholders are in waiting and in praying of the long awaited summum bonum for this generation and for the next generations to come. Wilfredo G. Anoos/CTU-San Fernando, Cebu Campus