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Thursday, May 4, 2017
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ILOILO City – The Iloilo City Community College (ICCC) learned best practices of colleges in the United States of America through the International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US Department of State.
Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog said ICCC’s inclusion to the list of best local government unit-managed colleges in the country reflected the successful effort of the city government to help poor but deserving Ilonggo youth.
ICCC administrator Mathilde Octavio was one of the 10 select delegates – including two other local colleges and three private schools chosen by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) – to join the study tour from April 1 to 9.
“We learned the best practices of various community colleges in the United States especially in terms of their operations, management, curriculum development, teaching initiatives as well as private sector participation,” said Octavio.
They visited University of the District of Columbia Community College; Northern Virginia Community College; American Association of Community College; Austin City College District in Austin, Texas; and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Octavio said among the best practices that can be implemented in ICCC is creation of Associate and Certificate Programs.
“We offer four-year courses but in the US they have short programs. So maybe we can suggest if we could also offer Associate or Certificate Programs. It can even benefit both the city government and future enrollees since it will only last for a couple of years. It will be less expensive considering that our clienteles are poorest of the poor,” she proposed.
“They are also partnering with the private sectors and introducing college units to Junior and Senior High School students and afterwards crediting the units to the community college where they prefer to study,” Octavio said.
Following the visit, the CHED and US Embassy required the delegates to pass a concept paper which also contained the things they have learned during the study tour.
“The concept paper will be passed to CHED as they will collate all these so that they will know if there is a need to revise some of their policies,” added Octavio. (Iloilo City PIO/PN)
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