BACOLOD City – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED)-Western Visayas cited the Bacolod City College (BCC) as one of the awardees for Institutional Recognition during the Gawad Parangal rites in Iloilo City yesterday.
Councilor Renecito Novero, chairman of the committee on education, received the award in behalf of Mayor Evelio Leonardia.
“It is a big honor for the college as well as for the students. All the (degree) programs are now recognized and anywhere they will go, there diploma will be honored,” Novero said.
The BCC was legally established by virtue of City Ordinance No. 175, Series of 1997, under the administration of Leonardia during his first term as mayor.
Novero was the author of the ordinance.
BCC has produced about 11,000 graduates from 2000 to the present.
The Gawad Parangal 2021 aims to “inspire, nurture and bring out” the best Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Western Visayas, said Director Maura Consolacion Cristobal of CHED-6.
“It acknowledges the efforts of HEIs in bringing responsive services not only to the academic community in Western Visayas but to the society as well,” she added./PN
