CAGAYAN STATE UNIVERSITY

The Cagayan State University (CSU) is the largest state institution of higher learning in
the Cagayan Valley Region, in terms of enrollment and number of curricular program offerings.
The University was established through Presidential Decree 1436, later amended by Republic
Act 8292 by the integration of all publicly supported higher education institutions in the province
of Cagayan.

The university is composed of eight(8) campuses in the growth areas in the three
congressional districts of Cagayan; the Aparri, Lal-Lo and Gonzaga campuses in the 1st District;
the Piat, Lasam and Sanchez-Mira campuses in the 2nd District; and in the 3rd District, the
Andrews and Carig campuses in Tuguegarao City. Each campus is headed by an Executive
Officer (CEO) except in Andrews Campus where the University President concurrently acts as
the CEO. The seat of governance of the university is at the Andrews Campus, where the central
administration holds office.

The university offers courses in liberal arts, social sciences, law, medicine and allied
professions, business and economics, natural sciences, engineering, technology, agriculture and
fisheries and teaching, among others. It offers the most graduate and undergraduate courses of all
the universities in the province of Cagayan.

In March 2012, Dr. Romeo R. Quilang, former President of the Isabela State University
(ISU), was elected by the CSU Board of Regents to serve as the CSU System's fourth president,
replacing Perez, starting March 16, 2012.
 ORGANIZATION

Philosophy

The University serves the INDIVIDUAL by providing the student with a nurturing environment
for optimal human flourishing. It serves the COMMUNITY by offering programs responsive to
individual and social needs.

Mission

The Cagayan State University shall be recognized by the entire region and the nation as a
credible and distinguished center of higher education in Northern Luzon. It shall likewise
establish its own niche in the global academic community. It shall endeavor to improve from its
previous best, showing that it enjoys the leading edge in all that pertains to education.

Vision

The Cagayan State University shall make quality education and formation towards the different
professions accessible to all who may come to it, and who measure up to its standards. It shall be
an academic community given to instruction, research, and extension. It shall not in any way
discriminate on bases unrelated to education.

Administration

Board of Regents

The governance of the University is vested in the Board of Regents of the Cagayan State
University (or Lupon ng mga Rehente in Filipino) and commonly abbreviated as BOR. The
board, with its 12 members, is the highest decision-making body of the CSU system. A
Commissioner of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) serves as the Board's
Chairperson while the President of the Cagayan State University is the Co-Chairperson. The
Chairpersons of the Committees of Higher Education of the Senate and the House of
Representatives are members of the CSU Board of Regents which are concurrent with their
functions as committee chairpersons. The President of the University Student Government also
serves as Student Regent. While the Faculty Regent is likewise nominated by the faculty
members of the whole University. Alumni are represented by the President of the CSU Alumni
Association. Two members of the Board come from the private sector.

President of the Cagayan State University

Presidents of the Cagayan State University
Manuel T. Corpus, 1979-1989
Armando Cortes, 1989-2001
Roger P. Perez, 2004-2012
Romeo R. Quilang, 2012–present
The President of the Cagayan State University is elected for a single six-year term by the
University's twelve-member Board of Regents. As of 2004, there were already 2 that served as
President of the University. The newly elected president of CSU is Hon. Romeo R. Quilang,
Ph.D. Just before he was appointed as CSU President, he served as the President of the Isabela
State University. Perez assumed his office, replacing Perez, and his four-year term expires in
2016.

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CSU History

The Cagayan State University (CSU) is the first and only state run comprehensive
institution of higher learning in Cagayan. It has shared its historic contribution to the
development of tertiary education in the Philippines.

Presidential Decree 1436, signed on June 11, 1978 created the Cagayan State University
by merging two existing state colleges: the Cagayan Valley College of Arts & Trades (CVCAT)
at Tuguegarao and the Northern Luzon State College of Agriculture (NLSCA) at Piat.

Rationalized on the issues of efficiency and effectiveness, college courses of other

smaller institutions that were under the supervision and control of the former Ministry of
Education, Culture and Sports (MECS) were made an integral part of the university system.
These were the Aparri Institute of Technology (AIT), Bukig National Agricultural and Technical
School (BNATS), Aparri School of Arts and Trades (ASAT), Cagayan Valley Agricultural
College (CVAC), Sanchez Mira Rural Vocational School (SMRVS), Western Cagayan School of
Arts and Trades (WCSAT) and Gonzaga National Agricultural and Technical School (GNATS).

These nine pre-existing state institutions were distributed throughout the entire length and
breadth of the province of Cagayan. Their founding years and laws passed signifying their
original establishment. It may be noted that the various merger schools began as elementary or
technical secondary schools reflecting the stage of educational needs of the communities where
and when they are located and originally established at the time.

On January 3, 1979, Dr. Manuel T. Corpus of the University of the Philippines- Davao
City assumed as President of the University. Then, on January 5, 1979, the first staff meeting
was held where the AD HOC Committee was organized as nuclei for the University
Administration. Various officers were designated in acting capacities, which were drawn out
from the two state colleges (CVCAT and NLSCA).

The CSU Central Administration Office was established in the CVCAT unit until the
Gonzaga unit was developed as a main campus where operation was centralized. The AD HOC
committee met and the monthly regular staff meeting was launched in the BNATS unit.
 To uplift the educational qualifications of the faculty, the Faculty and Staff Development
Program was set up in the form of graduate programs effective summer of 1979. The come-on
was fifty per cent discount in tuition fee.

On April 1- 4, 1979, the First Academic Council Work - Conference was conducted in
Aparri Institute of Technology (ATI). The council designed the following policies: curricula for
various courses; proposed courses to be offered in each unit; policies on recruitment,
employment and promotion of faculty; guidelines for faculty benefits, rules on discipline and
leaves; guidelines on faculty load and faculty development; requirements for admission and
scholarship of students, research and extension programs.

On Sept. 29, 1979, the Board of Regents authorized the transfer of college courses of Aparri
School of Arts & Trades (ASAT) to AIT campus. This reduced the number of campuses from
nine to eight. These campuses adopted the nomenclature approved by the Board on February 25,
1980 as follows:

 VCAT-CSU Tuguegarao City

 SMRVS-CSU Sanchez Mira
 WCSAT-CSU Lasam
 BNATS-CSU Bukig
 GNATS-CSU Gonzaga
 NLSCA-CSU Piat
 CVAC-CSU Lal-lo
 AIT-CSU Aparri

The first organizational chart of CSU took effect on October 26, 1981 upon the approval of
the Board of Regents. This policy decision made possible the re-organization of the colleges and
the approval of the designation of officials in the Central Administration, campus, and college
levels.

On July 11, 1983, Dr. Joselito Jara was appointed as the first Vice-President for Academic
Affairs. Then on July 27, 1983 the approval of the proposal to open the College of Medicine in
the University by the Board of Regents marked a milestone in the curricular development of
CSU. The Board directed the administration to make arrangements with the then Cagayan Valley
Regional Hospital (CVRH), now Cagayan Valley Medical Center (CVMC) to become the
laboratory of the proposed college. The transfer of Central Administration from Caritan campus
to the Carig campus, the new site of CSU at Tuguegarao, was undertaken on June 11, 1984. The
old administration building in Caritan became the Graduate School and the College of Arts and
Sciences Building. Another milestone was the implementation of the integration into the
university system of the secondary departments of CSU at Gonzaga, CSU at Lallo, CSU at
Sanchez Mira and CSU at Aparri on July 10, 1984. MECS Regional Director, Magdalena
Castillo turned over formally to President Manuel T. Corpus, the four high schools on December
20, 1984. The President of the Philippines approved the integration on March 17, 1983.

On May 8, 1989, Honorable Lourdes Quisumbing, the Secretary of the Department of

Education Culture and Sports (DECS) sworn into office Dr. Armando Cortes as the first
Cagayano President of CSU. Professor Monserrat G. Babaran was also appointed as the second
Vice-President for Academic Affairs in June 1992 after Dr. Jara’s term. On March 1, 1996 to
December 30, 1998, Father Ranhillo C. Aquino became the Vice President of the University.

In June 1992, the Office of the Dean of the College of Medicine was set up in preparation for
its opening in school year 1993-1994. Dr. Gilbert Gamez, erstwhile Dean of the University of
Santo Tomas (UST) College of Medicine, was appointed as the first dean of the college. As the
university programs expand, a university-wide reorganization was undertaken in July 1992.

On May 5, 1995, Dr. Armando B. Cortes was reappointed as President of the University. The
reorganization of the top administration took place on February 27, 1996. On this same year, the
governing Board of the University resolved to suspend the operation of CSU at Bukig in Western
Aparri because of the low enrolment that made non-feasible continued operation. This aspect of
the history of the University is of particular importance relative to the evaluation of efficiency
and effective performance.

On February 23, 1999, the Board granted the university Administration the authority to offer
Bachelor of Laws and Letters (LLB) to commence School Year 1999-2000.

In response to the thrust and vision of Region 02 and to provide leadership in livestock
development, the Board granted the University Administration the offering of Veterinary
Medicine and Medical Technology courses effective School Year 1999- 2000.

On May 7, 2001, the then Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Eleuterio C. De Leon,
was appointed by the Board of Regents as the Officer – In – Charge of the University. During his
term, the Board approved the University’s decision to phase down the enrollment in the high
school department and to limit the admission of first year high school students in Piat, Lal-lo,
and Gonzaga campuses to 500 students only.

A reorganization of top administration took place that paved the way to the search for the
different campus deans, now the Campus Executive Officers.

On March 8, 2004, through Resolution No. 151, s. 2004, the Board appointed Dr. Roger P.
Perez, as the 3rd University President. On March 15, 2004, Dr. Perez assumed official duty at the

Central Administration with all the powers, rights, privileges, and responsibilities accorded
him. Another organizational structure which would readily respond to the actual needs of the
university and attuned to the relevance of its existence and thrust of the new administration was
then conceptualized.

Rationalizing its intent for a lean but mean organization. The structure has maintained three
vice president positions with the third important vice president position having an added program
under its domain, the Business Affairs Program. The new structure also proposed the creation of
the positions of internal auditors under the Office of the President. The Office of the Deputy
Dean of Instruction was likewise created to implement the virtualization of curricular offerings.
 To further rationalize the structure of the organization which is in consonance with a lean but
mean operation, the administration has cut the number of Vice-Presidents from three to two, that
of the Vice-President for instruction, research, and extension and Vice-President for
Administration and Business.

At present there are seven campuses under the university system. CSU- Caritan and CSU
Carig were merged under one nomenclature, CSU- Tuguegarao. All campuses continue to
operate as complementary satellites of the University. Although difficult at times, the unique
arrangement of a multi-campus institution, which has prevailed over an ideal compact-university
being located in one site, is succeeding in terms of providing educational access and equity to its
rural communities. On the other hand, owing to the peculiarities of the geographical diversity
and multi-ethnicity of its people and socio-economic, educational, and political conditions
obtaining in its catchment’s areas, the CSU institutional structures and arrangement are
functioning well.

Today, CSU is present in six sites outside Tuguegarao which is located at Sanchez Mira,
Lasam, Aparri, Lallo, Gonzaga, and Piat so that the original intent of providing democratized
tertiary education in the countryside is felt in the whole region specifically in Cagayan.

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