I am very happy to see all of you in person today, wearing your dashing Barong Tagalog and Filipiniana. For two years, we weren’t able to hold activities such as this. But God has been so good for after the rain, he showed us a rainbow. It is terrifying yet astounding how time flies so fast. It seems like it was just yesterday when I started leading the Mindanao State University at Naawan as the Chancellor. Four years and a half have passed and today, I will be reporting to you the things that we have done to our dear Mindanao State University at Naawan. Before I’ll start my message, I’d like to acknowledge our former Chancellors, Vice Chancellors, and other university officials who led MSU at Naawan before me, for without them and without their efforts, I cannot be the Chancellor that I am today. At this moment,we will all Celebrate the Triumphs, and Carry on the Legacies. For 35 years since I started working here at Mindanao State University at Naawan, I have seen how the university evolved—and when I decided to lead MSU at Naawan as the Chancellor, I proposed to anchor my leadership to the qualities of Transparency, Accountability, Participatory, and Predictability. I promised to be transparent, accountable, participatory, and predictable. Change is the only thing that’s constant and they said that it’s not the smartest nor the wealthiest that will survive, but the ones that are adaptive to change. And so, we embraced CHANGE. From crafting our university Vision, Mission, Goals, and Objectives; to expanding and improving our Organizational Structure so that our VMGO will become more functional. Before, we only have one (1) Vice Chancellor. But now, we have four (4)—the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, the Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance, the Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension, and the Vice Chancellor for Planning and Development. Through these offices, through my Vice Chancellors, and to you my dear constituents of MSU at Naawan, we are slowly but surely becoming an internationally recognized university in research and education in the Philippines. In my term, I have set three major strategies to practice Transparency, Accountability, Participatory, and Predictability.These are to:1) EMPOWER THE PEOPLE,2) STREAMLINE THE SERVICES AND PROCESSES, and3) CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE “EMPOWERING THE PEOPLE“ As the Chancellor, I know I cannot do anything without the most important part of the university—the people. I can only dream of making MSU at Naawan a premier institution, but without the people who works with me, no positive change will happen. Because of that, we have institutionalized and strengthened the Agency Performance Commitment to set as performance parameters that are aligned to the VMGO of the university. This has been cascaded to the different offices through the OPCR and it stood as the basis for the individual performance commitment of the employees. I believe that the skills, knowledge, and talents of every employee in the university have contributed to the growth and overall performance of the university. Without resources, we cannot move forward with our plans for the university. I am very happy that for our resource generation, over the last 5 years, we have an accumulated increase of 39% in budget from the National government and 29% in the internally generated fund. To practice participatory and accountability, we decentralized our budget process. When we say we decentralized our budget process, we have utilized the functions of each office and shaped the future through strategic focus and targeted funding. We have allocated funds per cost center so that the department heads are given the authority and liberty to identify priority projects and activities that will achieve the objectives of the respective offices because I believe that the success of the university depends on the efficiency of each office. Apart from empowering our personnel through the decentralization of the budget process, we’re also empowering our dear students as we gave them the authority, through the Supreme Student Council, to plan for their activities for the year like conducting and joining seminars and trainings, hosting of events, and joining cultural performances, sports activities, academic conferences, and the like. “STREAMLINING THE SERVICES AND PROCESSES“ We acknowledge the importance of giving quality education and services to our clients, our dear students. With that, we have submitted our programs to be accredited by CHED’s COPC and the AACCUP. To be globally competitive, the university is doing its best to fully comply with the policies, standards, and guidelines of the different accrediting agencies. As a Center of Excellence in Fisheries and a Center of Development in Marine Science, the BS Fisheries and BS Marine Biology programs of the university is presently working on the Level 1 AACCUP Accreditation and the other programs of the university are working for COPC and the AACCUP Preliminary Survey Visit. I wanted to have a transparent administration that adheres to the government audit, accounting, and budgeting rules and regulations. Because of that, we were able to comply and implement various recommendations and observations of the Commission on Audit (COA) and submit timely the reports to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) for financial performance review. We have also crafted a manual of operation for each office and this MOP is ready for review and enhancement to comply with the ISO standards. In line with the mainstreaming of the government mandates to adhere to the rules and guidelines of the Civil Service Commission, the Human Resource Management Office strengthened the university’s Strategic Performance Management System (SPMS). We have also strengthened the composition of our Performance Management Team (PMT) that monitors the system and operation of the university to ensure that what we are doing will lead to an increase of our productivity. True to its commitment to elevate public sector human resource management to a level of excellence, the office conducted review and enhancement classes to the contract of service employees as refresher and preparation for the Civil Service Examinations conducted by the Civil Service Commission for
