ATENEO gets PAASCU Level 4 status!

[atenista_comm]

Need I say more?

Ateneo de Manila University
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT




1 October 2004


MEMO TO : THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY

FROM : THE PRESIDENT

SUBJECT : Level IV Status for Ateneo de Manila University



I am pleased to announce that upon the recommendation of the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU), the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines (FAAP) has awarded the Ateneo de Manila University Level IV Status.

Level IV Status recognizes that the Ateneo de Manila University has distinguished itself in a broad area of academic disciplines and enjoys prestige and authority comparable to that of international universities in research, teaching and learning, community service, international linkages, planning processes, and quality assurance mechanisms.

In 2003, after having stabilized the new organizational structures and processes following the restructuring of the School of Arts and Sciences into the four Loyola Schools, we successfully undertook re-accreditation, a prerequisite for application for Level IV Status. We submitted in April 2004 our application for Level IV, which was approved by the PAASCU Board in May and recommended to the FAAP Board which then granted Level IV Status in its September meeting.

I would like to express my appreciation to everyone who worked on the preparation of the thorough documentation of our achievements, especially the Steering Committee, namely, Dr. Anna Miren Gonzalez-Intal, Dr. Ma. Celeste T. Gonzalez, Dr. Lota A. Teh, Ms. Concepcion L. Rosales, and Ms. Consolacion J. Concepcion.

Level IV Status is the most recent public recognition of our constant striving for excellence and service. I thank and congratulate everyone in the Ateneo de Manila University community for contributing to this shared enterprise.



BIENVENIDO F. NEBRES, S.J.
President

[UranusStinks]

Mali yan! Reaccredited Level III lang dapat. Sabi ng mga Lasalista. Makinig tayo sa kanila dahil sila ang championships!

[ROYAL-blood02]

Originally posted by atenista_comm
Need I say more?

oh, come on. push it hard, dude. people here are buying it. :lol: :lol: :lol:

[ROYAL-blood02]

Level IV Status recognizes that the Ateneo de Manila University has distinguished itself in a broad area of academic disciplines and enjoys prestige and authority comparable to that of international universities in research, teaching and learning, community service, international linkages, planning processes, and quality assurance mechanisms.

woooooooooooooo!
ano mga universities naman kaya yon? :lol:
baka mala university of Dhaka, university of afghanistan, university of iraq.......... :lol:

[atenista_comm]

Originally posted by ROYAL-blood02
oh, come on. push it hard, dude. people here are buying it. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Well, that's reality smacked in your face. At least, we are not gloating it. Just posting it to make everyone informed, especially that there are spinsters who are downplaying Ateneo's excellence.

It's official. Period. Need I say more?

[Rambus]

I won't stoop down to my level.

- Melanie Marquez

[mac_bolan00]

"I love Mother Lily like she's my mother."

---Kris Aquino.

[kundera_tan]

[kundera_tan]

^ how profound......

paki-explain....

[ROYAL-blood02]

so confirmed na....... level 4 na.........

magkano binayad?

[atenean_blooded]

Interesting. FAAP awarded the Ateneo it's Level IV status, as recommended by PAASCU. La Salle never mentions FAAP in all of its marketing itself as a Level IV institution.

[gundam]

Totoong balita 'to. The memo was posted yesterday at the University President's bulletin board.

Pero nakapagtataka, bakit kaya ngayon lang?hehehe

Congrats AdMU!

[coydeleon]

Congratulations to the Ateneo de Manila University!

Welcome to the LEVEL IV Club!

:cheers:

Animo!

[coup_plotter]

Its good to know that UP is not included in that accreditation bcoz its a STATE UNIVERSITY but im sure pag ksali UP Bka LEVEL VI or VII na!

enjoy that prestige Ateneo!

[notsobad]

Shouldn't we be happy that another school reached level IV accreditation? I hope other schools would follow as well.

[XetraDAX]

wow! congrats ateneo!

[blue_asteroid24]

ad majorem dei gloriam

mabuhay ang mga eskwelahang pinoy, mabuhay ang estudyanteng pinoy!

[SurreyWiltshire]

Originally posted by ROYAL-blood02
so confirmed na....... level 4 na.........

magkano binayad?

:lol:

[ROYAL-blood02]

Originally posted by notsobad
Shouldn't we be happy that another school reached level IV accreditation? I hope other schools would follow as well.
kung hindi sana nila ni bribe..........


ang tanong ngayon: magkano binayad...........

ateneo pa, hindi pwedeng walang nagaganap na bayaran........

[SurreyWiltshire]

bakit kailangan nilang magbayad parati?

[ROYAL-blood02]

para parating champion.

yan ang marketing strategy nila.

[gundam]

Bayaran???

Kung may bayaran palang involved para ma-accredit ang isang school, posible rin kayang nagbayad ang DLSU noon para lang ma-accredit as Level 4?

Ambabaw naman ng mga pagpapalagay niyo.

Tigilan na nga 'yang inggitan. The Ateneo deserves the Level 4 accreditation. Period.

At saka alisin man natin ang akreditasyong yan, ang Ateneo ay Ateneo. The name of the school itself speaks of prestige, excellence, and an unmatched tradition.

[bang]

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[acacia_tree]

true. lasalista lang ang mahilig mag bribe. obvious pa masyado.

[nerdox]

Originally posted by acacia_tree
true. lasalista lang ang mahilig mag bribe. obvious pa masyado.

:rolleyes:

Ah, oo tama, binayaran ng La Salle yung Atenean Jesuit na President ng PAASCU.

:lol:


CONGRATULATIONS ATENEO!

[samurai_faegen]

Ano bang saysay ng level 4?

Kahit mag level 10 ka pa eh kung buringot na obobs ang mga estudyante wala rin kwenta. Sure, maganda ang facilities, di-aircon ang kwarto, maganda ang bayad sa prof etc. pero karamihan ng students eh kulang sa hangin ang utak, pano na?

Naniniwala ako ang na ang quality ng students (dapat top caliber ha) hindi quantity ang magsasabi kung magaling ang school. Kung madaling makapasok sa isang school tiyak madami diyan medyo nakikisakay lang sa pangalan ng institution.

[gundam]

Basta I don't think na may bayarang involved sa accreditation. I do believe in the credibility of accrediting agencies.Ü Again, AdMU deserves the accreditation. The same is true for DLSU and other schools.

Aren't you just happy of the implication that more and more schools in the country are already proving their capacity to deliver quality education?

Kaya magsumamo tayo na dumami pa ang mga Level 4 na unibersidad. Maraming tao ang makikinabang kung mangyayari 'to.

[twerpy_craphead]

from ateneo ba talaga yang acacia_tree na yan? senseless lahat ng posts nya eh...tsk...pampasira sa image ng ateneo...hahaha

[samurai_faegen]

Useless ang mont blanc kung hindi marunong magsulat ang estudyante.

Pinaka mainam dyan eh silipin kung aling school bukol madaling makapasa at saan mahirap makapasok at tumagal para maka graduate.

[ROYALblood04]

bayaran naman yang mga yan eh!

[cyber_romancer]

Originally posted by ROYALblood04
bayaran naman yang mga yan eh!

wag ka na! wala kang credibility! puro yabang at assumptions...everything you say is hog wash

[Ischaramoochie]

err... kung sinasabing ng ibang university na binayaran yung mga accreditors para maging level IV and isang university, eh di ibig sabihin unreliable yung mga accreditors. kung hindi reliable yung mga accreditors, bakit pinagmamalaki nung ibang university yung pagiging level IV nila? ???

[ROYALblood03]

Originally posted by ROYALblood04
bayaran naman yang mga yan eh!

who you? :eek:

[intensity1214]

hala, nagka-bale-balentong na ang mga alternicks. :lol:

[alikishi]

Originally posted by ROYALblood03
who you? :eek:

naku!

[ROYALblood04]

Originally posted by ROYALblood03
who you? :eek:

who you too? :eek:

[Ischaramoochie]

Whoo! yoo too? :crazy:

[mandennis]

YYYYYooooooooouuuuuu WWWhhhooooooooooo?:D

[intensity1214]

hindi kaya sarcasm lang itong status na 'to? :shrug:

[mr_mur]

ateneo deserves the level IV status.

btw, up to level IV lang talaga ang PAASCU....

[VenusVex]

^ yes

and i find that funny

can we now say that Ateneo and lasalle have already reached the pinnacle of philippine education?

if that's the case then wow, we're really such 3rd world.

[frank_chavez]

finally. matapos nila takpan na re-accreditation DAW yung pagkabagsak sa unang try. :glee:

[mac_bolan00]

^^
:lol:

[mr_mur]

Originally posted by frank_chavez
finally. matapos nila takpan na re-accreditation DAW yung pagkabagsak sa unang try. :glee:

actually, pre-requisite ang level III reaccreditation to apply for level IV... so di bumagsak ang admu... sheesh

[gundam]

^
^

Tama ka diyan!

[MercuryMatters]

Originally posted by mr_mur
actually, pre-requisite ang level III reaccreditation to apply for level IV... so di bumagsak ang admu... sheesh

wag mo nang patulan

kaschoool niyan ang mga taga varsitarian, what else do you expect?

[ajoeroooo]

oh well, congratulations to the only 2 level 4 accredited schools in the country...

if some of us here may have doubts, well, just prove them, & 'file them to the proper court', as the line goes....

:)

[sagala_queen]

Originally posted by mr_mur
actually, pre-requisite ang level III reaccreditation to apply for level IV... so di bumagsak ang admu... sheesh

nope. La Salle didn't apply for a re-accreditation. :D
special case lang DAW yung sa Ateneo. :lol:

[Lek-Lek]

Originally posted by sagala_queen
nope. La Salle didn't apply for a re-accreditation. :D
special case lang DAW yung sa Ateneo. :lol:

That is according to you.

But of course, PAASCU has its own set of rules which Ateneo complied with - and I am very sure, the same was the case with La Salle. This stands unless of course, if you can prove what you said with an OFFICIAL STATEMENT from PAASCU.

[Toystory2]

Congratulations Ateneo de Manila University!

[XetraDAX]

I am not trying to bash here or anything, but i find something very weird about this Level IV of Ateneo.

Last year (or was it this year), Fr. Nebres said that they they are still with the Level III status (after saying to the whole admu connunity that they were applying for a level 4 status already) due to the re-accreiditation daw.

Then, also said in his statement is that yung re-accreditation (kaya sila ulit level 3, i repeat) 5-7 years pa dwa ito magla-last. I remember reading this in the Guidon. Tapos ngayon, Level IV na sila? Ang gulo, akala ko ba 5-7 years pa silang Level 3? Eh mismong nangaling kay Fr. Nebres and sa Guidon nanggaling eh.

And please, bashers, dont give me answers saying na binayaran ng ADMU ang PAASCU coz i believe that a respectable institution such as Ateneo would never do that.

Please enlighten me on this matter. Again, I really am not here to bash. Thanks.

Anyway, Congrats Ateneo! You guys deserve it!

[Ultra_MegaStar]

Originally posted by XetraDAX
I am not trying to bash here or anything, but i find something very weird about this Level IV of Ateneo.

Last year (or was it this year), Fr. Nebres said that they they are still with the Level III status (after saying to the whole admu connunity that they were applying for a level 4 status already) due to the re-accreiditation daw.

Then, also said in his statement is that yung re-accreditation (kaya sila ulit level 3, i repeat) 5-7 years pa dwa ito magla-last. I remember reading this in the Guidon. Tapos ngayon, Level IV na sila? Ang gulo, akala ko ba 5-7 years pa silang Level 3? Eh mismong nangaling kay Fr. Nebres and sa Guidon nanggaling eh.

And please, bashers, dont give me answers saying na binayaran ng ADMU ang PAASCU coz i believe that a respectable institution such as Ateneo would never do that.

Please enlighten me on this matter. Again, I really am not here to bash. Thanks.

Anyway, Congrats Ateneo! You guys deserve it!



TO CLARIFY, here's the JUNE 2003 Guidon article:

THE RESULT is out: The Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges, and Universities has awarded the Loyola Schools a re-accreditation in its Level III status.

In a faxed letter to University President Fr. Bienvenido Nebres, SJ, the PAASCU Board of Directors said that the “Arts and Sciences and Commerce or Management Programs have been granted Level III accreditation for a period of five to seven years.” <----NOTE: This was set to expire in January 2003; hence, the Ateneo applied for re-accreditation.

A re-accreditation is required before the LS can apply for Level IV status, Fr. Nebres clarified in an interview with TheGUIDON.

“In other words, what we went through was re-accreditation,” Fr. Nebres said of the PAASCU officials and inspectors’ visit to the campus last January.

“The significance of getting a Level III re-accreditation is that it is a pre-requisite for application for Level IV status,” Vice President for Loyola Schools Dr. Anna Miren Gonzalez-Intal explained. “It is not true that we were denied Level IV status because we still have to apply for it,” she added.

In a memorandum issued over summer class, Dr. Intal stated that “application for Level IV status is a separate process that comes after Level III re-accreditation.”

The Commission on Higher Education classifies educational programs into four levels, with Level IV as the highest rating. As a private accrediting agency composed of officials from various colleges and universities, PAASCU recommends to CHED what status should be granted to an educational institution. A re-accredited Level III status gives full curricular deregulation to an institution, including the right to offer new courses even without prior approval of CHED. A Level IV grants awards and subsidies for programs and full autonomy to the school.

Expecting that the LS had been working on a Level IV status all along, some students and faculty members were surprised by the result.

“The general sentiment at that time was that everyone was routing for Level IV,” said Gary Devilles, faculty member of the Department of Filipino. He added that it was not clear at the start whether the LS was applying for Level IV or just a re-accreditation.

“What I don’t understand is how the information was communicated to the students and faculty. There seems to be a miscommunication somewhere,” Devilles observed. “The administration should have been more sensitive in correcting this notion.”

Of the said miscommunication, Fr. Nebres said, “Maybe we were too focused on [Level IV] and did not study the process enough, but that’s really the process.”

Dr. Intal further spelled out that a Level IV application only involves submission of documentation that details scholarly research, performance of students, teachers, and alumni, involvement of the school in community service, evidence of international linkages, and well-developed planning processes.

“Unlike the Level III re-accreditation process that [we] went through last January, application for Level IV status does not require a visit by a PAASCU accrediting team,” Dr. Intal stressed.

The Loyola Schools has been re-accredited for Level III at least twice over the past two decades. The last PAASCU re-accreditation visit was in January 1996.

Valid for five to seven years, the Level III re-accreditation was set to expire last January. It was in 2002 that the CHED instituted a Level IV.

Fr. Nebres remarked that the Loyola Schools needs the Level IV “more for PR,” adding that “we already have the substantive impact of Level IV,” referring to the autonomy status that CHED granted the Ateneo in October 2001.

“The pressure is not as big as it was before,” Fr. Nebres said of the Level IV application. “While we should be concerned about [not having Level IV], we should not be so preoccupied with it that we don’t pay attention to the fact that we already have the substance.”

Fr. Nebres disclosed that the LS has been working on the documentation for its bid for Level IV status since April.

As of press time, PAASCU has not yet released a copy of a detailed report of its re-accreditation visit here.

“I don’t know how long [our application for Level IV] will take because we have to [wait for the report],” Fr. Nebres said.


__________________________________________
Here's the OCTOBER 2004 Guidon article --

Ateneo de Manila University awarded Level IV status

'4'

by Justine Marie L. Santos

IT'S FINAL. Five months of waiting, almost 20 years in Level III and the work of the Self-Survey Steering Committee have finally paid off. In its meeting last September, the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines (FAAP) awarded the Ateneo de Manila University with Level IV status.

Level IV status grants the University awards and subsidies for its programs and full autonomy from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), as well as the privileges of Levels II and III.

Why only now? Still, the general sentiment of the Ateneo community is “why have we achieved Level IV only now?”

In June 2003, TheGUIDON came out with a headline “Loyola Schools remains in Level III status,” which caused confusion among teachers and students who were under the impression that the University was gunning for Level IV status.

However, University President Fr. Bienvenido Nebres, SJ and later on, Vice President for the Loyola Schools and Steering Committee member Anna Miren Gonzalez-Intal, Ph.D. clarified the University only applied for re-accreditation in Level III, which was a prerequisite for Level IV application. The Steering Committee, then, prepared the documents for the Level IV application.

The University applied for Level III accreditation in January 2003 and was re-accredited in June 2003 by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges, and Universities (PAASCU). PAASCU in turn forwarded its findings and sent a recommendation to the FAAP Board.

What does Level IV mean? Being one of only two Level IV Universities in the Philippines means that the University is given the privileges of Levels II and III.

The benefits of Level II include the ability to increase tuition and other fees without prior approval of CHED, and the use of “accredited” in the University’s publications and advertisements.

But the most pertinent of all might be autonomy from CHED which is given to Level III Schools.

Autonomy from CHED means:

. The University is able to offer courses without getting prior approval from CHED, but is required to inform CHED of the new courses or programs.

. The University can also establish branches or “satellite” campuses without prior approval of CHED. However, the University must inform CHED.

. The University can also offer extension classes and distance education programs, as well as establish affiliations with foreign higher education institutions.

. The University can also award Honoris Causa or honorary doctorate degrees.

Given these privileges, what did the University do to get Level IV?


Level IV standards. According to the Office of the Vice President, the criteria for awarding Level IV includes high-quality research, teaching and learning, community service, international linkages, planning processes, and quality assurance mechanisms.

A benchmark for research in excellence is the publication of Scholarly Publications.

From 1998 to 2004, the faculty of the Loyola Schools produced a total of 2,068 scholarly publications, 512 of which are articles in international and national journals; 291 books; 520 chapters or articles in international or national edited books; 157 creative works; 267 journal articles, technical reports, translations, and monographs; and 321 articles published in other various publications.

For the teaching and learning criteria, the Steering Committee measured the success of the students and alumni through surveys.

From 1998 to 2003, 12.7% of college students made it to the Dean’s List and 10% graduated with honors. Meanwhile, in a survey of 1500 graduates from 1971 to 2000, 77% of 70s graduates, 55% of 80s graduates, and 31% of 90s graduates were in “top-level positions.”

For community service, the University has 368 beneficiaries accumulated from 1998 to 2003—100 non-profit non-government organizations; 83 are non-Department of Education elementary, secondary, and tertiary-level educational institutions and others.

For international linkages with universities and colleges, the Ateneo established links with 67 schools: 29 in Asia, 18 in Europe, 14 in North America, four in Australia and New Zealand, and two in Central and South America.

These were gathered and prepared by the Steering Committee composed of Intal, Department of Education Chair Ma. Celeste Gonzales, Ed.D., Department of Psychology Associate Professor Lota Teh, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Concepcion Rosales, Placement Office Director Consolacion Concepcion.

[XetraDAX]

ah, i get it. thanks dude.

[atenean_blooded]

I'm just wondering, how does PAASCU work in relation to FAAP, if it's FAAP (as CHED's agent) that awards Level IV status? La Salle never mentions FAAP kasi. It always markets itself as "PAASCU Level IV" accredited.

[ako_pating]

isn't it that the paascu accreditation basically just looks at how well a school implements their plans/strategies/(insert other somewhat synonymous words here) wherein the plans are formulated by the schools themselves?

therefore, a school can only be ranked as high as it aims to rank itself, since paascu really doesn't have a generalized criteria in ranking schools.

sorry kung mejo magulo, i just read it from an article and i'm too lazy to check it again...

anywayz, bottom line is dapat itaas ang quality of education sa buong pilipinas, and if it happens one school at a time then so be it. congrats sa ateneo.