The West Visayas State University (WVSU) College of Education has been redesignated as a Center of Excellence (COE) for Teacher Education by the Department of Education’s Teacher Education Council (TEC). This year-long recognition, which ends on November 2025, underscores WVSU’s ongoing …
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The beginnings of West Visayas State University can be traced back to May 5, 1900, when Gen. Douglas MacArthur assumed the duties of governor-general and commander of the United States’ “Division of the Philippines.” Pockets of rebellion erupted in various parts of the archipelago as the Americans sought to pacify and assert their claim over the country. In the Visayas, foundations were being laid for the formal education of Filipinos.
The appointments of William H. Taft, Dean C. Worcester, Luke E. Wright, Henry C. Ide, and Bernard Moses to the second Philippine Commission on March 16, 1900 marked the inception of the present Philippine school system. The Philippine Commission enacted the organic school law of the Philippines, known as Act 74, drafted by Dr. Fred W. Atkinson, the general superintendent of public instruction and the head of the Department of Public Instruction overseeing the Bureau of Education. One of the key functions of the Bureau was the training of elementary school teachers.
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Dr. Joselito F. Villaruz is a product of the Philippine public school system, graduating from the University of the Philippines in the Visayas (UPV) with the degree of BS Biology and proceeded to earn his MD degree from West Visayas State University (WVSU), as class salutatorian and most outstanding medicine graduate Intern awards in 1991. He pursued and completed residency training in Pediatrics at WVSU Medical Center (WVSUMC) in 1996, became a diplomate of the Philippine Pediatric Society (PPS) in 1999, and was conferred a fellow by the same specialty society in 2006. He earned two postgraduate degrees: a Master in Management degree from UPV and a PhD in Educational Management at WVSU. He also completed a diploma/certificate course at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) for Global Academic Leadership Program in 2022.
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