CHED orders: Resume MP college operations

BONTOC, Mountain Province – The Commission on Higher Education has ordered the administration, faculty, students and non-teaching personnel of the Mountain Province State Polytechnic College to resume regular operations and respect the rule of law while investigation is still underway relative to the issues raised against the current administration which had been earlier branded as rehashed and recycled issues.

In a memorandum addressed to the school’s faculty, students and non-teaching personnel, Dr. Patricia Licuanan, CHED chairman, urged the faculty, students and non-teaching personnel to observe sobriety in the conduct of their regular operations despite alleged efforts of disgruntled politicians and sectors to put pressure on government agencies to oust Dr. Nieves A. Dacyon, MPSPC president.

According to Licuanan, the MPSPC community must preserve the dignity and integrity of the institution against the destruction of its institutional autonomy and uphold academic independence.

The CHED, pursuant to a resolution of the board of trustees of the institution allowed Dacyon to serve as president pending investigation of the National Bureau of Investigation, Philippine National Police, Commission on Human Rights and the National Police Commission on events that transpired that resulted to the alleged forcible resignation of the president.

Licuanan also called on the MPSPC’s Board of Trustees to continue the investigation on issues involving the president in accordance with proper and applicable civil service rules, regulations and procedures.

The CHED memorandum now serves as a basis for the school president to exercise her duties and responsibilities while investigations are ongoing. -- Dexter A. See