goodbye mapua, welcome malayan university?

**flakez** · February 9th, 2005 03:30 AM

from: http://www.mapua.edu.ph/announcements/mapua_malayan.asp

GOING FOR UNIVERSITY STATUS

In this day and age the multidisciplinary approach to solving problems has become the rule rather than the exception. Schools have adapted by allowing students to take more courses for credit across disciplines. They have designed courses where teamwork of students across departments is the norm. They have instituted new degree programs to develop intellectual capital across a wider range of academic fields of study. They have imbued their students with a broader outlook in appreciating the challenges of the day.

In the U.S. engineering education community, this multidisciplinary problem-solving approach is clearly reflected in the program outcomes advocated by the ABET. An academic degree program has to demonstrate that its graduates are "capable of functioning in multi-disciplinary teams" and that they "understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and social context." In voluntarily subjecting ourselves to an ABET Certification process, we have made known to all and sundry that we subscribe to and espouse these outcomes.

The requirement of a General Education component by the CHED is a big help in this regard. But a school can do better than this by having degree programs in various other disciplines. The depth of its faculty in a discipline becomes significantly enhanced. If perchance a program’s development leads to the establishment of graduate degree programs, then this depth becomes unassailable.

Having faculty and expertise in individual disciplines is just a start. Things get to be more exciting and meaningful in the interplay of the various disciplines: biotechnology, computer science, electronics engineering and mechanical engineering; health sciences and information technology; business and technology; psychology and artificial intelligence; the social sciences and physical infrastructures; languages and computer science; all engineering and information technology; all engineering and environment, etc.

If knowledge be the currency of educational institutions, it would be hard to argue against an attempt to put scholarship and professional training on the foundation of a broader universe of academic degree programs and in the context of interacting bodies of knowledge. This is principally why the Mapua Institute of Technology is going for university status. As good as it is, the Institute could become an even better technology school with this move.

In transition, management has reserved the name Mapua Institute of Technology and its logo with the Department of Trade and Industry. Mapua Institute of Technology shall be the name of the university’s College of Engineering and Architecture. It shall be alongside other Colleges named after other personages, i.e., San Lorenzo Ruiz College of Health Sciences and E.T. Yuchengco College of Business and Management. The university itself shall be called Malayan University. In the transition, while we are trying to be eligible for university status, the collection of colleges shall be called Malayan Colleges. Accordingly we are now working to change the name of the corporation from Mapua Institute of Technology to Malayan Colleges. The CHED-NCR has just approved this corporate name change.

"Mapua" has been synonymous with quality engineering education for a long time. In preserving the precious name "Mapua", this can remain true moving forward, even as "Malayan", we hope, will eventually become synonymous with quality education in general.

Reynaldo B. Vea, Ph.D.
President

badtrip talaga yang mga hayop na yuchengco na yan. tsk tsk. pano na kaming mga alumni ng mapua. diba. syempre iba pa rin pag mapua un. para na lang mawawala ung school na pinagtapusan namin. una ung mapua high tapos ngayon naman eto. tsk tsk. sana man lang mapua university na lang. wag na nilang tanggalin ung pangalan na mapua. badtrip talaga.

**Karding** · February 9th, 2005 03:58 AM

Eh bakit nga naman hindi na lang ginawang Mapua University??

Kung gusto nilang gawing University, why not stick with Mapua University at gawin Malayan Colleges ang collective colleges?

I never went to Mapua, I highly respect the students from that school but Im outraged about the change. :fire:

**chieffy** · February 9th, 2005 10:20 AM

daming kong hs classmates na mapuan...siguradong naha h igh blood din mga iyon sa balitang iyan...

**1D4LV** · February 9th, 2005 10:22 AM

i work for a YGC company, pero ano kaya ang intention nila at palitan ang pangalan except for the fact na sa kanila yung school.

insitution na yan eh, and mapua is known as mapua, bakit kailangang palitan?

**BlueBimmer** · February 9th, 2005 10:22 AM

mom ko magna pa naman sa mapua tsk tsk

**baiskee** · February 9th, 2005 10:27 AM

mas maganda kung mapua pa rin. IMO

**mazdamazda** · February 9th, 2005 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by Karding

Eh bakit nga naman hindi na lang ginawang Mapua University??

Kung gusto nilang gawing University, why not stick with Mapua University at gawin Malayan Colleges ang collective colleges?

I never went to Mapua, I highly respect the students from that school but Im outraged about the change. :fire:

it is because MAPUA is "just" known for its engineering courses.

now that they want to be a multi-disciplinary university, they also have to give focus on their other disciplines and having a new name might change the perception that MAPUA is only good in engineering.

and as said in the report, the MAPUA name will still be retained but for the engineering college only.

**stinkaboy** · February 9th, 2005 11:49 AM

sana hindi na lg palitan.

**carlocaraddict** · February 9th, 2005 12:07 PM

ano kaya magiging reaction ng friend ko na si Nikko Mapua? He told me na they are recieving royalties from RCBC or who ever handles the school now.

**mikaztro** · February 9th, 2005 01:03 PM

In transition, management has reserved the name Mapua Institute of Technology and its logo with the Department of Trade and Industry. Mapua Institute of Technology shall be the name of the university’s College of Engineering and Architecture. It shall be alongside other Colleges named after other personages, i.e., San Lorenzo Ruiz College of Health Sciences and E.T. Yuchengco College of Business and Management. The university itself shall be called Malayan University. In the transition, while we are trying to be eligible for university status, the collection of colleges shall be called Malayan Colleges. Accordingly we are now working to change the name of the corporation from Mapua Institute of Technology to Malayan Colleges. The CHED-NCR has just approved this corporate name change.

This is sick! Maybe the Yuchengcos don't know the true essence of being a true blooded Mapuan. True, Mapua is known for Engineering and Architecture but that doesn't mean that the other courses offered by MIT is not greater in excellence or of low quality. They could very well take the name "Mapua University" and make it synonymous with other famous colleges & universities that offer such course(Health Sciences, Business and Management, and ITs etc.

"Mapua" name is a tradition the signifies the excellence in Arts & Engineering. It has a long history way back in the days of Tomas Mapua as the FIRST Architect in the Philippines. Mapua Institute of Technology is a by-product of Massachusett Institute of Technology's teaching principles as espoused by Don Tomas himself.

The Yuchengco Group could have interjected the other courses and make them synoymous with Mapua's excellence in teaching its primary field.

The dawn has finally arrived for those who aspire to become Mapuan rather than a Malayan.