University of the Visayas
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The University of the Visayas is an educational institution located at Cebu City
, Philippines
. It is billed as the first university in Cebu City (for the first/oldest school, see University of San Carlos
).
There are two campuses in Cebu City: the main campus occupying almost one city block bounded by Colon, D. Jakosalem and Sanciangko Streets and a laboratory high school in Pardo. The main campus has six multi-storey buildings including a gymnasium.
The Gullas Medical Center is located at Banilad, Mandaue City. It houses the Vicente Gullas Memorial Hospital, the Gullas College of Medicine, the UV College of Nursing, the Gullas College of Dentistry, the Tan Kim Ching Cancer Center and the up-coming Cosmetic Surgery Center including other health-related courses. Vicente Gullas Memorial Hospital is a 100-bed tertiary care hospital accredited by PhilHealth.
The campus in Punta Engano, Lapulapu City, has a port for the Maritime College's practical training at sea.
Other campuses are in the cities of Mandaue, Toledo and in the towns of Dalaguete, Minglanilla and Compostela in the province of Cebu.
As early as its founding, the V.I. had pioneered in education innovations to provide equal education opportunities for those who have the capability and the desire for improving themselves. It was the first to conduct night school class for working students in Cebu City in the 1940s. The “study now pay later plan” had been a practice at the V.I. long before it was adopted by the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS) in the 1980s.
In 1948, the Visayan Institute was awarded university status, the first to become a university in Cebu, and was renamed the University of the Visayas. Since then the expansion in its baccalaureate and post graduate course offerings and in its physical facilities has been phenomenal. From an initial enrollment of 37 students the V.I. evolved into a university with an enrollment of 20,000 distributed throughout its campuses. Its alumni have distinguished themselves in government service and public administration, and in the professions of law, engineering and architecture, pharmacy, medicine, nursing, education, criminology, maritime and nautical, computer studies as well as in sports and the arts.Compostela is the most known branches in UV.
The main shield of the seal features an open book, a torch of knowledge and the shrine of the Magellan's cross, a landmark of the City of Cebu.
Cebu City
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, Philippines
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. It is billed as the first university in Cebu City (for the first/oldest school, see University of San Carlos
University of San Carlos
The University of San Carlos is a Roman Catholic university governed by the Society of the Divine Word since 1935 in Cebu City. It offers pre-elementary and basic education as well as undergraduate and graduate courses, and a broad spectrum of academic programs through its eight colleges.It...
).
Campuses and location
The University of the Visayas is an eight-campus, province-wide system of higher education and lower level laboratory schools.There are two campuses in Cebu City: the main campus occupying almost one city block bounded by Colon, D. Jakosalem and Sanciangko Streets and a laboratory high school in Pardo. The main campus has six multi-storey buildings including a gymnasium.
The Gullas Medical Center is located at Banilad, Mandaue City. It houses the Vicente Gullas Memorial Hospital, the Gullas College of Medicine, the UV College of Nursing, the Gullas College of Dentistry, the Tan Kim Ching Cancer Center and the up-coming Cosmetic Surgery Center including other health-related courses. Vicente Gullas Memorial Hospital is a 100-bed tertiary care hospital accredited by PhilHealth.
The campus in Punta Engano, Lapulapu City, has a port for the Maritime College's practical training at sea.
Other campuses are in the cities of Mandaue, Toledo and in the towns of Dalaguete, Minglanilla and Compostela in the province of Cebu.
History
The University of the Visayas was founded by the late Don Vicente A. Gullas in 1919 as the Visayan Institute (V.I.) in Cebu City. The second World War razed to the ground the physical facilities of the V.I. at its original site. Undaunted by adversities, Don Vicente reopened classes in Argao, Cebu in 1946. A year later the V.I. moved back to its present site in Colon Street, Cebu City.As early as its founding, the V.I. had pioneered in education innovations to provide equal education opportunities for those who have the capability and the desire for improving themselves. It was the first to conduct night school class for working students in Cebu City in the 1940s. The “study now pay later plan” had been a practice at the V.I. long before it was adopted by the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS) in the 1980s.
In 1948, the Visayan Institute was awarded university status, the first to become a university in Cebu, and was renamed the University of the Visayas. Since then the expansion in its baccalaureate and post graduate course offerings and in its physical facilities has been phenomenal. From an initial enrollment of 37 students the V.I. evolved into a university with an enrollment of 20,000 distributed throughout its campuses. Its alumni have distinguished themselves in government service and public administration, and in the professions of law, engineering and architecture, pharmacy, medicine, nursing, education, criminology, maritime and nautical, computer studies as well as in sports and the arts.Compostela is the most known branches in UV.
Motto
The University of the Visayas has been guided by the motto envisioned by the founder which is now inscribed in the university seal: “Amor, Servitium, Humanitas” (Love and Service to Humanity). At the onset of the third millennium, the incumbent UV president, Atty. Eduardo R. Gullas, added a new core value to the motto which now reads “Love, Leadership and Service to Humanity.”Vision
The University of the Visayas is a center of excellence inspired faith in the Almighty God, love, leadership and service to humanity.Mission
With its commitment to the ideals of love and service, and the development of new breed of leaders who are morally upright and spiritually inspired, the University of the Visayas operates and maintains educational programs which are nationalistic and democratic, and attuned to nationally and internationally accepted standards. While it nurtures academic excellence, it also works for the enhancement of high level professions and middle-level careers relevant to community development and the socio-economic needs of the country.Colors and seal
The University of the Visayas colors are green and white. The corporate seal of the university is circular with the following inscriptions within the circle:- University of the Visayas: Cebu City
- Amor Servitium Humanitas
- First University in Cebu: Founded 1919
The main shield of the seal features an open book, a torch of knowledge and the shrine of the Magellan's cross, a landmark of the City of Cebu.
Pioneering programs
- First to offer “study now pay later plan” to poor but deserving students (1965–1975).
- First to grant scholarship programs to ordinary government employees, public school teachers and administrators, military personnel and poor disabled students.
- First to institutionalize Community Organizing Participative Action Research (COPAR) for Community Extension Program.
- First to establish academic-based Public Employment Office (PESO) for placement and job training of graduates at its satellite schools.
- First to establish International linkages with Stitching Zorginstellenger Rinjswijk Nursing Homes in Netherlands for exchange training programs and employment of nursing alumni and Nursing Resources in the San Francisco Bay, USA, for scholarship and sponsorship of top 10% of nursing graduates every year for employment and immigration in the area.
Popular Visayanian graduates
- Justice Portia Hormochuelos (presiding justice of the Court of Appeals)
- Justice Pampio Abu Abarintos (associate justice of the Court of Appeals)
- Cerge RemondeCerge RemondeCerge Mamites Remonde was a Filipino journalist and politician.-Early Life:Cerge was born Glecerio Mamites Remonde on December 21, 1958, to Teofilo A. Remonde and Florentina S. Mamites in barangay Lamacan, Argao, Cebu...
- Dr. Jose R. Gullas (Freeman chairman and UV executive vice president)
- Eduardo Gullas
- Atty. Eddie O. Barrita (Philippines News Agency Cebu bureau chief)
- Fred Sipalay Jr. (practicing lawyer)
- Felix Matuguina
- Dr. Eladio Dioko (retired Central Visayas education director)
- Atty. Joselito Ramon O. Castillo
- Atty. Fritz Quiñanola (retired regional police director and general)
- Dr. Susana B. Cabahug (retired education regional director)
- Benjamin Aliño
- Reynoso A. Belarmino (retired executive labor arbiter)
- Erlindo O. Constantino (literary critic and author)
- Judge Agustin A. Vestil
- Solomon Baclayon
- Jerry Tundag (The Freemans editor-in-chief)
- Atty. Francisco Malilong (Sunstar Cebus columnist)
- Atty. Elias Espinoza (Sunstar Cebus columnist)
- Jesse Bacon (Daily Tribune)
- Judge Romulo Senining (retired judge)
- Eleonor Elape Valeros (The Freeman copywriter and columnist)
- Engr. Khalil Dimaporo Sultan (DPWH. District Engineer 1st District, Lanao Del Norte.
- Atty. Meneleo Pascual
- Estrella C. Navarro, Ed.D (Dean. College of Arts in Sciences)
- Nicolas P. Tura, Ph.D