CTE launches TVLEd academic building

By NIÑA CHRISTELLE SUMINTAC

 

The Mariano Marcos State University – College of Teacher Education (MMSU - CTE) inaugurated its Technical-Vocational and Livelihood Education (TVLEd) Academic Building today, September 1.

 

University President Shirley C. Agrupis, together with Engr. Ami Ruth R. Cocson, vice-president for administration and finance, led the whole CTE community in launching the PhP 14.1 million-worth building.


In the ribbon-cutting activity, the University President said, “The journey of its construction is very memorable because we really fought for it during a budget hearing that happened just after I assumed my office as the seventh president of MMSU.”


The building is composed of new-normal-designed lecture rooms and laboratories for the Bachelor of Technology and Livelihood Education (BTLEd) and Bachelor of Technical-Vocational Teacher Education (BTVED) programs of the college. It was one of the proposals under the University's 3-Year Rolling Project (3RP) to improve the infrastructural landscape of the different campuses. 
 

College Dean Eliza T. Samson ceremonially received the building which is envisioned to be a haven of excellent teaching and learning.


Prof. Edwin B. Rivera, TVLEd department chair, expressed his excitement and zeal to fully utilize the building to deliver quality education. In the event, he led the open-house tour.


Fr. Ambrose Emeric Monroy, assistant parish priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Laoag, led the group to invoke God’s blessing upon the building.


The event was participated in by the faculty members of the college and the laboratory schools (high school and elementary departments). Dr. Cesario Pacis, dean of the College of Industrial Technology (CIT) and Dr. Virgilio Julius Manzano, Jr., graduate school dean, also graced the occasion.


The new infrastructure replaced the building built back in the 1960s, and renovated in 1974. It was, then, the old Home Economics practice house which was extended to include a multipurpose hall. In the 1980s, classrooms and the MMSU Multipurpose Cooperative occupied most of the building. (StratCom)

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