The history of PUP may well parallel the nation's growth and development. As it met the needs of a fledgling Philippine civil service under American rule forged from anvil of Spanish colonialism, so will it serve the rising expectations of the people in the 21st century...desirous now of reclaiming their rightful place in the community of independent nations. As it has withstood the test of time, so will it continue to pace contemporary Philippine history.

Here are the highlights of its growth from a mere business school with an itinerant existence to the country's largest state university. Click upon the timeline link provided below to proceed with the specific part of the PUP history timeline.

 

1904
In response to the demand for training personnel for the government service and to the felt need to provide skills essential for private business employment, the Manila Business School (MBS) was founded on October 1904 as part of a City School system under the superintendence of CA O'Reilley.

It offered the prescribed intermediate curriculum and such vocational-technical courses as typing, bookkeeping, stenography, and telegraphy.

One of the very first homes of the Manila Business School.
No. 38 Gunao Street corner Arlegui in Quiapo (1905)
 

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1908
On account of the fact that the great majority of its students came from the province, the MBS was made into an Insular (or national) school and accordingly renamed Philippine School of Commerce (PSC).  At first, the intermediate curriculum was prescribed in addition to subjects such as typewriting, bookkeeping, and stenography.  Afterwards a four-year secondary course in commerce was offered in addition to the courses in Bookkeeping, Stenography, Typewriting and Telegraphy.

This is the edifice on Gen. Solano Street (in San Miguel, Manila) occupied by the Philippine School of Commerce (1908-1933).  This building was formerly occupied by the Bureau of Audits and the Philippine Senate.

PSC Faculty, Filipino and American Teachers (1908)

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1911
The PSC was placed again under the supervision of the Superintendent of City Schools for Administrative purposes only, but retained its status as an Insular school.  The PSC produced its first batch of high school graduates. During this year the course in telegraphy was discontinued since the Telegraph School of the Bureau of Posts offered better facilities.

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1912
The PSC offered a one-year course in Stenography for high school graduates.  The course proved to be successful and popular because of its positive results.  Those who took the course got easily employed as stenographers and later as office managers.

Students of the Philippine School of Commerce
and the building behind the San Miguel Church (1912)

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1917
To keep in step with changing conditions, the PSC started revising its courses of study. Under the leadership of Acting Principal Luis F. Reyes, it continually raised its general requisites. To enable young people employed during the daytime to acquire further training, it opened night classes (These classes would be discontinued in 1932 because of the government's retrenchment policy).

Luis F. Reyes

From 1904, the PSC has known several homes:  an old Spanish building located at the foot of a small bridge at San Rafael Street, near the Mapa High School to an old house at the corner at Dulungbayan Street (now Rizal Avenue) and Dolores Street (now Bustos Street), Santa Cruz, Manila.  Two years later, it was transferred to Gunao Street, corner Arlegui in Quiapo, in the building which now housed the Manila Blue Printing.  At the end of another two years, it found itself in a building in General Solano Street, San Miguel, formerly occupied by the Bureau of Audits and the Philippine Senate where it had the consolation of staying for four years.  A building behind the San Miguel Church was its next destination where it stayed for about twelve years.  Then back to the Gen. Solano Building.  In this last place, it remained for seven years up to 1933.

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1933
The PSC was merged with the Philippine Normal School (PNS) and the Philippine School of Arts and Trades. During the merger, which lasted for 12 years, it operated under the supervision and administration of the PNS Superintendent. The PSC students who completed their respective courses were considered graduates of the PNS. The PSC replaced its secondary curriculum with a two-year junior college curriculum.

The House of the PNS-PSC Merger, Paco, Manila (1933-1945)

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1940
The existence of PSC caught the attention of then President Manuel L. Quezon.  In his graduation address at the Rizal Memorial Stadium on March 26, 1940, he said in part (addressing the graduates of the School of Commerce):

"I can tell you why you are forgotten on these occasions.  It is because you do not belong here...  I will do my best to get the National Assembly to set aside a special appropriation for a building for the School of Commerce, so that graduates of this school will henceforth be where they can be noticed."

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1942
Subsequently, then Congressman Manuel A. Alazarte, with then department head Luis F. Reyes, formulated a bill to this effect and was presented to Congress.  Unfortunately the Pacific War broke out.  The plan was not carried out.

During the war years, the PSC was among those institutions of learning compelled to declare a blackout on culture.

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1946
Shortly after liberation, Superintendent Luis F. Reyes resumed tasks for the re-establishment and rehabilitation of the school.  The appeal was returned with more than eight thousand pesos allocation received from the national funds of the Bureau of Public Works for purposes of repairs and maintenance of public buildings.

The ruins of the Normal Hall building was turned into an improvised house of learning and on August 4, 1946, it was able to open formally regular classes to surprisingly eager students.  The PSC offered one-year and two-year courses in retailing merchandising and a complete four-year course in distributive arts education.

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1947
Meanwhile, the PNS found it necessary to use the Normal Hall building as a dormitory.  PSC, in turn, resigned to its lot of again working in humble crowded rooms.  This drove school authorities to seek remedies for this unbearable situation.  Representations were made to the Philippine Alien Property Administrator, through Malacañang and the Department of Foreign Affairs, for the acquisition of the Lepanto site. 

Such representations were so intensified that on July 31, 1947 the two buildings in Lepanto (now S.H. Loyola) Street in Sampaloc, Manila were turned over to the Philippine Government for the exclusive use of the PSC. The School began to move and on August 4 the official transfer was effected.

Luis F. Reyes was appointed PSC Superintendent.

This building was occupied by the House of Congress before it was transferred to PSC (1947)

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1948
The PSC acquired the P.E. grounds, also on S.H. Loyola Street.

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1949
Republic Act No. 415 was passed, providing for the establishment of teacher-training departments in government schools.  The PSC was one of the beneficiaries of the said Act.

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1951
Three departments were organized: Teacher Training, Business Education, and Research.

When the Philippine Educational System celebrated its Golden Jubilee, the PSC was awarded a plaque in recognition of its achievement "for bold and successful pioneering in vocational business education."

 

Vision

Towards a Total University

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Mission

The mission of PUP in the 21st Century is to provide the highest quality of comprehensive and global education and community services accessible to all students, Filipinos and foreigners alike.

It shall offer high quality undergraduate and graduate programs that are responsive to the changing needs of the students to enable them to lead productive and meaningful lives.

PUP commits itself to:

1. Democratize access to educational opportunities;
    
2. Promote science and technology consciousness and develop relevant expertise and competence among all members of the academe, stressing their importance in building a truly independent and sovereign Philippines;
    
3. Emphasize the unrestrained and unremitting search for truth and its defense, as well as the advancement of moral and spiritual values;
    
4. Promote awareness of our beneficial and relevant cultural heritage;
    
5. Develop in the students and faculty the values of self-discipline, love of country and social consciousness and the need to defend human rights;
    
6. Provide its students and faculty with a liberal arts-based education essential to a broader understanding and appreciation of life and to the total development of the individual;
    
7. Make the students and faculty aware of technological, social as well as political and economic problems and encourage them to contribute to the realization of nationalist industrialization and economic development of the country;
    
8. Use and propagate the national language and other Philippine languages and develop proficiency in English and other foreign languages required by the students’ fields of specialization;
    
9. Promote intellectual leadership and sustain a humane and technologically advanced academic community where people of diverse ideologies work and learn together to attain academic, research and service excellence in a continually changing world; and
    
10. Build a learning community in touch with the main currents of political, economic and cultural life throughout the world; a community enriched by the presence of a significant number of international students; and a community supported by new technologies that facilitate active participation in the creation and use of information and knowledge on a global scale.

 

PUP MULANAY PLANS FOR EXPANSION

(Based on the Master Plan)

An Excerpt from PUP Mulanay Through the Years

Written by Dr. Fe B. Rejano-Baronia

 

BACKGROUND

 

I.                    HISTORY

 

On April 2, 1991, PUP Pamantasang Bayan was established with the signing of Memorandum of Agreement between the PUP Officials headed by former President Nemesio E. Prudente, former Congressman Bienvenido O. Marquez and former Municipal Mayor Mariano A. Morales, Jr.

The MOA signing was witnessed by Dr. Ofelia M. Carague, Dr. Samuel M. Salvador, Atty. Honesto L. Cueva and the Municipal Mayors of Bondoc Peninsula Area.

The establishment of Pamantasang Bayan paved the way for the establishment of PUP Mulanay Branch.

The establishment of a state university in Mulanay was a brainchild project of then Municipal Mayor Mariano A. Morales, Jr.  He dreamed for a college in the municipality aimed towards the continuous college education of the citizenry in the far-flung area of Bondoc Peninsula.  In his ardent desire to have one, he closely coordinated with the late Congressman Bienvenido O. Marquez, Jr, former PUP President Nemesio E. Prudente and the then Executive Vice-President Zenaida A. Olonan to bring the university closer to the Filipino masses in the Bondoc Peninsula Area.   These people believed that through education we could have an enlightened citizenry who will be the pillars of our country’s economy geared towards progress and sustainable development.

            The Polytechnic University of the Philippines Mulanay Branch was established with the passage of Republic Act 7645 otherwise known as the General Appropriations Act of 1991 which provided for an initial capital outlay of Five Million Pesos (Php5,000,000.00) for the branch.

            With the initial capital outlay of five million pesos, former Mayor Morales and the late Congressman Marquez negotiated  for the donation of one (1) hectare of land from the late businessman-philanthropist Mr. Francisco Q. Bocobo.  Mr. Bocobo gave his contribution in the field of education by donating a land area of one  (1) hectare for the school site.  The deed of sale of a parcel of land pending segregation was signed on September 12, 1991 between the late Mr. Francisco Q. Bocobo, President, F.Q.B + 7 Incorporated and Dr. Zenaida A. Olonan, former PUP President.

            Prof. Angeles A. Morales, the pioneer director of PUP Mulanay with the help of Mayor Prudencio M. Maxino, Jr. worked for an additional donation of two (2) hectares of land from Mr. Francisco Q. Bocobo. Mr. Bocobo having a heart for the masses donated an additional two (2) hectares of sprawling land for the branch structural expansion.  The deed of sale of a parcel of land pending segregation was signed on July 16, 1996 between the late Mr. Francisco Q. Bocobo, President, F.Q.B + 7 Incorporated and Dr. Zenaida A. Olonan, former PUP President. 

            PUP Mulanay Branch is strategically located along the national road, a kilometer and a half from the town proper of Mulanay.  Its campus is overlooking Tayabas Bay and Marinduque Island which democratizes access to quality education to the economically challenged but deserving students in the nearby municipalities of Catanauan, San Francisco, San Narciso and San Andres, Quezon.  

            In the first five years of operation (1993-1998), the courses offered were: Bachelor in Office Administration (BOA), Bachelor in Business Teacher Education (BBTE), Bachelor in Entrepreneurial Management (BEM), Bachelor in Secondary Education (BSE) major in English, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy (BSA), Basic Computer Technology and Computer Secretarial. PUP Mulanay was able to produce two (2) Accountants, Board Passers in Licensure Examination for Teachers and Passers in the Career Sub-Professional and Professional Civil Service Examination.

  On the sixth year of operation, BOA, BSA, BSE, Computer Technology and Computer Secretarial were phased down and courses in Bachelor of Science in Agri-Business Management, Information Communication Technology and Office Management were instead offered in addition to BBTE and BSEM.

For the first semester of school year 2004-2005, Information and Communication Technology and Office Management courses were phased down due to the lack of computer units.  Bachelor in Office Administration was instead offered.

 In its twelve years of existence, PUP Mulanay contributed to the provision of manpower to the provinces of Quezon, Cavite, Batangas and Laguna. Some of the graduates are working in Metro Manila and abroad. The branch contributed in terms of its capabilities and accomplishments such as producing skilled graduates and career service professionals. 

 

II.                  VISION/MISSION STATEMENT

 

A.      VISION

 

The Polytechnic University of the Philippines sole philosophy, vision and mission is to provide students with quality education necessary to equip them with the skills and technical-know how imperative to enhance the country’s economic development and to produce graduates with nationalistic vision to the growth and social transformation of the people in the Philippine society.  It is emphasized that the PUP’s philosophy must not only be responsive to the economic needs of the people but more so to the social order necessary to economic and stability of the country.

PUP Mulanay shall be the flagship of the university in the Bondoc Peninsula Area.  Mulanay is in the threshold of development as an agri-based municipality and has the capability to become the trading center in the Bondoc Peninsula Area, thus the branch play a vital role in educating the Filipino masses for rural development.  The instruction, research, extension services, community involvement and special projects must be relevant and responsive to local, regional and national levels.

B.     MISSION

 

The mission of PUP Mulanay is also expressed on what the PUP Philosophy, Vision and Mission stands for:

 

1.      To seek constant, continuous and innovative approach for country’s development

 

2.      Promote social awareness relevant to the socio-economic and cultural transformation

 

3.      Prepare and develop every member of the academic community to be truly productive and self-reliant citizens necessary in nation-building

 

4.      Upgrade the moral values of its academic, non-academic personnel and students in the quest for national transformation and renewal in order to achieve a nationalistic education for the third millennium.

 

 

III.                SERVICES PROVIDED

 

A.      General Services

 

As an avenue of knowledge in the countryside, PUP Mulanay caters the educational needs of the economically challenged students of five municipalities in the Bondoc Peninsula Area, Quezon Province such as Mulanay, Catanauan,  San Narciso, San Andres and San Francisco.  The branch also extends its support services to the development programs of the community by serving as resource speakers/lecturers, providing technical assistance through technology transfer in the agri-business aspect and community service in the environmental protection, clean and green program of the locality.

B.     Student Services

The branch offers quality service to students by encouraging them to organize different organizations for academic and personal development.  The office is tasked to plan, direct and implement policies relative to the harmonious and effective functioning of units under the office.

 

IV.                FUTURE EXPANSIONS (BASED ON THE MASTER PLAN)

            PUP Mulanay came into existence and became operational in 1993.  For twelve years, PUP Mulanay operates with one two-story building and four-room bungalow type building. At present it has a Coop Canteen, ROTC Unit Building and USG Hall.

            To continue PUP Mulanay’s thrusts of catering quality education to poor but deserving students of Bondoc Peninsula and the neighboring municipalities, the branch has plans for expansion in the future. Based on the master plan (attached) a proposed Orchard, Botanical Garden and Park have been sketched for the BSAM and other students from other departments to develop. There is also a proposed plan for Volleyball and Badminton Courts, Meat Processing Area, L-Type Building, Stock Room, Waste Segregation Area, Staff House, another four-room building, a museum and a gymnasium. All of these buildings and other projects are planned in the donated three hectares of land.

            To sustain the need of the branch for water supply, a MOA between PUP and the Local Government of Mulanay has been signed to install water system for the consumption of the branch, thus, the proposed Water shed area is now near to its realization