MMSU participates in CHED’s nat’l summit

Dr. Miriam E. Pascua talks with Dr. Patricia B. Licuanan in front of PASUC I’s booth where MMSU displayed posters and products.

The university participated in the 1st Higher Education Summit on Gender Issues held at Ang Bahay ng Alumni, UP Diliman, Quezon City, Oct. 11-12. Anchored on the theme “A call for partnership among HEIs to strengthen gender equality, development and peace,” the summit gathered the presidents and GAD focal persons of the 110 SUCs, and the initial batch of approximately 150 private HEI heads, including heads of specialized colleges.

Although not an initial GAD activity of CHED, the summit was its first major call for partnership among all HEIs to pursue the objectives of the Magna Carta for Women. It aimed to provide a situationer on the awareness of and good practices in school policies, curriculum, and research development programs and services pertaining to GAD. It also aimed to reiterate the importance of the strategic role of higher education in capacity building and empowerment of women through appropriate gender and development activities as enunciated in the MCFW and its Implementing Rules; to identify the various GAD activities of HEIs that contribute to the institutionalization of GAD programs and effective utilizations of the GAD budget in SUCs to develop and maintain GAD projects that would effectively assist the localities where they are situated; and commit to a medium Term Action Plan to be implemented by all HEIs.