Message from the Dean

As spelled out in its 1989 vision-mission statement and carried through in the recrafting of the  statements in the years that followed, the College has maintained its core commitment to provide relevant and continuing education that strengthens the development of cooperative organizations, promotes cooperativism among the masses, and institutionalizes social discipline and self reliance. Central to the success of its academic programs is the passionate commitment of its faculty on fleshing out the research and extension services they collectively undertake.

Our College is an economic empowerment support structure. It is the Polytechnic University of the Philippines’ response to the clamor to professionalize the operations and management of cooperatives in the Philippines following the historic EDSA Revolt of 1986 and the enactment of the cooperatives’ role in the Philippine Constitution. In 1989, the then visionary president of the University Dr. Nemesio E. Prudente, blazed a trail in the creation of the Institute of Cooperatives as an academic unit.

The Institute metamorphosed into the College of Cooperatives in 2006. As a college, it faces the challenge of its dream—to be a Center of Excellence in Cooperative Education. This is a long-shot job. This is not an impossible dream, given the mindset that permeates the organization, the achievements of our alumni in diverse fields and positions of leadership, our partnership with the cooperative, government and non-government sectors, and our faculty’s vision to create a world that is very much alive through a cooperative enterprise

Sr. Marietta P. Demelino, sfcc, PhD.