Marcos signs laws reforming 4 state universities

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has enacted several measures to strengthen and expand state and local universities and colleges to make them better equipped to provide quality tertiary education.

On Thursday, the President signed four laws covering four government-run higher education institutions—Bulacan State University (BulSu), Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Pampanga State Agricultural University (PSAU) and the Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University.

Republic Act No. 11980, or the Revised Bulacan State University Charter, sought to expand BulSu’s curricular offerings and the composition and powers of its governing board and encouraging the specialization of its constituent units.

On the other hand, RA 11979 converted the PUP campus in Parañaque City into a regular campus that will offer short-term, technical-vocational, undergraduate and graduate courses within its areas of competency and specialization.

RA 11977 established the PSAU Floridablanca Campus in Floridablanca, Pampanga, with a similar mandate to offer short-term, technical-vocational, undergraduate and graduate courses.

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Both the PUP Parañaque City Campus and the PSAU Floridablanca Campus will be headed by a campus administrator to be appointed by the universities’ respective boards.

Meanwhile, RA 11978 established a College of Medicine at the Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University’s South La Union Campus in Agoo, La Union.