Western Mindanao State University

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While P.D. 1427, which legitimized its creation, embodied the above mission and defined its role in Western Mindanao, it merely echoed the same mission that saw the Zamboanga Normal School's establishment sixty years earlier. The institution, which started as a teacher training school in 1918 by the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, served the educational needs of the diverse cultural communities of the southern Philippine provinces. Today's Western Mindanao State University stands with the mandate of serving as a flagship educational institution and increasing access to quality education to a broader number of people in a more pluralistic social, economic, and cultural setting. It is further advances the philosophy that Education remains the most potent tool for change in socio-economic development and shall serve as a lead institution in the promotion of the same.
In fulfilling its educational mandate, the Western Mindanao State University is tasked to perform a four-pronged function in evolving a simple educational framework relevant to social needs and standards.
The University offers curricular programs that suit the needs of the diverse sectors of society, focusing on the development potentials of industries. It always initiates the review and revision of course offerings and updating their contents that should reflect the needs of the times. It believes that the relevance of its offerings can only be gauged by the extent to which its graduates serve the greater society's needs.
The role of research is to expand the frontiers of knowledge. It remains to be Education's significant contribution to society's reservoir of knowledge and innovation. The university research function is anchored on CHED's long-term development plan, which provides that "Research in priority areas shall be pursued not only for improving educational programs but also for advancing inventions and technologies." Research continues to set the base for knowledge acquisition and application in rational decision-making and problem-solving.
The extension's primary goal is to reach out to peoples and communities who usually cannot avail of the services of the formal educational system. It mostly involves the formulation and administration of diversified technical, educational, and community development services mostly concentrated in depressed areas. Extension services aim to improve the quality of life at the grassroots level and create complementary services to industry, the academe, and the community in the vision of sustainable development.
The University's production function's performance complements the concern of developing and utilizing the maximum potentials of both its human and capital resources. It rests on enhancing the output potentials of units to provide a sustainable source of income to finance its many educational and social concerns. This is to aid in the unburdening government of the bloating costs of subsidy in state-run colleges and universities' operations. While production would show direct evidence of educational institutions' relevance in actual social processes, the generation of alternative sources of income from production ventures would help spur and sustain the growth and development of the University.
The University of Choice for higher learning with robust research orientation produces socially responsive and responsible professionals for human development, ecological sustainability, peace, and security within and beyond the region.
The Western Mindanao State University is committed to provide internationally recognized quality education and to be the lead provider of quality human resources and research and development in the country and the ASEAN region in compliance with international, national, and local statutory and regulatory requirements. The University commits itself to ensure that its internal and external clientele receive the highest quality service that exceeds their requirements. In so doing, the management shall continually monitor, review, and improve the University's systems and processes by maintaining a comprehensive and useful quality management system concerning the standard and requirements of ISO 9001:2015.
The original home of the present Western Mindanao State University (Normal School) library saw her first light as a baby library, located at the balcony, second floor, just behind the Social Hall (Assembly Hall) of the main building in 1918. The library had two entrances. The most exciting and famous winding stairs were once upon a time our beloved Mayor Cesar C. Climaco, Minister Romulo M. Espaldon, and so many other prominent that finished their pre-war school in the region used the stairs often during their student days. After the war, the Zamboanga Normal School increased her school population, and the number of books increased. A two-story wooden building was constructed behind the main building with Mrs. Pilar Duldulao as the head librarian. Under R.A. 3272, as approved by the President of the Philippines on June 17, 1961, the Zamboanga Normal School became the Zamboanga Normal College, as it opened a graduate course in Education. In 1969 it further transformed into the Zamboanga State College under Republic Act No. 5492. There was an increase in enrollment because of the other courses offered. These led to the construction of a library building at the cost of Php 312,706.00. It was completed and turned over to Mrs. Abundia E. Ortega and the library staff members on the morning of December 15, 1971. Transfer of the library properties from the old library building to the new one was made, and the students were able to use the new library after the Christmas vacation. The spacious and well-ventilated library is conducive to serious study and research by the students and faculty members. Nine years later, with the expansion of the curricular offerings on June 10, 1978, the ZSC was converted into the present Western Mindanao State University following President Degree No.1427 to meet the region's educational needs. As the University population expanded, the library became smaller. The library extension building was built at three (3) million to house the Periodical and Law Section, first floor, and the Graduate Library, second floor. It was completed and turned over to Mrs. Purification S. Pichel and the library staff on September 29, 1979.
Although the extension was made because of convenience and accessibility for the Agriculture and Science students, a mini-library was provided in their respective buildings. As a developing University, the extension for all existing library facilities to the different Colleges, like the College of Engineering, College of Arts and Science, College of Education and other Colleges in the future, should have their libraries. All of these lies in the planning and the full implementation rest upon the budget of the University.

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