Trinity University of Asia

The Trinity University of Asia, formerly called Trinity College of Quezon City, is the first full-fledged educational institution organized from the Episcopal Church's concordat in the Philippines and the Iglesia Filipina Independiente. It is a private, non-profit, sectarian, and church-related institution of learning founded in 1963.
The University Research and Development Center (URDC) formulates and implements effective mechanisms for planning, directing, supervising, financing, monitoring, disseminating, and assessing its research and development activities. It is also geared towards establishing linkages and promoting collaborative research activities with research-based and other academic institutions. It develops a pool of faculty researchers and research specialists by providing them with a continuing program of upgrading human resource capabilities in research through effective training programs and attractive incentives. It also develops and implements guidelines that shall ensure the nurturance of a robust research culture in the University, and generates quality research outputs for utilization of the academe and the community.
The University has a Guidance Center on the main university campus and offices in the Elementary and the High School Departments. Its Director has a staff composed of a Guidance Counselor, a Psychometrician, and secretaries. When necessary, the guidance personnel make referrals to the St. Luke's Medical Center psychiatrist. The main aim of the Guidance Center is to help students make use of their educational opportunities and develop their potentialities to the maximum so that they become useful members of society. It also aims to train students in self-understanding, make wise choices, and achieve satisfying adjustments. To achieve these goals, the Guidance Center offers services to both individuals and in groups. The service to groups is through group guidance activities, orientation programs, study skills and career choice enhancement, job hunting and placement, values development programs, and the like. The service to individuals is in psychological testing, counseling, individual inventory information, vocational guidance, learning assistance, and follow-up. The Guidance Counselors conduct case studies and case conferences on individual students when needed. They invite teachers and parents to these conferences to develop a better insight into the students' problems. Peer facilitators are trained to assist in the Center's programs and activities.
The Psychometrician administers and interprets psychological tests. Individual testing of students is done through referrals by the Guidance Counselors. Groups of students or classes may also be given psychological tests whenever needed or as recommended by the Guidance Counselors or subject teachers. Students are invited to avail of the services the Center offers to help solve their problems or identify and develop their potentials.
The Trinity University of Asia started as a one-building campus. The administrative and college units moved to its present tree-lined campus on Cathedral Heights in November 1968 upon completing the Science Building. A grant from The Netherlands government constructed it. Enrollment was high until tragedy struck on November 26, 1969, when a fire razed the original plant housing the High School and the Elementary School at 226 E. Rodriguez, Sr. Avenue. However, with the help of students, alumni, and friends, here and abroad, an L-shaped three-story building worth more than a million pesos was constructed. A gymnasium was built, funded by the United Thank Offering of the Episcopal Churchwomen in 1971.
Subsequent additions to the campus skyline were the Trinity College Learning Center for Children (TLCC), which was built with funds bequeathed by Miss Mary Niven Alston, and the library building named the Wayland S. Mandell Hall, after the first chairman of the Board of Trustees. Mandell Hall was constructed and equipped with a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), American schools and hospitals abroad, plus funds from the Booth Ferris Foundation, friends, and alumni.
The Trinity University of Asia was launched by 160 shares of Procter and Gamble stock. It all started when Paul Matthews, who married Elsie Procter, whose grandfather founded Procter and Gamble Company, became the Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey, the USA in 1951. Both the Matthews and the Gamble families were much interested in the missionary work of the Episcopal Church.
Recently completed additional buildings and facilities were the University House, the University Chapel and Prayer Garden, and the Student Center with a theater-type auditorium. Sustaining its image nationally and internationally paved the way to its university status granted on July 18, 2006, by the Commission on Higher Education.
The Trinity University of Asia was also awarded Institutional Accreditation Status by The Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines (FAAP) in August 2009. By December 10 of the same year, the University was granted Autonomous Status. The Autonomous Status is one of the most distinguished awards bestowed by CHED to private schools for their enormous contribution to the growth and development of tertiary education and the Asia Pacific region.
Completing the distinctions earned by the University is the ISO certification issued by Societe Generale de Surveillance (SGS) after the University successfully met the requirements of ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System Standards.