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Agency Information

A.Mandate

The University shall provide advanced instruction in the arts, agriculture and natural sciences as well as in the
technological and professional fields.

B.History

The University charter was laid down by two Presidential Decrees, P.D. 1434 and P.D. 1437. On June 10, 1978, then
President Ferdinand E. Marcos issued P.D. 1434 which established the Isabela State University by merging the
Isabela State College of Agriculture (ISCA) at Echague, the Cagayan Valley Institute of Technology (CVIT) at Cabagan, and

absorbing the college courses of the Isabela School of Arts and Trades (ISAT) in Ilagan, Roxas Memorial Agricultural and
Industrial School (RMAIS) in Roxas, San Mateo Vocational and Industrial School (SMVIS) in San Mateo and Jones Rural
School (JRS) in Jones, Isabela. The merger likewise identified Echague to serve as the main campus and administrative
site. The decree further mandated the University to establish an effective and efficient institution of higher learning

that will provide better service in the professional and technical training in agriculture, the arts, sciences, humanities
and technology and in the conduct of scientific researches and technological studies.

In 1999, the CHED Memorandum Order No. 18 s. 1999 which provides the guidelines for the integration of CHED
Supervised Institutions (CSIs) to SUCs was enacted. Pursuant to this Order, the first CHED-supervised institution that
was integrated to the University is the Cauayan Polytechnic College at Cauayan, Isabela. In year 2002, two CSIs were
again merged into the system, namely: Delfin Albano Memorial Institute of Agriculture and Technology (DMIAT) in San

Mariano; and the Angadanan Agro- Industrial College (AAIC) in Angadanan, Isabela. Responding on the
request of the provincial government of Isabela, the University extended its academic programs in Palanan
effective first semester of Academic Year 2005-2006. Not long after, and through the collaborative efforts of

University officials and the local government of the City of Santiago, the extension of ISU at this sprawling city
begun its operation in _.

To date, the Isabela State University system maintains nine campuses and two satellite extension campuses that are

strategically positioned in Isabela, the second largest province in the country, comprising of 34 municipalities and
3 cities: 1 independent and 2 component cities. These campuses are also straddling along the Region’s “Midrib-
Peripheral Growth Centers and Socio-Economic Development Zone” where the major urban and commercial centers of

the region ply their trades. This is aside from
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