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Congruence of the institutional research agenda with regional and national priorities
especially with the concerned government agencies.

To enhance research productivity in higher education, CHED has set the general policies,
directions, initiatives and priority areas for research and research-related programs (NHERA-2 2009-
2018). Since the research areas are products of experts from the various disciplines to include
institutional leaders, senior researchers and representatives from funding institutions, the University

RDET program and project is anchored on these agenda in the planning process, to include site-
specific research areas along key disciplines that provide solutions to institutional (teaching-learning
environment) as well as local community problems.

The University research priorities are specified in the University Research Agenda. The agenda
were defined with due consideration of the strengths and weaknesses of various University
components and the opportunities and threats from factors of the external environment. The
identification of the University research agenda was based on established commodity-based
research thrusts from which ISU developed a name and became known in research. In addition, the
University focus on seven research thematic thrusts based on international and national research
trends. With these “commodity-based” research thrusts and the “thematic” research thrusts as
simultaneous considerations for potential sources of potential researchable areas, and based on
external environment (opportunities and threats) and internal (ISU’s strengths and weaknesses), the
University research agenda were generated.