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The Past Administrators

The Isabela State University has been through 27 years of productive existence because of
the stewardship of three committed and dedicated administrators, whose great contributions
to the University are worth noting:

FELIPE B. CACHOLA, Ph.D in Agricultural Education (1978-1986). He was appointed as the
University’s first president by President Ferdinand E. Marcos on October 6, 1978. His
administration laid down the groundwork needed for a beginning yet fast developing university
by promptly drafting the university’s philosophy, mission, goals and objectives and its strategy
for growth and survival which has immediately provided direction to the university. He crafted
strategies for effective educational management and development programs which elicited
the needed loyalty and commitment to the University from his constituents. His conviction that
the Isabela State University should not just be another university but one “that can touch and
shape the lives of the people in Isabela as well as in Region 02” became contagious. For
democratic and effective management, he organized a group of competent men to backstop
him in the task of running a system composed of six developing schools.

RODOLFO C. NAYGA, Ph.D in Agricultural Education (1986-1999). He served as the second
president of the university after his appointment on August 1, 1987. It was during his term that
pioneering degree programs in Asia and the country, e.g., B.S.A. in Farming Systems, B.S.
Agritech, B.S. Food Engineering, B.S. Development Management Education were
established. He started offering doctoral programs major in: Agricultural Sciences,
Occupational Education and Institutional Development and Management. He caused the
delineation of 3.5 hectares of land which is now the site of the Ilagan campus. He was also
instrumental in the construction of four buildings for the campus next to the Ilagan School of
Arts and Trades campus. During his term, ISU was named the lead agency in establishing
national (AEOP, Environmental Development Program, etc.) and regional (Provincial
Agricultural Institute, local government trainings, DA-DENR, etc.) programs and projects.
Under his leadership, the University received recognitions in research in the national level
(awarding of Dr. Francisco M. Basuel as one of the 6 Outstanding Young Scientist of the
Philiuppines) and the regional level (creative research on Legulac Technology, PCARRD-
funded research project.

MIGUEL P. RAMOS, Ph.D in Education (1999-2000). He served as third ISU President. During
his time, ISU for one, realized the need to align all facets of the academe to the new era.
Despite financial setbacks and impending forced financial autonomy from government, the
university strived to take more insistent steps of filling resource gaps to meet its goals. His
four years term was consequently focused in competitive instruction, timely Research and
Development and Extension (RDE), and aggressive measures for financial stability.

Organizational Structure

The existing organizational structure (see page 19) shows the Board of Regents (BOR)
as the policy-making and governing board of the University under which is the University
President who is the Chief Executive Officer of the University.

Two major councils support the President – the Administrative Council (ADCO) and
the Academic Council (ACO). The President chairs both councils. The ADCO reviews and
recommends to the BOR for appropriate action, policies governing the administration,
management and development plans of the University, while the ACO is empowered to review
and recommend the curricular offerings and rules of discipline of the University, subject to
appropriate action of the BOR. It fixes the requirements for the admission of students as well