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Vision and Mission

Vision. The Isabela State University as an institution of higher learning is a front-
line government agency that aims to be instrumental in causing and sustaining growth and
development in the countryside, particularly in Isabela and Region 02, through affordable but
quality educational services, generation of new scientific knowledge and technologies through
research and provision of extension services in its service areas.

ISU’s Institutional Long Term Development Plan of 1998-2007 defines its vision as follows:

To become a regional center of excellence in its various academic programs,
research commodities and in extension and production programs effectively supporting
people empowerment, sustainable development and global competitiveness.

To realize this vision, the University directs its curricular programs toward producing well
rounded and whole persons imbibed with character, values and virtues, with high degree of love
for their country and God and equipped with knowledge, understanding and skills that will
empower them to become globally competitive and instrumental in the socio-economic
development of the country and in ushering in the greatest good of the greatest number of people
in society.

The University’s Ten-Year Development Plan (1986-1995): A Framework contains its
earlier and original vision statement drafted during the incumbency of President Felipe B. Cachola
stated as follows:

The Isabela State University aims to provide high quality education in the pursuit of
countryside development.

Such vision guided the earlier programs and actions of the University being major state
educational institution in Cagayan Valley to respond to the development challenges confronting
the region and sustain its active role in socio-economic development in order to uplift the quality
of life of the people in the province of Isabela and the Cagayan Valley as well.

Mission. Presidential Decree No. 1434, known as the University Charter, states that the
University “shall provide advanced instruction in the arts, agriculture and natural sciences as well
as in the technological and professional fields”. This has been the continuing commitment of the
ISU since it became a state university in 1978. And, with the drafting of its 10-Year Institutional
Development Plan 1998-2007, the University mandated role is again refocused towards
educational reforms in response to existing challenges and trends in its service area. Thus, the
standing mission statement of the University is as follows:

The University shall provide advanced instruction in the arts, agriculture and
natural sciences as well as in the technological and professional fields. It shall train
professionals in various fields such as in education, communication, business and
entrepreneurship, among others. The University is also tasked to engage in research to
seek new technologies, promote sustainable development and generate new knowledge
in the professions. Then it must translate these outputs to improve community life through
extension services and to increase the productivity of the rural poor so that they can
become self-reliant and active participants to regional and national development efforts.
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