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3.5 Meritorious Reason – a situation where the faculty applicant or transferee possesses
exceptional qualifications, which the University badly needs and there are no other applicants with
the same qualifications. Such applicant or transferee would not settle for the salary of the lowest
grade of a faculty rank, which may not be commensurate to his/her qualifications or to his/her
present salary in other agency or company.

3.6 Relevant Degree – refers to appropriate highest academic degree earned from academic
institutions of recognized standing.

3.7 Discrimination – refers to a situation where in a qualified applicant is not included in the
selection line-up on account of gender, civil status, pregnancy, disability, ethnicity, or political
affiliation.
3.8 Qualifications – refer to the relevant educational attainment, academic and related experience
as well as relevant professional development, achievements and honors of the faculty applicant.

3.9 Selection – is the systematic method of determining the merit and fitness of an applicant on
the basis of qualifications and ability to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position.

4.0 RECRUITMENT POLICIES
4.1 All recruitment/s and subsequent appointment/s to the faculty shall be based strictly on merit
and fitness. There shall be no discrimination in the selection of faculty on account of gender, civil
status, disability, religion, ethnicity or political affiliation.

4.2 Exempt for every meritorious reasons, the entry level for original appointments shall be the
lowest grade of the faculty rank to which the applicant or transferee is qualified, i.e., Instructor I,
Assistant Professor I, Associate Professor I and Professor I.

4.3 There shall be a Campus Evaluation Committee composed of members who are
knowledgeable about the Faculty Common Criteria for Evaluation (CCE) under National Budget
Circular (NBC) No. 561 and other issuances for faculty evaluation as well as other evaluation
instruments/tools which shall evaluate the qualifications of all applicants based on documents
submitted. The Campus Faculty Selection and Promotion Board shall, in turn, screen all evaluated
applicants and selects the best qualified.

4.4 Recruitment and appointment to a faculty position shall be based on the following factors:
a) Education – shall refer to the relevant advanced academic degree earned from academic
institutions or organized standing.
b) Experience – shall refer to academic and related professional experience in a state
college/university or private institutions.
c) Eligibility – refers of passing a merit and fitness test which may be determined as far as
practicable by competitive examination, or based on highly technical qualifications or
others test of merit and fitness conducted by the Civil Service Commission, or other
examinations jointly designed and coordinated by the departments or agencies with the
assistance of or in coordination with the CSC, or the Professional Regulations
Commission (PRC) conducted board examinations, the Supreme Court conducted bar
examinations, the CESB conducted CES examinations, or TESDA conducted crafts and
trades examinations.
d) Professional Development and Work-Related Dimension – refer to item 3.0 in the PASUC
Common Criteria for Evaluation under NBC 461 as well as behavioral dimensions
necessary for the successful performance of the job.
e) Panel Interview – interaction of the applicant with the members of the Campus Faculty
Selection and Promotion Board where his/her potentials as reflected in his/her answers,
personality, communication facility, mental alertness and deportment are assessed and
rated.
f) Demonstration Teaching – the result of his/her actual sample teaching performed before
appropriate students who shall rate him/her together with Subject specialists and
representatives of the Professional Education Department.
4.5 Based on the Qualification Standards of the Civil Service Commission, the following minimum
educational attainments are required:
a) Bachelor’s Degree – Instructor I to Assistant Professor I
b) Master’s Degree – Assistant Professor II to Professor III
c) Doctorate Degree – Professor IV to University Professor