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Article 3. Research Center Resources

Section 1. Manpower Resources

a. Research Director

The Research Center shall be headed by a Doctorate
degree holder having either technical or social research
background. He/She shall likewise be a prominent researcher
of the University and should have conducted at least one
research program and have presented the results of his/her
research to at least one regional/national
convention/symposium.

b. Research Staff

The staff comprising the center should be of different
disciplines related to the thrusts of the university. They will be
selected using the evaluation system stated in Sections 1 to 5 of
Rule VIII (Terms and Conditions of Employment) of the
University Code.

Faculty Researchers housed on the center shall be
selected based on the fields required by the center. Minimum
requirements would be Bachelor’s degree in a specific field of
study. They will be required to have a maximum of 6 units of
teaching load, comprising 25% of their workload. Majority or
75% of their workload should, thus, be devoted to research-
related activities.

Research Assistants shall be selected based on the
qualifications required by faculty researchers. Laboratory
technicians/aides should have at least two years of laboratory
work experience.

A list of faculty researchers and their respective fields of
specialization is shown in Appendix A1.

Section 2. Facilities

The Center provides support for the faculty researchers in terms
of its major research facilities and laboratories. The Central
Experiment Station is the biggest facility of the Research Center
which comprised of four (4) ha. It houses the coffee germplasm
collection, coffee processing unit, coffee nursery, automated
greenhouses, and net houses. It also serves as an experimental site
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