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Agency Information

A. Mandate

The University shall provide advanced instruction in the arts, agriculture and natural sciences as well as in the

technologicaland professional fields.

B. History

The University charter was laid down by two Presidential Decrees, P.D. 1434 and P.D. 1437. On June 10, 1978, then

President Ferdinand E. Marcos issued P.D. 1434 which established the Isabela State University by merging the Isabela
State College of Agriculture (ISCA) at Echague, the Cagayan Valley Institute of Technology (CVIT) at Cabagan, and
absorbing the college courses of the Isabela School of Arts and Trades (ISAT) in Ilagan, Roxas Memorial Agricultural

and Industrial School (RMAIS) in Roxas, San Mateo Vocational and Industrial School (SMVIS) in San Mateo and Jones
Rural School (JRS) in Jones, Isabela. The merger likewise identified Echague to serve as the main campus and
administrative site. The decree further mandated the University to establish an effective and efficient institution of
higher learning that will provide better service in the professional and technical training in agriculture, the arts,

sciences, humanities and technology and in the conduct of scientific researches and technological studies.

In 1999, the CHED Memorandum Order No. 18 s. 1999 which provides the guidelines for the integration of CHED

Supervised Institutions (CSIs) to SUCs was enacted. Pursuant to this Order, the first CHED-supervised institution that was
integrated to the University is the Cauayan Polytechnic College at Cauayan, Isabela. In year 2002, two CSIs were again
merged into the system, namely: Delfin Albano Memorial Institute of Agriculture and Technology (DMIAT) in San
Mariano; and the Angadanan Agro- Industrial College (AAIC) in Angadanan, Isabela. Responding on the request of the

provincial government of Isabela, the University extended its academic programs in Palanan effective first semester of
Academic Year 2005-2006. Not long after, and through the collaborative efforts of University officials and the local
government of the City of Santiago, the extension of ISU at this sprawling city begun its operation in _.

To date, the Isabela State University system maintains nine campuses and two satellite extension campuses that are
strategically positioned in Isabela, the second largest province in the country, comprising of 34 municipalities and 3
cities: 1 independent and 2 component cities. These campuses are also straddling along the Region’s “Midrib-Peripheral
Growth Centers and Socio-Economic Development Zone” where the major urban and commercial centers of the region

ply their trades. This is aside from