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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.