Page 64 - Annual Report 2020

he institutional resolve of ISU in 2020, along with the remarkable
Tperformance in all of its thrusts, have been the result of vibrant
direction set by the steadfast leadership of the top management. As
such, the University was able to immediately take decisive actions in
getting along the changes under the new normal toward public ser-
vice continuity and higher education management and operation.

ISU’s excellence as responsive and innovative higher education
institution has named University President Dr. Ricmar P. Aquino to the
prestigious 2020 Presidential Lingkod Bayan Award, along with the Vice
President for Research and Extension, Dr. Orlando F. Balderama.
Two years into its implementation of ISU Strategic Develop-
ment Plan 2019-2024, the present leadership has been able to roll-out
transformational reforms setting ISU as a prime countryside academic
institution. The journey towards the visionary “ISU 2024” continues de-
spite the prevailing encounters brought by the health crisis and natural
calamities.

temperature monitoring using
Organizational Agility toward thermal scanners, along with the
Service Integrity “No Facemask, No entry” policy.

Not only did the virus slow Registration to HealthGuard PH
down ISU’s academic momentum, became mandatory to make ease
it also affected the flow of office of contact tracing efforts should
works and related administrative there be cases that call for a local-
functions. Responding to instantly ized lockdown.
get under way, the University in- There were a number of
stituted alternative work arrange- events where some of the cam-
ments in line with the directives puses needed to impose tem-
of CHED and Commission on Civil porary lockdowns, due to some
Service (CSC), with the inclusion of encounters of University frontline
minimum health requirements to employees with CoViD positive
facilitate work operations in safe clients or with their close family
and healthy workplaces under the members. But all of these were
new normal. immediately addressed, with no
University Health Task Force severe case ever recorded. Week-
was formed to centralize efforts ly disinfection operations were
of health management. The task geared to assure safe and secured
force was composed of the Uni- working areas.
versity Health Services joined ISU has also responded to the
by medical staff of Echague and accommodation of Persons under
Ilagan campuses, together with Monitoring (PUMs) and Persons
the Security force of the Universi- Under Investigation (PUIs) in the
ty. Campus premises heightened province. The University sealed
entry security with constant partnership with the Provincial

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