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PROGRAM STEAM curriculum is aligned to the adaptation, and building resilience.
University’s mandate of advancing
OFFERINGS instruction in the arts, agriculture ISU has long been committed on
and natural sciences as well as in the reinforcing academic efforts toward
DOCTORATE 4 technological and professional fields. Climate Change adaptation and di-
saster resilience. The University
GRADUATE 19 Program Accreditation was among the pioneer delegates to
Status
the 1st International Conference on
PROGRAMS Governance and Partnership, and
BACCALAUREATE 45 ISU continuously subjects its Technology Exhibition on Climate
PROGRAMS programs to accreditation as means Change Adaptation (CCA) and Di-

NON- DEGREE 9 of assuring its curriculum engineer- saster Risk Reduction Management
ing as well as meeting quality stan- (DRRM) which has taken-up on Oc-
PROGRAMS dards. tober 2018. From there, Dr. Ricmar P.

As of July 2019, about 96 pro- Aquino was elected as the first pres-
SHS PROGRAM 1 grams of the University have passed ident of the International Organiza-
validations of Accrediting Agency of tion on CCA/DRRM. The Universi-
Chartered Colleges and Universities ty has also several partnerships, like
78 in the Philippines (AACCUP), cer- National Taiwan University (NTU)
tifying quality compliant curricular and National Taiwan Ocean Univer-
offerings. ISU acknowledges that sity (NTOU) in venturing effective
through accreditation, it takes the institutional approaches on CCA/
path of continuously re-engineering DRRM.
its curriculum relative to emerging
needs of the industry and quality ed- Aside from Climate Change, the
ucation trends. University has also institutional-
ized Design Thinking as a subject
Mainstreaming Climate in its curricular offerings- a concept
Change, Design Thinking shared from Singapore Polytechnic
and Entrepreneurship (SP) thru ISU’s engagements in the
Learning Express (LEx) Program.
With the rising environ- Under this, students are introduced
mental and disaster risk concerns to a non-linear solution-driven ap-
brought by global warming, ISU rec- proach to real-life problems that
ognizes the role of academe towards takes into account end-user experi-
integrating environmental values ences, challenge assumptions, and
and building resilience to learners as prototype tests.
they become responsible members of
the society. ISU and SP have been in this con-
vergence for a long time now. Both
In doing so, the University of- institutions have mutually bene-
fered advance education on Disas- fitted in enriching their respective
ter Risk Management & Climate students in cultural empathy. The
Change Adaptation. On August recent conduct of this program was
2019, CHEd has released Certificate on September- which was already its
of Program Compliance to Isabela 8th Philippine Leg. In particular, LEx
State University - Cabagan Campus Isabela gone thru its 4th year engage-
in the offering of Master of Science in ment, receiving bountiful innovative
Disaster Risk Management and Cli- solutions from LEx participants on
mate Change Adaptation program various areas of Agriculture, textile
effective Academic Year 2019-2020. industry, to business and entrepre-
The advance education program is neurial problems.
designed to advance interdisciplin-
ary and trans-disciplinary approach- The University has also began
es to addressing risk, climate change cultivating entrepreneurial mindset

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