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GOAL 4
STRENGTHEN QUALITY ASSURANCE IN
ALL UNIVERSITY OPERATIONS

Lead Office

Administrative and Finance Services (AFS)

Goal Statement

n the area of governance, the University in general enjoys a cordial and harmonious
Irelationship with its management leadership. The day to day operations are being
manned by highly-qualified personnel as well as reliable and committed support staff.
Both the faculty and staff training programs are functional and thoroughly effective. The
administration also provides dependable assistance to student development programs.

Further, our organizational structure Our administration is banking under
will be reviewed, and if warranted, be a distinctive style of leadership marked
revised, to meet the effective functionality with integrity, goodwill, respect, and
of each official, faculty and staff, paving harmony to make ISU as one of the lead-
the way for steady lines of authority and ing state universities that adhere to good
direct communications, as well as to ad- governance. It can be distinguished by its
dress workload concerns among faculty autonomy, independence, stability, and
designees. maturity in the management of its re-
The University takes pride as one of sources. Observe openness, transparency,
the first SUCs in Region 02 that is ISO and honesty in all its processes, transac-
9001:2015 certified. All the other ISU tions and delivery of services.
campuses are very keen and are making With an inter-government agencies’
headway in their preparations to follow support, ISU is relentless in upgrading
the Main Campus lead. Some are already all physical facets of its mandated oper-
completing requirements to this effect. ations. It is continuously proposing nu-
Our desire and commitment as One Uni- merous programs and projects directed in
versity is to determinedly improve our upgrading the university systems infra-
organization’s efficiency and effectiveness structures, facilities, equipment, machin-
in as far as all processes are concerned. eries, and vehicles for the system’s use
In addition to ISO certification, as as well as stable interconnectivity and li-
well as to further improve operational censed software. It also receives generous
processes, the university aspires to be- donations from stakeholders and private
come eligible under the Philippine Quality entities under similar purpose.
Award (PQA), the highest award of quality Wielding with visionary manageri-
excellence in the Philippines. Preliminary al planning and backed-up by regular,
preparations for application is to under- well-implemented, reviewed and updated
taken for this purpose. monitoring plan of campus programs,
And through the initiatives of the projects and activities, it is gradually posi-
Commission on Higher Education (CHED), tioning itself to be a front-runner among
the university is likewise aiming for the SUCs in terms of good governance, man-
QS stars rating. An independent detailed agement of resources, but most especially
assessment that will gauge the univer- in the areas of instruction, research and
sity’s strengths and current standing extension programs.
among top universities. From which, ISU
will eventually gun for a QS ranking.

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