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West Visayas State University (informally referred to as West or WVSU) is a State and Normal Research University located in Western Visayas region of the Philippines with its main campus in La Paz, Iloilo City. Established formally in 1924 as Iloilo Normal School under the Philippine normal school system during the American colonial period in the Philippines under the tutelage of the Thomasites, it dates back its founding 22 years later when the university's College of Education was founded in 1902. It later became West Visayas State College in 1965 and became a university and changed its name to West Visayas State University in 1986. The university is one of the twenty accredited Philippine Universities of the University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific〔()〕 and one of the most prominent institutions in the Visayas in the field of Teacher Education, Nursing and Medicine.〔http://www.thesummitexpress.com/2015/03/top-200-colleges-universities-in-the-philippines-2015.html〕 West is a university system where there are different separate campuses while the main campus is composed of nine schools and colleges and one institute. The Philippine Commission on Higher Education has also designated the university as one of the Centers of Excellence in Teacher Education in the Philippines.〔http://www.wvsu.edu.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=107:history&catid=44:history&Itemid=88〕 ==History== West Visayas State University (WVSU) was founded on June 16, 1902, as part of the early Philippine normal school system under the American occupation. Known as the Iloilo Normal Institute and later the Iloilo Normal School, WVSU was one of the five tributary schools created to address the need to train Filipino teachers under the tutelage of the Thomasites. In 1916, it was a secondary school (with Iloilo High School) complete with elementary and training departments. In 1924, with the completion of its main building (now Quezon Hall) and laboratory school building, INS became a distinct educational institution itself. It was also when a secondary normal school program, which eventually became a four-year normal college course, was established. In 1954, the Bachelor of Science in Education major in Elementary Education was offered, pioneering teacher-training institution in Western Visayas. It was named a Center of Excellence (1994) by the late Sen. Blas P. Ople and Center of Excellence for Teacher Education (1995)〔http://www.ched.gov.ph/statistics/coecods.html〕 by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). The INS became the West Visayas State College by virtue of R.A. 4189 on May 4, 1965, and commenced the offering of the bachelor's degree in education for both elementary and secondary teaching, Bachelor of arts; Master in Education. Also established were the Graduate School and the College of Arts and Sciences, (and consequently the Secondary Laboratory School) offering courses in the university level. The period from 1974 to the early 1980s was one of marked growth, witnessing the establishment of the School of Medicine (1975)-The second state medical school in the Philippines, School of Agriculture (1976), and School of Nursing (1977).The doctoral program of the Graduate School was likewise, introduced in 1977. The B.S. Biological Science, AB Mass Communications, and B.S. Forestry programs took off in 1981. On January 27, 1986, the College became the West Visayas State University, integrating the Iloilo National College of Agriculture (INCA) into its system. In 1987, the University acquired the Don Benito V. Lopez Memorial Hospital which became the WVSU Hospital, a 150-bed tertiary, teaching and training hospital. The University further established in 1993, the Sports, Athletics, and Cultural Arts Center which later became the degree-granting PESCAR Institute and later PESCAR College in 2000. In 1993, the Department of Mass Communications became the degree-granting Institute of Mass Communications, which was later converted into a College in 2000. In 2001, the Board of Regents and the Department of Health (DOH) approved the conversion of the WVSU Hospital to WVSU Medical Center that it is now. The enactment of the Higher Education Modernization Act (1997) brought more developments in the University. In 2000, four CHED-supervised schools in Calinog, Janiuay, Lambunao, and Pototan were integrated into the WVSU System. The University Distance Education program through the Diploma in Teaching (DIT) course began in Summer 2003. By 2005, The Local Government Unit of Himamaylan entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with the WVSU for the establishment of the WVSU Himamaylan Campus. Meanwhile, two new degree-granting units were also opened in the University: the Institute of Information and Communications Technology (IICT) in 2002 and the Institute of Management (IM) in 2006 which later became the College of Business and Management (2010).〔()〕 In February 2008, the university hosted an international research conference in Iloilo City, in conjunction with its year-long centennial celebration. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「West Visayas State University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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