University of Nueva Caceres

University of Nueva Caceres (UNC)
Unibersidad ng Nueva Caceres
Universidad de Nueva Caceres

The Premier and the first University in the
Bicol Region, Philippines
Ayala Education’s flagship University
Pioneer the future of Education
Former name
 Nueva Caceres Colleges (1948)
Motto Non Scholæ Sed Vitæ (Latin)
Motto in English
 "Not of School but of Life"
Type Private non-sectarian University
60% stake owned by the
Ayala Corporation
Established June 1948
(67 years and 342 days)
Founder Dr. Jaime Hernandez
Chairman Felicito Payumo
President Alfredo I. Ayala
(July 28, 2015 - Present)
3rd University President
Students Approximately 8,000
(All levels as of 2013)
Location J. Hernandez Avenue,
Naga City, Camarines Sur,  Philippines
Campus UNC Main Campus
J. Hernandez Avenue,
Naga City
UNC Bataan Campus
Rizal St. Dinalupihan, Bataan
Alma Mater Song UNC Hymn
Colors Red and Gray
Athletics Naga City Inter-Collegiate Basketball Tournament
Private Schools Athletic Association (Philippines)
Nickname UNC Greyhounds
Mascot Greyhound
Website http://www.unc.edu.ph


The University of Nueva Caceres (UNC), the first university in southern Luzon (outside Metro Manila), is a private non-sectarian university run by the Ayala Corporation in Naga City in Bicol Region, Philippines. Founded in 1948, it offers pre-school, elementary, high school, undergraduate, and graduate programs.

Founded by Dr. Jaime Hernandez in 1948, it has grown to become one of the leading institutions of higher learning in the country. The campus is centrally located in the City of Naga, Camarines Sur, Philippines. The University has one of the biggest student populations in the Bicol Region and offers courses from Kinder to Graduate levels. All course offerings are recognized by the government and the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Education and Commerce are accredited by the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation (PACU-COA).[1] Its College of Engineering and Architecture is now one of the few regional centers for technological education in the Philippines.[2]

UNC Welcome Arc

Ayala Education

On July 28, 2015 press release the AYALA Group has raised its stake in the Philippine education sector by investing P450 Million to acquire 60 percent of University of Nueva Caceres one of the universities in the Bicol Region [3]

As a result of Ayala Education’s investment of Pesos 450 million, it will hold the majority of UNC’s board seats. In addition, UNC appointed Ayala Education’s CEO, Mr. Alfredo Imperial Ayala, as its President.

Ayala Corporation started investing in the education sector in 2012 through 100% owned Ayala Education, after recognizing the strong demand for Filipino talent from the IT-BPO and other service industries, such as banking, telecom, retail and tourism.

Ayala Education has also been pioneering Senior High School since 2013 through its LINC (Learning with Industry Collaboration) Academy’s partnerships with Emilio Aguinaldo College and Arellano University. When they graduate, LINC students have the skills needed to either succeed in college or enter the professional workforce directly.

Ayala Education has also formed a majority owned joint venture, Affordable Private Education Center (APEC), with Pearson, the world's leading learning company, to build a chain of low-cost secondary schools that provide quality education with affordable annual school fees. Since it started in 2013, APEC has grown to a total of 23 schools, with 3,400 students across Metro Manila, Rizal, Cavite and Batangas, offering Grades 7 and 8 for less than P70 a day, inclusive of use of books and computers.[4]

Ayala Corporation started investing in education after recognizing the large demand for Filipino talent in the services sector, which comprises 54% of all the jobs available in the Philippines. Ayala operates in various industries, including banking, retail, real estate, telecommunications, information technology, automotive, business process outsourcing, electronics, and utilities.

LINC

LINC, or Learning with Industry Collaboration, is the Senior High School Academic Program at the University of Nueva Caceres in Naga City, Bicol.

History

In February 1948, Dr. Jaime Hernandez invited prominent Bicolanos to join him as incorporators. May 9, 1948 among those who signed the incorporation papers in were Dr. Jaime Hernandez, Atty. Jaime Reyes, Ambassador Jose T. Fuentebella, Atty. Edmundo Cea, Atty. Buenaventura Blancaflor, Engr. Nicole Tado Sr., Atty. Juan F. Trivino, Atty. Antonio M. Sison, Dr. Manuel Abella and Dr. Domingo Abella. The Securities and Exchange Commission approved the incorporators on May 18, 1948.

Thus the school officially started operation on July 1, 1948 as the Nueva Caceres Colleges. The initial courses offered were Liberal Arts, Commerce, Education and high school with a total enrollment of 958. The students of the newly opened school had their classes in the rented Flordeliza Building fronting the public kiosk (now Plaza Quezon) and the Governor Andres Hernandez residence along Burgos Street (now Grand Imperial Plaza).

In the ensuing years, additional courses were opened: elementary (1949), graduate school (1953), law (1951), engineering (1949), nursing (defunct 1955–2005), secretarial (1955) and kindergarten (1993).

In September 1951, the university administration headed by Dr. Hernandez took the first giant step since its foundation. It acquired the Rey property and transformed it from a marshland to its present condition. By early 1952 almost half of the site was filled and buildings began to rise. Most Rev. Pedro P. Santos blessed the new campus and the first two buildings, the original Dato Hall and Alba Hall on July 11, 1952. Other buildings were soon built to address the needs of a growing student population. At present, under the leadership of university president Dr. Dolores H. Sison, there is an ongoing multi-million infrastructure program to further modernize the institution.

UNC Four Pillars

University Seal

The University Seal is circular in shape with two concentric circles. The outer circle contains the name UNIVERSITY OF NUEVA CACERES and on the lower portion of the University - CITY OF NAGA and below it the year of the foundation of the University, 1948. Inside the inner circle is a U shaped figure with a TORCH at the center symbolizing education. Just below the torch are the three famous landmarks of the Bikol region: Mt. Isarog, Mayon Volcano and Mt. Bulusan. Across these figures is a ribbon containing the Latin words: NON SCHOLAE SED VITAE (Not of School but of Life). The predominant colors are RED and GRAY, the official colors of the University.[5]

University Motto

Non Scholæ Sed Vitæ is a Latin phrase. Its longer form is non scholæ sed vitæ discimus, which means "We do not learn for school, but for life". The scholae and vitae are first-declension feminine datives of purpose.

The motto is an inversion of the original, which appeared in Seneca the Younger's Moral Letters to Lucilius around AD 65.[6] It appears in an occupatio passage wherein Seneca imagines Lucilius's objections to his arguments. Non vitae sed scholae discimus ("We learn [such literature] not for life but for classtime") was thus already a complaint, the implication being that Lucilius would argue in favor of more practical education and that mastery of literature was overrated.[7] During the early 19th century, this was emended in Hungary and Germany to non scholae, sed vitae discendum est ("We must learn not for school but for life").[8][9]

UNC Founder Dr. Jaime Hernandez Monument
UNC DHS Building
UNC Founder Dr. Jaime Hernandez Sr.
UNC Sports Palace
UNC University Chapel

UNC Greyhounds

The University of Nueva Caceres, for many years now, have chosen the label "Greyhound" to be the official tag of the school.

UNC Marker

University President

Board of Trustees

Chairman - Felicito Payumo
Vice Chairman - Alfredo I. Ayala
Trustees
  • Carlos H. Ravanera
  • Rosalie A. Dimaano
  • Felipe P. Estrella III
  • Eleanor S. Salumbre
  • Charlene C. Tapic-Castro

Academics

College of Arts and Sciences

  • BS Biology
  • BS Environmental Science
  • BS Mathematics
  • AB Mathematics
  • AB Literature
  • AB Political Science
  • AB Psychology

College of Business and Accountancy

  • BS Accountancy
  • BS Hotel and Restaurant Management
  • BS Travel Management (2014)
  • BS Business Administration
Major in
  • Business Economics
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Financial Accounting
  • Financial Management
  • Human Resource Development Management
  • Marketing Management
  • Operations Management
  • 2-Yr Certificate in Office Administration

College of Criminal Justice Education(2012)

  • BS Criminology

College of Computer Studies

  • BS Computer Science
  • BS Information System
  • BS Information Technology
  • 2-year Associate in Computer Technology
  • 2D Animation
  • 6-month Computer Hardware Servicing

College of Education

  • Bachelor of Elementary Education
Major in
  • Special Education
  • Pre-School Education
  • Bachelor of Library and Information Science
  • Teacher Certificate Program
  • Special Education
  • Pre-School Education
  • Values Education
  • MAPE
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • 18units of Methods of Teaching
  • Bachelor of Secondary Education
Major in
  • English
  • Filipino
  • Mathematics
  • Physical Science
  • Biological Science
  • Social Studies
  • Bachelor of Library and Information Science
  • BS Physical Education major in Sports and Wellness Management (2014)

College of Engineering and Architecture

  • BS Architecture
  • BS Civil Engineering
  • BS Computer Engineering
  • BS Electrical Engineering
  • BS Electronics and Communications Engineering
  • BS Mechanical Engineering

College of Nursing

  • BS Nursing
  • 7-month Caregiver Course

College of Law

Publications

Community Extension

The University of Nueva Caceres – Institutionalized Community Extension Services (UNC – ICES) is the central office and coordinating center of the University for its Extension Service Program. It serves as the institutional coordinating arm of various departments, colleges and student organizations’ community services. The office initiates and/ or co-implements projects and programs and identify department who will be the lead implementer based on its line of interest and/ or expertise. It assists, advises, monitors and evaluates the Extension Program of the university or specific department as it ties up with offices like the Research Center, DSA, VPSEA, Deans and Principals, and the Local Government Units (LGUs), Government Line Agencies, NGOs and POs. The prime concern of the office is the development of socially aware and socially involved and relevant persons (faculty, employees, students, school friends).

ICES ensures that students, faculty members and non – teaching personnel of the University are provided with opportunities to get involved in various extension activities or program either institutionally or departmentally initiated and implemented. Once in a while alumni and UNC partners like Parents – Teachers – Council are tapped to support activities. Students’ involvement in Extension is varied. It can be curricular – related (like Social Arts, NSTP – CWTS, Practicum), extra – curricular involvement (like student organizations / fraternities / sororities), or simply volunteerism like (ICES student volunteers, Campus Ministry volunteers, Peer facilitators, College Red Cross Youth). For the teaching and non – teaching personnel, they can participate as resource speakers, lecturers, facilitators, trainers or initiators / organizers of an activity together with identified student organizations or community groups.[11]

Student Government

University Student Government (USG)

Notable Alumni

References

  1. ↑ , PACU-COA Accreditation
  2. ↑ , UNC Web Portal
  3. ↑ , Ayala buys UNC
  4. ↑ , Ayala Website
  5. ↑ , UNC Seal
  6. ↑ Annaeus Seneca, Lucius. Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, CVI. (Latin)
  7. ↑ Annaeus Seneca, Lucius. Gummere, Richard (trans.). Moral Letters to Lucilius, Vol. III, No. 106. Harvard University Press (Cambridge), 1925. Hosted at Wikisource. Accessed 30 May 2014.
  8. ↑ Cited by Kelemen, Imre. Institutiones Juris Hungarici Privati, Vol. I, §80. 1818. Hosted at Google Books. Accessed 30 May 2014. (Latin)
  9. ↑ Oberdeutsche Allgemeine Litteraturzeitung, No. 70, p. 1119. Zeitungs-Comtoir (Munich), 12 Jun 1804. Hosted at Google Books. Accessed 30 May 2014. (German)
  10. ↑ , UNC Publications
  11. ↑ , UNC Community Extension
  12. ↑ Robredo widow now Liberal Party head in CamSur Inquirer.net (2012-10-05)
  13. ↑ Leni Robredo files candidacy for House seat Inquirer.net (2012-10-05)
  14. ↑ Leni Robredo ready to enter politics ABS-CBNnews.com (2012-10-05)
  15. ↑ Leni Robredo appointed LP chair in CamSur Rappler.com (2012-10-05)
  16. ↑ Leni Robredo eyes RTC judge post in QC Inquirer.net (2012-10-05)

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