Faculty cite joys of AACCUP work: it builds ownership, community

MALAYBALAY CITY (IPS) Members of the AACCUP survey local task force said working in the quality
assurance journey of the university has helped them gain more sense of ownership of the university’s work.

AACCUP is Accrediting Agency for Chartered Colleges and Universities of the Philippines.  The agency sent a 19-member survey team on June 17 to 19, 2019 to check on the compliance of eight university programs submitted by the university for Level 1 accreditation. (See related story and another here)

“It makes me feel automatically responsible of the quality of the programs, Ms. Loreta Sol L. Dinlayan, member of the Area 1 Vision/Mission task force for the AB Philosophy program for this first survey visit.

Through the accreditation preparation, she added, they discovered the strengths and weaknesses of their program.
“Then we learned new strategies to improve it,” said Ms. Dinlayan, a member of the College of Arts and Sciences Social Sciences Department.

She felt more useful and have a sense of accomplishment for her contribution. She said taking part in AACCUP work
make faculty members more committed to the interests of the stakeholders.

She joined the then Bukidnon State College in 1994. She said the higher the accreditation level applied for, the more intense is the need to document the impacts of the programs.

Ms. Dinlayan also heads the universityʾs Bukidnon Studies Center, which houses an Ethno-Cultural Museum.

Learning proper documentation on everything to support claims, is one of the things Ms. Desiree Ann I. Dales, another social science department faculty, learned from her AACCUP work.