MSU-IIT secures approval for submitted agenda during governing board鈥檚 first meeting for 2024

by Office of the Campus Secretary | Apr 24 2024

MSU-IIT’s proposed Policy on the Fair and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence and its applications, adoption of the MSU-IIT Educational Philosophy, and Revised Admission Criteria and Process for First Year Students were among several important agenda items approved on April 23 by the Board of Regents of the Mindanao State University.

The 猫咪AVBoard of Regents held its first quarter en banc meeting at the conference room of the Commission on Higher Education in Quezon City.

The policy on ethical use of AI and its applications was developed in response to how fast AI has been transforming the higher education landscape and to the lack of laws regulating it.

The adoption of an educational philosophy is made so that a university can have standards against which things like pedagogical approaches, instructional strategies, curriculum development, and research priorities are measured and judged.

The policy on ethical use of AI and proposed MSU-IIT educational philosophy were both deemed by the Board to be timely and holding significance for the entire 猫咪AVthat they were adopted for system-wide implementation.

Although also interested in a system-wide implementation of MSU-IIT’s revised admission criteria and process for first year students, the Board decided to adopt a wait-and-see attitude, and just allowed it to be implemented in MSU-IIT alone where it best serves its purposes owing to the Iligan campus’s unique admission experiences.

The revised admission criteria for MSU-IIT is also where the University’s recently adopted policy on equity, diversity, and inclusivity will come into play.

The board also approved the awarding of Professor Emeritus rank to retired professor of engineering Feliciano B. Alagao so that MSU-IIT could continue to benefit from his academic involvements and expertise.

Alagao is the former Dean of MSU-IIT’s College of Engineering and former Vice Chancellor (for Planning and Development and for Administration and Finance).

Other academic matters taken up during the board meeting were five revised curricular programs of MSU-IIT. As these were already endorsed by the University System Curriculum Committee and the System University Council, the BOR approved them. These revised curricular programs are the following:

Master of Applied Statistics
Master of Science Education
Ph.D. in Science Education
MS Mathematics
Ph.D. Mathematics

To bolster the faculty force of MSU-IIT, the board approved the hiring of seven new faculty recruits and the promotion and re-ranking/reclassification of 13 other faculty members. It also endorsed MSU-IIT’s proposal to have certain unfilled faculty positions abolished in order to create new ones.

The board also authorized the establishment of the Academy of the Arts in MSU-IIT (AAMI) as proposed by the Center for Culture and Arts (CCA). The establishment of the AAMI is actually in fulfillment of one of CCA’s mandates, which is to also serve as an Academy where culture and arts research, production, and innovation will flourish.

Other research-related matters approved by the board are the grant of publication award (P10,000) for articles published in the Mindanawan Journal of Mathematics, an official MSU-IIT journal.

The board also allowed the giving of the Sustainable Futures Research Award to undergraduate and graduate thesis, capstone projects, special projects, or dissertation. This competition was proposed in order to infuse research with a sustainable development ethos.

And as a strategic advancement, aimed at reinforcing the MSU-IIT journal, Mindanao Forum’s regional character, expanding its reach, and securing its enduring influence in the field of social innovation, its name has now been changed to Asia Pacific Journal of Social Innovation.

For purposes of proceeding with the implementation of its projects outlined in its Land Use Development and Infrastructure Plan (LUDIP), the MSU-IIT had approved by the board its revised LUDIP that incorporated all the comments and suggestions of the TWG from CHED-12.

The 4.3B-Peso Information Systems Strategic Plan (ISSP) of MSU-IIT for 2025-2027 was also approved by the board. The ISSP keeps MSU-IIT on track to achieving its goal of transforming the future of education through advanced technology and automation.

The board also approved MSU-IIT’s application to utilize identified savings to fund various and important infrastructure projects on campus, the purchase of another bus, and the supply, delivery, and installation of the eagerly anticipated School Gate System that will transform MSU-IIT’s facade.

Part of said savings will also be used to fund the equally eagerly anticipated increase in the rice allowance and grocery allowance for employees to be given under the University’s Program on Awards and Incentives for Service Excellence (PRAISE).

The noteworthy approvals during the Board’s en banc meeting are the following:

Policy on the Ethical Use of AI;
MSU-IIT Educational Philosophy;
Revision of the Admissions Criteria and Process for First Year Students;
Enhanced Strategic Framework for Interdisciplinary Education at MSU-IIT’s School for Interdisciplinary Studies;
Award of Professor Emeritus Rank to Prof. Feliciano B. Alagao;
Revision of the Admission Criteria and Process for First Year Students of MSU-IIT;
Publication Award for the Mindanawan Journal of Mathematics;
Sustainable Futures Research Award;
Renaming of the Mindanao Forum to Asia Pacific Journal of Social Innovation;
Establishment of the Academy of the Arts of MSU-IIT;
Academic Calendar;
Revised Land Use Development and Infrastructure Plan (LUDIP) of MSU-IIT; and
Information Systems Strategic Plan (ISSP) for 2025-2027

The process for getting the BOR en banc’s approval began when the Board’s Finance Committee met on April 19, the President’s Advisory Council on April 20, and the Executive Committee on April 22. All the said meetings were held in Ermita, Manila.

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