West Visayas State University

Four months after the Board of Regents (BOR) unanimously approved the reappointment of the University’s topmost official through Resolution No. 51- 2011; Pres. Pablo E. Subong Jr. aired the University’s accomplishments during the 2011 Performance Review Program of the West Visayas State University (WVSU) executives and faculty members at the Iloilo Grand Hotel, January 9-11, 2011
Pres. Subong, Jr. Speaks in Performance Review On the first day of the program, Pres. Subong highlighted his accomplishments in the University in the areas of instruction, research, extension, and management of resources for the past four years of his term as WVSU president.
WVSU is currently the leading state university in Region VI that has 67 baccalaureate, master’s and doctorate programs wherein most of which passed the Level III status of the Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines (AACCUP).
The State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) Criteria for Leveling, as set by AACCUP, include the SUC’s performance in the quality and relevance of instruction, research capability and output, in relation  with the services to the community and the management of resources. All of these set criteria were and are being manifested by WVSU through the demonstrated teaching effectiveness, research competence, active community service and efficient management of resources.
WVSU became Center of Excellence in Teaching Education for several years and in the last 2011 Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET), Sharon Melizza Jaudian (April Exam) and Meriel Ann Villavert Dizon (September Exam) took the 2nd and 8th places, respectively.  Likewise, the President also envisions the nursing education, medical education and information technology to become the Centers of Excellence.
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West Visayas State University (formerly the Iloilo Normal School / West Visayas State College) will hold its Alumni Day celebration on January 28, 2012.

In commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Batch 1962 and the silver Jubilee of Batch 1987, the alumni are invited to be part of the celebration to once again reminisce and relive the University’s prestige.

The celebration will include the following, among others:

4:30 AM	Fun Run	College of PESCAR Alumni
7:00 AM	Mass
8:30 AM	Opening Program
	Welcome Remarks	Regent Ariel D. Castañeda (’87) President, WVSU Alumni Association Inc.
		Dr. Pablo E. Subong, Jr. President, WVSU
		Mayor Jed Patrick E. Mabilog (’87) City Mayor
	Recognition of the  Participants	Dr. Leila D. De La Llana Director, WVSU Alumni Affairs
	Introduction  of the Guest Speaker	Dr. Napoleon Tiongco (’80, ’76, ’72)
	Message	Comm. Horacio P. Suansing (’76) Bureau of Customs
12:00 NN	Lunch Break
2:00 PM	Tribute to  the Awardees	PANAYANA Cultural Group
		Irong-Irong  Dance Company
	Awarding	Dr. Pablo E. Subong, Jr.  to be assisted by Regent Ariel D. Castaneda, Mrs. Ida B. Endonila and Prof. O B. Dañocup

 Program will be at the Quezon Hall grounds. A registration fee of PHP 150.00 shall include a snack and a invitation to donate for the "Sendong Victims" and other worthy projects of the Alumni.

Dr. Bobby D. Gerardo and Prof. Ma. Beth Concepcion, both faculty of the Institute of Information and Communications Technology presented three ICT research papers last December 8-15, 2011 at Jeju Island, South Korea for the Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN) International Workshop as part of the Future Generation Information Technology (FGIT) Conference. This is a venue to gather researches from the academic and industry sectors including practitioners to collaborate and share ideas at the same time find problems and solutions relating to Information Technology.
Dr. Bobby D. Gerardo and Prof. Ma. Beth Concepcion The papers presented and published in the International Proceeding of the Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN), indexed by SCOPUS with book ISSN-1865-0929  and ISBN-978-3-642-27200-4 include: (1) Hierarchical Clustering and Association Rule Discovery Process for Efficient Decision Support System, Authors: Bobby D. Gerardo, Yung-Cheol Byun, Bartolome Taguiling III, Marino Osorio and Anrem Balontong; (2) Automated Video Surveillance for Monitoring Intrusions Using Intelligent Middleware based on Neural Network Algorithm, Authors: Ana Rhea Pangapalan  (BSIT 2010), Bobby D. Gerardo, Yung-Cheol Byun, Joel T. De Castro and Francisca Osorio  and ; (3)  SMS-Based Automatic Billing System of Household Power Consumption based on Active Experts Messaging; Authors: Marc Dominic Cabioc (BSIT 2010), Bobby D. Gerardo, Yung Cheol Byun, Leopoldo B. Carmelo and Ma. Beth S. Concepcion.

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SERA 2011 conference in Baltimore USA, Aug. 10-11. Dr. Gerardo (WVSU), 2nd and from right with the Conference Chairs, Chao Lu, Towson University (3rd) , U.S.A. Dr. Roger Lee, Central Michigan University, U.S.A. (4th) Dr. Bobby D. Gerardo, Faculty of the Institute of ICT and currently the Vice President for Administration and Finance and some IICT Faculty members have a total of four research papers that have been accepted and presented in the SERA 2011 conference in Baltimore, Maryland, USA last August 10-11, 2011.

Along with Dr. Gerardo are three other co-authors that come with him in the USA were Bartolome Tanguilig III, Ariel Sison and Joseph Manalang of Technological Institute of the Philippines. Dr. Yung-Cheol Byun from Jeju National University is one of the international research partners of Dr. Gerardo that have contributed a lot in the acceptance and presentation of the four papers. Two of the papers where developed through the leadership of April Rose Semogan, IICT student and Ariel Sison, PhD student of Dr. Gerardo.

This endeavor has been successful because of the involvement of selected IICT Faculty members such as Joel T. De Castro, Director of IICT and Louie F. Cervantes, Director of the Management Information System Office and the support of the WVSU administration. This publication is indeed one of the achievements of WVSU for its vie to be globally competitive in terms of research publications.
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