Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College

INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE

Name

ILOCOS SUR POLYTECHNIC STATE COLLEGE (ISPSC)

Seal

Philosophy

Flourish ISPSC, Deliver Quality Education and Services and Launch Academic Excellence.

Vision

UIP 2030: A smart globally competitive and responsive state university.

Mission

UIP is committed to producing globally competent and virtuous human resources, generating advanced knowledge, and developing innovative technologies for the sustainable development of society.

Development Goals

• Optimize  institutional quality and reputation.
• Nurture excellence in academics and services. 
• Widen research, development, and innovation programs.
• Advance responsive extension services and vibrant external linkages.
• Revitalize capacity for resource management and generation.
• Develop capability and competence of human resources.
• Sustain ethical leadership and good governance.
• Underscore advocacies for sustainable development.
• Intensify internationalization initiatives.
• Promote modernization of physical and digital infrastructure.

Quality Policy

• Productivity - we “work smart” by optimizing the use of resources as input to our processes and turn them into a greater and value-adding output for our student and internal clients.
• Resiliency - we utilize our skills and strengths to overcome challenges in order to deliver client’s expectations.
• Accountability - ISPSC and its employees are one in delivering our commitment to meet business needs through imparting the required knowledge to our students.
• Ingenuity - we use our inventive skills to provide a cost-effective solution to our day to day challenges.
• Synergy - we drive excellence through the spirit of teamwork within our organization and continuing collaboration with all partner agencies, sponsors and stakeholders, parents, alumni and communities.
• Excellence - we “think global but we act local” striving to have a global orientation, borderless perspective, equal opportunities, empowerment, and transformation, multi-tasking and leading by example. 

ISPSC Motto

Sapientia et Virtus in Posterum (Wisdom and Virtue for the Future)

Mandate

The Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College (ISPSC) was created on February 24, 1998 by virtue of Republic Act No. 8547 authored by Congressman Eric D. Singson and signed into law by then President Fidel V. Ramos. ISPSC is a comprehensive multi-campus institution of higher learning with its main campus in Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur. It has seven campuses spread in the second district of Ilocos Sur.

The seven campuses of ISPSC:

• Main Campus - Candon City, Ilocos Sur
• Provincial Institute of Agriculture (Santa Maria Campus) - Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur
• Provincial Institute of Fisheries (Narvacan Campus) - Narvacan, Ilocos Sur
• Santiago Campus - Santiago, Ilocos Sur
• Tagudin Campus - Tagudin, Ilocos Sur
• Candon City Campus - Candon City
• Cervantes Campus - Cervantes, Ilocos Sur

Functions

The College shall primarily give professional and technical training both in the undergraduate and the graduate levels in the fields of economics, agriculture, fishery, trade, home industry, engineering, education, forest research and conservation, management, finance, accounting and business administration, public administration and other fields as may be relevant, besides providing for the promotion of scientific and technological researches which the College deems necessary in carrying out its objectives. (RA 8547, Sec. 2)

The College shall offer undergraduate, graduate and short-term technical courses within its area of specialization as the Board of Trustees may deem necessary to carry out its objectives, particularly in order to meet the needs of the province. (Section 3)

Fourfold Function:

• Instruction
• Research
• Extension
• Production