Dear Fellow Centralistas,

Welcome Back!

The administration and faculty of CCP has been racking their brains to come out with innovations which will help us produce better graduates so as to increase the number of successful alumni Engineers, Businessmen, Nurses, Architects, etc. That is CCP’s mission and we do not want to be accused of failing in our duty to give you the very best education that we are capable of. We must equip you with enough self-confidence, English fluency and adequate academic preparation in your respective fields to live decent and meaningful lives.

We cannot fulfil our mission however if you do not exert yourselves to become the very best that you can be.

The most important thing you can do to assure your future is to aspire for higher grades NOW. Experience has shown that the best chance one has to pass a board exam is the first time that he takes it. Since the chances of ever passing a board exam is minimal once one has failed a board exam, I have directed the faculty not to promote anyone taking a board course to senior year unless that student has a reasonable chance of passing the exam. We will not be doing you a favor if we set you up for failure at the very start of your life outside the campus.

But just raising standards will not be enough. To start with, we have talked to our faculty to make themselves more available for personal consultations. Some of you are naturally shy and are reluctant to call attention to yourself by asking questions in class, as you should.  For those who find themselves of this mien, please approach your teachers in the faculty room during his published hours of consultation. It will be his pleasant duty to attend to you.

This semester, we have prepared some technology rooms, or what we call tech rooms -  one for each college, each one equipped with such instructional aids as air-conditioning, computers with internet access, digital projectors, pull-out screens, lighting and DVD players.

Also in order to enhance your studies, we purchased some DVD materials from the Teaching Company. These DVDs contain lectures of great teachers from the Ivy League Universities, Stanford, Georgetown and others who crafted the lectures we have selected, to wit:

In addition, we have sourced diverse VIDEO lectures of courses from the best foreign Universities in order to help you understand more easily some of the concepts in the courses you are taking. They include:

We will be showing these video lectures in the Tech Rooms on Wednesdays and other days on hours when regular classes are not scheduled there. Attendance will not be taken at these lectures nor exams imposed after. They are simply for the purpose of supplementing and enriching what you will learn from your regular classes. What is more, these showings are absolutely FREE OF CHARGE.

As each of these courses average around 30 lectures of 40 or  more minutes each, more or less, you can even arrange special showings of particular lectures to better understand those concepts that may have escaped your understanding or attention during the regular classes.

All CCP students are welcome to these lectures, no matter what college they are enrolled in.

If you are serious in your studies as I trust most of you are, you should take advantage of these FREE offerings.

Watch for the schedules of these lectures in your respective College Bulletin Boards.

Sincerely,

CRISPINO P. REYES

President