Transfer Guidelines SY 0506

A. PRE-REQUISITE

The applicant must be taking the maximum load requirement per semester and finish one full school year in the university he/she is currently enrolled in.

B. APPLICATION PROCESS

1.       1.       Get an application form from the Office of Admission and Aid from June 14 to December 17, 2004.

2.       2.       Register for the ACET on December 1 to December 17, 2004 (submit the exam permit only. Please attach two identical 1x1 pictures).

3.       3.       Take the Ateneo College Entrance Test (ACET) on January 16, 2005 (Sunday) for Metro Manila test site

4.       4.       Submit completed forms not later than April 15, 2005 (Friday)

a.            a.            Application form for Admission

b.            b.            Two recommendation forms

c.            c.            An Unofficial Transcript of college grades covering up to the last completed semester and a copy of grades of the current semester (may submit a photocopy of registration card and class cards).

d.            d.            An essay about the topic indicated in the application form.

e.            e.            A photocopy of SAT I result (for applicants studying abroad who will not take the ACET)

      5.    Decision letters will be mailed directly to the applicant’s home address.

 ~~kapag pinalitan talaga yung name ng Mapua.. lilipat ako sa ATENEO!!! 1/3 lang ang macrecredit d ba!! sayang naman ang pinaghirapan ko!! tska walang Industrial Engineering dun! pano yun??? Meron lang Management Engineering!! hay.. tska may entrance exam pa dun! leche!! sana talaga d palitan!! kaasar!!~~

February 15, 2005

Fellow students and professionals in the academe and industry:

On Thursday, February 17, 2005 , the brewing academic unrest inside the Mapua Institute of Technology will erupt. A corporate and academic policy doesn't really go together. Getting maximum profit is often at the expense of quality education. The fight that we, the students of Mapua Institute of Technology, have started is spreading. On that very same day, the Faculty Association of MIT will stage a simultaneous strike in support of our cause.

For a straight 80 years, Mapua students silently studied and pondered equations that essentially built our nation's infrastructures. Since 1925, Mapua Institute of Technology silently kept churning out graduates that made our nation proud, from Eduardo San Juan to Diosdado Banatao, and eventually became the country's largest engineering community. And now, for the first time, those 80 years of silence will be broken, as we set out in the street to fight for what was taken from us - our Alma Mater and her name.

MIT was bought by the Yuchengco Group of Companies and silently transformed into a milking cow by instituting changes against the spirit of high quality engineering education originally envisioned and implemented by Don Tomas Mapua. The last strand, and the most significant of all, was the upcoming change of name of Mapua Institute of Technology to Malayan University , marking the death of our beloved Alma Mater, and with it, more than half a century of hard work and sacrifice by countless engineers to create a world class engineering institution.

Monday, February 14, 2005 , marked the historic "Black Valentines" as witnessed by the Intramuros community where thousands of Mapua students and alumni, all wearing black, marched throughout the walled city and staged a prayer vigil in the Mapua Intramuros campus. None of us brought any placards or shouted anything against the administration. Our hopes for a peaceful resolution thru prayer and show of support were very high. But then, our school president released his statement to continue with the destructive changes to MIT, despite all our efforts. We were all in tears as we sang our school hymn once more, realizing that it might be our last, uttered our prayer, and pledged that our fight will not end there.

On Thursday, February 17, 2005, 9:00AM, we, the students of Mapua Institute of Technology, united in spirit in preventing the death of MIT at all cost, will go back in even greater number (more than ten thousand with combined forces from Mapua Makati campus) in Intramuros Manila to make our stand. In this endeavor, we fully understand that we might lose our jobs and scholarships, or sustain physical injury. But those are sacrifices we are willing to make, for MIT, and for the rest of the academic community, to prevent the trend of academic institutions turning into corporate preys from spreading. The socio-economic implications of such a trend are enormous.

We urge all our brothers and sisters - Filipino students from every school and Filipino professionals from every company to support our cause and wear black dress or tie black ribbons this coming Thursday. This is not only a fight by us students of MIT, but by us all, to put a stop in the destruction of our academic institutions and prevent the same from happening to your own Alma Mater. Please forward this message to your friends and colleagues.

Sincerely,

Students of Mapua Institute of Technology

http://mapua.coretechnique.com/

AN OPEN LETTER

14 February 2005

Dear House of Investments Inc. and MIT Stockholders, Trustees and School Administrators:

This is to inform you that thousands of MIT Community members here and abroad have been shocked and saddened by your swift decision and action to terminate the corporate life of our beloved Alma Mater and to make her as an ordinary subsidiary institution or service unit (profit center) of your Malayan Colleges and Malayan University – To – Be.

We are not corporate lawyers and Ph.D. degree holders but we do understand what you said or what you are trying to convey in your written communications published last week. We are not also marketing experts but we know the basic principles of business. No market, no business. To avoid closing shop, never antagonize your customers.

By terminating the corporate life of the corporation (Mapua Institute of Technology, Inc.) and changing its name to Malayan Colleges, Inc., you legally uproot the existence of the MIT as a duly organized and existing corporation under the laws of the Philippines . By your action, it has now become a just property and not the corporate owner of the school named after its founder. Now it is clear to many of us that you bought MIT from the Mapua and Lim families in order to liquidate her precious assets namely: corporate name, trade name, glorious goodwill, physical assets, etc. It seems that your intention is neither to advance the cause of quality education nor to promote further the goals and aspirations of this great institution but rather to kill her and transfer her assets to your own corporate baby (MC).

If you were an alumnus of either MIT or UP, what will you feel and how will you react if one day a certain billionaire named Renato Puruntong and his agents may come and offer to buy your Alma Mater and eventually change her corporate name to Makupad Institute of Technology or University of Puruntong, Inc. once acquired by them? What will you do if your existing culture and tradition would be destroyed and be replaced by the new rules?

Please be informed that we are not agreeable with your course of action. Yes, you are now the owners of the corporation and the school but there must be prudence and limit to everything. Corporate powers, rights and management prerogative must be used or exercised wisely and properly.

From the very beginning, we were not so sure of your real intention in acquiring MIT because the President and CEO you installed has a track record of being a good corporate terminator. He was the MWSS privatization and liquidation chief Implementor. And now, he is about to accomplish his mission of killing a great institution (a great legacy of a great Filipino, National Artist and First Filipino Architect) and hopefully if successful he would be claiming his great financial rewards from his masters.

Ladies and gentlemen, the aforesaid mission of your group will not prosper, nor it will be accomplished by your Super Agent (Dr. Vea) at the Mapua Institute of Technology because of the several thousands of Mapuans, their families, friends, associates, employees, and province mates or town mates will not allow it to happen. They know that the best assets and legacies that they can give to their children who are studying at MIT too are – GOOD EDUCATION AND GOOD NAME. Many Mapuans became successful in their careers, professional and personal lives because of those two assets that their parents had given and worked hard to provide. Like Prof. Fe A. Noche, these loyal Mapuans have been so grateful to Don Tomas Mapua for establishing MIT (for the Filipino Youth of yesterday, today and tomorrow especially for the working students who want to become engineers or architects too).

In behalf of the many concerned alumni and members of the Mapua Academic Community here and abroad, the leaders and convenorrs of the Multicourse Alliance of Concerned Alumni of Mapua Institute of Technology (MACAMIT), do hereby ask or seek that the following concerns, demands, and courses of action should be addressed at, granted or acted upon immediately in order to avert academic unrest and a socio-economic upheaval which may escalate to a larger scale:

•  Restore the MIT Corporate Status because the 80 years of priceless labor, sacrifice, efforts, time and resources utilized by thousands of Mapuans to build a great institution can never be replaced.

•  Preserve the MIT Corporate Name forever because many of our young countrymen want to follow the foot steps of successful Mapuans.

•  Restore the Semestral System (Quarter Term System has more disadvantages and bad effects than benefits to the students, parents, alumni and faculty members. Its prime advantage is just GIVING MORE INCOME & PROFITS to the new owners and their agents (executives).

•  Improve the applicant screening system; restore the student retention policy and dismissal system.

•  Replace the officers who are responsible for the formulation and implementation of Anti-Mapua or Anti-MIT policies and programs.

•  Implement the Stock Option Plan or Shares of Stock Acquisition Program for faculty members, staff personnel and alumni;

•  Appoint school deans and administrators who have management education, experience, education and proven expertise – not just Ph.D. or MS degree holders (CHED officials will agree with this proposal).

•  Resolve all the existing cases vs. MIT, Inc. concerning claims for salary increases, bonuses, and other benefits.

•  Stop the practice of contractualization in hiring faculty members and restore the security of tenure concept.

•  Improve Industrial Relations (Management-FAMIT & MITLU Relations) because good relations can produce better results.

•  Install one seat each for the representatives of alumni and faculty members at the Board of Trustees.

•  Restore the Semestral Lump Sum Bonus System (1 ½ month-salary at the end of each semester) – The present system promotes dishonesty and inefficiency among faculty members, In order to get higher performance rating, many faculty members are busy and more concerned in doing things which are not related to teaching. These are being done by them primarily to acquire more academic points rather than dong their best and focusing their thoughts, energies and time to teach their students – their primary clients.

Lastly , we look forward and pray to the Almighty God to touch everyone's heart so that everybody will make a reflection and revisit the following rules and principles:

•  Do not do unto others what you don't want to be done unto you. (Remember the Golden Rule)

•  The root of all evil is love for money. (Remember Judas Iscariot)

•  In every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction. (Remember Isaac Newton and The Echo Story)

•  What you sow you reap. (Remember Lord Jesus Christ Teachings and the Principles of Karma & Boomerang)

•  Money can buy many things but IT CAN NOT BUY EVERYTHING. (Remember your past experiences)

Let us all love one another. Let us promote peace, prosperity, excellence, decency and cooperation – not destruction and disunity for the sake of making more profits!

God bless you all and more power to Mapua Institute of Technology and House of Investments. Viva Mapua!, Long Live MIT!

Very truly yours,

CONVENORS OF THE MULTICOURSE ALLIANCE OF CONCERNED ALUMNI OF MAPUA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

CARLOS DELOS SANTOS

Spokesman

http://mapua.coretechnique.com/

~~MANILA STANDARD~~

Students fight to keep Mapua name

(FEB. 14, 2005)

By Ivann Yazon

Officials of the Mapua Institute of Technology in Intramuros, Manila were confronted by a sea of black yesterday when 11,000 alumni and students protested the new owners’ decision to change the name of the school.

“We are Mapuans, not Malayans,” the students shouted. Clad in black shirts, they had marched to the school to decry the school board’s decision to change the name it had held for 80 years (Mapua Institute of Technology) to Malayan Colleges.

The decision to change the name was announced during a dialogue last Feb. 10 between students and the school’s president, Dr. Reynaldo Vea, in line with plans to elevate the institute to a university. But while it is waiting to be eligible, the collection of colleges is to be called Malayan Colleges.

The Commission on Higher Education has just approved the new corporate name. “We hope Malayan will eventually become synonymous with quality education in general,” said Vea in a statement posted at Mapua’s official Web site.

No consultations

Armando Cristobal, spokesperson of United Mapuans students’ alliance, said:

“It is unfair to all of the students and parents and faculty because there were no consultations made. We are requesting the board of trustees to bring back the name of Mapua Institute of Technology because this is the legacy of Mang Tomas (Don Tomas Mapua) to us. We don’t want to be named after Yuchengco’s insurance company in Makati. We enrolled as Mapuans, therefore we should graduate as Mapuans, not Malayans!”

An instructor who refused to be identified told Manila Standard: “Most of us (faculty) support and sympathize with the students. But we cannot join them since we signed a preemployment agreement that prohibits us from joining students’ activities that are ‘antiadministration.’”

Though majority of the students “volunteered” to attend the protest which also toured neighboring schools Lyceum of the Philippines, Colegio de San Juan de Letran and Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, some refused to join.

Luis Lazardo, a partial scholar, said: “Some of our professors texted us that we will be having a (surprise) quiz and graded recitation. Some told us to ‘join the rally’ at your own risk, so I just decided to attend my classes.”

While the rally was going on outside, the faculty and administrators held an emergency meeting.

“We’re giving them an ultimatum until Thursday. We just hope that their decision will be favorable to us,” said Cristobal, editor in chief of Mapua’s school paper, The New Builder.

Attempts to interview Dr. Vea and other faculty members were thwarted by security personnel.

Mapua Institute of Technology was founded on Jan. 25, 1925 by Don Tomas Mapua, an architecture graduate of Cornell University in the United States. He was the first registered Filipino architect who envisioned an educational institution that would “emphasize the importance of science and technology and create an impact on the economy and the quality of life of the Filipino.”

Initially a night school, it started with 80 students enrolled in civil engineering and architecture.