The Kalinga ACCESS Magazine

http://issuu.com/marsattacks/docs/kalinga_access_feb_2011

Benguet State University Hosts CARASUC athletic meet 2013

The link to the news article written by Mark Victor Pasagoy for Sun Star Baguio

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/baguio/sports/2013/12/12/carasuc-athletic-meet-kicks-benguet-318455

Blank Canvass

We always start out

with that spark of inspiration.

From there, we proceed, and scale

the boundaries of imagination.

We consider possibilities, and never reject

what could be. It is when we lose that initial inspiration

that ideas start to run amuck and we end up creating nothing,

and the canvass remains empty, blank, white.

-MARCIANO A. PAROY JR.

Dec. 08, 2013

Almost There: KASC and President Bagtang's Commitment to Universityhood

For further reading, please visit http://kascrnd.wix.com/kasc-reach

2 KASC Research Projects Participate at the Global Multi-Disciplinary e-Conference

by Marciano A. Paroy Jr.

“Awareness on the Availability, Preparation and Uses of Selected Herbal Plants in Kalinga” and “Healthcare Waste Management Practices of Hospitals in Tabuk City” – these two research projects are KASC’s recent contribution to the sharing of knowledge in the international arena when the researchers, led by Christina Lam-osen Ammakiw, took part in an e-Conference whose main base is in Europe.

Organized by the European Scientific Institute, the Global Multi-Disciplinary e-Conference was scheduled in response to UNESCO’s celebration of World Science Day 2013, together with its partners the University of the Azores, Portugal and Grigol Robakidze University – last November 10-12, 2013.

Reflecting what their official statement announced earlier, this academic scientific event gathered researchers from universities, companies and government agencies from all around the globe. The participants presented their scientific attainments in various academic disciplines in online sessions. The event connected different cultures thus contributing to knowledge transfer, sharing of best practices and research skills improvement.

According to the official website, all accepted papers will be published as a special publication with an ISBN number. The author will also be sent a printed copy of the publication after the forum. The papers will also be published in a special edition of one of the most Influential international scientific journals in South Europe, The European Scientific Journal (ESJ).

KASC’s entries, through the initiative of Christina L. Ammakiw, are both in the field of health research, specifically along the line of health services delivery.

“The research department has always reserved some attention to Health research, being a concern that also needs immediate advocacy,” KASC’s Research Director Jovita E. Saguibo, said. “and we are excited that the health science unit of the school is somehow responding to our call for active involvement in our mandate as a research institution.”

This is the very first time that a KASC researcher is presenting her output online, through the power of video-conferencing by way of the internet – and it is very likely that, depending on the gains that the school will attain from this participation as President Eduardo Bagtang will evaluate, Ms. Ammakiw’s experience will serve as a landmark precedent which shall sooner or later be emulated by other researchers.

Ms. Ammakiw’s research group includes Marymina P. Odiem, Andrea Sigat, Lorraine Anne Marcos and Judith Balicag.

(This author’s participation is on the design of their presentations as well as in the editing of the slides.)

DOLE funds Kalinga students’ livelihood programs

by Geraldine G. Dumallig

http://car.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=191358140569#sthash.ylGpZdy5.dpuf

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) here handed over last January 2013 a check worth P300,020 to the Kalinga Apayao State College Student Entrepreneurs Association (KASC SEA), Bulanao Campus as initial capital for its various livelihood projects.

DOLE Kalinga Chief Dr. Avelina Manganip said that with the turn-over of fund and signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the KASC, the project will be in full implementation starting this month.

This undertaking, she said, is through the Working Youth Center - Youth Enterprising Support (WYC-YES), a component of DOLE’s Kabuhayan program designed to assist college, technical-vocational graduating students, or would-be members of the labor force to become self-reliant entrepreneurs. This program also provides skills training, equipments, and tools.

Called the KASC YES Project on Slaughtering, Meat Processing and Baking, the project will benefit 82 members consisting of fourth year voc-tech students and six DOLE Integrated Livelihood Program (DILP) awardees in Kalinga.

The project, according to Manganip, is a convergence program amounting to P449,442. Aside from the P300,020 counterpart of DOLE, counterparts were also provided by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, P23,000; Tabuk City Government, P24,577; and KASC, P101,854.

In her message, Manganip encouraged the students to manage their funds wisely and to take care of the equipments.

“Make use of the knowledge you acquired from your training and hone them to improve your capabilities. Share your skills with the other students as well,” she said expressing hope that someday the organization will have assets worth of millions.(JDP/GGD- PIA CAR, Kalinga)

Raising Research-Development-Extension Capabilities of Cordilleran Agencies

from the ICRISAT website>

http://www.icrisat.org/newsroom/latest-news/happenings/happenings1501.htm

A training on Resesarch-Development-Extension for rain-fed agriculture was held for Cordilleran agencies with RDE mandates last January 2013, by the Philippine Rainfed Agriculture Research, Development and Extension Program (PhiRARDEP) – and jointly sponsored by  International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics ( ICRISAT), Ifugao State University (IFSU), and the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) of the Department of Agriculture (DA).

PhiRARDEP’s goal is to develop, coordinate, monitor and evaluate the implementation of a vigorous rainfed agriculture research, development, and extension program to enhance food, nutrition and energy security, improve livelihoods and empower communities in the country’s rain-fed areas. The program was conceptualized through the concerted efforts of ICRISAT, DA-BAR, state universities and colleges (SUCs), and local government units (LGUs) in the Philippines.

Sixty participants from different institutions of the six provinces of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and BAR attended the training. Dr. Serafin Ngohayon and Dr. Eduardo Bagtang, Presidents of IFSU and the Kalinga-Apayao State College (KASC), respectively, both from CAR, expressed confidence that the training could provide the impetus for rain-fed development in the region through community seed systems. Rosana Mula, ICRISAT Learning Systems Coordinator, provided an overview of the training and its expected outputs.

Among the resource persons from ICRISAT were Rex Navarro (Innovations in knowledge sharing for community mobilization), Suhas Wani (Watershed management), and Myer Mula (Pigeonpea, chickpea and seed systems). Resource persons from the Philippines were Joel Lales of BAR (Overview of PhiRARDEP); Heraldo Layaoen of the Mariano Marcos State University (Sweet sorghum); Fernando Gonzales of Benguet State University (Chickpea); Rose Mary Aquino of the Cagayan Valley Integrated Agricultural Research Center (Groundnut); Karen T Barroga and Olive Asis of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice Knowledge Management & Sharing); Susan Balanza of DA (Development plan of CAR); and Wilfredo Cabezon of the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (Soil and water conservation in Philippine rainfed areas).

One of the highlights of the training was the presentation of a collective plan by province, the outputs of which will be integrated into a single proposal for submission to BAR.

The closing program was presided over by Commissioner of Higher Education Dr William Medrano, a strong supporter of agricultural research for development who was instrumental in crafting the links and networks of SUCs with ICRISAT and the DA.

KASC Ready to Join The Big League

by Marciano A. Paroy Jr.

With the current vehemence of the administration as to the full-fledged attainment of a UNIVERSITY Status, the odds may just turn positively in favor of the school - what with the serious commitment of school leaders to comply with the remaining requirements set forth by the Commission on Higher Education.

Naturally, President Eduardo T. Bagtang leads the pack of school officials in painstakingly satisfying the requisites along the areas that were evaluated as needing more adherence to university standards.

Buoyed by a strong workforce, and encouraged by the cohesive support from the various sectors - namely, students, alumni, the larger community, including political leaders - the present administration can be said to have been working round-the-clock, leaving nothing to chance in clinching that university mark.

The school likewise recognizes the legislative machineries that had been turning - courtesy of Congressman Manuel S. Agyao - whose unswerving stance at the Congress, in pushing for House Bill (HB) 3538 or an act converting the Kalinga Apayao State College into Kalinga State University, finally paid off and resulted to the "almost there" conversion. And so for such steadfast commitment in watching over the fate of The Act, the Congressman was feted during an affair organized solely for his timely and appropriate recognition by the KASC family and the outside community as The Father of Kalinga State University (posted along with this write-up is the facing page of the invitiation for the affair). 

MARSISM>

One may cloak on a distinct identity that is self-assumed to accurately project the persona within. The real, the genuine… these, however, cannot be subjugated for long. Momentary sparks of falsity will eventually dim down, and out comes the truth. The hollowness of a deceptive character will one day give way to legitimacy, to sincerity, to honesty. The adulterated version of one’s personality will sooner or later run out of costumes… and left in its bare form is the actual, the valid, the authentic.

-MARCIANO A. PAROY JR., November 7, 2013

Going for the Win... in the Realm of Research

by Marciano A. Paroy Jr.

The 2013 Regional Symposium on Research, Development & Extension for member agencies of the Highland Agriculture & Resources Research & Development Consortium (HARRDEC) has just been concluded at the Benguet State University this August 31, 2013. For the third year now, the Cordillera Industry & Energy Research & Development Consortium (CIERDEC) jointly organized the activity.
We left with flying colors.

However, as is always the case in evaluation processes, there were verdicts that raised some brows, but for now, the elation for the KASC Research team is centered on our victorious entries>

A. INDUSTRY SECTOR
1st Place, Oral Presentation: "Electronic Circuitry in Village-Type Evaporative Cooler: A Way to Energy Conservation" by Engr. Herbert C. Imatong, Engr. Stalen Clemence L. Puyoc & PSAE-PPG KASC Chapter
3rd Place, Oral Presentation: "Intensifying Fortified Compost Pellets: A New Farming Management Option in Kalinga" by Herbert C. Imatong & Eduardo T. Bagtang 

B. EDUCATION SECTOR
1stPlace, Oral Presentation: “Learner Anxiety In Learner Diaries Of College Freshman Students In Kalinga-Apayao State College” by Sheila Fesway-Malao, Helen F. Bais & Marilou B. Adora
2nd Place, Poster Presentation: “Accreditation Attitudes and Beliefs of State Universities and College of CAR” by Carmelita Ayang-ang, Perfelia Buen & Joy Grace Doctor

C. SOCIO-ECONOMIC SECTOR
1stPlace, Poster Presentation: “Awareness on the Availability and Knowledge on the Preparation and Uses of Selected Herbal Plants in Tabuk City” by Christina M. Ammakiw, Loraine Anne B. Marcos, Marymina P. Odiem
3rd Place, Poster Presentation: “A Tridimensional Impact of Indigenous Cookery to Lactating Mothers in Kalinga” by Helen F. Bais, Lamberto E. Guzman Jr., Nellie L. Doclan, Ren Geramis F. Bais

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