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TRINITY UNIVERSITY OF ASIA College of Arts, Sciences, and Education Christian Education TRINITY UNIVERSITY OF ASIA INTRODUCTION VISION "A premier Christian University in Asia and...

TRINITY UNIVERSITY OF ASIA College of Arts, Sciences, and Education Christian Education TRINITY UNIVERSITY OF ASIA INTRODUCTION VISION "A premier Christian University in Asia and the Pacific transforming a community of learners into leaders towards a humane society." MISSION To promote the formation of integrally- developed, competent, productive, and socially responsible citizens by: Instilling Christian values in all academic programs, co-curricular and extracurricular activities; Providing excellent services for a quality learning environment; Extending our ideals of service learning to our partners by empowering communities to be self-reliant and by collaborating with other institutions; Encouraging self-improvement among employees to gain higher competence and better skills towards service excellence; and, Exercising sound management of our resources.  EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY “Preparing for Life Through God- Centered Education and Service” INTEGRITY We uphold honesty, accountability and CORE VALUES fairness in the performance of our tasks. EXCELLENCE We are guided by the highest standards in the performance of our duties in instruction, research and community service. TEAMWORK We move as one in the spirit of mutual trust, loyalty and solidarity to achieve our common goals. INNOVATION We courageously explore avenues to develop new programs and processes to assure the faithful achievement of our institutional goals and objectives. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY We commit to deliver services through an integrated community development program. FIVE MARKS OF MISSION 1.To proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God. 2. To teach, baptize and nurture new believers 3. To respond to human needs by loving service 4. To transform unjust structures of society, to challenge violence of every kind, and pursue peace and reconciliation 5. To safeguard the integrity of creation, to sustain and renew the life of the earth.  TUA AS A MISSION SCHOOL Trinity University of Asia (TUA), by her very name itself, is a Christian institution, born out of the mission of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America that sent missionaries to the Philippines and established it as a missionary district. Founded in 1963 under the leadership of the American missionary Bishop Lyman Ogilby, TUA is now one of the educational institutions of the autonomous Episcopal Church in the Philippines. The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA, now simply called The Episcopal Church or TEC) pioneered the so-called Three-Legged Missionary strategy in the country for the care of the Whole Person: Church (for the soul), School (for the mind), and Hospital (for the The Rt. Rev. Lyman Ogilby body), with the Church starting in 1898. LOCATION OF TUA TUA has two campuses and they are both situated along E. Rodriguez, Sr. Avenue. The first campus which is over 9k sq. m. is near Brgy. Damayang Lagi while the second campus is located within the approximately13-hectare lot of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP) Mission Center, together with the other ECP national institutions namely, St. Luke’s Medical Center, the National Episcopal Cathedral of St. Mary and St. John, St. Andrew’s Theological Seminary, and the National Office of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines.  The thought of establishing a school in the center had been in the mind of Bishop Norman Spencer Binsted who succeeded bishop Mosher in 1940. In march 4, 1947, bishop Binsted sold the Manila property and made an initial payment for what is now cathedral heights, Quezon City, a 15-hectare lot that will showcase the three- pronged missionary strategy of the PECUSA missionaries to the Philippines. Such a picture flourished up to the present at least in Zamboanga, in Sagada, and at the ECP mission The Rt. Rev. Norman center in Cathedral Heights, E. Rodriguez, Spencer Binsted Quezon City. Other places have the church and school but not the hospital, clinic, or dispensary. Most mission areas just have the churches which is the primary mission. 275 E. Rod Sr. Ave. Cathedral Heights Some financial support to the missionary work in the Philippines was donated in 1922 by Mrs. Mortimer Matthews and bishop Paul Matthews, presented to bishop Gouverneur Frank Mosher for use in any way by the bishop of the Philippines. Having been put into a trust fund, the fund grew over the years. The Rt. Rev. Lyman C. Ogilby who was then the bishop envisioned a Christian school of high standards where the funds would be spent. And so the purchase of the former Capitol City THE RT. REV. GOUVERNEUR College from Panfelio E. Domingo followed in FRANK MOSHER 1963. This is where the first campus is located. The second campus on cathedral heights was occupied in November 1968. Before TUA came into the picture, many Episcopal schools have already been established, namely, Easter school (now Easter college), St. Mary School in Sagada, St. Stephen’s high school in Binondo, Manila (formerly St. Stephen’s school for girls), the Sagada training school for lay and clergy which became St. Andrew’s Theological Seminary, St. James High School in Besao, Mt. Province, All Saints Mission School in Bontoc, Mountain Province, St. Paul’s Memorial High School in Balbalasang, Kalinga, Nursing School with St. Luke’s Hospital formerly located in Manila (now SLMC), Baguio School for boys (now Brent school) opened YMCA building in Manila, among others. Now there’s St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal School in Upi, Maguindanao established in 1961, and Brent Hospital and colleges in Zamboanga City established in 1983. Also, another fun fact is that Fr. Murray Bartlett, an Episcopalian priest, was the first president of the University of the Philippines in 1911. The Trinity University Trinity University of Asia and the other national institutions of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines, report to the Synod or National Convention of the ECP and give apportionment or financial support for the mission of the church. With the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) obtaining Historic Episcopate from PECUSA (Protestant Episcopal Church in the Philippines) in 1948 during the time of Bishop Binsted, a relationship has been built, and in 1961 a concordat relationship was signed between the PECUSA and the IFI. The purchase of what will be named Trinity College of Quezon City started the realization of the vision of Bishop Ogilby and Bishop Binsted. The concordat relationship explains the composition of original incorporators of TUA from PECUSA and the IFI. The joint composition of the board of trustees was carried on to the present since the concordat of full communion between the IFI and the ECP was signed in February 1997, some years after the ECP (Episcopal Church in the Philippines) became autonomous from PECUSA in 1990.  BRIEF HISTORY http://www.tua.edu.ph/brief-history/ Trinity University of Asia, formerly called Trinity College of Quezon City, is CONCORDAT OF FELLOWSHIP AND FULL COMMUNION the first full-fledged educational institution (September 1961) organized from the concordat of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines and the Iglesia Filipina Independiente. It is a private, non-profit, and church-related institution of Present SEAL Present SEAL learning founded in 1963. SHORT HISTORY OF ECP SHORT HISTORY OF IFI With its history as a Spanish colony, Philippine Independent Church, Spanish Iglesia the Philippines were predominantly Filipina Independiente, also called Aglipayan Roman Catholic. In 1898, the Episcopal Church, was organized in 1902 after the Church in the Philippines, ECP, Philippine revolution of 1896 – 98 as a protest became a Missionary district of the against the Spanish clergy’s control of the Roman Episcopal Church in the United States Catholic Church. Cofounders of the church were of America. The first Episcopal service Isabelo de Los Reyes y Florentino, author, labor was held in the Philippines in 1898, leader, and senator, who was imprisoned during conducted by an American chaplain. the revolution for his criticism of Spanish clergy As the work grew steadily, Rt. Rev. and government officials in the Philippines, and Charles Brent was appointed bishop Fr. Gregorio Aglipay y Labayan, a Philippine in 1901. The initial focus was Manila, Roman Catholic priest who was Luzon, and Mindanao. excommunicated in 1899 for his activities on behalf of the revolution. Aglipay accepted de Los It became a Missionary Diocese in Reyes’ request that he serves as supreme bishop 1965. On May 1, 1990, with five of the new church in 1903, a position he held until his death in 1940. constituent Dioceses, it was inaugurated as an autonomous The church continued to follow Roman Church Province of the Anglican Catholic forms of worship, but for many Communion (AC). years, doctrine was strongly influenced by Unitarianism. A Schism developed in 1946, The Anglican Communion is and a unitarian faction left the church. composed of those duly constituted Under Isabelo de los Reyes, Jr., elected national churches worldwide, bishop in 1946, the church adopted in 1947 independent from each other, but are a new declaration of faith and articles of in communion with the historic See of religion that were Trinitarian. The Protestant Canterbury, England. The Archbishop Episcopal Church in the United States of Canterbury is the symbolic head of consecrated three bishops of the Philippine Anglicans everywhere. Today, the Independent Church in 1948, and the two Episcopal Church in the Philippines churches entered into a close association. In now numbers over 121,000 baptized 1961 the church was accepted into full members in over 400 parishes. There communion with the Church of England and are almost 200 priests working in 7 the Old Catholic churches. dioceses.  The Trinity University of Asia was launched by 160 shares of Procter and Gamble stock. It all started when Paul Matthews, who married Elsie Procter, whose grandfather founded Procter and Gamble Company, became the Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey, the USA in 1951. Both the Matthews and the Gamble families were greatly interested in the missionary work of the Episcopal Church. In 1922, Mrs. Mortimer Matthews presented to the Rt. Rev. Gouverneur Mosher, then Bishop of the Philippines, 60 shares of Procter and Gamble stock while Bishop Matthews added 100 shares the following year. The total shares of 160, valued then at $25,000, went to a trust fund to be spent in any way the Bishop of the Philippines considered most helpful to the work of the Church. In 1961, the stock had increased to 867 shares, valued at $491,361.82. The Rt. Rev. Lyman C. Ogilby, then Bishop of the Philippine Episcopal Church, felt the funds would be best spent to set up a Christian school of high standards. It was then used to purchase the former Capitol City College from the P.E. Domingo family in 1963. The former Trinity College of Quezon City was named after Trinity College of Hartford, Connecticut, USA, whose president then was Bishop Ogilby’s father. Dr. Arthur L. Carson was its first president. Trinity College of Hartford, Connecticut, USA Dr. Arturo M. Guerrero, who succeeded him in 1967, served for 16 years until his death in 1983. Executive vice-president Ester A. Santos was appointed officer-in-charge until the third president, Dr. Rafael B. Rodriguez, assumed office in 1984. Col. Rizalino Cabanban was officer-in-charge from 1996 to 1997. Dr. Orlando B. Molina became fourth president and served from 1998 to 2001. In 2002, Dr. Josefina L. Sumaya became the fifth president Dr. Arthur L. Carson of Trinity College of Quezon City and the first president of Trinity University Asia in 2006. Presently at the helm is Dr. Wilfred U. Tiu who was installed as the sixth president of Trinity University of Asia in 2017.  The Trinity University of Asia started as a one-building campus. The administrative and college units moved to their present tree-lined campus on Cathedral Heights in November 1968 upon completion of the Science Building. It was constructed with a grant from The Netherlands government. Old Building of Trinity College of Quezon City, now TUA Enrollment was high until tragedy struck on November 26, 1969, when fire razed the original plant housing the High School and the Elementary School at 226 E. Rodriguez, Sr. TUA Elementary and Highschool Building Avenue. However, with the help of students, alumni, and friends, here and abroad, an L-shaped three- storey building worth more than a million pesos was constructed. A gymnasium was built which was funded by the United Thank Offering of the Episcopal Churchwomen in 1971. Gymnasium Subsequent additions to the campus skyline were the Trinity College Learning Center for Children (TLCC) which was built with funds bequeathed by Miss Mary Niven Alston, and the library building named the Wayland S. Mandell Hall, after the first chairman of the Board of Trustees. Wayland Mandell Hall Mandell Hall was constructed and equipped with a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), American schools and hospitals abroad plus funds from the Booth Ferris Foundation, friends, and alumni. A three-storey Elementary School building was funded by donors, led by the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA) based in New York, USA and St. Margaret’s School in Tokyo, Japan. The two-storey Cabanban Memorial Hall houses the Computer Center for the High School and the Elementary School. Donations by the government of Japan and Trinity supporters made possible the two- storey Trinitian Center for Community Development (TCCD), formerly CAUSE Resource Center for various volunteer outreach projects. Trinitian Center for Community Development Trinity also excels in sports. In 1985, it joined the National College Athletic Association (NCAA). In 2001, it was affiliated with the Colleges and Universities Sports Association (CUSA) where it won several gold medals in basketball, volleyball, swimming, chess, and tennis tournaments. Such competitions enable the students to spend leisure time productively through regular fitness and sports development activities. In 1995, Trinity was recognized by then President Fidel V. Ramos as the “Friendliest School for the Disabled.” In 2002, the Zobel Foundation provided scholarship grants to members of the Disabled Enablement and Empowerment Program (DEEP), The University is also linked up with many non-governmental civic organizations, thereby continuing the tradition of caring for the underprivileged and the disabled. The new millennium saw the construction of the Health Sciences Center, Ann Keim Barsam Hall, the two-storey Foodcourt, Patio Trinidad, and the Swimming Pool. The Health Sciences Center houses the College of Medical Technology, St. Luke’s College of Nursing, Health Sciences Library, and Audio- Health Sciences Center Visual Room. The Ann Keim Barsam Hall houses the Graduate School, College of Business Administration, Research and Development Center, Audio-Visual Room, Conference Room, and the KOBE International University Research Room. Ann Keim Barsam Hall  University Chapel University House University Canteen University Theater Henry Noble Gymnasium Arthur L. Carson/ Admin Building Recently completed additional buildings and facilities were the University House, the University Chapel and Prayer Garden and the Student Center with a theater-type auditorium. Sustaining its image nationally and internationally paved the way to its university status granted on 18 July 2006 by the Commission on Higher Education. Trinity University of Asia was also awarded with Institutional Accreditation Status by The Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines (FAAP) in August 2009. By December 10 of the same year, the university was granted Autonomous Status. The Autonomous Status is one of the most distinguished awards bestowed by CHED to private schools for their enormous contribution in the growth and development of tertiary education in the country and the Asia Pacific region. Completing the distinctions earned by the University is the ISO certification issued by TÜV Rheinland after the university successfully met the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System Standards. References: Maslog, Crispin C. The Crown Jewel: 1963-2008. Quezon City, Philippines: Trinity University of Asia, 2008. Trinity University of Asia: Student Handbook, 2017-2020 edition. Trinity University of Asia (2020). Brief History.Retrieved from http://www.tua.edu.ph/brief history/https://episcopalchurch.org/files/ecp_history.pdf ECP Official Website https://ecphilippines.com/list-of-schools/ Encyclopedia Britannica (2020). Philippine Independent Church. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/topic/Philippine-Independent-Church University Chaplain's Presenation