BS Transportation Extension Agenda

Mission

The College of Tourism, Hospitality and Transportation Management is committed to the task of national renewal and economic rebuilding through meaningful exchanges and cooperation in raising the standards of Tourism, Hospitality and Transportation education in the country.

Department Goals

• Strengthen and utilize students’ related skills for tourism planning and development and other allied services for the delivery of related community and extension programs.

• Support the use of skills and resources that both the community and the institution possess to work together to identify, pursue and realize shared extension goals.

• Cultivate cross-cultural values and practices to enhance students’ consciousness of service culture and ethics in providing services and inculcate social responsibility into their practices.

• Empower the individuals and groups in obtaining skills, knowledge, and other resources for them to be more competent and eventually make a greater impact in their own lives, their clients, and in their community.

• Contribute to community capacity building, emphasizing on customer’s relations, leadership, personality development, environmental consciousness, health and wellness, safety and security.

Extension and Community Involvement fall under the following categories:

• Transfer of Expertise 

It shall be a series of faculty-led extension trainings and programs tapping the expertise of the concerned colleges/branches on the needs assessment result of the target beneficiaries.

• Outreach Community 

It shall be a community service on a regular basis which focuses on immediate programs and short term activities provided by either faculty, administrative staff or students of a particular college/branch.

• Voluntary Service

It shall be a voluntary research-based or non-research-based extension services rendered to the target beneficiaries      of the university.

The extension program of the Department of Tourism and Transportation Management is a collaborative effort of the faculty members and its students and is based on the field of specialization of both programs. The organization and conduct of the activities are coordinated with partners such as different barangays, schools, private and government offices. The extension program and activities intended for the local partners/community aims to empower the individual and group participants.

The Department recognizes the need to sustain a responsive, development-oriented and collaborative extension and community involvement program in order to attain and effectively respond to the evolving needs of the community and eventually the society.  Its strong community partnership will benefit its stakeholders by providing the students, faculty members and administration opportunities for community-based research, technology/knowledge-transfer, service learning and other activities that could sharpen specific areas of expertise.  They are involved in the conceptualization of the program, planning, coordination, dissemination of information, implementation and evaluation of the project.   

Accordingly, the projects and activities are projected to meet standards on development and sustainability, that will provide people opportunities to become more productive, and develop self-reliance among client partners.

The faculty members of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines are mandated to perform a trilogy of functions, including instruction, research, and extension services. Instruction is considered its primary role to deliver knowledge and skills to the students. Further, the faculty members have to produce research that deals with developing new theories and practices to be used by the university and the community. The role of higher education in research has been highlighted in CMO No. 46, s. 2012 is "to provide focused support to the research required for technological innovation, economic growth, and global competitiveness, on the one hand, and for crafting the country's strategic directions and policies, on the other." CMO No. 46, s. 2012 stipulates that one of the missions of the Philippine Higher Education System is to help improve Filipinos' quality of human life, respond effectively to changing societal needs and conditions, and provide solutions to problems at the local community, regional, and national levels. With extension service as a core function of universities and colleges, measures or indicators on the extent and efficiency of the delivery of extension services have been included in the various assessments for state universities and colleges, such as in SUC Leveling, the Annual Major Final Outputs of SUCs, the Institutional Sustainability Assessment of CHED, and the Institutional and program Accreditation of the Accrediting Agency of chartered Universities and Colleges (AACCUP).

Faculty members play a vital role in providing quality delivery of the program. The Bachelor of Science in Tourism Management composes of qualified and committed faculty members who provide academic and relevant skills to students, research competency, community, and extension involvement, and engaged participation in national and international linkages.