The Search will Never be Over...

 

by Marciano A. Paroy Jr.

 

          KASC covered quite a distance in the realm of Research.  The Kalinga Community College days under founder and administrator Augustus Alejandrino were understandably blank where research is concerned, but the appointment of Dr. Francisco Basuel in 1993 opened a whole new world to the employees of KASC, especially the teaching corps, who received encouragement from the late President Basuel to engage in research undertakings.
 
          This encouraging stance turned to a challenging tone when Dr. Venus I. Lammawin succeeded Dr. Basuel in 1997. She pushed faculty members to believe in the forces of research, practically shoving research potentials to the matching capabilities and professional expertise of teachers – in both the social and technical fields. She put things in place. It was during this time that most of KASC’s seasoned researchers started to establish names for themselves in their own disciplines.
 
          The school started to be reckoned as a growing force in Research coming from the academe. Recognition soon followed, through the ingenious works of some KASC researchers. Most notable during this time is the award-winning invention of Engr. Danilo Falgui – his micro-hydro load stabilizer, a product of his electrical engineering expertise, which was used in different applications, one of which was the former non-conventional energy source, now known as renewable energy source.
 
          When Dr. Bagtang sat at the executive helm of this school, he put Research right up there in one of his priority concerns, and what Dr. Lammawin put in place, he impressively raised higher and expanded wider – doing all in larger scale, and even pulling off a literal expansion through the annexation of a sizeable landholding in Rizal municipality (also of this province), for purposes of both Instruction and Research.
 
          KASC researchers then started to be seen in conferences, both here and abroad, and many of them come home with flying colors – if not with more funding opportunities. It is under his watch that several names cemented KASC’s reputation in the world of research: Engr. Daniel Peckley, Engr. Manuel Bilagot, Agriculturist Ernesto Miguel, Engr. Herbert Imatong, Forester Emerson Barcellano, Biologist Lourdes Angalao, Product Developers Raquel Dulliyao, Norfredo Dulay and Edna Yumol.
 
          DOST, DA, DENR, DTI, DOE, NCIP, NCCA, DILG, LGU’s, Senators, NGO’s, private enterprises, other bigger Universities… the list of entities with which KASC inked collaborative research work is long and it keeps getting longer.
 
          And all the while, there is one element that remained constant through all these developments; one work horse that turned in the same quality of research management – from Dr. Baswel’s time, through Dr. Lammawin’s term, and up to the present: The Director for Research, Dr. Jovita E. Saguibo.
 
          (please click the link below - The Research Director - to be whisked away to the trail that Dr. Saguibo blazed for three KASC Presidents)