Development Communication Department turns 10
09.08.09 -JSTabangcura   

     The department of Development Communication celebrated their 10th year anniversary thru a series of activities from August 26-28 with the theme, “A decade of DevCom: Daring Dashing and Determined.”

    “DevCom has been daring and bold in fulfilling the mission of DevCom which is to serve and uplift the grassroots and for the next years, DevCom will always be daring, dashing and determined,” explained DevCom Society president, Ronalyn Banaken regarding the theme.

    “In ten years, we were able to have ten batches, we already have our own department effective 1st Sem SY 2009-2010, our faculty are about to finish their MS Degrees and we will be having our AACCUP Accreditation for Level 1,” said OIC Department Chair, Prof. Lizelle B. Wakat enumerating the departments accomplishments in ten years.

    “We received one TAYO (Ten Achieved Youth Organizations) award, four of our students received an OSCAR (Outstanding Students of CAR) and we had our first magna cum laude,” she added.

    Quiz, spelling and essay competition, forums, exhibits and a series of film showing were conducted during the three-day celebration. An alumni homecoming was also organized by the DevCom faculty and students on August 29 where a consultation for a proposed DevCom curriculum was held.