COVID-19 Pandemic Bayanihan Initiatives: The CapSU Experience and Future Education Directions
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.220101.005How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- COVID-19; Higher Education Initiatives; Bayanihan; Education future directions; Sustainable Development Goals
- Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic shifted the world’s life, drastically changing humanity’s economies, health, education, and futures. The pandemic united private and public organizations and individuals to work as one in the spirit of ‘Bayanihan.’ Bayanihan is the Filipino indigenous governance involving volunteerism in providing immediate and demand-driven solutions to peoples’ problems societies in the light of development. The fear and uncertainty brought upon by the COVID-19 pandemic had caught the government and communities unprepared, calling for initiates to curb the crisis. The higher education systems were among those caught in this unprecedented crisis, thus required to develop different initiatives to provide an inclusive program for the welfare of its stakeholders.
The Capiz State University was among the state universities that made bold initiatives at the onset of the pandemic with the ‘CAPSU Save Program and Project Bulig’ through the campus students’ Supreme Council, faculty, staff, and alumni—then followed with other countermeasures to continue the institution’s vision to provide quality service in education. Extensive planning and meetings were made to craft Capiz State University strategies and programs focused on inclusive and sustainable education, health, and safety congruent to the Commission on Higher Education and the Department of Education mandates. Future higher education plans, activities, and directions also included the key concepts of sustainable livelihood, providing safe and economic space for students’ education but not limited to learning needs.
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TY - CONF AU - Ian B. Arcega AU - Elmer M. Albaladejo AU - Arnel Van Aleligay AU - Wennie F. Legario AU - Ma. Dorothee J. Villarruz PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/05 TI - COVID-19 Pandemic Bayanihan Initiatives: The CapSU Experience and Future Education Directions BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Science, Humanities, Education and Society Development (ICONS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 33 EP - 36 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220101.005 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220101.005 ID - Arcega2022 ER -