The Camarines Sur State Agricultural College (CSSAC) received a big boost in its bid to be upgraded to a state university after it was declared the top performing school for veterinary medicine in the whole country for 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Atty. Marito T. Bernales, Ph.D., CSSAC president, said that CSSAC achieved the distinction after it notched a passing average of 85.19% in the Veterinary Licensure Examination from 2005 to 2007 emerging as number one among all schools offering the course in the country.
University of the Philippines was second with 75.41% followed by Pampanga Agriculture College, 60.61%; Central Luzon State University, 59.20%; and Central Mindanao University, 50.37%.
Other schools in the top ten are University of Southern Mindanao, 45.68%; Cavite State University, 43.14%; Leyte State University, 40%; Isabela State University 35.06%; and Aklan State University, 34.48%.
The course, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, was opened at CSSAC starting only during the first semester of school year 1999-2000 and its first graduates in 2005 immediately scored a phenomenal 100% passing average.
With Dr. Julian Jose M. Trinidad as OIC Dean, the Institute of Veterinary Medicine at CSSAC is composed of the following faculty members: Dr. Alberto Cabrera, Dr. Jaime G. Tria V, Dr. Josefina Mañugo, Dr. Jose S. Sabater, Dr. Edwin C. Rosales and Dr. Leopoldo V. Ledesma, Jr.
Meanwhile, Congressman Luis R. Villafuerte disclosed that he has refiled at the opening of the 14th Congress last month the bill seeking the conversion of CSSAC into a state university.
It was among scores of bills authored by the Camarines Sur Second District solon in the previous Congress which were passed by the House of Representatives. For lack of time the Senate, however, failed to act on many of those bills most of which were intended to enhance the educational system.
