Integrated System

In 1994, Sr. Julma C. Neo, DC, then Sister Visitatrix, called for the Sister President and Administrators of CSJ and CSCJ to prepare an experiment, the concept of which is to merge both schools under one president. Sr. Josefina R. Quiachon, DC was the first Integrated Administration President. In 1997, the Research and Development Center under the presidency of Sr. Freida P. Benitez, DC, produced a concept paper specifying objectives of the integrated administration scheme.
An increased articulation and concretization of integration became evident under Sr. Ma. Lourdes S. Verzosa, DC, who pushed for joint and shared activities, resources (human and material), communication, structures, policies, plans and programs, status and directions. Consultations on Integrated Administration, benchmarking initiatives as in participative management, research and technology, alternative pedagogical modalities, evaluation findings and BEC strengthening were held, creating evident apostolic impact in a city of schools. The integrated administration of CSJ and CSCJ was expanded by the Provincial Council to include the St. Louise de Marillac School of Miagao (SLMSM) for Academic Year 2002-2003. In Academic year 2003 – 2004, the different sectors of the school took a closer look at the Integrated Management through a series of sectoral meetings, which solicited their opinions on the extent of the integration as experienced by their own sector. As a result, structural changes were proposed giving rise to a new governance structure creating Vice-Presidents for Academics, Religious Education, Community Extension Services, Student Services and Administrative Services for the three member schools. This is depicted in the revised flat, circular organigram.
Currently, the Vice-Presidents for Academics, Religious Education, Community Extension Services, Administrative Services and Student Services are in an experimental operation and have intensified alignment of projects, cost-cutting of operations and sharing of human and material resources leading to fusion and synergy in the integrated management system.
A summit meeting on the future of the three member schools held early 2004 – 2005, gave the SLMES – DC in WV a clear perspective, definite directions and clear-cut courses of action. Expanding subsidiarity, collaboration, cooperation and in the spirit of stewardship, two governing/consultative bodies were created in school year 2005 – 2006, the In-House-Servant Leadership Team and the Summit Servant Leadership Team respectively. In the same year, the position for The Integrated Administration Executive Secretary was also created to address specific needs of the Integrated System.
The Assistant Vice-Presidents for Academics were created for a closer supervision on the curricular and co-curricular programs and activities in the institutional level. In 2007 – 2008, in-order to have a more focused religious education, the Vice-President for Religious Education (RE) was replaced by institutional coordinators for Religious Education (RE). The Vincentian Formation Institute (VFI), a project initiated by the Provincial House of the Daughters of Charity has trained delegates who are now in their second summer of formation. The delegates have truly enriched RE/CES Hyperlink as evidenced by their initiatives. Acting micro while thinking and dreaming macro, the Integrated Administration of St. Louise de Marillac Educational System of the Daughters of Charity in Western Visayas is well on its way of paving the way towards closer and tighter coordination and integration without losing the individuality and historicity of the member schools. It can never be more emphasized that integration is not uniformity, but a meeting of minds and common or collective direction for the system as a whole, interpreted in a unique way in the institutional levels. For the first time in the history of the DC schools in the Philippines, a Management Review and Mission Audit is scheduled on November 12 – 16, 2007. This is a chance to open up and look at ourselves as part and parcel of the DC Education Ministry. An honest to goodness view of what has been, what is and will be. A group of Auditors will visit the member schools of the SLMES – DC in WV to take a closer look at the totality of the school based on how the vision-mission is articulated bearing witness to a Vincentian School.
OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF INTEGRATED ADMINISTRATION
It is a management and servant-leadership style used by the Daughters of Charity in Western Visayas to integrate Colegio de San Jose and Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus of Iloilo City and St. Louise de Marillac School of Miagao in genuine spirit of Basic Ecclesial Community while upholding the uniqueness of each school culture and preserving individual school autonomy in some aspects of operations. However, essential elements in substance and structure, spirit and form are common to the three schools.
THE SLMES-DC WV MEMBER SCHOOLS
1. COLEGIO DE SAN JOSE
E. Lopez Street, Jaro, Iloilo City -Founded: May 1, 1872 The official seal of the school symbolizes the major thrust of Colegio de San Jose “service to others especially the poor”.
As an institution of learning, CSJ has the “special obligation to form students who are neighbors to every person and who actively help him when he comes across his path.” (Letter of Sr. Chiron to the DC). The center motifs are the cross and the lily. The cross stands for Christ, the living source of all charity. The lily stands for love that is simple and pure for others. Every Josephinian is neighbor to all forms of suffering and need. Below the lily is the by word; “Ite ad Joseph” – Go to Joseph. Go to Joseph for a spirit of conversion and renewal, for simple joy and humble service. The whole seal inside a scalloped circle stands for love that knows no barrier, no end, a love that makes God present among all men /women especially the Poor.
a. DEGREE PROGRAMS PAASCU ACCREDITED* Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEEd) Bachelor of Secondary Education (BSEd) Bachelor of Science in Commerce (BSC) Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT)
b. NON-DEGREE PROGRAMS Two-Year Computer Secretarial Course Certificate in Health Care
c. SPECIAL TRAINING PROGRAMS IN: Business Software Application IT Power Desktop Publishing
d. BASIC EDUCATION Secondary Level (PAASCU Accredited) Elementary Level (PAASCU Accredited) Pre-Elementary (Kinder and Prep)
2. COLEGIO DEL SAGRADO CORAZON DE JESUS
Gen. Hughes Street, Iloilo City -Founded September 17, 1917
The seal of Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus bears the Sacred Heart of Jesus surrounded by the name of the school that has received its name, mission and inspiration from Christ, the victim of love (amoris victima) to make His love evident and ever growing in the lives of the young through education and service, particularly of the most deprived, in collaboration with the parents, personnel, alumni and people from other sectors of society.
-Offers: a. DEGREE PROGRAMS PAASCU ACCREDITED* Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management (BSHRM) Bachelor of Science in Social Work (BSSW) Bachelor of Science in Commerce (BSC) Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEEd) Bachelor of Secondary Education (BSEd)
b. NON-DEGREE PROGRAMS Associate in Hotel and Restaurant Management (AHRM) Two-Year Dualized Training in Associate in Hotel and Restaurant Management Sagrado Alternative Evening School
c. SHORT-TERM COURSES Intensive English Grammar and Pronunciation Bartending Advanced Baking and Housekeeping
d. BASIC EDUCATION Secondary Level (PAASCU Accredited, Level IV) Elementary Level (PAASCU Accredited, Level IV) Pre-Elementary (Prep I and II)
3. ST. LOUISE DE MARILLAC SCHOOL OF MIAGAO
Miagao, Iloilo -Founded: July 6, 1969

CSCJ College Hymn

Along the blue coast of Panay
Across the Ave Maria Shrine
Flies Sagrado's banner high,
Like the sparkling stars that shine
Her spires pointing heavenward
Glisten against the ray
See the symbols of truth,
in works and words; our Guide,
our Love, our Light;
Hail Alma Mater, Hail of Thee
we sing this song of praise,
in whatever strife,
Thou wilt never fail
On Thee the Sacred Heart bestows his grace,
CSCJ, All hail we sing
We'll keep Thy name up in the sky
To thee the victory we'll bring
For thy ideals we'll live and die,
Hail Alma Mater, Hail of Thee
we sing this song of praise,
in whatever strife,
Thou wilt never fail
On Thee the Sacred Heart bestows his grace,
CSCJ, All hail we sing
We'll keep Thy name up in the sky
To thee the victory we'll bring
For thy ideals we'll live and die!

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Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus (CSCJ) came into existence when the Daughters of Charity from Colegio de San Jose extended their educational services to little boys and girls in Kindergarten in a rented room in Iznart Street. To this original kindergarten school was added the grade school and later the high school. Courses in commerce and Economics were also offered besides the general academic course in General Hughes Street. It was on September 14, 1917 when “Sagrado” now CSCJ was formally recognized as a school when the Securities and Exchange Commission approved officially its by-laws and constitution.
Under the Japanese regime, Sagrado offered grade school and high school programs. The Graduate School in Education started in 1945. the Conservatory of Music, the first of South of Manila, opened soon after. Between 1945 and 1975, all the courses being offered after the war received recognition from the Department of Education. To these were courses added such courses as Social Work, Nutrition, and Hotel and Restaurant Management to meet the needs of the country for social workers, nutritionists and hotel and restaurant managers.
June 1972 marked the re-orientation of the educational thrusts of Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus. The high school department blazed the trail towards voluntary accreditation in 1975 making it the first DC school to be accredited by PAASCU. The grade school followed suit when in 1979, it obtained PAASCU accreditation making it the first grade school to be accredited in Western Visayas. The college department started its thrusts for quality education when in 1983, PAASCU nominated Sagrado to be one of the pilot colleges for testing the validity of the common standards for accrediting higher education by the Federation of Accrediting Agencies in the Philippines (FAAP), a self-survey using the FAAP Manual of accreditation of these three programs in August 1986.
In 1986, the grade school and high school were merged into the Basic Education Department to provide better articulation between the two programs. Sagrado also turned co-educational by admitting male students in the Basic Education Department and in the College Department. School year 1994-1995 is marked with the implementation of the integrated DC school system in which Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus and Colegio de San Jose share one president. In 2003 – 2004, the St. Louise de Marillac School of Miag-ao was included in the integrated administration. This innovation creates a more competent synergy and creative fusion of each school’s human potentials and resources, physical plant, materials, policies, programs and projects for maximum apostolic and educational impact.
Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus, under the servant-leadership of the Integrated Administration President, Sr. Ma. Lourdes S. Verzosa, D.C. has reinvented itself by embracing the latest creative and empowering breakthroughs such as Computer Assisted Instruction, the Multiple Intelligences Approach, Mandarin Education, the Ballet School, Sagrado Alternative Evening School (SAES), the Villa Sagrado HRM Practicum Center and others. Sagrado has also reclaimed its niche as the center of arts in Iloilo City by presenting onstage Dalagang Bukid, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, Beauty and the Beast, Juanita Cruz which fused film and theatre for the first time on Philippine stage, and Aladdin from 2000 – 2005. Presently showing a multimedia production, The Lion King of Priderock.
After 90 years, Sagrado has emerged vibrant and progressive, zestful in its dreams of a NEW SAGRADO celebrating the incomparable wealth of the Sagradista talent. Sagrado stands tall as it doggedly pursues to face the challenges posed by the contemporary DC Missionary thrust and priorities as called for by its founders, St. Vincent de Paul and St. Louise de Marillac.
In the face of worldwide imperatives of new times, new paradigms and new considerations, Sagrado responded with a decisive focus on creative explorations in program and governance structures, systems revolution stretching the capacities of the new multidisciplinary person, seeing passion for excellence driven by the desire to grown and for want of the best and joyful relationships in genuine community building through multiculturalism, interfaith and multi-sectoral communion.

Vision
A Filipino Christian Community of Learners Committed to Integral Formation for Transformation.

Mission
To create a learning environment that empowers persons preferably the less privileged through Christian formation, academic excellence, research, professional competence and community service for sustainable development within Church and Society.
Core Values
RESPECT FOR HUMAN DIGNITY – Reverence for every person, and concern for the promotion of life, human rights and total human development.
COMPASSIONATE SERVICE – Sensitivity to the needs of others and zealous response of caring and sharing with the needy and disadvantaged, out of a gentle and humble heart.
CO-RESPONSIBILITY – Spirit of dialogue, partnership, participation, teamwork and collaboration in all endeavors for the good of all.
SOLIDARITY – Sense of communion with nature, with persons and families, regardless of gender, race, color, creed and socioeconomic status, and a firm determination to promote the common good.
SIMPLICITY – Love of, and living out of truth and freedom, honesty, transparency in relationships, modest and simple lifestyle in solidarity with the less-privileged.
COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE – Dedication to the highest ideals in continuing pursuit of global excellence for quality education.
SOCIAL COMMITMENT – Audacious love of country and dedication to the transformation of communities and society through change of personal attitudes.

Motto
"Servant Leaders for Transformation, Where Love is Service"

Philosophy and Objectives
Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus, Iloilo City, a school owned and administered by the Daughters of Charity in the Philippines carries the same philosophy of education of the St. Louise de Marillac Educational System of the Daughters of Charity education apostolate