Sustaining the Vision and the Dream: PSU is first state university in PH to be certified with EOMS

by | Apr 14, 2025 | Awards and Recognitions, News

The ๐๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ง ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐”๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ (๐๐’๐”) officially received its Certification for ISO 21001:2018, cementing its status as the โ€˜University of Firstsโ€™ with its conferment being the first state university in the country to be accorded the certification by an internationally recognized and accredited certifying body.

The Awarding Ceremony for PSU Certification on ๐ˆ๐’๐Ž ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ: ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ– or the ๐„๐๐ฎ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐Ž๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐’๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฌ (๐„๐Ž๐Œ๐’) and the ๐ˆ๐’๐Ž ๐Ÿ—๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ:๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐’๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ (๐๐Œ๐’) for both the Main Office and Lingayen Campus took place at the DTNB Convention Hall on Monday, April 14, 2025 attended physically by the TUV Rheinland-Philippines accreditors.

EOMS 21001:2018 serves as a guide for institutions that support the development of knowledge through teaching, learning research and to better address varied educational needs of learners as well as develop concrete actions for climate change mitigation and promote ethical standards in the academe.

๐”๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐„๐ฅ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ญ ๐Œ. ๐†๐š๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ, said the conferment ceremony honors the spirit of innovation, collaboration and excellence that drives the institution forward.

โ€œ๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘’๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘†๐‘ฆ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘š ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘™- ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›. ๐ด ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘’๐‘“๐‘“๐‘–๐‘๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ, ๐‘’๐‘š๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›-๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก-๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™-๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘›๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘š๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ . ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘“๐‘’,โ€ President Galas said.

He went on to thank every educator, administrator and team member who made the journey possible saying their work may not always be visible, but its impact is immeasurable.

Consequently, PSUโ€™s immediate past President ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐‘. ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐, who started the implementation of quality management systems in the university eight years ago, physically attended the awarding ceremony and said, even with a new mandate given to him as administrator of the Philippine Coconut Authority, PSU will remain his home and PSUnians will remain his family.

โ€œ๐‘Š๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘ƒ๐‘†๐‘ˆ. ๐‘Š๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘™๐‘ก ๐‘Ž ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘Š๐ธ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘™๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐ผ. ๐‘Š๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘ฆ, ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ. ๐‘Š๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘–๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘š ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘โ„Ž๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’. ๐ธ๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›; ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘“๐‘’. ๐ธ๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘œ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›, ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘,โ€ Dr. Buted remarked.

He also lauded President Galas for not only sustaining but elevating the gains that PSUnians have fought so hard to achieve.

Additionally, ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š ๐…๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฅ, PSUโ€™s Consultant on quality management, in her video message, said she is thrilled to congratulate PSU as a coach mentor who have personally witnessed the focus and handwork that PSUnians placed in the journey.

โ€œ๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘ƒ๐‘†๐‘ˆ ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘โ„Ž๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ . ๐ผ ๐‘Ž๐‘š ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘”๐‘›๐‘–๐‘“๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘™๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’,โ€ she quipped.

As the highlight of awarding finally came, ๐Œ๐ซ. ๐“๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง ๐€๐ซ๐ฐ๐ž๐ง ๐‹๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ, ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ƒ๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐“๐”๐• ๐‘๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ง๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐-๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ said their role as a party is to practice impartiality and objectivity in their assessments.

โ€œ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘†๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘ˆ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข. ๐ธ๐‘‚๐‘€๐‘† ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘’๐‘“๐‘–๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ง๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘š๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›, ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘’๐‘š๐‘๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘’๐‘ โ€™ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘’, ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘’๐‘š๐‘โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘กโ€ฆ๐‘๐‘œ ๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘š ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ง๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘’๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘ƒ๐‘†๐‘ˆ,โ€ Mr. Loveres said.

He went on to remind that the journey towards excellence does not end there. The greater challenge, he added, is how PSU will maintain excellence and improve the services.

Meanwhile, ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐‚๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž ๐Œ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐š๐๐จ, the current ๐•๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐€๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž who welcomed the participants said operational and management systems are something that an institution cannot live without and PSU has risen beyond the regulars while ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐„๐ฑ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐‘๐ž๐ง๐š๐ญ๐จ ๐’๐š๐ฅ๐œ๐ž๐๐จ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‹๐ข๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ง, in his closing remarks, said the awarding is a celebration of victory and unity as a result of the tireless commitment and deep belief in what the PSUnians can do together.

Part of the program was the awarding of certificates of appreciation to employees who played vital roles in the EOMS journey throughout the years.

A roaring applause to all the students, employees, partners and stakeholders of Pangasinan State University.

Congratulations, beloved PSUnians!

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