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VISION STATEMENT

Competitive provider of: relevant and responsive learning; and technologically and professionally competent individuals capable of furthering individual and social transformation in a Christ-centered, nationalist environment.
 

MISSION STATEMENT

In a knowledge-based, rapidly changing and highly competitive environment:

• Generate and make available relevant, responsive, high quality and transformative learning system; and
• Accommodate and assist individuals to acquire and use competitive knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and abilities to sustain individual and collective productivity.

GOAL

Sustained economic, social, cultural and political conditions conducive to individual and collective informed critical learning, deciding and acting.

OBJECTIVES

• Establish academe-industry quality benchmarks for Agriculture, Industry and Service Sectors (Bulacan/Region III).
• Institutionalize Alternative Learning System (ALS) for non-traditional special college-age and mature learners including professional seeking continuing professional development.
• Establish cooperative/collaborative program linkages with higher education providers, LGUs and other NPOs (including international organizations).
• Sustain holistic community development for marginalized population.
• Provide technical assistance/support to internal units of the university and external entities (GOs/NGOs).

1. BarCIE Alternative Learning System (ALS)
1. The Alternative College (AC)
   Offers a specially designed degree program tat would enable students to actualize college degree that is responsible to their requirement for continuing improvement and advancement in their chosen field of profession. The Center does this through crafting innovative curricular approaches that respond to the particular needs and requirement of the learners and their immediate environment.
2. The People's Learning Center (PLC)
   Allow adult secondary students to learn in an experiential and dialogical approach. Students enrolled are those with emotional and behavioral difficulties. PLC started in school year 2002-2003 with 2 students.
3. URC @ San Ildefonso (URC@SI)
   In response to the emerging needs of the residents of Barangay Pinaod, San Ildefonso, Bulacan for a secondary education program for the youth who completed elementary schools but will not be accommodated by the Bulacan National Agricultural State College located in the community due to CHED restriction to limit its enrolment to collegiate level, the University of Regina Carmeli has implemented, in collaboration with the Sacred Heart Parish of the community, a special secondary education offering. It is a mission school that provides access to quality secondary education in the context of agricultural community.
4. Masile One Classroom School (MaOC)
   A special secondary school program for the poor youth of Barangay Masile, a coastal Barangay of the municipality of Malolos has been implementing since June of 2001. This special secondary school program is in response to the clamor of the local residents who articulated this need during the summer 2001 URC-BarCIE community outreach-immersion program. The program thus aims to ensure access to those who dropped out of secondary schools (for economic reasons), and to those who do not have the means to attend schools located the town proper. This program is being conducted in collaboration with the Barangay Council of Masile.
5. URC @ San Rafael (URC@SR)
   A higher education program that fits the requirements of high school graduates who want to complete college degrees and/or to continue improving their qualifications in search of broadening their options in life and thereby improving their access to income opportunities. This program is offered through the Alternative College @ San Rafael in collaboration with the Parish of St. John of God, San Rafael, Bulacan. Classes are temporarily held at the Parish Rectory.
6. 1.1.6. Aral Mo, Bukas Ko
   Joint Early Child Care and Development (ECCD) Project of Tibag Ka Foundation and BarCIE-URC located at Tibag, Pulilan, Bulacan.

 
2. BarCIE Innovative Programs
1. Graduate Equivalency for Credit Program (GEC)
   Offers an alternative route to obtain graduate higher education degree. The GEC program aims to respond to the needs for further and continuing higher education by experienced professionals who have been working or have engaged in professional practice for the last five years.
2. System Teachnology and Appropriate Management of Outcomes-based, Needs-driven Initiatives for Community Advancement (STA. MONICA)
   
   The University of Regina Carmeli's adopted mountain in the Municipality of San Miguel, Bulacan with a total area of thirty-five (35) hectares represents a vast resource for actualizing the University's mission to build and sustain indigenous communities' capacity for continuing ecological development and growth. To date, this resource remains idle and has not been put to productive use by the University for its benefits or for the benefits of the communities surrounding the mountain.
   
   Making the 35-hectare mountain productive for the benefit of the University, the surrounding communities and their residents, however, requires a carefully planned community-based comprehensive and holistic revitalization of its potential as an agro-forestry resource. This minimally includes the development and implementation of massive reforestation, preservation and protection program for the forest cover, and underground resources such as water and minerals.
   
   The enormity of the community-based comprehensive program to put the 35-hectare resource back to productive life that is equally intended to support sustainable ecological development for the communities surrounding the resource further requires the establishment of viable networks of people, agencies and other public and private groups and their continuing participation and collaboration toward further development and growth of the mountain resource and of the communities surrounding it.
   
   The comprehensive program, being a collaborative among participating multiple agencies with focus on attaining multiple outcomes thus primordially need a systematic approach to planning, development, implementation, administration, management and evaluation. The appropriate mechanisms through which the program will be run and implemented equally need to be sustainable.
   
   In other words, bringing the 35-hectare adopted mountain resource of the University of Regina Carmeli to productive life minimally needs the development of systematic technology the implementation and management of which draws from the outcomes driven by the expressed needs for advancement of the communities and their residents surrounding the resource.
3. Saint Augustine International Institute for Justice and Peace (SAIIJPD)
   A specially designed postgraduate program of the University of Regina Carmeli in the City of Malolos, Bulacan. The institute is intended for individuals who are seeking broad and profound competencies in developing, promoting, and sustaining justice and peace among people, among communities, and among nations.
4. Institute for Continuing Professional Education (I-CoPE)
   The I-CoPE is designed primarily to respond to the emerging needs of professionals who desire to broaden their knowledge and skills in their current jobs/professions. This center also offers special educational packages to non-professionals who wish to acquire a collegiate degree and broaden their access to opportunities in the workplace.