THE CENTRAL Mindanao University, through its College of Business and Management, signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the local government of Kibawe, Bukidnon to launch the school’s first extension class in the province.

The MOA signing was led by CMU President Dr. Jesus Antonio Derije, Mayor Reynaldo Ang Rabanes, and other key officials of the university and the local government.

Rabanes thanked the CMU for helping implement one of the town’s priority programs that aims to provide quality education and to reduce the number of out-of-school youth in Kibawe.

Under the agreement, the university shall provide one section with a maximum class size of 40 students and assign a faculty to manage the students in each subject using flexible learning platforms.

The local government meanwhile shall provide a safe and conducive learning environment, ensure the implementation of health standards, offer transportation services for the faculty assigned in the area, and provide a space to accommodate the faculty along with their academic-related preparations prior to the conduct of face-to-face classes.

“According to the Commission on Higher Education, the extension class is temporary in nature, is not open to the public but to a specified group of people only, and there should be no available administrative and support facilities on the site but mere classrooms,” Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Daryl Jane Caballero said.

“Based on the survey facilitated by the LGU-Kibawe among the senior high school students, it appeared that students preferred to take Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in the university. So, the college offered one section under the BSBA program for SY 2020-2021,” she added.

Caballero explained that these students would take the first two years of classes in their locality and the remaining two years in the university.