The World
economic scenario is rapidly changing. Many small countries are getting empowered losing
their dependence on the traditional economic forces that used to control them. The
Philippines is one such country. It is currently experiencing an economic boom.
Construction and development are moving at an enprecedented pace.
Foreign and local companies are investing huge
amounts of capital into the economy not only in the traditional urban centers but also in
the countryside. Technology is the biggest factor in the developments that are sweeping
the world. Previous business and management practices, which were extremely successful in
the past, are rapidly facing competition in forms and situations that never existed
before.
Management is evolving so fast that practice,
even current ones are being threatened with obsolescence before they can even established.
Institutions have to adjust to these trends. Programs have to be more relevant. It is a
time to change. John F. Kennedy once stated "those that live in the past and the
present cannot be ready for the future". In De La Salle Lipa, we live the future
now…
De La Salle Lipa is an educational institution
strategically located in the heart of the most populated province, of the most populated
region in the Philippines today. It caters to the educational needs of a growing
population in the center of the major government developmental thrust in the Southern
Tagalog region – the CALABARZON project.
There is a shortage of experience and skilled
management practitioners in the area that many employees are recruited from Manila or even
abroad. The increasing demand for masteral graduates at home with technology cannot be
matched by the current output of the educational system.
De La Salle Lipa has been traditionally a net
contributor of trained manpower. It intends to be an active resource for young men and
women needed by the rapidly developing economies of Batangas, Region IV and the
Philippines. It has a track record of performance in various educational fields that has
placed it among the most prestigious schools of the region.
De La Salle Lipa is part of the network of De La
Salle institutions that continue the tradition of excellence, community spirit and
relevance.
Strategic
Directions
De La Salle Lipa
seeks to direct the students in the formulation of a professional philosophy that embodies
the Christian Catholic ideals. It aspires to develop mature and competent professionals
who are fully equipped and committed, sensitive and responsive to the needs of their
communities, proud of their Filipino culture and heritage, strong advocates peace and
justice, respectful of human dignity, socially and ecologically responsible. De La Salle
Lipa is committed to the pursuit of academic excellence, educational relevance, lay
empowerment, social responsibility and Christian values.
MANAGEMENT
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
The Management Technology
Development Centre (MTDC) was organized in November 1995 to service all the professional
development offerings of De La Salle Lipa. The five-storey structure is the home of the
Graduate School and Master in Management Technology Program. It has fully air-conditioned
case room, computer laboratories, communications facilities and internet, offices,
conference and similar facilities, and executive lounge, a three hundred seating capacity
auditorium which are available for, a 900 seat library with multimedia rooms and a fifteen
person capacity elevator is also available in the building. Graduate programs and
professional development courses were based in the MTDC building.
Location
and Facilities
De
La Salle Lipa is strategically located in ten (10) hectares of prime real property along
the Batangas national highway. It is most, a few minutes away from the center of the
business district of Lipa City where students and visitors can avail of public
transportation, boarding facilities, parks, movie houses, supermarkets, restaurants,
banks, auto repair shops, commercial establishments, hospitals, golf courses, shopping
malls and other amenities that can be found in a rapidly developing city. The campus lies
on relatively high ground (about 1000 feet above sea level) where one can often experience
year round cool weather and a panoramic view of mount Makiling on the North, Mount
Malarayat on the East and mount Makulot on the West.
The school has advanced
formal and informal education in the region from kindergarten to the graduate school
level. The institution opened its doors to the public in the 1960’s. Since then, it
has continually grown and met the educational needs of students coming from as far as
north as Manila and as far as south as Palawan. It presently has a total population of
over five thousand students.
In 1994, De La Salle Lipa
was the host institution for the Integrated Management Training Program – a joint
project of De La Salle University’s Graduate School of Business and Economics and Ark
Management, Research and Training Consultants. This project was a series of MBA accredited
courses which were held in seminar form. Several participants of the project proceeded to
take their MBA’s. DLSL continues to upgrade the skills and capabilities of its
teachers by providing in-campus masteral programs in Lipa City.
Other existing school
facilities include a bookstore, chapel, canteen, hotel and restaurant, and audio visual
rooms, a gym with stage, basketball, volleybal and tennis courts, football fields, track
and field oval and softball and baseball diamonds. It is the only school in the province
with an overhead pedestrian walk crossing the national highway.
Ongoing
and Future Developments
On the west
side of the college building is the SENTRUM. It houses facilities such as: a fully covered
gymnasium, a formal lobby, bleachers with a seating capacity of 3,500, refreshment areas,
comfort rooms, locker and shower rooms, stage with dressing rooms, technicians’
booth, offices, storage areas, a laminated wood playing court, etc. A professional quality
lighting system for the playing area, and electronic scoreboard and a high quality sound
system are only some of the facilities available for the holistic development of its
students. The SENTRUM was blessed in December 1995 and is considered to be the first
international caliber sports facility in Batangas province.
Construction of the Management Technology
Development Centre started on February 14, 1996. It was opened to the public in October
1996 in time for the Master in Management Technology program.
The MTDC building is a five-storey structure
housing the graduate school, the Master in Management Technology Program, the Doctor of
Management Technology program, the future masteral programs, case rooms, a 900 seat
library, an Internet multimedia center, audio-visual facilities, offices, an auditorium,
conference rooms, faculty rooms and dining facilities. The building also houses the
science and technology, and communications facilities. The building also houses the
science and technology, and communications facilities of De La Salle Lipa including about
160 computers used by the faculty, staff, graduate and tertiary school students.
The Chéz Avenir was inaugurated on 1 August
1997. It has 4 suites, 6 single rooms, and a host of amenities one will never expect to
find in an academic institution.
The Unified School Buildings and the Tertiary
School Clusters has change the façade of the school. Rising four storeys high, is the
biggest construction project De La Salle Lipa has undertake in this decade.
Other planned projects for the school include the
construction of more facilities for the campus including the Olympic sized swimming pool,
retreat house, glass tower and administrative offices.
The Proposed Doctor of Management Technology Program
Course Philosophy and Goals
The Doctor of Management
Technology (DMT) program was conceived to fill the void that the generalized management
courses have with regard to technology and its use. Much like its predecessor, the Master
in Management Technology Program, the proposed Doctor of Management Technology program
(DMT) is designed to have basic advantages that a generalized doctoral program in business
or economics could offer and add a bias towards the use of technology. This bias is
developed by allowing the students to choose which area of technology they would like to
specialize in. Like most post graduate management courses in the world, the program
requires research, economics, finance, marketing and general management. Other areas dealt
with will be in strategic planning, human resource management, information systems
management, business methods, government, creative and intuitive management.
Like the MMT, the DMT program is also not a
technical course. It is a post-graduate management program that provides its students
with a competitive edge of the use of management, technology and research in
organizational settings. The end product is a graduate who would have the theoretical and
practical skills expected of experienced managers including familiarity and knowledge of
computers and other technologies. They are expected to have a keen insight and
appreciation of the research and modeling of components of current management technology
practices.
The Proposed Doctor of Management Technology
program is 48 units broken down as follows:
Foundation courses (9 units), Core courses (21
units), Management Technology electives (12 units), and the Management Technology Research
Report (6 units). The initial course offering is designed for a part-time student.
Subjects will be conducted from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on weekdays and the whole day on Saturdays.
Classes are expected to have only 25 to 40 students each. Full time courses will be
offered in the future.
Support
Infrastracture
De La Salle
Lipa has the prestige and the access to the professorial talents found in the De La Salle
network. It offers graduate courses, professional development programs, short courses and
seminars and have these courses accredited in La Salle’s own masteral programs. La
Salle has already started modular education which will eventually lead to distance
education, twinning and consortium-type arrangements with other institutions in the
country. Major advantages of De La Salle arise from its track record of excellence, a deep
resource base and available facilities both for immediate utilization and maximum future
expansion. The physical facilities already existing in the campus provide an ambiance
suitable for learning. The La Salle network is also supported by the economic leaders and
has maintained educational excellence through generations. It is one of the first
educational institutions in the country with the global communication link-up to the
Internet. It has a network of hundreds of computers, of which over one hundred and forty
units are already in the MTDC.
In August 1996, even before the MTDC building was
constructed, the Management Training Development Centre provided the backbone of support
to the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) by digitizing all the papers (in record time)
of the "First Business Research Conference" of the Association of Deans of
Southeast Asian Graduate Schools of Management (ADSGM). Since then, it has supported
several other national and international projects including some sponsored by the United
Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United States Agency for International Development
(USAID), the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF), and the International Maritime
Organization (IMO). Locally, it has done cooperative work with the U.P. Marine Science
Institute, the provincial government of Batangas, Jesus Delgado Memorial Hospital, U.P.
Los Baños, Pablo Borbon Memorial Institute of Technology, Lipa City Colleges, Lipa Public
Colleges, U.P. Diliman, De La Salle University and the Asian Institute of Management.
DLSL has a strong social infrastructure brought about by that
Christian leadership and value orientation of the La Salle brothers.
De La Salle Lipa pioneered the Master in
Management and Technology Program in Batangas, in the Southern Tagalog Region and the
whole country. As an Institution, it is willing, ready and able to face the challenges and
opportunities of the 21st Century in order to contribute to national
development through relevant graduate education.
Aside from the Graduate School, the Management
Training Development Centre provides support services to the institution and the
community. The Academic Corporate Exchange (ACE) provides research, consultancy, training,
facilities and management assistance to the community. It is currently involved with
several international organizations (OECF, UNDP, ADSGM, etc.) and the top institutions
(AIM, U.P., DLSU and Ateneo) doing research and providing management, consultancy and
Information Technology services.
Since February 1996, the MTDC has hosted several
seminars, conferences and training sessions for the benefit of the community including the
first CALABARZON Conference on Management and Technology in August 1997 where the chairman
of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Hon. Angel Alcala announced he would support
for the establishment of a Doctor in Management Technology Program for De La Salle Lipa
after the success of the Master in Management Technology Program.
The Technology Resource Unit (TRU) has
trained a significant number of students, faculty and members of the community since it
launched the "Strategic Information Technology Exchange" (SITE) in April 1996.
Originally scheduled to be offered twice a year, the course has been successfully
conducted ten times in 15 months.
