Abstract:

The high sense of unity and camaraderie of an institution lies in the understanding of the highly-diverse culture of the school. Hence, this study aimed at determining the school culture of Pangasinan State University in terms of the course values of institution along Accountability and transparency, Credibility and integrity, Competence and commitment to achieve, Excellence in service delivery, Social and environmental responsiveness and Spirituality (ACCESS). This study also determined the profile of the faculty members in terms of their sex, length of service, highest educational attainment, academic rank and employment status as well as the significant difference between the extent of practice of the school culture across their profile variables. An institutional faculty development plan has also been included to enhance the school culture of PSU based on the assessments of the respondents. The study employed the descriptive design of research study and a total of one-hundred fifty (150) faculty members were considered as the respondents of the study. A questionnaire was used to gather the needed data and the gathered results were processed through the utilization of the SPSS. The researcher found out that majority of the faculty members of the PSU-Urdaneta Campus are male with 1-7 years in service, holders of Master’s degree, Instructor as their rank and still temporary. The school culture of PSU is imbibed and intensively manifested among the faculty members of the institution. All areas of the core values where school culture is grounded have high extent of practice. However, spirituality and competence and commitment to achieve served as the lowest. The profile variables of the faculty members do not contribute any as to how the school culture is practiced by the faculty members of PSU. With all these, the researcher strongly recommended that the faculty members of the Campus should ponder other NBC 461 criteria for promotion. They should also continue pursuing their graduate studies that could also contribute for the elevation of their ranks. On the other hand, the institution should offer more didactic privileges and educational opportunities to improve the skills, knowledge and proficiencies of the faculty members. Seminars as regards spirituality and competency-based trainings should be periodically conducted. PSU is already silver awardee in the Investors in People (IiP) and highly compliant of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Therefore, faculty members should be more aggressive in fulfilling the core values of the University. The sex, length of service, educational attainment, academic rank and employment status of the faculty members do not have any effect as to how they portray the existing and prevailing culture of the University. Lastly, the culture of the school that are anchored on the core values of University could be further enhanced by establishing concrete and doable professional enhancement program.

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