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Centro Escolar de Seoritas was among the first to recognize the need for
more well-trained teachers in colleges and universities through post-graduate
education. To meet the demand, the school opened the Graduate School in 1926,
offering programs leading to masters and doctoral degrees. In the latters effect,
Centro Escolar University was acknowledged the first non-sectarian university to
offer programs in the doctoral level.
In 1928, the College of Commerce and Business Administration was
established. That same year, the school founded the first College of Optometry in
the Philippines. Another department, the Conservatory of Music, was established
during the administration of the founder, Librada Avelino.
It was in 1930 when Centro Escolar de Seoritas assumed the name Centro
Escolar University and gained the University status in 1932. To cope with the
difficulties of the times and the need to expand the school, the University was
reorganized and incorporated in 1934 with Librada Avelino, popularly called
Maestra Ada as the first University President.
Carmen de Luna succeeded as the second University President after the
death of Librada Avelino on November 9, 1934. In 1945, Centro Escolar University
opened its portals to male students.
While Social Work courses had been offered in the College of Education for
more than a decade since 1935, it was no until 1948 when the College of Social
Work was formally opened. In 1954, a branch was established in Tambo, Paraaque,
then still a part of Rizal province.
In response to the need for trained nutritionists, the University opened the
College of Foods and Nutrition in 1958. Other post-war needs prompted the
establishment of the College of Medical Technology in 1960.
The term of the third president, Dr. Pilar Hidalgo Lim (1963-1973), was the
beginning of the CEUs expansion in enrolment and physical facilities. It was in 1963
when the College of Chemistry was established.
Expansion and development was continued by the fourth president, Dr.
Dionisio C. Tiongco (1973-1992) under whose term the College of Nursing was
opened in 1975.
Centro Escolar University expanded its campuses to serve the needs of the
students and to comply with the urban decongestion policy of the country.
The birth of CEU Malolos came at a time when the national government was
making educational opportunities available outside the heavily congested Metro
Manila area. CEU Malolos at Km. 44 McArthur Highway, Malolos, Bulacan was
established as the Universitys expansion site in June 1978.
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Dr. Ma. Cristina D. Padolina became the seventh CEU President in August
2006. As CEU Centennial President, she brought to her post an impressive
international educational background with sterling and extensive leadership and
management experience in academe and government, a wisdom she gathered over
the years after having been the Open University (UPOU) Chancellor of the University
of the Philippines and a Commissioner of the Commission on Higher Education of
the Republic of the Philippines.
She spearheaded the opening of the second campus of Centro Escolar
University Makati-Legazpi Village in 2007, the College of Law and Jurisprudence in
2009 and the establishment of a program on Professional and Continuing Education
(PACE) to address the clamor and the neef for lifelong learning in the light of
continuing scientific and technological innovations and change. In September 2012,
the CEU Cebu campus started to offer PACE programs.
Massive curricular reforms were done and new programs were introduced,
like: BS Legal Management, MS in Health Services, MS major in Total Quality
Management, and Ph.D. in Higher Education Management. In 2013, guided by Dr.
Padolinas leadership and inspiration, CEU was inspired as the University with the
most number of Level IV accredited programs.
She believes that CEU, with its dedicated and highly qualifies administrator,
faculty and staff and its strong adherence to quality service, is primed to achieve a
new level of excellence in higher education, thus, she initiated the Quality People,
Quality University Program that focuses on total human development of every
Escolarian educator, administrator, and non-teaching staff.
The prominence that Centro Escolar University has attained since the
pioneering efforts of its founders, Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna, has not
gone unnoticed in the academic community. It is the sum of its series of
achievements for the past 107 years. Ever the educational center of worthy
accomplishments, the name of Centro Escolar University today is a University of
first choice, an institution of higher learning that fosters excellence in all its
endeavors guided by its philosophy Cienca y Virtud.
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