The Cebu Institute of Technology is identified by the CHEd per its Memorandum Order No. 58 signed by Chairman Romulo L. Neri as belonging to Category A (t) (Mature Teaching Institution) under the Institutional Quality Assurance Monitoring and Evaluation (IQuAME) framework.
CIT is the first higher educational institution in the Visayas and Mindanao classified as Category A (t) institution.
IQuAME is a mechanism by which CHED monitors and evaluates the performance of a Higher Education Institution (HEI) in terms of the effectiveness of the arrangements made by the HEI to manage the quality and standards of its own programs. It also considers matters on governance, management, student support, and resource allocation.
There are four categories under the IQuAME framework: Category A (r) - Mature Teaching and Research Institutions-these are institutions that undertake the full range of higher education functions, including research. There are likely to be only a small number of such institutions, given the need for advanced research effort to be concentrated in academic communities having a critical mass of active researchers; Category A (t) - Mature Teaching Institutions-these are institutions that have teaching as their core business. They will not normally undertake research, although faculty will keep up to date with developments in their discipline through their personal study and scholarship; Category B - Developing Institutions-this category contains institutions that are in a stage of development and which have the potential to be placed in one of the A categories at a future date, and Category C - this category contains all other institutions.
An HEI submits an application, together with a self-evaluation document, to CHED, indicating the category it wishes to be evaluated on. The HEI is then visited by a pool of assessors in order to verify and validate the claims made in the self-evaluation document. The pool of assessors prepares a report and submits them to CHED indicating the result of the evaluation.
There were 21 schools nationwide that were visited in 2006 and early 2007. Out of the 21 schools, no school qualified for the A (r) category and only three schools qualified for the A (t) category.
Going global
To form a united and solid CIT community both here and abroad, CIT alumni has created different local CITAA chapters (CITAA-Cebu Main, CITAA-Luzon, and CITAA-Davao) and International chapters (CITAA Midwest, CITAA Eastern Seaboard, CITAA Southern California, CITAA Northern California, CITAA Australia, CITAA Las Vegas, and CITAA Canada). CITAA and members support the school in terms of donations, scholarships, and lecture series.
The most recent CITAA International Chapter was CITAA Australia in March where an induction of officers was held at the Rydges Hotel, Parramatta, Sydney. The 10th International CITAA Reunion will be held from July 11-13, 2008 in San Francisco, USA.
Education is a right
In school year 2007-2008, CIT has a total of 1,699 scholars, 75 percent of which are CIT-funded mounting to P26.6M. The 1,699 scholars are broken down as follows: 1,523 college students, 122 high school students and 54 elementary students.
The 1523 college student-scholars include breakdown into: 427 sponsored scholars; 373 non-academic scholars; 252 freshmen academic scholars; 209 faculty-administration discount; 201 academic scholars and 60 athletic and special non-academic scholars.
Some of the CIT Scholarship Sponsors are CIT Alumni Associations, Lexmark Corp., Fairchild Semiconductors, NEC Foundation Inc., PJ Lhuillier Foundation, PAMWE, Jurani Foundation, SM Foundation, Davao Light and Power Co., PHINMA, Keppel Cebu Shipyard, Cebu Province and several government agencies like DOST, CHED, OWWA and GSIS .
CIT also gives scholarships and discounts to all high school honor graduates from all private and public high schools. The valedictorians and salutatorians are given ‘’free all’’ scholarships while first and second honorable mentions are given 100 percent tuition discount. The 3rd, 4th and 5th honorable mentions are given 50 percent tuition discount while the 6th, 7th and 8th honorable mentions are given 25 percent tuition discount.
For more than 60 years of academic excellence, CIT has provided quality education at more affordable cost, making it more accessible to the Filipino people.
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