Mission and Learning Goals

The Department of Office Administration's thrust is to provide learning opportunities to develop the skills, character, personalities and competencies of students in order to prepare them for the professional world.

The Department of Office Administration attaches importance to the development of students with high degree of professionalism, ethics and promotion of Christian values which is consonance on the mission of the university.

The Department of Office Administration aims to provide quality education by constantly improving methods of instruction through hiring competent, qualified instructors equipped with trainings and seminars, and research undertakings.

Objectives

To realize the mission of the Department of Office Administration the following objectives must be achieved:

• Graduates are competent to perform effectively in various business settings.
• Establish linkages with the industry sector for on-the –job training of students that will provide them actual experience on the business, practicing their values and professionalism.
• Provide quality education, the department will ensure that faculty members are qualified and will support the professional development of its faculty members.

Learning goals in the Department of Office Administration were achieved by means of the following:

• Continuing syllabi review/revision to evaluate major courses offered.
• Continuing update/review of the curriculum per CHED memorandum order.
• Adopting practicum program to expose the students to the real world of work and put into practice the theories learned in the classroom.
• Using instructional methods that are interactive/participative, and integrative which enhance the higher-order thinking skills of applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating.
• Maintaining a state-of the-art library with a rich collection of print and non-print resources
• Establishing and maintaining linkages with external parties, such as government and non-government organizations, business and professional associations, business firms in the Philippines.
• Maintaining an environment conducive to learning.
• Encourage faculty members to pursue graduate studies.
• Updating faculty members with the latest trends in the industry by attending institutionalized seminar and trainings and conferences.

Among the measuring instruments or metrics used by the Department of Office Administration in the pursuit of its mission and objectives are as follows:

• Evaluating faculty performance regularly by students, peer, chair and dean.
• Evaluating students' performance in their Practicum by using a Performance evaluation to determine how well the graduating students are performing on their assigned tasks.
• Conducting round table conferences in consonance with providing high quality education to students through continuous improvement of the curriculum.
• Monitoring faculty members pursuing graduate studies.

These metrics drove the students to perform better in their studies. They have to improve both their oral and written communication skills which are very important when then work in an office. Graduates can be hired as executive secretaries, stenographers etc. so it is very important that they have good communication skills.