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Colegio de San Beda
Kolehiyo ng San Beda
Motto: Fides, Scientia, Virtus
Established: 1901
Type: Private, Roman Catholic, Benedictine
Rector-President: Rev. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point For the film of this title see Private School (film. Private schools, or Independent schools are Schools not administered Benedictine refers to the Spirituality and Consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in Fr. Anscar J. Chupungco, OSB (Alabang campus); Rev. Fr. Mateo. J. De Jesus, OSB (Mendiola-Taytay campuses)
Faculty: 915 (including service personnel)
Undergraduates: approx. A faculty is a division within a University. The concept of a university with different faculties for different subjects dates back to Al-Azhar University, which had In some Educational systems undergraduate education is Post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelor's degree. 4,000
Location: Manila, Metro Manila, Flag of the Philippines Philippines
Campus: Mendiola, Manila (Main); Taytay, Rizal (Grade School and High School Department); Alabang, Muntinlupa City
Hymn: Bedan Hymn
Colors: Red █ and White █
Nickname: San Beda Red Lions
Mascot: Red Lion, Little Indians
Website: www.sanbeda.edu.ph

San Beda College (SBC) (Spanish for Saint Bede) is a college run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines. The City of Manila Metropolitan Manila ( Filipino: Kalakhang Maynila, Kamaynilaan) or the National Capital Region (NCR ( Filipino: Pambansang The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP Mendiola Street is a short thoroughfare in the district of San Miguel in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The City of Manila Taytay is an urban municipality in the province of Rizal, Philippines. School colors are the Colors chosen by a School to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a University or College within the United States is the name officially adopted by The San Beda Red Lions are the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines Basketball team of San Beda College. The term mascot – defined as a term for any person animal or object thought to bring Luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Bede (ˈbiːd (also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin Beda (beda (c College ( Latin collegium) is a term most often used today to denote an Educational Institution. This article concerns Roman Catholic Order of Saint Benedict see also Benedictine Confederation and Benedictine. Those living the monastic life are known by the generic terms Monks (men and Nuns (women The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP It is located at Mendiola Street in San Miguel, Manila. Mendiola Street is a short thoroughfare in the district of San Miguel in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The City of Manila It was founded in 1901 to cope with the ever-growing need of the population for education. San Beda, which was known then as El Colegio de San Beda, started as an all-boys elementary school, it has since expanded to include high school department and Colleges of Arts and Science and Law School. Currently, it has three other campuses: the San Beda College-Rizal (the largest San Beda campus in size), and the new extension campus for the College of Law at Muntinlupa City. It also has a brother school named San Beda College Alabang (formerly known as St. Benedict College and Benedictine Abbey School) located in Alabang Hills in Muntinlupa. Also, the Paul VI Institute of Liturgy in Malaybalay is being managed by the Benedictine monks.

Located in a once quiet, middle-class residential area, San Beda College is now part of Manila's bustling University Belt, an irregular crescent curving for about six kilometers through six districts of Manila, containing more than thirty colleges and universities. The University Belt is the unofficial name of a De facto sub-district in Manila Philippines.

At present, San Beda College has seven departments: the Basic Education Department; the College of Arts and Sciences, which offers liberal arts, science and business programs; the College of Law, founded in 1948; the Graduate Schools of Business, Liturgy and Law; the College of Medicine, and the College of Nursing. San Beda opened its doors to female students in 2004 and relocated its Basic Education Department (pre-school to high school) to a new campus in Taytay, Rizal.

San Beda is a founding member of the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines). The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA is an athletics association of eight Colleges and Universities in the Philippines. Its varsity teams are the San Beda Red Lions with their Team A referred to as Team Animo and Team B as Team Behold. The San Beda Red Lions are the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines Basketball team of San Beda College. San Beda College Alabang is a member of different sports leagues such as the WNCAA, NCAA South and the National Cheerleading Competition(NCC).


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Facilities

Inside the St. Placid's Sports Complex
Inside the St. Placid's Sports Complex

The physical lay-out of the school provides for both functionality and aesthetics. The school maximizes available space and provisions for multi-purpose rooms. Each classroom has 2 airconditioning units, overhead projectors and, LCD projectors are also provided for each classroom with white screens. A fully air-conditioned and well-lit Conference Hall is also available for use. The school's major athletic facilities include the St. Placid's Sports Complex, the senior football field, the physical fitness room, and the swimming pool.

San Beda College has four libraries, two auditoriums, four science laboratories, six computer laboratories, a medical and dental clinic, two covered basketball courts, a football field, two swimming pools, a quadrangle where graduations and morning assemblies are held, 2 canteens, and a bookstore.

Transition

San Beda College used to be an exclusive school for boys. It became a co-educational institution in 2003. It was the same period when the Commission on Higher Education of the Philippines granted Full Autonomy to the College. It also consistently maintained its Level III PAASCU Accreditation. The Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools Colleges and Universities (PAASCU is a private voluntary non-profit and non-stock Corporation which was registered Upon the granting of Full Autonomy, the College offered Nursing courses and started to transfer its Grade School and High School at Taytay Rizal. The last batch of High School students from Mendiola graduated last March 31, 2006 while only one batch of Grade School remain on the Mendiola campus which will graduate this school year. Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Campus life

San Beda College occupies a 35,000 square metre lot along the historic Mendiola Street in the City of Manila. Mendiola Street is a short thoroughfare in the district of San Miguel in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The City of Manila It is easily accessible by private or public transportation. Along its periphery are situated other colleges and universities, dormitories, shopping centers and restaurants. It takes advantage of the second line of the Light Rail Transit System that passes along the busy Claro M Recto Avenue and Legarda Street.

Though situated at the center of a bustling metropolis near the country's seat of power, the Malacanang Palace, the school maintains a relatively relaxed, urbane and closely-knit environment among the members of the Bedan community. Malacañan Palace, colloquially the Malacañang Palace, is the Official residence of the President of the Philippines.

23 monks work in the school as administrators, chaplains, teachers and guidance counsellors. Grade school and high school classes start at 7. 30 in the morning and end in the afternoon, while college classes start in the afternoon and end at 9. 30 in the evening.

The co and extracurricular activities of San Beda College encourage creative leadership, collaborative management and harmonious empowerment among the students. Each academic department has its own Student Council which closely monitors all activities. To ensure better implementation and relevance to the organization's constitutions and objectives, student organizations are required to submit and if need be, defend a Student Activity Program-Budget Proposal.

Official Student Publications

The Bedan

The Bedan is the official student newspaper of San Beda College, College of Arts and Sciences. It is owned and published by the students, although directly and immediately managed by a group of student journalists.

The Bedan is now on its 65th volume.

Notable Alumni

Notable members include:

Echoes

ECHOES is the official yearbook publication of the College of Arts and Sciences of San Beda College. A yearbook, also known as an annual is a book to record highlight and commemorate the past year of a School or a book published annually To publish is to make content Publicly known. The term is most frequently applied to the distribution of text or images on paper or to the placing of content

CAS-ECHOES is the official yearbook publication of the College of Arts and Sciences of San Beda College. It was originally named "Ecos dela Congregacion del NIño de Praga y Colegio de San Beda" on January 1961 and was designated as the college's official newsletter. Gracefully yielding to the changes of time, it has evolved and soon found its purpose on the portals of creating college's annual. Through the years, it has constantly embraced changes for improvements such as interactive CD's, multi-volume yearbook and full colorization of the annual.

SPIRES

SPIRES is the official literary journal of San Beda College, College of Arts and Sciences. A literary magazine is a Periodical devoted to Literature in a broad sense It was established in 1956, with a 76-page journal with Ret. Rev. Wilfrid Rojo, then college rector as the moderator, Deputy Dean Recaredo V. Enriquez, advisor, and Fortunato Gerardo as the first editor. Gerardo envisioned the journal as a medium for “the furtherance of the facility and beauty of expression. . . to expose the trend of writing, the attitude of thinking and intensity of feeling or degree of idealism of students who try to translate their thoughts and emotions into the alphabet of thinking. ”

Because of the few surviving records and copies of SPIRES, the exact number of publications can no longer be provided and only a few copies of the past issues served as a mirror to the present.

SPIRES has taken various forms. It has become a research journal with topics ranging from phenomenology, theology, and giving critics of certain trends and ideas of the generation they represent. Theology is the study of a god or the gods from a religious perspective SPIRES also served as a publication for all the winners of SPIRES literary contest held throughout the Bedan community in Mendiola. From then on, SPIRES catered to a number of writers and has witnessed the times and changes of a generation. Of the recent achievement of the publication, Last 2002, during the 1st Catholic Mass Media Awards, the literary journal was a finalist among a number of publications all throughout the country bested only by Ustetika from the University of Sto. Tomas. Also, in 2005 The SPIRES applied for an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN). Further, The SPIRES had also been the literary journal to have its pages available to: Benildus Maramba, OSB, Carlos M. Tayag, Jaime Licauco, Rene Saguisag, Bernardo Ma. Perez, OSB, Tarcisio Narciso, OSB, Raul Roco, Herbert Bautista, and Fr. Anscar Chupungco, OSB, to name a few of its hundreds of contributors.

In the 1960s, the journal released three issues per academic year, which gradually fell to two issues. A journal (through French from late Latin diurnalis, daily has several related meanings a daily record of events or business a private It sometimes took at least two years just to compile a volume of Bedan literature. There were a number of years wherein nothing was heard of the publication such that rumors spread that The SPIRES had become defunct.

Over the past decade, The Bedan, the student publication of the College of Arts and Sciences realized the need for an avenue for Bedan literature. It was in 1989, through the initiative of The Bedan literary editor Samuel C. S. Porcalla that The SPIRES was reborn, carrying the cover theme: "The Rebirth". The Bedan served as aide to The SPIRES, which resulted in confusion that The SPIRES was re-launched under The Bedan. However, The SPIRES and The Bedan are separate and distinct publications serving different purposes under different editorial board. Over the years the literary journal took a number of facelifts. Aside from text, photos and caricatures are now included in the journal giving The SPIRES a more comprehensive means of communicating the message that it wants to convey to the Bedan community. In A. Y. 2007- 2008 despite the partial removal of the administration of the mandatory collection of publication fund, the Editorial board of the Spires vol. 46 manage to release the first Spires "themed based" issue entitled, "The Spires - Love and War". The theme was based on the sentiments of the literary works submitted by Bedans.

At present, The SPIRES seeks to promote a culture of writing among Bedans.

Programs offered

San Beda College-Rizal:

San Beda College Rizal Campus
San Beda College Rizal Campus

Starting 2004, the Basic Education Department was relocated to a new campus in Taytay, Rizal.

Basic Education Department

San Beda College-Mendiola, Manila:

College of Arts and Sciences

College of Nursing

In 2003, the board of trustees of San Beda College approved the opening of the College of Nursing in consortium with Loyola Medical College Foundation chaired by Dr. Johnny Fong.

On its first year the College was housed in the third floor of St. Benedict's Hall. A year later, in June 15, 2004, the New Nursing building was blessed and inaugurated in honor of Rose and Albert Fong. Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " It has 12 rooms and 2 Skills Laboratories. The Skills Lab A serves as the lecture room for RLE activities while the Skills Lab B was set up as a "Mini Hospital" which includes an Operating Room, Nurses Station, Private Rooms, Delivery Rooms and Nursery.

The College of Nursing is one of the youngest course in San Beda College. It had a good performance during the 2005 Nursing Board Exams, wherein 88% of Bedan Nursing examinees passed and one of them is a board topnotcher (8th place), which was cited by the Commission on Higher Education for a good performance and included as one of the Top Nursing Schools in Metro Manila.

Up to the present, the College offers quality Nursing education and remains competitive among other older established Colleges in the country. With very competent faculties and facilities to offer.

College of Medicine

The College of Medicine was established in March 9, 2002 to offer a four year course leading to the Degree of Doctor of Medicine (M. Events 590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Doctor of Medicine ( MD or MD, from the Latin Medicinæ Doctor meaning "Teacher of Medicine" is a doctoral D. ) and to help San Beda eventually gain university status being its fifth unit. It has a faculty of over 70 medical lecturers.

The College occupies most of St. Benedict's Hall for its offices and classrooms. It uses several laboratories in St. Maur's Bldg. along with other colleges and have a dedicated cadaver room on the third floor for its anatomy classes. A cadaver or corpse is a dead Body. "Cadaver" is normally used as a more formal term for a body being used in medical training or research Clinical clerks (fourth year medical students) do their clinical rotations at Rizal Medical Center, Quirino Memorial Medical Center, Armed Forces of the Philippines Medical Center, Makati Medical Center, Philippine Children's Medical Center, Veterans Memorial Medical Center and Makati City Health Centers.

The College has sent examinees from its first batch of graduates from the school term 2002-2003 to the August 2007 medical board exams. Seventy-one percent of students passed.

College of Law

The College of Law was founded in 1948. San Beda College of Law is the law degree-granting unit of San Beda College (SBC a private Roman Catholic college run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines It has produced reputable Filipino lawyers such as former Senator Rene Saguisag, the late Senator Raul S. Roco, and six Justices of the Supreme Court – Florenz D. Regalado, the holder of the highest bar exam grade in the country, Justo P. Torres Jr. , Gregorio Perfecto, Antonio M. Martinez, Romeo J. Callejo Sr. , Antonio Eduardo B. Nachura.

In 2004, the San Beda College, in partnership with the Supreme Court of the Philippines and the Philippine Judicial Academy, established the Graduate School of Law with post-graduate studies focused on criminal justice and the judicial system in the country.

Graduate Schools:

Graduate School of Business

Three (3) graduate programs in business, namely: (1) Master of Business Administration (MBA), (2) Master in Entrepreneurial Management (MEM), and (3) Master of Business Administration-Organizational Development (MBA-OD) were initially offered in 2001. Graduate students grew from 44 in 2001 to about 250 during the AY 2005-2006. These graduate programs have produced 73 graduates since the initial offering.

On its second year of program offerings in 2003, the Commission on Higher Education rated San Beda Graduate School of Business as “very good”.

San Beda College opened one satellite campus at its sister school, San Beda College-Alabang, and has offered the Law and MBA programs since AY 2005-2006.

The Doctor of Business Administration Program launched in AY 2005-2006, currently has 20 students, 15 of which are Indonesians.

Courses under these programs are guided by course syllabi designed following a competency-based curriculum. These courses are handled by 17 faculty members, 6 of which are DBA holders. These include academicians, practitioners, and entrepreneurs.

Students and faculty members are given opportunities to publish completed researches in the school’s publication known as “The Graduate School of Business Research Journal. ”

Course Offerings

Graduate School of Liturgy

From the initial offering of the Master of Arts in Liturgy at the Paul VI Institute of Liturgy in Malaybalay, Bukidnon, the Graduate School of Liturgy (GSL) was formally established in San Beda College-Mendiola in 2002. The GSL offers the Master of Arts in Liturgy, Master of Arts in Liturgical Studies, and Doctorate in Liturgy. {{Fact}] The GSL is believed to be the first and only liturgy school in Asia when it was founded in 2002.

About 46 students are currently enrolled in the Graduate School of Liturgy (GSL). The GSL has several masteral graduates. One student has successfully defended the doctoral dissertation. The first doctoral graduate of San Beda College, according to the GSL, came from the liturgy school.

Regular attendance of the faculty members in the National Meeting of Diocesan Directors of Liturgy, the Liturgy Week, and the Asian Liturgy Forum motivate them to do research on liturgical topics. Four GSL professors started to work on their doctorate since 2004. The GSL’s journal known as “Scientia Liturgica,” and the trimestral newsletter, “Liturgy Update” serve as venues for faculty research and publication.

Faculty members are also professors of liturgy in various theological institutions, major seminaries, and houses of formation - Loyola School of Theology, UST Ecclesiastical Faculty, San Carlos Seminary, Mother of Good Counsel Seminary, to name a few.

The GSL is currently undertaking outreach projects which provide resource persons for formation seminars for liturgy personnel and clergy of the Archdiocese of San Fernando, Pampanga; summer program and short seminars at Paul VI Institute of Liturgy in Malaybalay, Bukidnon; Asian Liturgy Forum; and National Meeting of Diocesan Directors of Liturgy.

Among its faculty members are Msgr. Moises Andrade, liturgist Rev. Fr. Genaro Diwa, and world-renowned liturgical expert Very Rev. Fr. Anscar J. Chupungco, who was one of the founding fathers of the Paul VI Institute of Liturgy in Malaybalay, Bukidnon, and of the San Beda Graduate School of Liturgy.

Course offerings

Graduate School of Law

The Graduate School of Law offers three degree-programs: Master of Laws (LL. San Beda College of Law is the law degree-granting unit of San Beda College (SBC a private Roman Catholic college run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines M. ), Master of Science in Criminal Justice Administration (M. Sc. Justice Ad. ). The system of delivery combines classroom sessions held once a month and guided research. Extensive use in some subjects is made of on-line chat-sessions and in others, mentoring. Professors are invited from the senior members of the superior courts of the Philippines as well as from leading academics in law, criminology and related disciplines.

In partnership with foreign students the Dean and the Faculty may also craft individualized programs to suit the individual needs of foreign students.

The Master of Laws program has nothing to do with membership in the Philippine Bar and even if, as a general rule, students should be members of the Philippine Bar this is not an indispensable condition provided that the candidate exhibits the level of competence demanded of doctoral programs and the capacity for research that will result in a genuine contribution to the discipline.

San Beda College-Alabang

Located Alabang Hills Village, San Beda College-Alabang (SBC-A) was founded in 1972 and was originally named Benedictine Abbey School. It began as a basic co-educational school. In 1995, it gained college status and renamed itself as St. Benedict College. In 2004, however, due to the clamor of the students and with the approval of the Very Rev. Fr. Anscar J. Chupungco, OSB, the college changed its name and has formally adopted since then the name, San Beda College-Alabang.

San Beda College Alabang
San Beda College Alabang

College of Arts and Sciences

College of Law

The San Beda College of Law in Alabang was recently established in 2004. It serves and caters to residents of the southern part of Metro Manila who want to take up law but are not able to come to the Mendiola Campus due to distance and time constraints.

The College of Law in Alabang does not have its own Charter and license to operate independently from the Main Campus so it is considered as an "Annex" or "Satellite" of the College of Law in Manila as stated and cleared in one of the issues of San Beda College of Law Student Publication.

Notable alumni

For complete list see:

Main article: Notable San Beda College alumni

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