BCC to become a university soon, Leonardia says
The Bacolod City Government is presently looking into the possibility of converting the Bacolod City College (BCC) to a university for it to be able to accommodate more qualified and deserving students, Mayor Evelio Leonardia announced recently.
Leonardia said that the conversion of the BCC to a university is one of the major considerations that the city government aims to accomplish in the next three years as he and the city officials believe in the potential of the graduates that BCC has produced throughout the years.
The mayor also noted the steady increase in the number of new enrollees at BCC every year which he said could be attributed to the prevailing financial difficulties where families opted to avail of the cheap but quality education offered by BCC.
He also stressed that since the college was founded in 1997 during his first term as city mayor, the tuition fee remained unchanged at P30 per unit until now. Leonardia explained that the city government subsidizes the rest of the school’s operating expenses because the city officials believe that cheap but good education and training is the only “capital” that the government can provide students from poor families so that they, too, can have better chances for a good future.
The mayor said that to be able to continue providing quality and affordable education to students, the city government has installed various facilities for students’ use. These facilities included the 60-computer laboratory at the Taculing campus and construction of an eight-classroom building at the Fortune Towne extension campus.
