Institutional Assessment
UA&P submitted itself to CHED’s Institutional Sustainability Assessment (ISA), in which the following five key results areas were assessed:
- Governance and management (including management of resources);
- Quality teaching and learning (including competency, programs, and faculty);
- Quality of professional exposure, research, and creative work (including linkages);
- Support for students (including learning resources and support structures), and;
- Relations with the community (including extra-curricular linkages, service learning, outreach).
Having been assessed by CHED for institutional enhancement and sustainability, the University made it to the ranks of one of the autonomous higher educational institutions in the country in 2016. The validity period of autonomous status of UA&P has been extended to three more years from June 1, 2021 to May 30, 2023, by virtue of CMO NO. 7, series 2021. Application for the renewal of autonomous status was filed in December 2023, pending outcome of evaluation by CHED’s Office of Institutional Quality Assurance and Governance (OIQAG). As such, the University shall continue to enjoy the benefits of its status as an autonomous institution of higher education provided by CMO No. 19, s. 2016.
Rankings
UA&P was placed in the 2020 edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings based on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
Participating for the first time in the THE Impact Rankings, UA&P submitted data on the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) and SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), where UA&P ranked 201-300th among the 766 participating universities from 85 countries; and SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals), where the University ranked 500-600th.
Sustainability Reporting
The University has earned international credits from Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an Amsterdam-based international independent organization that provides the world’s widely used standards on sustainability reporting and disclosure in three areas of sustainability: economic, social, and environmental. The Sustainability Reports have gained for the University the following outstanding record:
- UA&P is the first academic institution in Southeast Asia to have produced a Sustainability Report following the GRI framework in 2012.
- It is the first university in Asia to produce a report in 2014 that is ‘In Accordance’ with the GRI G4 Guidelines – Comprehensive option that is externally assured and which successfully completed the GRI Materiality Disclosures Service.
- UA&P, in keeping with its mandate to be socially relevant and responsive to the needs of its stakeholders, included a fourth perspective—academic performance—in its sustainability reports.
The University received the 2019 Organizational Mark from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) for its 2014-2017 Sustainability Report (SR) with the theme “Taking Stock of our Footprints and Imprints”. The organizational mark is a formal confirmation by GRI that the submitted report has undergone and successfully completed the Materiality Disclosures Services.
The third Sustainability Report, which covers the reporting period of 2014-2017, marks another achievement of the University for its disclosure according to international sustainability performance standards and for being the first academic institution in Southeast Asia to produce a sustainability report based on the 2019 GRI Standards issued by the Global Sustainability Standard Board (GSSB), the GRI’s independent standard-setting body. The set of GRI standards include three universal standards—economic, environmental, social— and thirty-three topic-specific standards.
The sustainability reports may be accessed here.
About AQA
Formally established in May 2014 as Quality Assurance Office (QAO), the Academic Quality Assurance Office (AQA) is entrusted with the full responsibility of the management, enhancement, and assessment of processes and procedures governing, among others, accreditation of programs for continuing quality improvement.
UA&P submits its academic programs in the undergraduate and graduate levels for evaluation by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and by external accrediting agencies such as the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities – Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA), including international accreditation by the International Advertising Association for the Integrated Marketing program of UA&P.
AQA, which forms part of the Quality Management Team (QMT) of the University alongside Business Process Analytics (BPA) and Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), continues to intensify UA&P’s initiatives for the development of the culture of quality across academic and administrative units.
