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Director, Land and Agroecological Resources Management
Functions
- Promote the wise use of land, aiding its design, maintenance and management in a productive, cost effective and responsible manner.
- Ensure that the use of PSAU land meet changing human needs (agriculture, forestry, conservation) while ensuring long-term socioeconomic and ecological functions of the land
- Spearhead the combination of technologies, policies, and activities aimed at integrating socioeconomic principles with environmental concerns, so as to simultaneously: maintain and enhance production (productivity); reduce the level of production risk, and enhance soil capacity to buffer against degradation processes (stability/resilience); protect the potential of natural resources and prevent degradation of soil and water quality (protection); be economically viable (viability); and be socially acceptable, and assure access to the benefits from improved land management (acceptability/equity).
- Implement ecological approaches in agricultural management to make more effective use of soil, water, energy, and biological resources.
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Functions
- Provide an open innovation platform for students, faculty, and staff to create and work on new ideas and design and implement initiatives that bolster the university’s entrepreneurial environment.
- Spearhead the transfer, adaptation and application of environment-friendly innovative technologies produced from agro-ecological research and development with climate change adaptation and mitigation component that would promote agripreneurship in the countryside.
- Address research-extension-farmer-entrepreneur linkage problems, and then identify and implement different mechanisms that would be used to solve these problems.
- Operationalize research productivity that goes beyond bibliometrics: publications and citation objectives, brings about coherence and reinforcement among university-based R&D activities and possesses the elements of deliberate or purposive research utilization which shall involve technology transfer, dispersion, diffusion, commercialization and application.
- Contribute in closing the gap between concept and commercialization (from idea to industry) and in enhancing innovation in specific agricultural technology areas.
- Category: PILLAR4D
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Functions
- Plan and coordinate alumni activities that may benefit the students and the university through alumni associations of faculty, colleges and department levels;
- Foster stronger relationship between the university and the alumni through planned activities;
- Collect and manage data on the alumni and become a referral center to the university;
- Implement activities to boost fund and other resources coming from the alumni;
- Establish linkages with alumni, oversee the organization of local, national and international chapters, and implement programs and projects sponsored by the alumni associations;
- Plan and implement programs regarding practicum and job placement of students and graduates;
- Disseminate information on employment opportunities for PSAU alumni; and,
- Perform other related function/s as may be deemed proper and delegated by the VP-PILLAR4D and PSAU President.
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Vice President for Planning, Innovation, Linkaging, Land
and Agroecological Resources for Development (PILLAR4D)
About
The Office of the Vice President for Planning, Innovation, Linkaging, Land, and Agroecological Resources for Development (OVP-PILLAR4D) is the newest and now the fourth department of PSAU along with the three others: being the Academic Affairs, Administration, Business and Finance and Research, Extension and Training. The Office was born following the release of 2016 SUC Levelling Results which were received by the University on August 29, 2018. Of the 111 SUCs evaluated, PSAU is one of the only 20 which passed and achieved the Level IV status. One of the SUC Levelling benefits for a SUC with Level IV status is that it is allowed to have four (4) Vice-Presidents. Thus, the PSAU Board of Regents (BOR) approved the creation of the OVP-PILLAR4D during its 192nd meeting on September 24, 2018, at the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Central Office, Diliman, Quezon City.
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Director, External and International Affairs
Functions
- Initiate, plan, promote, execute and oversee the exploration of linkage undertakings (institutional, industrial and organizational collaboration and consortium) of the University with local and foreign entities in the form of research collaborations, exchange of publication, sponsorship of conferences, consortia for program implementation, faculty and student exchange programs, scholarships, endowments, faculty industry immersion, student industrial training and other related matter that will redound to the realization of PSAU vision and mission.
- Assist in resource generation from land, infrastructure, material and human resources of the University in coordination with relevant units to support the academic, research and other development programs of PSAU through linkages with external funding institutions.
- Act as the repository of all documents (memoranda of agreement, memoranda of understanding, contracts, etc.) establishing linkages of the university with foreign or local colleges or universities, industries, government agencies, local government units, public or private organizations, civil societies, foundations and people’s organizations.
