MMSU celebrates achievements thru thanksgiving service

August 04, 2021

By Christine Louise Semana
StratCom Intern

 

Building up on its achievements in the last four years, the present leadership of Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) continues to march forward to realize its goals. 

 

The whole MMSU family celebrated the reappointment of Dr. Shirley C. Agrupis and her fifth year as university president in a virtual thanksgiving service on August 2. 

 

Livestreamed via the University’s official Facebook page (@MMSUofficial), the event enabled the MMSU constituents to give thanks for MMSU’s achievements in the past years, and to hope for more blessings in the years to come. 

 

Pastor Marcial D. Gabriel of the Christ the Chief Cornerstone Christian Church, also the former president of MMSU Faculty Association, Inc., shared a message on thanksgiving based on James 1:17 which says: “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.”

 

The preacher said the virtues of gratitude, humility, wisdom, guidance, and support are the key factors that the university administration needs to emulate in order to achieve more milestones for MMSU. 

 

Meanwhile, university officials congratulated Dr. Agrupis for her reappointment and conveyed their statements of support to the university president. 

 

Dr. Prima Fe R. Franco, vice president for academic affairs, urged the university constituents to work together and support the present administration in attaining its seven-point agenda dubbed ACHIEVE. 

 

For her part, Dr. Agrupis thanked the whole MMSU family for their unity and commitment for the last four years, hoping they will remain the same in the years to come. 

 

The university president encouraged the MMSU constituents to “continue marching forward with operational excellence and well-established systems.” In a bid to make MMSU an industry 4.0 university, she promised the present administration will beef up the academic institution’s resilience by enhancing flexible learning for academic excellence, strengthening health management systems, and intensifying research for development and extension initiatives. 

 

“Above all, let us continue to champion the welfare and development of our students, personnel and the communities,” she added. 

 

Dr. Agrupis has been given another four years to lead the University after getting the nod of the 11 members of MMSU Board of Regents (BOR). Her second term will end on July 31, 2025. (StratCom)