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About the council
Empowering the Iskolar ng Bayan through principled student leadership.
We are the highest representation of student interests in the College of Computer and Information Sciences.
We work to fully represent and serve the needs of all students in the college, rooted with a commitment to academic excellence, transparency, and militant student welfare.
The PUP CCIS Student Council envisions to uphold its identity as the prime genuine, militant, and nationalist representation of the CCIS student union that promotes holistic student development, development of genuine nationalist student leaders, and advancing ICT towards the people. The Student Union shall struggle to forge multi-sectoral unity within and beyond our institution that shall uphold democratic and bottom-up approach to better serve the people and embrace responsibilities for sustainable growth.
To contribute to the attainment of truth, freedom, and democracy in the University and the country. We are committed to establish a student council that is unwavering with its principles, uncompromising with its leadership, and exhausts maximum resources and efforts to serve; a student council that is not just for, but along with, the constituency, and the people.
From the council's Internal Rules and Governance.
Accomplishment report
Every campaign, project and service, period by period, with its photos and its documentation.
The council's first accomplishment report appears here as soon as it is added.
Every council of the College of Computer and Information Sciences, newest first, so the people who served before are not forgotten. Names are added as the council confirms them.
From the electronic data processing courses of 1969 to the College of Computer and Information Sciences of today. Tap a year to go to it.
CCIS began its drive when PUP was still the Philippine College of Commerce (PCC), under the Faculty of Accountancy, in the era when mainframe computers processed accounting transactions. It offered short-term Electronic Data Processing (EDP) courses such as keypunching, basic computer systems, and COBOL and FORTRAN programming.
Only big firms could afford mainframes, so the program head, Dr. Ofelia M. Carague, forged linkages with companies that had computer time to spare. Students ran their programs at the National Computer Center (NCC), UP Diliman and other EDP training institutions, and keypunching was done on the University grounds with machines solicited from NCR Corporation.
Eight years later, the Electronic Data Processing/Computer Data Processing Management (EDP/CDPM) unit was formed under the Faculty of Business and Cooperatives. It began to offer the Bachelor in Computer Data Processing Management (BCDPM), a four-year ladderized academic program.
Through a memorandum signed by then PUP President Nemesio E. Prudente, the EDP/CDPM unit became a full-fledged college, the College of Computer Management and Information Technology (CCMIT), with Dr. Carague as its first dean.
The Bachelor in Information Technology (BIT) was offered the following school year. BIT was mathematics-oriented while BCDPM was business-oriented. Degree holders from non-computer programs could also study computing through the one-year Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in Computer Technology. The names BCDPM and BIT were kept for several years, and the syllabi were often revised to meet the needs of the industry.
The battery test, which screened students' programming before they moved up to second year, was ended since the programs were non-board degrees. In its place, the college held departmental examinations every midterm and final term, said to keep the "quality" of its programs.
On 9 March 1997, under CHED Memorandum Order No. 60, Series of 1996, on restructured standards for IT education, the college proposed major changes to its two programs: BIT became the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) and BCDPM became the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT). The academic council approved them for school year 1997 to 1998.
The Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines (AACCUP) gave CCMIT Level 1 accredited status in 2000. CHED's Center for Development and Excellence in Information Technology (CODE-IT) gave the college a special recognition. AACCUP awarded Level 2 in 2003, and Level 2 again on resurvey in November 2007.
The college began hands-on final departmental examinations in all programming languages, such as C, Java, COBOL and C#.
A room utilization project ordered by then PUP President Dr. Dante G. Guevarra moved the CCMIT computer laboratories from the 3rd floor, South Wing of the Main Academic Building to where they are today, the 5th floor, South Wing.
With the new PUP President, Dr. Emanuel C. De Guzman, the Board of Regents approved a reorganization that realigned units and programs and renamed offices and colleges. CCMIT became the College of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS): the weight of IT had moved from managing structures to the information itself, and being able to manage and use it.
The earliest CCIS Student Council on record is that of A.Y. 2016 to 2017. Every council since is listed under Every council since 2016. Earlier councils are added as their records are found.
