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About Kalayaan College
About Kalayaan College
HISTORY
Kalayaan College is a private institution of higher learning founded in 2000 by a group of professors from the University of the Philippines (U.P.) led by Dr. Jose V. Abueva, President of the University of the Philippines 1987-1993, in order to accommodate bright and promising students who fail to enter the University of the Philippines because of the University's limited physical capacity. This physical limitation is what determines the cut-off grade in the U.P. entrance examinations. Since, historically, the University can admit only a maximum of 5,000 freshmen, this means that the cut-off grade is simply that grade that will admit the top 5,000 students of the 65,000 or so who normally take the examinations, and no more. Examinees who do not make the cut-off grade inevitably include bright and promising ones, some of them valedictorians and salutatorians of high schools in the provinces. Dr. Abueva and his colleagues felt that the limited physical capacity of the University of the Philippines should not serve as a barrier to the nurturing and development of young people into intellectual icons who can become leaders of their country in the years ahead.
VISION
A leading center of learning, educating its share of tomorrow's professionals and leaders, helping to build a just and humane society, fulfilling the material and spiritual needs of our nation, and contributing to global peace and human development.
MISSION In an environment of academic freedom, to develop and nurture in young people the knowledge, values and commitments that will enable them to participate and lead in the affairs of their communities, their country, and the world at large.
WHY "KALAYAAN"? "Kalayaan" is Filipino for freedom, independence or national liberation. For KC, "kalayaan" means the freedom of our students to develop to their full potential for their own good and the good of the country and humankind. The word also means education for freedom; to free the mind from the shackles of ignorance, intolerance, and prejudice.