Status, Challenges, and Future Directions of the Student Services in Lipa City Colleges

The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines mandates the promotion and protection of the right of the Filipino citizens to quality education accessible to all. In response to this mandate, CHED Memorandum Order 09, series of 2013 states that student affairs and services are the services and programs in higher education institutions that are concerned with academic support experiences of students to attain holistic student development. In the Philippines, every HEI has a unique SAS program. They vary from one school to another and from different hierarchical level of formal education and based on the kind of values, interests, and social advocacies that they intend to support and develop for their students. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), through the efforts of Commission on Higher Education (CHED), the SAS programs among the HEIs have shown great improvement Since colleges and universities are expected to give adequate support and assistance for their student’s development, instances in higher education institutions is still unable to gauge empirically how well it is able to provide and meet needs of its students. Higher education institution shall therefore needs to assess the status and challenges of its student services for improvement. The researchers aim to make empirical data on the status of student services; determine the challenges involved in the delivery of such services and define the directions that may be pursued to further improve the student support services of Lipa City Colleges.

Keywords: student services, student development, student welfare.