Higher Education - Cotabato City, Region XII, Philippines
The Notre Dame University (NDU) is a private research university in Cotabato City, Philippines run by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate and it has been a member of the Notre Dame Educational Association, a group of Notre Dame Schools in the Philippines.In 1948, the Oblates established the Notre Dame College as the first college founded in Cotabato City and the entire province. Robert E. Sullivan was its first Rector and Dean. When it opened, there were only 128 students and a pioneering faculty of eight, with classes being held at the Notre Dame of Cotabato Girls Department building. In 1949, the Notre Dame College acquired its own building.The college received full government recognition for its course offerings in Liberal Arts, Commerce and Education in 1953. In the same year, the College of Law started offering first year law subjects. Complete elementary education was offered later with the establishment of the Notre Dame Training Department, envisioned to be a teaching laboratory for Education students majoring in Elementary Education.In an order signed by then Secretary of Education Onofre Corpuz, the Notre Dame College was elevated to University status on March 11, 1969 . The Notre Dame University was formally inaugurated on September 9, 1969, highlighted by the investiture of the Very Rev. Joseph Milford, OMI as the first University President.The decade of the 1970s brought about significant changes in the life of the University. From a struggling small college in 1948, it metamorphosed into a University in twenty-one years of its existence. One significant change was the assumption of the first Filipino President Orlando Quevedo.Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_University_(Philippines)
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