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Pamantasang Pambabae ng Pilipinas (Filipino) | |
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Former names | Philippine Women's College (1919–1932) |
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| Type | PrivateCoeducational Basic and Higher Education institution |
| Established | 1919; 106 years ago (1919) |
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Academic affiliations | |
| Chairman | Victorina Amalingan Sales |
| President | Marco Alfredo Benitez |
Academic staff | Approx. 500 |
| Undergraduates | Approx. 5,000 |
| Address | 1743Taft Avenue,Malate ,,Philippines 14°34′27″N120°59′23″E / 14.5742°N 120.9896°E /14.5742; 120.9896 |
| Campus | Urban Main: Malate,Manila Satellite: Congressional Avenue, Quezon City |
| Alma Mater song | PWU Hymn |
| Colors | Maroon and White |
| Nickname | PWU Patriots |
Sporting affiliations | UCAL,WNCAA,WCSA,ISAA |
| Website | www |
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Philippine Women's University (PWU) is acoeducationaltertiary education school which has its main campus inManila, Philippines. Aninstitution exclusive for girls from its inception until the 1970s, the PWU now admits both women and men as its students.[1][2]
PWU'sbasic education department is called the Jose Abad Santos Memorial School (PWU JASMS) and has two campuses inManila and Quezon City.[3]
In 1919 during theAmerican colonial era, the Philippine Women's University was established as the Philippine Women's College (PWC) by a group of Filipino women consisting of Clara Aragon, Concepcion Aragon,Francisca Tirona Benitez, Paz Marquez Benitez, Carolina Ocampo Palma, Mercedes Rivera and Socorro Marquez Zaballero with the assistance of Filipino lawyerJosé Abad Santos, who drafted the university's constitution and by-laws. It had an initial enrollment of 190 students.
The American colonial government granted the Philippine Women's College university status in 1932, and was renamed as the Philippine Women's University. It was the first university for women in Asia founded by Asians. From 1928 up to the outbreak of theWorld War II, Philippine Women's University introduced the following programs: Home Economics, Music and Fine Arts, Social Work, Nutrition, Pharmacy and Business. In 1938, a course in Social Civic training was incorporated into the curriculum. The academic programs were based on the founders' objectives to train Filipinas in civic responsibility.[4]
Established families from all over the Philippines who could afford higher education sent their daughters to PWU. Most institutions offering higher education at that time were exclusively for young men, like PWU's neighbor,De La Salle College. Schools for women offering higher education were operated by secular or religious sisters of theRoman Catholic Church, including PWU's neighbors,Santa Isabel College,Assumption College,St. Paul College, Manila andSt. Scholastica's College. There was also the Centro Escolar de Senoritas College which predated PWU by some 12 years, having been founded in 1907. The PWU had a more 'Americanized' curriculum than the former institution.
The Philippine Women's University survived theJapanese occupation of the Philippine islands ofWorld War II from 1942 to 1945. For a time, classes at the PWU were held intermittently due to the extraordinary conditions imposed by the Japanese. The PWU campus, a building occupying an entire city block, was converted to a hospital, known as the 'Pagamutan ng Maynila (lit. 'Manila Hospital').
The university sustained major damage during the war and barely survived the siege during theBattle of Manila in 1945. The school resumed its operations a few months prior the granting of independence to the Philippines by the United States on July 4, 1946.
The university opened to elementary and secondary education when it founded theJose Abad Santos Memorial School (JASMS) which now has two campuses in Manila and Quezon City and is called PWU JASMS.
The university had its first male president in 1993 with the election of Jose Conrado Benitez.
In 2011, PWU was involved in a joint venture plan to infuse much-needed capital fromSTI, an educational institution owned by Eusebio Tanco.[5] STI stated it assumed debts of PWU, and claimed it prevented an earlier declaration of bankruptcy.[6]
The deal went sour in 2014 and a legal battle ensued when the Benitez family refused to accede to STI's plan to develop a mini-mall and residential condominiums with Ayala Land on the property associated with the PWU JASMS Quezon City campus.[7] STI sought to secure controlling stake over PWU.[8][9] An amicable settlement was reached by the two parties in 2016 which saw STI stepping down from all involvement with PWU and JASMS in exchange for land owned by the Benitez family, which was used to pay back PWU's debts.[5]
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Less than 50 years since the university's founding, PWU opened similar campuses for women in the country, such as inIloilo City in the Visayas andDavao City in Mindanao (opened on June 8, 1953, and actively operating as 'Philippine Women's College of Davao' or PWC).[10] In 1972, the Iloilo City Colleges (now theUniversity of Iloilo) purchased the PWC of Iloilo campus in itsJaro District. They turned the buildings into the Don Benito Lopez Memorial Hospital. Fifteen years later, in 1987, Don Benito Lopez Memorial Hospital was acquired by theWest Visayas State University. It became the WVSU Hospital, a 150-bed tertiary, teaching and training hospital.[11]
PWU opened a satellite campus inCebu City but it has since been closed down. It was located at the corner of Leon Kilat andColon Streets. They also had a satellite campus inCagayan de Oro, along Antonio Luna Extension, but was later closed and soon renamed "Professional World Academy".
The PWC in Davao City was granted autonomy from PWU and operates under a separate charter as a co-educational institution.
PWU started the Career Development and Continuing Education Center (CDCEC) in 1978 as a means to enable the benefits of a PWU education to reach other areas in the country. There are several CDCEC franchises in Calamba, Sta. Cruz, Baguio, Camarines Norte, Tarlac and Bulacan owned and operated by private individuals and groups.
PWU is a member institution of Philippine Association of College and Universities (PACU), Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU), Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA) as well as the International Association of Universities and the International Association of University Presidents.
PWU is active in the Women's National Collegiate Athletics Association (WNCAA) and Women's Collegiate Sports Association (WCSA). The official school moniker is the PWU Patriots.
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