Negros Oriental State University

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Negros Oriental State University (formerly Central Visayas Polytechnic College) is a university in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental in the Philippines. It is located beside the provincial capitol building of Negros Oriental.

Central Visayas Polytechnic College was founded in 1927. By virtue of Republic Act 9299 in 2004 it was granted the status of university and renamed Negros Oriental State University.

Upon its conversion as a state university, Central Visayas Polytechnic College (CVPC) Main Campus I, CVPC Main Campus II, CVPC Bayawan-Sta Catalina Campus, CVPC Bais, CVPC Guihulngan, Genaro Goni Memorial College, Siaton State College, and Mabinay Institute were integrated together to become the collective Negros Oriental State University.

Statistics

The university adopted a bi-semestral system wherein students enroll twice each year. The first semester enrollment starts as early as 2nd week of May and ends early June, when classes begin as well. First semester class normally ends 3rd quarter of October.

The second semester enrollment starts late October and ends first week of November. The semester ends last quarter of March although normally honors day and commencement dates fall on the 3rd week of March.

The university has an average of 15,000 students per semester per year coming from all over the province, some as far as Mindanao, Davao, and General Santos and from the north, Manila, the Cordilleras and Cavite.

University Fathers

The university was fathered and led by several intellectual and prominent persons from the province. A lot of the developments that the university enjoy now can be attributed however to its present University President, Henry A. Sojor.

Sojor hailed from Dauin, Negros Oriental. A small municipality with nothing so much to brag but its underwater spectacles owing a lot of it from Apo Island, that is generating prominence from and among sea divers.

Sojor as a child was an underprivileged born to a poor mother. Sojor works his way to college and gain entrance to the infamous Silliman University finishing his doctorate degree from the same university in the late 80's.

When Sojor was appointed as president then of CVPC, the university was then tagged as "bahong taya" (baho meaning smell, and taya which means rust) because of its old equipment, dilapidated building and rickety classrooms.

From his time on, the university has gained international recognition and has linked with various advanced universities in Asia, Australia and the US. The most recent link it made was with Kyung Hee University of Korea.