| Northwestern University - Laoag | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1932 |
| Type | Private university |
| President | Ma. Liza Nicolas |
| Academic staff | 165 Full-time |
| Students | approx 6,0000 + |
| Location | Laoag, Ilocos Norte, Philippines |
| Campus | 9 hectares (22 acres) |
| Website | www.nwu.edu.ph |
Northwestern University (NWU) is a private non-sectarian university in Laoag City, Ilocos Norte with a 9-hectare (22-acre) campus. Enrolment is around 6,000 students coming from the provinces of Ilocos Norte and some municipalities of Cagayan, Apayao, and Abra.
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Northwestern University has eight colleges. Each college has specific target plans which guide them in designing programs which are vertically articulated from the undergraduate to graduate studies. The university offers doctorate, masters, diploma and certificate courses.
The Northwestern University Ecotourism Park is located at Payas-Samac, San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte in a 7.8 hectare property of the University. It has a hilly topography and surrounded by woodland ecosystem. The project site is about five (5) kilometers away from the downtown Laoag and could be reached by both private and public transport.
the place is also a plethora of fruit bearing trees and richly vast vegetation of wild and edible plants. Birds of all kinds inhabited the place long before the development started. And trying to recapture them by giving a better and favorable environment. The area has a diversified soil strata, some fossilized shells mounted on sand that undergone sedimentation. Corals also found underneath the sub-soils. Soil conditions were sticky to sandy loam. Large amount of clay deposits used chiefly for the production of red bricks are also present.
Name of the place
The word “payas” had a very conspicuous meaning with respect to the Iloco native tongue “Pa-ayas” or “ayas”. It means to roll down the slope”. This was probably the presence of ubiquitous underground water vein in the area, which was early discovered in primeval. To roll water down the slope to irrigate the low land vegetation is where the place gets its name. and Samac an endemic Macaranga specie of the Euphorbiacea family, it is used for wine and vinegar fermentation.
Payas Samac Mountain range is also the nearest peak south of the City of Laoag. It is historically known to be a hide away camp during the Japanese Colonization according the early inhabitants of that land.
The Ecotourism Park and Botanic Gardens therefore are another achievement as a fit to be seen out come and the result of its common shared value in restoring and conserving the biodiversity of the province, dedicated to the people of Ilocandia. In Institutional parlance, it is the University’s Corporate Social Responsibility to our Mother Earth.
As Envisaged by the Late President Ben A. Nicolas the Ecopark and Botanic Gardens were established based on a policy of achieving harmony between resource protection and public use. It is consumptive because of the integration of fresh organic fruits and vegetables produced from its gardens as catered by horticulturists and at the same time non-consumptive because it offers recreation like, camping, picnic, biking, hiking, fishing, sports events, nature photography, Botanical classes, lectures, trainings, seminars, and many more.
The Park is operating in a Zero waste management policy.
To develop a natural environment and a venue for the collection, identification, conservation and proper utilization of Flora and Fauna, to showcase them in the form of responsible and eco-friendly tourism.
Spearhead the conservation of our flora and fauna in the province which are now in the verge of extinction which all humans and animals depends on.
Maintain the ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY of the Ecopark and Botanic Gardens as a model for the community in developing their ecologically balanced environment as a big factor in mitigating the effects of Global Warming
The Botanic Gardens conforms to the General Objectives of the Botanic Garden Conservation International which is to:
(1)Promote scientific research on the collection, identification, utilization and conservation of the world’s Flora especially to our indigenous Philippine plants that are now in the verge of extinction. (2)Create a broad collection of living plant species as germplasm stocks for horticultural trade to other Botanical Institutions throughout the world. (3) Highlights the role of Botanic Gardens in promoting zero waste management through community extension as a big factor in mitigating the effects climate change. (4)Implementing of ex situ and in-situ conservation practices, and (5)Establish microenvironments to display the world’s Flora according to their system of classification.
Botanic Garden Conservation International
The Review is the official college student publication of Northwestern University which is published as a broadsheet and includes an annual literary supplement titled Flame.
The Gazette is the bi-annual news magazine of the university reporting on news and events such as university breakthroughs, projects and programs, faculty achievements, and university affairs. The Gazette is also supplemented by a newsletter which comes out once a month.
Balintataw is the high school student publication of Northwestern University and is published as a broadsheet.
The NU Research Journal is an annual interdisciplinary journal featuring research works of the faculty, personnel, and graduate school students of the University.