New president elected for Cotabato state college
COTABATO CITY: The Cotabato City State Polytechnic College (CCSPC) has a new head after its Board of Trustees ( BOT) chaired by Dr. Patricia Licuanan, who also chairs the Commission on Higher Education elected the college president during the board meeting held in Quezon City on Monday.
CCSPC Graduate College dean Dr. Dammang Bantala, 60, won 6 votes over his closest rival and his former student in the doctoral program of the college, Dr. Taugan Kikay who got 4 votes.
Dr. Bantala is a graduate of Doctor of Philosophy in Extension Education from the University of Southern Mindanao as a scholar of Philippine Association of State Universities & Colleges.
He also earned his Master of Science in Fisheries major in Aquaculture from the University of the Philippines in the Visayas in Iloilo City as a scholarship grantee of the Los Baños-based Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development.
He tacks a degree in Fisheries major in Inland Fisheries from the Mindanao State University in TawiTawi as a full academic scholar; and has a Master in Public Administration from the Notre Dame University here.
Dr. Bantala was a college administrator for the last 25 years, serving as dean of the different colleges for the last 12 years and spent eight years as director for Research and Extension of CCSPC. Prior to this, he was also administrator of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and has written several scientific papers and published in the different scientific journals.
He hails fromsulu but has settled here in this city for several decades already. Upon his assumption as CCSPC president, he vowed to unite the academic community and emphasized that he is the college president of all the constituents of the CCSPC.
“I am not the president of one tribe or of one group. But I am the president of all stakeholders of CCSPC,” Dr. Bantala pointed out. “We have to move forward and implement the plans and programs that would benefit all of us here in this institution of higher learning,” he added.