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Assumption College (Philippines)
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The Assumption College is a private, Roman Catholic women's college
in Makati City
, Philippines
established in 1959. It provides education from pre-school, elementary, secondary, tertiary, to graduate level. The alumnae and present students of this school include daughters and grand daughters of Filipino Presidents, industrialists, politicians, and prominent figures in Philippine society. It is also considered as one of the elite schools in the Philippines.
The Religious of the Assumption first came to the Philippines in 1892. At the request of Queen María Cristina of Spain, they established the Superior Normal School for Women Teachers in Intramuros in 1892 which pioneered women education in the Philippines. Among its first alumnae were Rosa Sevilla de Alvero, Foundress of the Instituto de Mujeres; Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna, who founded Centro Escolar University. At the outbreak of the Revolution of 1898 the operation of the school was stopped and the Sisters returned to Europe.
At the request of Pope Pius X
, a group of English-speaking Assumption Sisters returned to Manila in 1904. With the group of Sisters were Mother Helen Margaret as Superior, and Mother Rosa Maria who subsequently spent sixty-one of her seventy years of religious life in the Religious of the Assumption in Asia. The Sisters opened the Assumption Convent in Herran-Dakota, Malate, as an elementary and secondary school. The College was added in 1940.
World War II destroyed practically the whole school in the liberation of Manila in 1945. Classes resumed in quonset huts and in a battered auditorium in Herran. Mother Rosa Maria brought Assumption Manila back to its feet and relaunched it in 1947 when reconstruction began. The College reopened in 1948. In 1958, the sisters opened Assumption San Lorenzo in Makati to ease the ever-increasing student population. The College was moved there in 1959.
After some time, the Herran site was sold as the area was becoming a commercial center in a tourist belt and was no longer conducive to learning. In 1972-73, four of the San Lorenzo teachers were transferred to pave the way for merging elementary schools and secondary schools of Herran and San Lorenzo. In 1973-74, the Herran and San Lorenzo schools fused: the High School and the College were based in San Lorenzo while the Preschool and Grade School briefly occupied Herran, then temporarily moved to San Lorenzo in June, 1974. Finally the Grade School settled in Antipolo along Sumulong Highway on September 11, 1974. The Preschool stayed with the High School and College of San Lorenzo. However the distance between Antipolo and Manila became a problem to parents who wanted Assumption education for their children. The persistent appeal of the alumni and parents to re-open the elementary level in San Lorenzo was heeded. Grade 1 was re-opened in 1981 and starting school year 1988-89 grade levels were added until the San Lorenzo Grade School graduated its first Grade 7 students in March 1993.
In line with the spirit of Vatican II, and in response to the call of the Church in the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines and the needs of the country, the Assumption in the Philippines has moved towards the rural areas and the underprivileged sector, without abandoning the education of the upper/middle classes.
Women's college
Women's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women...
in Makati City
Makati City
The City of Makati is one of the 17 cities that make up Metro Manila, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. Makati is the financial center of the Philippines and one of the major financial, commercial and economic hubs in Asia...
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
established in 1959. It provides education from pre-school, elementary, secondary, tertiary, to graduate level. The alumnae and present students of this school include daughters and grand daughters of Filipino Presidents, industrialists, politicians, and prominent figures in Philippine society. It is also considered as one of the elite schools in the Philippines.
History
Sister (later Saint) Marie Eugenie Milleret de Brou (1817-1898) established the Congregation of the Religious of the Assumption as a means to make a Christian transformation of society through education. She founded the Congregation of the Religious of the Assumption in Paris on 30 April 1839.The Religious of the Assumption first came to the Philippines in 1892. At the request of Queen María Cristina of Spain, they established the Superior Normal School for Women Teachers in Intramuros in 1892 which pioneered women education in the Philippines. Among its first alumnae were Rosa Sevilla de Alvero, Foundress of the Instituto de Mujeres; Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna, who founded Centro Escolar University. At the outbreak of the Revolution of 1898 the operation of the school was stopped and the Sisters returned to Europe.
At the request of Pope Pius X
Pope Pius X
Pope Saint Pius X , born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was the 257th Pope of the Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. He was the first pope since Pope Pius V to be canonized. Pius X rejected modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox...
, a group of English-speaking Assumption Sisters returned to Manila in 1904. With the group of Sisters were Mother Helen Margaret as Superior, and Mother Rosa Maria who subsequently spent sixty-one of her seventy years of religious life in the Religious of the Assumption in Asia. The Sisters opened the Assumption Convent in Herran-Dakota, Malate, as an elementary and secondary school. The College was added in 1940.
World War II destroyed practically the whole school in the liberation of Manila in 1945. Classes resumed in quonset huts and in a battered auditorium in Herran. Mother Rosa Maria brought Assumption Manila back to its feet and relaunched it in 1947 when reconstruction began. The College reopened in 1948. In 1958, the sisters opened Assumption San Lorenzo in Makati to ease the ever-increasing student population. The College was moved there in 1959.
After some time, the Herran site was sold as the area was becoming a commercial center in a tourist belt and was no longer conducive to learning. In 1972-73, four of the San Lorenzo teachers were transferred to pave the way for merging elementary schools and secondary schools of Herran and San Lorenzo. In 1973-74, the Herran and San Lorenzo schools fused: the High School and the College were based in San Lorenzo while the Preschool and Grade School briefly occupied Herran, then temporarily moved to San Lorenzo in June, 1974. Finally the Grade School settled in Antipolo along Sumulong Highway on September 11, 1974. The Preschool stayed with the High School and College of San Lorenzo. However the distance between Antipolo and Manila became a problem to parents who wanted Assumption education for their children. The persistent appeal of the alumni and parents to re-open the elementary level in San Lorenzo was heeded. Grade 1 was re-opened in 1981 and starting school year 1988-89 grade levels were added until the San Lorenzo Grade School graduated its first Grade 7 students in March 1993.
In line with the spirit of Vatican II, and in response to the call of the Church in the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines and the needs of the country, the Assumption in the Philippines has moved towards the rural areas and the underprivileged sector, without abandoning the education of the upper/middle classes.
The Milleret School of Business and Management for Women (MSBMW)
The Milleret School of Business and Management for Women includes the following professors in its full-time faculty as of June 2011:- Prof. Ricardo Cruz, Associate Dean
- Prof. Christine Stephanie Allenda, Coordinator - Entrepreneurship, Tourism, Marketing Management, Human Resource
- Prof. Victoria Orjalo
- Prof. Rubyrose Barrientos
Degree programs
- College:
- Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
- Bachelor of Science in Psychology
- Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education Major in Early Childhood Education
- Bachelor of Communications major in:
- Media Production
- Advertising
- Theater Arts and Media Education
- Bachelor in Management Major in Corporate Business
- Bachelor in Management Major in International Business
- Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship
- Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship Specialized in Tourism Management
- Bachelor of Science in Business Administration major in Marketing Management
- Bachelor of Science in Business Administration major in Human Resources Management
- Basic Education
- High School (1st Year to 4th Year)
- Elementary (Grades 1 to 7)
- Pre-school
Notable alumnae
- Gloria Macapagal-ArroyoGloria Macapagal-ArroyoGloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a Filipino politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010, as the 12th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, and is currently a member of the House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Pampanga...
- former President of the Philippines; former Vice President, Social Welfare Secretary, Senator, and Trade Undersecretary - Loren LegardaLoren LegardaLoren Legarda is a Filipino broadcast journalist, environmentalist, and politician of Visayan ancestry, notable as the only female to top two senatorial elections . During the 2004 Philippine general election, she ran for the position of Vice-President as an Independent with Fernando Poe, Jr...
- Senator of the Philippines; former broadcast journalist and actress - Marixi Rufino Prieto - Chief Executive Officer, Philippine Daily Inquirer
- Maria Teresa Gustilo-Villasor - Chief Clinical Psychologist, Makati Medical Center
- Maria Alexandra "Sandy" Prieto-Romualdez - President, Philippine Daily InquirerPhilippine Daily InquirerThe Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as the Inquirer, is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, with a daily circulation of 260,000 copies. It is one of the Philippines' newspapers of record...
; received Ten Outstanding Women in Nation-building Award in 2007 - Teresa Aquino-OretaTeresa Aquino-OretaMaria Teresa Aquino-Oreta , better known as Tessie Aquino-Oreta, was a Philippine senator. She was the chairperson of the Senate Committee on Education, Arts and Culture in the 11th Congress....
- former politician; youngest sister of former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr.Benigno Aquino, Jr.Benigno Simeon "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. was a Filipino Senator and a former Governor of Tarlac. Aquino, together with Gerry Roxas and Jovito Salonga, formed the leadership of the opposition to the Marcos regime in the years leading to the imposition of martial law in the Philippines... - Leah NavarroLeah NavarroLeah Navarro was still in her late teens when she became a major pop-music star in the Philippines in 1970s-80s.Born to a well-off family, Leah's mom is Nelda Navarro, a signer herself who used have her own TV program The Nelda Navarro show...
- singer and political activist - Thelma Dumpit-MurilloThelma Dumpit-MurilloThelma Dumpit-Murillo is a Filipino journalist and broadcaster. She is the eldest daughter of La Union Representative Tomas M. Dumpit.- Education :...
- Director, Public Relations Office, DTI/BOI,Executive Director, Garments and Textile Industry Development Office, former Deputy Executive Director of CITEM, former News Anchor PTV-4 and ABC-5, Distinguished Daughter of the Province of La Union, columnist for The Manila Times and formerly a contributing writer for The Philippine StarThe Philippine StarThe Philippine Star is a daily English-language broadsheet newspaper based in Manila and circulated nationwide in the Philippines. Owned and published by PhilSTAR Daily, Inc, it was founded on July 28, 1986 by veteran journalists Max Soliven, Betty Go-Belmonte and Art Borjal... - Marilou Diaz-AbayaMarilou Diaz-AbayaMarilou Diaz-Abaya is a multi-awarded film director in the Philippines.She is the founder and current president of the Marilou Diaz Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo City, Philippines....
- President, Asia Pacific Film InstituteAsia Pacific Film InstituteThe Asia Pacific Film Institute is a film school in the Philippines.It is the first independently-ran and self-supporting film school in the country... - Isabel PreyslerIsabel PreyslerMaría Isabel Preysler Arrastía, better known as Isabel Preysler, is a Filipina journalist, socialite, and television host.-Early years:Preysler was born in Manila, Philippines, the third of six children to a wealthy family...
- socialite - Vicki Belo - cosmetic surgeon
- Pamela Bianca ManaloPamela Bianca ManaloBianca Manalo is a Filipina actress and the 2009 Binibining Pilipinas 2009 – Universe winner....
- Bb. Pilipinas - Universe 2009 - China CojuangcoJose Cojuangco, Jr.Jose Sumulong Cojuangco, Jr. , more popularly known as Peping Cojuangco, is a former Philippine Congressman and the current president of the Philippine Olympic Committee.-Personal life:...
- Actress, model; daughter of congressman Jose Cojuangco, Jr.Jose Cojuangco, Jr.Jose Sumulong Cojuangco, Jr. , more popularly known as Peping Cojuangco, is a former Philippine Congressman and the current president of the Philippine Olympic Committee.-Personal life:...