On October 8, 2025, the ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ข๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป was held at the Senator Leticia Ramos Shahani Convention Hall for the Bachelor of Science in Agriculture program of PSU-Sta. Maria. The event convened university officials, accreditors, faculty, and staff in a concerted effort to prepare for the forthcoming formal accreditation.

The program underscored the critical importance of teamwork and cooperation to ensure a successful outcome for the accreditation process. The ceremony also served to formally welcome the team of local accreditors from various PSU campuses. This team was led by ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐Œ๐š๐๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ง ๐“๐ข๐ง๐ ๐œ๐จ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐„๐ฑ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐’๐”-๐๐š๐ฒ๐š๐ฆ๐›๐š๐ง๐ , and ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐‡๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Œ๐š๐ž ๐‚๐š๐ฌ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐š๐ง, ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐“๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐„๐๐ฎ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ญ ๐๐’๐”-๐€๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐š๐ง, whose expertise and contributions were recognized as vital to the evaluation.

They were joined by a distinguished panel of accreditors, each a specialist in their field, including ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐Ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐‚. ๐‚๐š๐š๐ฌ๐ข, ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐„๐ฑ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ (๐”๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐’๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฅ-๐Ÿ ๐’๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐ˆ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ง ๐€๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐‹๐ž๐š๐Ÿ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐‘๐ข๐œ๐ž); and ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐‘๐ข๐œ๐š๐ซ๐๐จ ๐. ๐†๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ข๐š, ๐ƒ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž (๐ˆ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐‘๐จ๐จ๐ญ ๐€๐ง๐œ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐„๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐•๐ข๐ ๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ž๐ฉ-๐’๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐‘๐ข๐œ๐ž).

The activity concluded with words of encouragement for all faculty and staff, urging them to persist in improving their work and to maintain a positive attitude throughout the rigorous process. The organizers expressed profound gratitude for everyone’s cooperation, emphasizing the collective belief that “๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐’–๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’†๐’™๐’„๐’†๐’๐’๐’†๐’๐’„๐’†, ๐’Ž๐’–๐’„๐’‰ ๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’† ๐’‚๐’„๐’‰๐’Š๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’….”