Message from the President

To be
what we promise to become;
To do
what we pledge we shall do;
To live
as we profess and proclaim:

This is to Witness to the Word –
God’s Word and ours.

This is the Corporate Social Responsibility
of the University of San Carlos.

University of San Carlos is an educational institution named after San Carlos Borromeo. As such, it follows the ideals of its patron, among which are to organize its academic programs and social processes so that those who take them become competent professionals who have at heart not just their professional advancement but the good of the bigger society.

University of San Carlos is a Catholic institution of learning. As such, it adheres to the teachings of the Catholic Church in all the aspects of academic life: teaching–learning, research, community service. At the same time, in the spirit of ecumenism and communion, it shares what it believes even with those of other faiths and those who may not have any.

University of San Carlos is owned and operated by the USC Corporation, the majority of whose members are missionaries of the Society of the Divine Word (Societas Verbi Divini: SVD). As such, in its pursuit of its academic and educational goals, it is committed to spread the Word of God and to endeavor that the Word is not only preached but practiced and lived. It is committed to inspiring the community within and outside it with the SVD missionary spirit which draws its strength from the Word of God who became man and lived among us.

University of San Carlos is part of the global society that is the city and province of Cebu, the region of the Visayas, the Filipino nation, Asia, and the world. As such, it collaborates with all stakeholders in education, with government and non–government organizations, with all people of good will in pursuing its educational mission and in responding to social and environmental concerns.

We are the University of San Carlos.

WITNESS TO THE WORD is our Corporate Social Responsibility:
the Word within our worlds and beyond our borders.

Within our worlds, shaped and guided by our Catholic faith, the missionary orientation of the Society of the Divine Word, and the ideals of our patron, San Carlos Borromeo, the University of San Carlos strives to be the best educational institution that we can be, to give our best to those who entrust themselves to us for the education that they seek.

Beyond our borders, our Corporate Social Responsibility also urges us to go, and so do we. We reach out to those who can not come to us. With them we share “what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have watched and touched with our hands: the Word, who is Life” . . . so that they, too, “may be in union with us, as we strive to be in union with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ ,. . . and so that our joy may be complete.” (1 John, 1:1-4)

Our Corporate Social Responsibility flows from our vision:

A WORLD
where the darkness of sin
and the night of unbelief
vanish
before the Light of the Word
and the Spirit of Grace;

A SOCIETY
where citizens are competent,
noble in character, and community – oriented.

The fruit of our mission shall be seen when all Carolinians and everyone
within our worlds and beyond our borders
so live that

what they know, they apply justly and honestly;
what they do not know, they seek to learn;
what they do not have, they endeavor to acquire;
what they have, they share.

This is to Witness to the Word.

This is the
Corporate Social Responsibility
of the
University of San Carlos.

USC Foundation Week
August 19 – 25, 2007