Francisco Paulino V.

Cayco
Chairman and CEO, Arellano University

BESIDES being the chairman of the board of trustees of Arellano University, Francisco
Paulino V. Cayco, acts as its chief executive officer (CEO) and concurrently president
and chief operations officer (COO). He presides over board meetings, leads the
management team, directs the general administration and takes care of overall
operational performance.

The university board of trustees, which he heads as chairman, is composed of five

members. The other board member-trustees are Florentino S. Cayco III (vice-
chairman), Alma C. Curato, Valente V. Cayco and Pedro S. Cayco. Atty. Manuel B.
Curato acts as corporate secretary.

As chairman of the board and CEO, Mr. Francisco P. Cayco is responsible for
formulating policies, crafting plans and programs, charting goals and objectives and
devising strategies to make sure the university objectives are met. He makes sure
policies are enforced to maintain the university's tradition of educational excellence. He
likewise exercises strategic leadership and sees to it that his corporate governance
addresses the challenges that institutions of higher learning in the country face
nowadays. His other task focuses on ways and means to ensure the school's steady
pace of growth.

He also heads the management team that exercises dedicated corporate leadership
and executes plans and programs. His management team is composed of the senior
officers of the administration, which include six vice-presidents (academic affairs,
finance, administration, marketing, international program and human resources
development) and four assistant vice-presidents (AU Campus in Mandaluyong, AU
Campus in Malabon, AU campus in Pasay, and AU campus in Pasig).

The academic council reports to the chairman and CEO. The council, which is regularly
presided over by the vice president for academic affairs, is composed of college deans,
academic department heads, and the various groups of faculty (institutes, schools and
colleges) of the entire Arellano University system.

As CEO / COO, he runs the affairs of six separate campuses of Arellano University
located in key cities of Metro Manila, which are largely under his direct control and
supervision. These campuses are the Juan Sumulong (main campus) on Legarda
Street, Sampaloc Manila; Jose Abad Santos campus on Taft Avenue and the Apolinario
Mabini campus on Menlo Street, both in Pasay; Andres Bonifacio campus in Pasig;
Plaridel campus in Mandaluyong; and Elisa Esguerra campus in Malabon.
By and large, the university chairman and CEO takes responsibility for strategically
shaping an environment of competence that plays a vital role in the education of the
Filipino youth, in the growth of the Philippine school system, as well as in the socio-
economic development of the country.

DESIGN

The Arellano University seal was inspired by the heroic photograph of American
marines raising the Stars and Stripes on the summit of mount Surabachi. The seal was
prepared by the great artist, Vicente Manansala. The whole design is expressive of the
faith of the Arellano University in the youth of the land as builders of the Filipino nation.

MEANING

The three virile young men—representing Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, and depicted
as raising the Filipino flag on the promontory symbolize the fortitude, the courage and
the sense of social cohesion that the three main ethic groups of the Philippines should
possess in the fullest measure, if we as a people are to realize our dream of a strong
and united nation.

Promontory. This gives a vivid impression of the rough obstacles that the youth have to
meet and overcome in order to reach the goal of their ambition.

The limitless horizon beyond the promontory signifies not only the boundless
opportunities that this land of ours has to offer to its youth but also the infinite range of
human knowledge.

The cluster of three stars illuminating the heavens symbolizes either the three great
branches of human achievement in the realm of learning and culture science,
philosophy, and art; or three-fold ideal of education – the education of the body, the
education of the mind, and the education of the heart.

Without the beneficient guidance of this educational ideal, no man can hope to lay claim
to a full and well-rounded existence. For he should not only possess the necessary
skills and knowledge that would make him self-sufficient and capable of holding his own
in a complex society; such skills and knowledge should also be governed by his deep
sense of human values, by his sympathetic awareness of the world of nature and of
men, and by the recognition of his part in the essential unity of creation.

The late Florentino Cayco, Sr., first Filipino Undersecretary of Public Instruction and
illustrious educator, conceptualized the birth and administered the growth of Arellano
University.
This prestigious institution of learning opened in 1938 as the Arellano Law College,
named after Cayetano Arellano, first Filipino chief justice. It closed in December 1941
until March 1945 under the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II.
At the end of the war, this educational institution reopened in April, 1945 and was
renamed as Arellano Colleges offering a two-year preparatory law course and the
regular four-year law course, as well as a complete secondary education curriculum.

In June 1945, Arellano Colleges offered a four-year course in education (Bachelor of

Science in Education), a two-year teacher training course (Elementary Teacher?s
Certificate) and an elementary school training department. Likewise offered were
courses in commerce, foreign service, and arts and sciences.

A year later, in June 1946, Florentino Cayco, Sr., became the first President of Arellano
Colleges. Through his efforts, Arellano Colleges was elevated to, and recognized as,
Arellano University on February 22, 1947 by the Department of Education, Culture, and
Sports.

It was also in 1947 that the graduate school was organized and authorized to offer a
course leading to the degree of Master of Arts in education as a requisite for the grant of
university status.

In 1954, Arellano University opened a school of nursing which offered a basic nursing
course. In April 1960, the School of Nursing expanded its curricular offerings by adding
courses in post-basic nursing with majors in public health and clinical teaching. The
School of Nursing was later renamed College of Nursing. At about the same time, a
preparatory medical course was added to the general curriculum of the College of Arts
and Sciences.

In 1978, the graduate school was renamed Florentino Cayco Memorial School of
Graduate Studies, in honor of the founder and first president of Arellano University.
Added to the graduate courses were the degrees of Master of Business Administration,
Master of Science and Economics and Master of Arts in Nursing. In the same year, the
management of the College of Law was turned over to Arellano Law Foundation under
a Memorandum of Agreement.

Its incessant expansion in all areas and locations has evolved into a network of
campuses, the better to serve Metro Manila by going closer to the people.

Like the founder of Arellano University, Cayetano S. Arellano, after whom the
University is named, had very humble beginnings and earned his way to the top through
assiduous scholarship and hard work.
Arellano was born in March 1847, in Orion, Bataan, to Don Servando Arellano, an
adventurous Spanish peninsular who tried his luck in the Philippines with apparently
little success and to a fair damsel of the place, Do?a Cristy Lonzon. Early on, the boy
Cayetano was fascinated by language and the study of philosophy. His parents,
despite lack of resources, managed to send him to San Juan de Letran in Intramuros,
where Cayetano maintained himself as an agraciado or working student. After
completing his secondary course, he enrolled at the University of Sto. Tomas, where he
studied Philology, Philosophy, Theology, and Civil and Canon Law, in preparation for
the priesthood.

In 1862 at the tender age of fifteen years, he received the degree of Bachelor of
Philosophy; five years later, the degree of Bachelor of Theology. For some reason,
Cayetano did not enter the priesthood but instead took up the study of law, an
inclination that manifested itself even when he was pursuing studies for the priesthood.
In 1876, he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Laws.

Arellano then proceeded to practice his profession until the year 1898. At the same
time, he taught law at his alma mater, the University of Sto. Tomas. Students under him
who later distinguished themselves in the profession, such as Francisco Ortigas and
Valdomero Arhente, would, in later years admit that it was a great privilege and a
blessing to have been under such a master as Arellano. At about the time he began his
law practice, he met Rosa Bernal, the daughter of the owners of the boarding house
where Arellano was then staying. They were married after a short courtship.

From 1887 to 1889, Arellano served as City Councilor of Manila. Recognizing his
competence, the government offered him the position of Civil Governor of the City of
Manila, which he refused. This was at a time when the country was gripped with
revolutionary fervor and this was the reason, perhaps, for his refusal of the appointment.

When the Philippine revolutionary government was established, he was appointed

Secretary of Foreign Affairs. After the war against the United States collapsed and with
the advent of American government, Arellano decided to cooperate with the new
masters for the good of the country. He played a principal role in the organization of the
courts and in the codification of the marriage and municipal laws and the rules of
criminal procedure.

In 1899, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, the
first Filipino ever to hold that position, in which he made a name for himself as one of
the country's greatest jurists.

From grinding poverty to the presidency of a leading institution of learning – that is the
life story of Florentino Cayco, Sr.
Born in Malabon of poor parents, Cayco had to work very early in life as a gardener in
the Bureau of Lands in order to support himself through school. His pay: 10 centavos
per hour.

After finishing the seventh grade, he was appointed, in view of his superior
performance, primary school teacher at a salary of P20.00 a month. Later, he took the
examinations for intermediate teachers, which he topped. This improved his position by
his appointment as intermediate teacher with the then fabulous salary of P40.00 a
month.

Realizing that there was a great disparity between the salaries of Philippine teachers
and American teachers that could be bridged by passing the American Teachers
Examination, Cayco, after three years of patient studies, took the test and passed it with
flying colors. This led to his appointment as supervisor, one of the first Filipinos to hold
such a position. About this time, in view of the increasing number of high school and
college graduates, he was in the awkward position of being supervisor to teachers who
possessed a higher degree, much better qualified, academically, than he. He decided
to get a college degree.

But there was a problem. He did not possess a high school diploma which was required
for admission into college so he had not choice but to go through high school. Through
arrangements made by a superior who recognized his ability, he was allowed to enroll in
high school without necessarily attending classes with the condition that he take and
pass the examination at the end of every semester. To fulfill this condition, he took a
geometry, biology or physics textbook with him to study during his inspection trips. At
the end of each semester, he took his place among high school students to take the
examinations. He completed the required high school units that made him eligible for
entrance to college, though he was not granted a high school diploma because of lack
of residence.

He then took the pensionado tests, which again he passed with high honors. He was
sent to Indiana State University, where he so distinguished himself as to earn a
membership in the exclusive scholastic fraternity PHI BETA KAPPA. His scholastic
record at Indiana State has not been equalled, much less, surpassed up to now. When
the Indiana State University celebrated the 100th year of its founding, fifteen of its best
students, on the basis of scholarship and campus leadership, was chosen to represent
the original fifteen students that formed the first class of the University. Cayco was one
of the fifteen so chosen, the only non-American in the group.

After Indiana, he went to Columbia University in New York City in 1922 for his MA
degree. Again, he so distinguished himself at Columbia that a hall of the University was
named after him.
 Back in the Philippines, he was made Assistant Superintendent of City Schools, which
position he held from 1922-1935. At the same time, he served as professorial lecturer
at the University of the Philippines.

In 1935, he resigned from the government service to accept the presidency of the
National University, which position he held until the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941.

Immediately after Liberation, he was appointed Undersecretary of Education. He

resigned from the position in 1946 to assume the presidency of Arellano University, then
still the Arellano Colleges. The growth of this institution of learning under his leadership
was phenomenal. From a modest school of 500 students the University has expanded
to eight branches, 12 colleges, schools, and departments with an average yearly
enrolment of 20,000.

This feat was accomplished not only because of hard work combined with his honed
abilities and long experience as an educator, but also due to his passion to build and
mold the minds of the youth as the future backbone of the Filipino nation.

Arellano University (AU) is a private, coeducational and nonsectarianuniversity located

in Manila, Philippines. It was founded in 1938 as a law schoolby Florentino Cayco, Sr.,
the first Filipino Undersecretary of Public Instruction.[2]The university was named
after Cayetano Arellano, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
the Philippines.[3] It operates on 6 campuses located throughout Metro Manila.
The Arellano University School of Law is autonomous and is managed by the Arellano
Law Foundation. Its athletic team, the Arellano University Chiefs, is a member of
the National Collegiate Athletic Associationsince 2009. Arellano University began on
1938 when it was established as a law school by Florentino Cayco, Sr., the first Filipino
Undersecretary of Public Instruction and an educator. The newly founded institution
offers the regular four-year law course and was named as Arellano Law College. It was
one of the well-known institution by that time by catering to numerous prolific people in
the field of law and public service.

In the onset of World War II, the school was closed from 1941 to 1945. It was reopened
on April 1945 and was renamed as the Arellano Colleges and has expanded its course
offerings to the field of commerce, foreign service, and arts and sciences. On 1946,
Florentino Cayco, Sr. became the school's first President and through his efforts, the
institution was granted university status on 22 February 1947 by the Department of
Education, Culture, and Sports and was accordingly renamed as Arellano University.
AU continued its robust expansion with the offering of new courses and that translates
into the addition of new colleges.

In 1948, from its present site in Legarda at Sampaloc, AU moved to a new site in Plaza
Guipit. It was relocated back to its old site in Legarda when a new modern four-storey
concrete building was erected in 1955.[4] In 1954, AU opened an institute of nursing
and a law school. The Arellano University School of Law would later be managed by the
Arellano Law Foundation under a Memorandum of Agreement in 1978. Arellano Law
Foundation is a non-stock and non-profit organization established by the alumni, faculty
members, and employees of AU whose objective was to establish and operate a law
school. The School of Law was successfully turned over to Arellano Law Foundation on
22 April 1979 but remained as one of the constituent colleges of the university.[4]

AU has a partnership with Ayala Education to launch the LINC@Arellano, a junior

college program that serves as an early implementation of K-12 program