Aware of the fluid environment where the University of Perpetual Help System DALTA – Las Piñas operates and survives, the leadership of the University has already devised a strategic plan to attain the goals and objectives it has co-established with its key stakeholders. The aim is to deliver quality services according to the needs and demands of the members of its education community. The experience of COVID 19 disruption has brought new directions and perspectives leading to the re-evaluation of the existing strategic plan.
Overwhelmed by what is defined as the mother of all disruptions, COVID 19 made the university rediscover its resilient and enterprising spirit to continue delivering its essential services and pursue its important and vital mission. COVID 19 re-evaluation of strategic planning has been all about people and survival. COVID 19 brought UPHSD to planning and responding in a caring, compassionate and prudent manner. Its challenges re-launched UPHSD as a community of helpers of God with character building is nation building as guiding principle.
Strategic Mission
In line with its Founder’s direction of: Excellence in Values Formation, Academics, Sports, Community Services and Operations, the University of Perpetual Help System DALTA – Las Piñas Campus will be recognized as a vibrant global university exemplifying academic excellence and innovation fostering positive Perpetualite environment through effective and efficient leadership and management.
Strategic Directions
Academic Excellence and Innovation
Sustained by its core values, UPHSD intends to produce graduates that will be characterized by the core skills needed in the 21st Century. Essential to academic excellence and innovation is the formation of Christ-centered, service-oriented and research-driven individuals with great social concern and commitment to the delivery of quality education and health care.
Nurturing Perpetualites and Positive Work Environment
Renewing the UPHSD community, after the pandemic, entails attention to the well-being and holistic formation of the members of the Perpetualite Community – resilient, compassionate and bearers of hope. Teaching and learning process should magnify the ideals of Helpers of God with character building is nation building as guiding principle.
Agile Leaderships and Management
Perpetualites co-creates values and embraces change in an agile and humble way. Decisiveness and resilience characterize UPHSD education community before the challenges and issues of a brittle, anxious, non-linear and sometimes incomprehensible environment.
Effective use of Resources and Financial Performance
Proper use of resources in support of quality teaching and learning process, this is UPHSD’s priority for these five years. An effective faculty and staff development program prepares and equips the Perpetualite teaching and learning community in delivering excellent quality service.
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance (QA) embraces all the activities of UPHSD – from teaching and learning process to research, from scholarship and personnel, from students, to school infrastructure, community services, and the school environment. A QA-driven UPHSD co-produces values with stakeholders to guarantee, improve, and sustain its operations. It produces quality graduates integrated to life and the world of work.
Risk Management
UPHSD reviews and manages risks in a positive and enterprising way. Collective effort and persistence transform risk into opportunities for growth and sustainable development. Aided and supported by the University leadership, UPHSD risk assessment management critically looks into its internal and external environment to find directions in handling issues, solving problems, closing gaps, honing benchmarkable activities and even making innovation for change and development.
The school’s official name is University of Perpetual Help System DALTA (UPHSD).
