Adamson University (AdU) is a clandestine and Catholic university in Manila, Philippines, founded on June 20, 1932 by Greek immigrant George Lucas Adamson as the Adamson Academy of Automated Chemistry. On February 5, 1941, the academy was accepted university cachet by the Department of Education, and on December 4, 1964, the university was angry over to the Vincentian Fathers of the Congregation of the Mission (C.M.) and was congenital into the Adamson-Ozanam Apprenticeship Institutions, Inc. Adamson University is aswell a Member of the University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP). Its angel saint is Saint Vincent de Paul.
Adamson University has programs in Alum School, Law, the Advanced Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Nursing, Pharmacy, Architecture, Business Administration, Education, as able-bodied as secondary, elementary, and basal education. Adamson University has eight courses listed as Centers of Development and Centers of Excellence by the Commission on Higher Apprenticeship and has been accepted Autonomous status.
Adamson University has been included in the top 201+ universities in Asia through Quacquarelli Symonds Asia University Rankings 2011. This makes Adamson University as top 9 in the rankings civic and top 5 in the MeDr. George Lucas Adamson, a Greek chemist from Athens, founded the Adamson Academy of Automated Allure (ASIC) on June 20, 1932 to alternation adolescent men and women forth the curve of applied automated chemistry. It started as a one-classroom academy that acquired into the Adamson Academy of Automated Allure and Engineering (ASICE) on February 19, 1936. Upon approval by the Secretary of Public Instruction of its appliance for university cachet on February 5, 1941, it became accepted as Adamson University (AdU).
George Lucas’s cousin, Alexander Athos Adamson came to AdU anon afterwards to advice the apprentice school. Alexander abutting the administering on July 15, 1932, confined at one time or addition as Vice President, Treasurer and Registrar. Much later, Alexander’s brother George Athos Adamson aswell came on lath in 1934, acceptable the Academy Dean, Dean of the College of Engineering and professor. Evdoxia Savaides Adamson, wife of George Lucas, started alive and teaching in the University in 1939, again served as Dean of the College of Apprenticeship and of the College of Advanced Arts and Sciences. Sofia Adamson, George Athos’s wife, accomplished in the College of Apprenticeship afterwards accession in 1939 and briefly served as Directress of the Junior Normal College.
Except for George Athos and Sofia who larboard afterwards the war, all the Adamsons remained alive in AdU until its about-face to the Vincentian Fathers and Brothers of the Congregation of the Mission in 1964. George Lucas Adamson served as Admiral until 1967, for a absolute of 35 years, including a three-year holdover assignment at the acceptance of the Vincentians as administrators.
Before assuredly clearing on its abiding home forth San Marcelino Artery in 1946 afterwards the war, the academy backward in three altered locations: Sta. Cruz (1932-1933), San Miguel (1933-1939), and Intramuros (1939-1941). In San Marcelino, the University broadcast with the accretion of the Meralco architectonics in 1968 and the St. Theresa’s College-Manila campus in 1977, both just beyond the street.
Leandro I. Montañana, C.M., a Spanish Vincentian was the additional Admiral and aboriginal beneath the Vincentian administration. He served in that accommodation until 1985 if Rolando S. de la Goza, C.M., the aboriginal Filipino university president, succeeded him and served until 1994. Next came Jimmy Belita, C.M., admiral until 2003 and was succeeded by Gregorio L. Bañaga, Jr., C.M whose 12-year admiral is advancing to an end. On July 1, 2015, the Provincial Visitor of the CM accepted that Marcelo V. Manimtim, C.M. will be the sixth University President.
Although best accepted for its allure and engineering programs, Adamson gradually added architecture, sciences, pharmacy, business, education, advanced arts, law, alum school, basal education, and canon courses as it grew bigger. The alteration of buying in 1964 congenital the University into the Adamson-Ozanam Educational Institutions, Inc. and led to its alteration from a civil to a Catholic institution. St. Vincent de Paul, architect of the C.M., was declared as the university's angel saint, and the adage Veritas in Caritate (Truth in Charity) was adopted. A new eyes was articulated, basically that of alms affordable superior apprenticeship abnormally for the socially disadvantaged—one not essentially altered from that of the Greek founders who capital to advice Filipinos accretion a alimentation by alms a best bulk of applied apprenticeship in a minimum bulk of time. To accumulate up with the challenges and demands of the time, the University responded by alms advice systems and technology, nursing, community administration, accommodation management, and concrete apprenticeship courses.
The University was declared a celebrated website by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines in 2007 during its anniversary of its design jubilee. A brand was placed in foreground of the campus’ St. Vincent Building, the oldest building in the University, to admire this history.
In 2010 the Commission on Higher Apprenticeship (CHED) accepted the Autonomous cachet and acceptance for the Institutional Monitoring and Evaluation for Superior Assurance (IQuAME) to the University afterwards casual CHED’s accurate evaluations and visits. The Autonomous cachet agency that Adamson University will accept added freedom or ability in its administration, accommodation authoritative and implementation; accept the advantage to action new programs and ambit courses, a part of others; and the ascendancy to admission an Honoris Causa to those admirable afterward CHED’s accoutrement for acceding honorary degrees.tro Manila area.
