CHED names NORSU OIC-prexy

DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines — Doctor Don Vicente Real, president of the Negros Oriental State University, has been meted with a 90-day preventive suspension and the Commission on Higher Education has named Dr. Peter Dayot as the university’s officer-in-charge.

Dayot, NORSU’s then vice president for administration, planning and development, on Wednesday confirmed that he received a hard copy of the CHED special order designating him as NORSU OIC-president on Tuesday via regular mail.

CHED Special Order No. 84, dated October 3, 2014 and signed by CHED Commissioner Patricia Licuanan, stated that the designation of Dayot is effective immediately.

While Dayot was informed about the development immediately on that day, he said he did not sign any documents although he was “sort of” already acting in an OIC capacity as university president for the past days until he received the official hard copy.

The NORSU Board of Regents, headed by Dr. Menilla Alarcon, had adopted in its October 3 regular meeting the recommendation of the Office of the Solicitor General to file an administrative case against Real.

The OSG, in its preliminary investigation, found “irregularities” in the acquisition and implementation of the more than P6-million speech laboratory at the NORSU Bayawan-Santa Catalina campus in southern Negros Oriental.

Dayot’s first order of the day, after receiving the CHED order, was to sign documents both as OIC president and concurrent vice president, but he told The Freeman he has not yet undertaken any re-organization action because he has yet to clarify with the BOR the extent of his authority as OIC president.

The BOR resolution also formally charged Real with grave misconduct, dishonesty, falsification of public/official document and gross insubordination. It also called for a committee to conduct the investigation on the allegations against Real.

There is no word yet as to whether Dr. Letecia Trayvilla, campus director of NORSU BSC and Mark Angel Crusio, campus accountant of NORSU BSC, will be administratively charged with “dishonesty” for “falsity in the acquisition of the speech laboratory facility” as recommended by the OSG, said Dayot. — Judy Flores Partlow (FREEMAN)