The IVM offers a six-year degree course designed to develop awareness on the basis of Animal Science and equip students with adequate theoretical knowledge and technical skils on Veterinary Sciences. Its goal is to produce veterinarians who are research and extension-oriented, technicaly, and skillfully trained in their fields of specialization. The Camarines Sur State Agricultural College Main Campus is located in San Jose, Pili, Camarines Sur. It is bisected by the national highway, on the east by the Pili Airport and on the west by the Philippine National Railways. It is about 12 kilometers northbound to Naga City, 28, 63, 87 and 94 kilometers southbound to the cities of Iriga, Ligao, Legaspi and Tabaco, respectively. CSSAC started as an elementary farm school for boys established by the American Administration in 1918, with Mr. George O. Kindley as the first Superintendent. In 1923. When its intermediate grades were phased out, the farm school was transformed into a secondary school and named Camarines Sur Agricultural High School (CAHS). Economic depression and unsettling period of the 30’s led to the conversion of the CAHS to provincial status administered by a series of principals until the outbreak of World War II in 1941. The post war years brought significant reconstruction of the school with the financial and material assistance from the United States Operation Mission-Foreign Operation Administration (USOM-FOA) and PHILCUSA Program of 1951 to 1955. In 1954, CAHS was elevated to a regional level status by virtue of Republic Act 1089 and renamed as the Camarines Sur Regional Agricultural School (CSRAS). By virtue of the General Appropriation Act, CSRAS reacquired its national status and was named Camarines Sur National Agricultural School (CSNAS) in 1960. From its initial offering of the two-year technical course in agriculture, it was mandated to offer a four-year course on Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Education. This led to the increase in enrolment and expansion of its institutional function. In 1972, new courses such as Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and a Two-Year Agricultural Technician were offered under its new name, the Camarines Sur Agricultural College (CSAC). In addition, it served as an accrediting institution for the Master of Arts in Teaching Elementary Agriculture (MATEA) in 1975. In 1977, research and extension functions were added, thereby establishing its linkage with the Philippine Council for Agricultural Resources and Research Development (PCARRD) and serving as one of the implementing schools of the USAID-financed Agricultural Education Outreach Project (AEOP). In 1982, Batas Pambansa Blg. 198, authored by then Assembly Woman Dolores H. Sison, converted CSAC into a chartered state college known as Camarines Sur State Agricultural College (CSSAC). Consequently, it has rationalized its structure by enhancing its institutional capability through personal training, adding more functional units and expanding its physical structures. Pursuant to Executive Order No. 1179, CSSAC was identified as the Regional Agricultural College offering additional major fields of specialization in the BSA and MS curricula. In addition, Doctoral degree programs in Plant Science and Development Education were offered. In the late 90’s, Pasacao was made as extension of the CSSAC Main Campus. In the year 2000, by virtue of RA 8760 on the Integration of CHED-Supervised Institutions (CSIs) to State Universities and Colleges (SUCs), The Calabanga Polytechnic College (CPC) and the Bicol Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) in Sipocot were integrated into CSSAC, making them distinct campuses of the College. CSSAC then in all its years of existence has its own dynamism and vibrancy, growing and transforming itself towards its institutional complexity in response to the increasing demands of the population and emerging agro-industrialization and commercial development in the Bicol Region.
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