THE COLLEGE OF CRIMINOLOGY AND Law Enforcement of the Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation-Lucena City campus lives up to its commitment of "Education.Excellence.Empowerment" when it passed the stringent criteria for Center of Development awarded by the Commission on Higher Education.

"Dean Henedina A. Lagumen led the faculty team that prepared the documentation and the actual inspectorial visit by the Technical Panel for Criminology Education," according to Dr. Benilda N. Villenas, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, who received the award with Dean Lagumen Decemeber 21 at the Function Room I of HEDC Building in UP Diliman, Quezon City.

Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation's College of Criminology and Law Enforcement is one of only two universities in the country recognized as a COD by CHED. The COD status is a quality seal that commits a higher education institution to greater academic excellence and to assist other higher institutions following the Big Brother concept.

MSEUF president Naila Enverga-Leveriza said the award affirms the University's vission-mission to offer responsive programs supportive of national development goals and standards of global excellence.

The awarding presided by CHED Chairman Emmanuel Y. Angeles also cited six new ETEAAP Deputized Higher Educaiton Institutions. Enverga University is also a deputized institution for the Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency Accreditation Program in Criminology, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Engineering, Computer Studies, and Teacher Educaiton since 1996.

Present during the awarding were CHED Commissioner Nenalyn P. Defensor, Director of Office of Programs and Standards Dr. Felizardo Y. Francisco and heads of 40 other HEIs that received the seals of Center of Excellence and COD. The awardess represent barely three percent of the country's 1,871 higher education institutions.