Journal of Public Affairs and Development
Abstract
The College of Public Affairs (CPAf) in the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) evolved as a unit of the University with the mandate to raise the bar of applied social science scholarship by developing transdisciplinary methods in the resolution of public issues such as food security, land reform and land use, governance, population, and education. The creation of CPAf in 1998 was prompted “by the need to attune academic programs in the pursuit of UP’s mission to promote nationalism and development in the face of profound changes occurring in the global environment.” In 2011, it was renamed as the College of Public Affairs and Development.
This paper highlights the integrative framework that summarizes CPAf’s plans, innovations, and strategies in helping build sustainable communities and attain human security. These targeted impacts are anchored on programs and services that operationalize the major functions of CPAf as an academic unit. Built into these functions are the theoretical foundations for communities of practice on institutional development, policy reform and development, and local governance and development.
In the final section, future challenges are presented. These center on the growing appreciation of students in agriculture in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia of Public Affairs as a discipline and the articulation of the rigor and relevance of transdisciplinary research in an otherwise disciplinary community.
Recommended Citation
Rola, Agnes C.; Dizon, Josefina T.; Quimbo, Maria Ana T.; and Carada, Wilfredo B.
(2012)
"Towards Sustainable Communities and Human Security: Challenges of the College of Public Affairs and Development University of the Philippines Los Baños,"
Journal of Public Affairs and Development: Vol. 1:
No.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://www.ukdr.uplb.edu.ph/jpad/vol1/iss1/1
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