UNIVERSITY OF LA SALETTE

The Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette, from the Immaculate Heart of Mary Province of the United States of America, (USA) responded to the request of the Most Reverend Bishop Constance Jurgens of Tuguegarao, Cagayan Valley to meet the spiritual and educational needs of the people of Cagayan Valley particularly in the Province of Isabela. The missionaries arrived in Manila, Philippines on December 12, 1948, and finally reached Santiago, Isabela on the 22nd day of December of the same year. The Missionaries started opening schools upon their arrival and the La Salette of Santiago, Inc. was established in June, 1951, which started with its High School Department. A year later, realizing the dire need for a higher institution of learning and aware of the financial constraints of which prevented or made it almost impossible for the poor students in the province to obtain college education in Manila, the college department was opened with two course offerings: Certificate in Secretarial Science and Associate in Arts. <<read more>>

Before the apparition, La Salette was an unknown hamlet lost in one of those giant crevices of the French Alps. Early on September 19, 1846, the two children climb the slopes of the Mount Sous-Les-Baisses, each urging four cows up the mountain. Contrary to their habits, the two children lay down on the grass and fell asleep. The September sun was relaxing and the sky was cloudless. The chattering brook highlighted the mountain stillness. These were quiet moments. Melanie woke up with a start and shook Maximin! "Memin, Memin, get up! Let's go look for our cows.

I don't know where they are!" Near the small brook on one of those stone benches there was a globe of fire. A woman appeared within the light; she was sitting, her head in her hands, her elbows on her knees, in deepest grief.
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MISSION

The University of La Salette, an institution of higher learning, pledges to provide a culture of excellence that permeates in the community of mature Christian responsive to socio-economic, cultural, and political concerns of the times, globally competitive and deeply rooted in the Salettinian spirituality of Reconciliation.

VISION

A community living in freedom and fullness of being fully reconciled with self, others, nature and God

In keeping with its philosophy, vision and mission, University of La Salette professes the following Institutional Objectives:


1.As a Catholic educational institution, it aims to make Christ present in the life of the students, faculty, administration and the community it seeks to serve;


2.It endeavors to produce Christian leaders and mature graduates fully equipped with knowledge, skills and competencies as well as values for community service and nation-building.


3.It offers a well-integrated, quality education wherein academics pursues dialogue with faith, religious values and issues of justice, peace freedom and human rights through the service of a dynamic, competent, research-oriented faculty, administration and non-academic personnel; and


4.It strives to provide its faculty and other employees growth opportunities and fair compensation within the context of social justice and Christian values to enable them to serve well and also to encourage them to undertake research and intellectual pursuits for optimum growth and development.

La Salette Education is an on-going process of growth in freedom and in fullness of being, prepared for,

lived and experienced by the entire school community, realized in the reconciliation and integration of

Filipino cultural values and those of Jesus Christ who came "so that they may have life and have it to the

full." John 10:10

For more details, contact the following:

The University Registrar
Telephone: (078) 682-4771

The Human Development Center (Guidance Center)
Telephone: (078) 682- 4799

Or visit us at:
Human Development Center (Guidance Center)
University of La Salette
Dubinan East, Santiago City
3311

Website: www.lasalette.edu.ph
Email: university_of_lasalette@yahoo.com