The FFI – MSU Ceramics Development Center was organized & established during the Acting Presidency of the late Governor ALI DIMAPORO under the support of the Filipinas Foundation Inc. (FFI). However, for decades, the FFI has never supported the Center. From then on, its mandate on ceramics and pottery production has gradually diminished despite its available workforce. Henceforth, the renaming of FFI Ceramics was proposed by the newly appointed Director of the Center, Engr. Acsara A. Gumal to MSU Ceramics Development Center was approved during the APC meeting on September 13, 2018.
Former President Dr. Habib Watamama Macaayong revived the functions and mandate of the Center. Along with his designation as Director of the Center on August 21, 2018, Engr. Acsara A. Gumal, Ph.D., has been given the same responsibility to revive the Center’s function.
And with the continued support of the current MSU System President, Atty. Basari Dimakuta Mapupuno, the Center hopes to reach greater heights and becomes the Center of the Ceramics Industry in the region.
Vision:
The office of the President envisions a culture of excellence that steers by transparency and accountability in public service and consecrates its day-to-day efforts to the realization of the MSUS transcendent vision and mission.
Mission:
To provide leadership that inspires, changes, and propels the system, through commitment to good governance, towards the fulfillment of the vision of MSUS, the premier supra-regional University in MINSUPALA – the holistic development of man – and its mission, the attainment of sustained peace and development in the region.
Goals:
- The utilization of the natural resources of the Lanao provinces and help develop its human resources. This may gradually expand to other areas in Mindanao populated by other relatively under- developed cultural communities.
- The development and promotion of the clay-based industry in the City of Marawi and province of Lanao del Sur through effective transfer of technology, to develop the Indigenous populace to eventually establish the industry into a viable economic activity in its respective localities;
- The provision of low-cost substitute housing construction materials to enable local residents to have better shelters as envisioned in the National Housing Authority program of the national government;
- The generation of adequate income and employment opportunities for the less-developed cultural communities in Mindanao, most particularly in the Lake Lanao region.
- The improvement and development in the long run the socio-economic condition of the communities of Mindanao through the concept of appropriate indigenous technology and finally,
- The preservation and development of indigenous Meranao aesthetic art forms and design through ceramics ware and craft.
Objectives:
- To develop and promote the clay-based industry in the City of Marawi and the province of Lanao del Sur.
- To conduct research on the native designs of ceramics, and continuously improve and upgrade ceramics wares.
- To offer regular training courses in ceramics works and industry to the Meranao Muslims and interested IP’s from among the students, faculty and staff of MSU.
