Colegio de Kidapawan, Inc.

(064) 577 1340

Info@cdk.edu.ph

Quezon Blvd. Kidapawan City

Student Affairs and Services

Guided by the vision and mission of Colegio de Kidapawan to produce outstanding professionals by providing leadership in a culturally diverse and changing global society, the Office of Student Affairs and Services is mandated to complement the academic directions of the College by providing services that enhance students’ campus life, academic programs, and holistic development. This office is responsible for overseeing the delivery of various academic and non-academic programs and services of the College in coordination with the Guidance and Counseling Office.

Student Affairs and Services Thrusts
  1. To initiate, coordinate, and supervise student-related programs and activities for students’ welfare.
  2. To provide opportunities for students’ involvement and exposure in various activities of the College.
  3. To promote the Mode of Conduct necessary for regulating students’ behavior in a manner that allows freedom while encouraging responsibility, courtesy, and respect for human dignity.
  4. To monitor and oversee day-to-day campus life to achieve an academic environment conducive to learning, interaction, and harmonious coexistence among everyone in the College.
  5. To complement students’ academic training with growth activities focused on improving leadership, self-management, and development skills.
  6. To take charge of the Student Orientation Program, trainings, and seminars.
  7. To promote student discipline and maintain peace and order.
  8. To coordinate with the Security Office regarding students with disciplinary cases and check on persons with questionable identity.
  9. To update the VPAA on the status of discipline in the College and provide the Lost and Found service to students, faculty, and staff.
  10. To strictly observe the health protocols required by the College, such as wearing face masks and social distancing.

Scope of Student Affairs and Services

By framework, all non-academic programs and services directly related to students’ academic life on campus fall within the scope of Student Affairs and Services, subject to the limitations and delineation set by the President of the College.

Its scope includes the following services:

1. Guidance CenterServices, program, and protocols

The Colegio de Kidapawan (CdK) Guidance Center provides services and programs designed to develop students’ potential while in college. It helps the College achieve its vision and mission by conceptualizing, coordinating, and complementing services and programs that facilitate students’ growth and holistic development.

The Center provides learning experiences and opportunities that support the optimum development of students’ capabilities. It assists students in identifying their abilities, aptitudes, interests, and aspirations; introduces them to the decision-making process; helps them make informed choices and effective adjustments; and encourages self-sufficiency in solving problems.

Its services include orientation, counseling, testing and assessment, career guidance, placement, referrals, and academic follow-up. It also coordinates homeroom concerns.

Guidance ServicesSeven services

The CdK Guidance Center assists the academic community and student-related services in promoting students’ academic and social growth. The Center seeks to attain its goals through the following services and programs:

1. Individual Inventory Service

This service aims to gather students’ personal information and maintain individual student records and reports with utmost confidentiality. Records in the Center are utilized for reference and educational follow-ups.

2. Counseling Services

This service is designed to help individuals and groups develop full awareness and understanding of themselves so they can become effective individuals. It is implemented through individual or group counseling, consultation, career counseling, information, and follow-up. The Guidance Center has designated every Tuesday for counseling. However, if a case needs immediate attention, the Guidance Counselor will attend to the student.

3. Information Service

This service aims to provide and disseminate relevant occupational, educational, and social information that promotes students’ awareness and supports informed decision-making.

Information concerning student activities and other relevant matters shall be posted on designated bulletin boards, subject to prior approval from the Director of Student Affairs and Services.

4. Testing/Assessment Service

This service aims to provide efficient testing through the administration of standardized tests and inventories as tools for appraising students’ personal and academic development. This service is also extended to faculty and staff.

5. Academic Follow-up Service

This service is designed to listen to students and help them address academic adjustment problems and difficulties, such as absences, sequencing of subjects, and failures. Academic follow-up includes individual interviews for freshmen and transferees and exit interviews for graduating students. Interview results will be summarized and submitted to the Administration as part of the Guidance recommendations.

6. Other Related Services

Guidance personnel are tapped to administer admission tests to incoming freshmen prior to enrollment. The Center is also requested to administer evaluation instruments to faculty and other personnel of the College.

7. Online Kamustahan: Teleweb Consultation

This program uses phones or social media applications, such as Google Meet and Facebook Messenger video calls, to provide counseling and follow-up services to students.

Guidance ProgramFive programs and activities

The Guidance Program consists of organized programs and assistance rendered particularly to students and to the entire College community. Its role is centered on students’ growth and development. It provides systematic assistance in making wise choices and sound decisions that are important to the educational, vocational, social, economic, emotional, health, and spiritual growth and development of the individual. The Guidance Center assists the academic community and student-related services by enhancing students’ academic and social growth. The Center seeks to attain its goals through the following programs and activities:

Guidance Program and Activities

1. Orientation Program in Coordination with the Director of Student Affairs and Services for Freshmen and Transferees

This program is especially designed for new and transferee students. It aims to provide general information about the College to help students become oriented to their new academic environment.

2. Student Peer Facilitators Program

This program involves a pool of student volunteers from different departments who provide assistance in the Guidance Center. It seeks to empower student volunteers by fostering healthy relationships that support students’ growth and personality development. It also assists students in adjusting to college life.

3. Implementation of the Student Group Growth Program

This program is designed for freshmen and transferee students. It aims to facilitate their adjustment to the new academic environment by providing activities that enhance their emotional, social, spiritual, and mental growth and development.

4. Student Development Program

This program aims to provide students with appropriate knowledge and skills vital to academic performance and life skills development. A series of seminars is provided to enhance their self-awareness about student life.

5. Career Planning/Development

This program is designed to assist students in exploring potential career options and developing a plan to accomplish their career goals. It provides opportunities for students to examine their interests, personality, skills, and values as these relate to their careers.

Guidance Services ProtocolsFour protocols

1. Issuance of Admission Slips for Absences

  • If a student incurs three (3) consecutive absences, the instructor shall require an Admission Slip issued by the Guidance Facilitator.
  • Before issuing the Admission Slip, the Guidance Facilitator will request a handwritten letter from the student stating the student’s name, number of absences incurred, and reason for the absences.
  • The letter shall be signed by the subject instructor and noted by the Department Head.
  • Upon issuance of the Admission Slip, the student will sign the Guidance Logbook for monitoring.
  • On the second issuance of an Admission Slip, if the case requires disciplinary action, the student and the student’s parents will be called by the Director of Student Affairs and the Guidance Facilitator for a conference.

2. Referral Form

  • If a teacher or Department Head wishes to refer a student to the Head of Discipline or the Guidance Facilitator, the teacher or Department Head should secure a referral form.
  • The teacher shall complete the form before returning it to the offices of Guidance and DSAS.

3. Call-up Slip for Academic Updating

  • A Call-up Slip is issued when the counselor requests a student for an interview. It is issued to the student through the adviser or subject instructor for academic follow-up or an interview.

4. Withdrawal Form

  • Upon issuance of the Withdrawal Form, the student will sign the Guidance Logbook.
  • After the student completes the form, the Guidance Facilitator and the Department Head of the student’s department will sign the noted portion.
  • The form shall be referred to the Cashier’s Office, which will receive it and compute the corresponding charges.
  • The form will then be forwarded to the Registrar’s Office for review.
2. Student Organization

The Supreme Student Council (SSC) is the highest recognized student organization of the College. It represents the students of the College, with the main role of ensuring that their rights and welfare are upheld and promoted. Academic clubs and other groups, except fraternities, are also recognized as venues for students’ development and exposure.

3. Student Publication

The official campus paper allows students to experience freedom of writing and creative thinking, provided that they do not violate the rights of others.

4. NSTP/ROTC

The AFP Reservists Act of 1991 (Republic Act No. 7077), in relation to the National Service Law (PD 1706), declares the policy of the State “to recognize the vital role of the youth in nation building and in promoting and protecting their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual, and social well-being.” In recognition of the stated mandate of the ROTC-NSTP Program of the government, students taking baccalaureate degree programs are required to enroll in the expanded ROTC-NSTP program as a prerequisite for graduation.

5. Student Work Assistance Program

This program aims to help underprivileged and deserving students who wish to study and work at the same time. Part of the College’s mission is to provide access to college education for underprivileged but deserving students. Students under this program are responsible for maintaining the general cleanliness of the campus and their assigned workplaces. The program is coordinated by the Student Discipline Office.

6. Sports, Recreation & Cultural Arts Office

The SPEAR is responsible for managing the College’s various sports activities. The Office aims to provide proper training to students joining sports and cultural arts competitions so they can excel in their respective fields while maintaining satisfactory academic standing.

The Office monitors sports activities and conducts College intramurals. It also promotes cultural awareness by providing opportunities for exposure to and appreciation of different art forms. The Office ensures that cultural programs and activities are consistent with the College’s mission statement.

7. Medical-Dental Services

The College provides medical and dental services to safeguard the health of students and school personnel. The Medical/Dental Clinic is staffed by a full-time faculty-nurse, a part-time physician, and a dentist. Medical and dental checkups are conducted regularly every semester.

8. Food Service

The College Cafeteria/Canteen is a self-service facility that provides a variety of food items, meals, and light snacks for students, faculty, and other school personnel during break periods.

All students are expected to demonstrate courtesy and respect toward one another and the canteen employees.

9. CdK Gym

The CdK Gym provides a spacious venue for social, cultural, and sports-related activities that promote students’ development.

Academic Services

1. Library

The Library serves as the central depository of reference materials that support the educational and professional growth of faculty and students. It provides books and other reading materials that expand knowledge, broaden perspectives, and encourage meaningful and productive leisure reading.

2. Computer Laboratory

The Computer Laboratory is equipped with computer units and other facilities that provide hands-on learning activities for computer subjects offered in the High School Department. It also supports students’ exposure to developments in communication technologies and information technology.

3. Science Laboratory

The Science Laboratory provides equipment and materials for students conducting experimental exercises.

4. Mimeographing Room

The Mimeographing Room provides printing and reproduction services for tests and other academic materials. Materials submitted for mimeographing must have the endorsement of the teacher or adviser and the approval of the College President.

Office Hours: Offices are open from Monday to Friday, 7:30 AM–11:30 AM and 1:00 PM–5:00 PM.