COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION REMEMOIRS

     Everything has its own beginning. Everything should be written and kept so we can take look back at the past, have space to reminisce the memories, and have a source that would be really helpful in aiding us to keep in touch what is like the world in the past that now we are part of. As Cicero once told that, “History is the witness of times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.” History must not be kept but shared, not just for the sake of knowing but to learn from that and understand.

   “Godliness is the foundation of knowledge” the motto that every student of New Era University knows. Through its journey, the beginning was always the hardest there were only few programs offered at NEU when it become established in 1979 and was only an institute located at Quiapo, Manila until the day that it transformed into a university that opened its door to many opportunities to every student who wish to study there. In 1981 there were the classic so-called AB Journalism and AB Psychology under the institute of Arts and Sciences before moving to its new campus located at Diliman, Quezon City. AB Journalism proposed program was way too close to what the BA Communication offers now. So, we can conclude that it is not a new thing to the college and students to be one of the leading courses before. It was four years after the establishment of the University that the department of Mass Communication be gladly part of one of its college. AB Mass communication now called as BA Communication was then part of the College of Arts and Sciences and was only a program again. The College of Evangelical Ministry (CEM) building was the students’ room to seek about interesting knowledge that lied in the program. There were only twelve students who are the pioneer graduates of the said program. This explains that no matter how little the possibility, it could be possible to the ones who try. We are pretty sure that pioneer graduates from the said program are now professionals and already have a line in industry. Whatever they are now, I’m sure they left the school with the knowledge anchored on Christian Values that they can lend to whoever they might come across with. By this one, I want to be remembered what Ralph Emerson Waldo said, “Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.” I might say that the school or respective department a student belongs would have a great impact someday when he has to leave and get a life on his own. 

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      As time passes by, evolving of things take into action, not all who are known to be like that will be still forever like that and sometimes no one would dare to think how a certain thing has changed. In July 17, 2014 along with the celebration of hundred years of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, Mass Communication won a priceless reward –by becoming an independent college. It was a double celebration and luck as by the Church Administration finally granted its greatest wish and of course, it was the University’s happiness to add another college that would help to guide the students. In August 2014, Mass Communication program officially started operating as a separate college that offers the same degree under the nomenclature, Bachelor of Arts in Communication

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      It was the start of having many activities being launched which bond the students and the professors so tightly. There are satisfying classrooms and an own building which are really helpful to the students for continuously studying harder and achieving extraordinary dreams. Theater plays and productions are truly admired not only by the COC students but by the other college students or departments too. There also has the so-called Comm Awards, a night that is like JS Prom in high school. It is the most-awaited time because it is a show for all COC students who can express what they truly are, from their attire and makeup. It is also a night for recognizing students who displayed an outstanding performance in class or in productions. Along with the changes, the old vision and mission of the old curriculum have also changed but in a more condensed, cultivated kind of. Only its logo seems to be the same.

       I suppose, aside from being a separated college and lots of achievements there is one good thing that really matters and cannot change. Achievements cannot always be seen through golden shining trophies, it can be filled with annoying rust over the period of time, or the applause and praises from the ones who viewed such a thrilling original play, they will forget it one minute and get excited to the next or being posted in facebook so everyone will notice but when there’s no internet nothing will give you such evidences. The thing that cannot be replaced by earthly things is probably the lesson every student learned from each and every one. A thing that I thought is more important than education, it’s how God dwells in you and for allowing you to learn a lesson that maybe one day you might forget but there’s a hope that you have used it to be better version of yourself and had molded you by now.

     “Love is what we do” words that all COC students know and will be remembered. I’d like to add something, Love is why we do things without it, it all meaningless and nothing. I always remember what the oldies often say, “you have to put love in whatever you do and everything will follow”. This strongly strengthens the motto that every COC students are holding. Students show love not only for the things but for everyone they come to be work with.