The Foundation University College of Education has been actively implementing the University’s objectives. Thus, it has been the forefront of striving to fulfill Foundation University’s mission of “developing in students sound character and broad culture, imbuing citizens with the spirit of universal brotherhood, and advocating truth, promoting justice and advancing knowledge.”

The government granted recognition to the Foundation College on February 15, 1953 for the Degree in Bachelor in Secondary Education and on July 19, 1965 the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education. It was then called the School of Education with Mrs. Amanda Cruz as its head. Presently, it is called the College of Education with the degrees conferred as Bachelor of Secondary Education (BSED) and the Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEED). The BSED has majors in English, Mathematics, General Science, Social Studies, Home Economics, Filipino, Physical Education Health and Music, and General BEED.

Despite its being new then, Foundation University graduates places first in the Teacher’s Competitive Examination given on May 16, 1953 and in years followed, its graduates consistently took top honors in the Teacher’s Competitive Examinations. The government Teachers’ Board Examinations is now called the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) and the graduates have an above passing with some of them topping the exams in the province.

In 1963 a screening procedure was used to admit only qualified students to ensure the quality of teachers produced. Today, an open admission but selective retention program has been used by the college to make a viable and feasible school population. The faculty using the “Program of Uncompromising Personalized Attention” (PUPA), interactive consultation hours, and remedial speaking and writing classes have attempted to keep a balance quality and quantity of students.

To pursue further the FU mission for Excellence, the College of Education underwent the accreditation process and was granted a Level I status in 1991 by Philippine Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA). In 1993, the College of Education continued its application and was granted Level II status. On February 28, 2007, PACUCOA granted the programs Level II Re-accredited status which will be valid until August 11, 2011.

In 1996, the Foundation University administrators, teachers, and students began recruitment campaigns in Negros Oriental, Negros Occidental, Southern Cebu, Siquijor, Dipolog, and Bohol. Some honor graduates of these different high schools then started to enroll at Foundation University College of Education.

The College of Education has always been innovative and creative to meet the needs of times. Saturday classes in its early years were offered to public school teachers. For those who could not attend the classes during the regular school hours, an “extramural class” was taught during the summer session by the Professors from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.

This served as in-service training programs for the FU faculty and the public school teachers. Later, a Crash Program organized by Dean Ofelia S. Geconcillo tried to meet the needs of the non-education graduates who would want to teach. Today, seminar-workshops involving FU faculty and invited lecturers are done to further enrich their pedagogical knowledge and skills. The graduating classes presently undergo a vigorous Saturday, sometime Sunday, in innovative teaching strategies, review classes, and Basic Education seminars. Their Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) review classes are spread throughout the school year on their senior level to ensure their attendance and better assimilation process. To move with the age of Information Technology (IT), the College ahs now three Computer Application classes: ICT 101 (Computer assisted Learning I), ED19 (Educational Technology I), and ED29 (Educational Technology II with Computer Applications) on the making of graphics, lesson plans, tests, learning activities, and websites on-line. This integrated the “Intel Teach Education” Program sponsored by the UP-NISMED into its Student Teaching practicum. This program has been slowly brought into the strategies classes.

The 2005 New Curriculum for Teacher Training School introduction of 60 units brought about complications to the Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs). The curriculum had to be revisited many times to accommodate the introduced 60 units and these modifications have to be done for the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) was based on the New Curriculum. Furthermore, the 2005 BEED curriculum had to be revised and added 18 units of Pre-school subjects because it is now a requirement of the Department of Education (DepEd) and even private elementary schools. The said curriculum was effective since June 2010.

The Community Extension Program of the College of Education was initiated by ANTEP or the Association of Non-Traditional Education in the Philippines project. The graduating seniors and the Crash Programmers were involved in this program under Ms. Rheena Calumba. They worked on the literacy and livelihood program at Timbao, Bacong. When Mrs. Calumba left, Ms. Natividad Cabanlit took over the project. The group under Ms. Cabanlit published a manual for the community’s basic skills. The aforementioned extension program has now been institutionalized under the CHED subject “Community Immersion”. All education students spend Saturdays with the community of Timbao, Bacong. The CE extension program with the CE faculty has put up an extensive Community Extension Program. This involves literacy, health ,livelihood skills training of their senior citizens and out-of-school youth, the College coordinates all education major area clubs and community literacy extension works under one organization; Student Teachers Organization (STO).

In line with the College of Education’s objectives on good character, a College of Education’s student is expected to exhibit proper decorum of a teacher. In extreme cases where she becomes pregnant out of wedlock, the female student shall have to give up any scholarship she may enjoy and end her studies. She may come back after she delivers the baby insuring the best care of her baby.

The future is uncertain but the College of Education has one purpose, clean-cut and certain: To strive to produce, as Foundation University’s founder Dr. Vicente G. Sinco “Individuals who can judge, think, and plan for themselves can truly govern themselves”.