Adamson University

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A Catholic Vincentian educational institution, a recognized leading center for quality education. Before its foundation in 1932, education in the Philippines mainly consisted of degree programs in Humanities, Law, and Medicine. Thus, upon its establishment, technological education set off throughout the country. Adamson University was fouded as the Adamson School of Industrial Chemistry (ASIC) by George Lucas Adamson and his cousins, Alexander Adamson and George Athos, and began as a 42-student night class at the Paterno Building in Santa Cruz, Manila. Read more The number grew to 200, thus, prompting the move to Solano Street in San Miguel district, ultimately becoming the pioneer of Filipino industrial education, and one of the gateways of Philippine industrialization. The institution then introduced a four-year secondary education program in Industrial Chemistry in 1934, and boasted a curriculum of combined academic and technical education — pioneering Vocational Education in the Philippines. Upon finishing the said curriculum, graduates have become eligible for admission to the Industrial Chemistry degree program of ASIC. ASIC was reincorporated as Adamson School of Industrial Chemistry and Engineering (ASICE) in 1936, and began offering courses in mining, metallurgical, civil, industrial, and chemical engineering. The development also prompted the expansion in the curriculum and facilities, including libraries and science laboratories. Adamson School then relocated to a building in Calle Sta. Lucia in Intramuros in 1939. Evdoxia Adamson, wife of George Lucas, also started working and teaching in the University in the same year, serving as Dean of the College of Education and of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Sofia Adamson, George Athos’s wife, taught in the College of Education and briefly served as Directress of the Junior Normal College. With its continuous rise, the school was elevated into university status on February 5, 1941 after then Secretary of Public Instruction, Dr. Jorge Bocobo, approved its application. The College of Law was established on June 1 of the same year with former Senator and Secretary of Finance and Interior Elpidio Quirino as its first dean. During the Second World War, Japanese forces took over the University as an alien army property, and imprisoned George Lucas and his family as enemy nationals by the Japanese military administration. Throughout the occupation, the Japanese used Adamson’s structures and equipment as a radio transmitting station until American bomb Update description

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