The Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs (OVPAA) of Mountain Province State Polytechnic College (MPSPC) conducted a Professorial Forum and Conversation on Bontoc Indigenous Studies and Scholarship for Innovation and Impact today, December 13, at the Bontoc Municipal Auditorium.
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The forum highlighted the works of Professor Emeritus June Chayapan Prill – Brett, a famous anthropologist, scholar, and academician who conducted a research study on Bontoc Indigenous culture.
College President Edgar G. Cue emphasized that the existence of Republic Act No. 11961, which mandates the state to conserve and protect the nation’s cultural heritage through cultural mapping toward an Enhanced Cultural Heritage Education Program, makes it highly important to preserve the best practices and ancient knowledge that promote understanding amidst modernization.
He further encouraged the public to preserve culture and its customs, which will surely reflect and shape goals, values, beliefs, and identity. “We, as the catalysts of positive transformation and as members of the community, hold an ardent commitment to ensure that the responsibility entrusted to us is achieved by disseminating essential information for cultural preservation and continuity, specifically our culture as ifontok,” stressed Cue.
Participants during the forum were the College officials, the teaching and non – teaching staff, MPSPC students, the local government officials of Bontoc, and representatives from various government agencies.
