Far Eastern University

Far Eastern University (FEU) (PSE: FEU) in the University Belt area, West Sampaloc, City of Manila, is a nonsectarian, clandestine university in the Philippines. Created by the alliance of Far Eastern Academy and the Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance, FEU became a university in 1934 beneath the advice of aboriginal admiral Nicanor Reyes, Sr. It has been acclaimed as the arch proprietary (for profit) university in the Philippines. FEU's campus is acclaimed for a amount of actual barrio preserved from the aboriginal bisected of the 20th century.

Far Eastern University was founded in 1934 if the Far Eastern Academy and the Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance (IABF) merged. Far Eastern College, founded in 1919, had been a advanced arts academy in Quiapo; the IABF had been accustomed (originally beneath the name Institute of Accountancy) by Nicanor Reyes, Sr., arch of the Department of Economics of the University of the Philippines, with a amount of added arresting educators in 1928.IABF had been originally predominately acclimated by night students, and the new university, which was accurate by the charge provided by its acceptance rather than government grants.

In its ancient days, FEU was housed in a adapted tobacco branch already present on the four hectare (nearly 10 acre) artifice which would eventually host the accepted campus. Reyes Sr. was appointed the aboriginal admiral of the University, which spent its aboriginal years establishing several of its institutes, including those of Law and Technology. Reyes commissioned Pablo Antonio, who would after be blue-blooded National Artist of the Philippines, to assemble a architecture for the school. In 1939, the Nicanor Reyes Hall, which would after abode the library and Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance, opened. Two added barrio by Antonio, the Girls’ High Academy Architecture and Boys High Academy Building, followed in 1940 and 1941, by which year FEU had 10,000 registered students, with an all-embracing apprentice citizenry of 400.

During World War II, the campus was active by the Imperial Japanese Army, who larboard alone its carapace unharmed. Dr. Nicanor Reyes accepting been dead during the occupation, Dr. Hermenigildo B. Reyes was appointed the additional admiral of the University if it reopened in 1945.

Thereafter, FEU connected to expand, with the aperture of a Science Architecture and the enactment of the Institute of Medicine and the Academy of Nursing. In 1955, the FEU hospital was opened. Humanities were alien in 1959, and in 1970 the Institute of Architecture and Fine Arts opened. Aswell in 1970, the for-profit cachet of the Institute of Medicine, Academy of Medical Technology, FEU Hospital and the Apprentice Health Service Clinic was altered, if these were adapted in the FEU Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation, a non-stock, non-profit educational foundation.

1989 alien abundant awakening to FEU that took abode over a amount of years, with advance and addition of accessories and area and advance of the University's educational standard. This resulted in the accreditation of the Institute of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Education, and the Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance, and, in the mid-1990s, the Deregulation of the University by the Commission on Higher Education. Enrollment and banking systems were computerized with the advice of Oracle in 2001, consistent in able archival and retrieval of data. The amphitheater was upgraded to board avant-garde date productions and the new twice-monthly presentations by bounded and all-embracing artists accustomed by the President's Committee on Culture. The university aswell accustomed an ISO 9000:2001 for Quality Management and became one of the pilot university in appraisal by IQUAME. The FEU accustomed abounding awards including Social Security System's 1997 Best Employer and Best in Acceptance Services in the country as declared by CHED in 2009. The University aswell prioritized publication, ablution a amount of bookish journals, and began networking with added institutions nationally and abroad. Recent En banc affair of CHED with the letter accustomed by the FEU president. FEU has been Granted with Autonomous Status