2021

MSU-TCTO has faced the COVID-19 pandemic with resiliency and vigor despite the challenges and restrictions. The university took the opportunity to continue its efforts in improving university governance by strengthening good practices, implementing sound fiscal policies, providing smooth transition to distance learning conditions, and establishing more linkages with other institutions.

2020

The year 2020 presented many challenges across the globe. On one side is the continued armed struggle, political and civil unrest, and religious and systemic racial discrimination while the other grapples with destruction caused by climate change-induced natural disasters and worsening economic downturn. However, topping them all is the advent of the pandemic brought by a new type of coronavirus disease now known as COVID-19. Nations trembled as it spread, infecting one individual after the other. Each country tremendously suffered as the pandemic wreaked havoc which gradually affected people of all walks of life. The pandemic swept the world and crippled each nation socially, politically and economically and one of the sectors heavily affected is the academe.