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Urdaneta City University (UCU) started as a rewarding concept of Dr. Pedro T. Orata, world renowed educator and a Ramon Magsaysay awardee to establish an educational complex that will provide basic education all the way through higher education in a single compound, Its humble beginning contrasts its current status as a fast growing and lone local university in the province of Pangasinan. It started maximizing available resources to provide education to knowledge-hungry youth and young adults, believing on the principle of EDUCATION FOR ALL!. Indeed, as the first community college in the Philippines, UCU, formerly known as City Colleges of Urdaneta (CCU) and Urdaneta Community College (UCC) is a concrete and genuine proof of Dr.Orata's solid expression of his great love, faith and concern for the poor but capable and deserving Filipino youth who cannot afford collegiate schooling in the cities. Believing that the rural people are entitled to equal opportunities for and access to higher education with those in the cities, he founded the UCC in 1966 with Mayor Amadeo R. PErez Jr. and with the strong support of then Sangguniang Bayan using the proceeds of the 1966 Town fiesta celebration. Noteworthy was the contribution of Dr. Leoncio Ancheta, first Dean of UCC who assisted Dr. Orata in laying the groundwork for the College's formal operations.

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