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The RICE Ecosystem

The RICE Ecosystem serves as the university’s institutional strategy for operationalizing Teaching, Research, and Community Engagement (TRC) from the Institutional Development Commitment 5 under Fortiores 2030.

The RICE Ecosystem is organized around the following strategic directions:

Developing University Flagship Programs

Anchored in the Mindanao Roadmap, bringing together research, innovation, creative work, instruction, and community engagement across disciplines to address regional, national, and global challenges.

Fostering Collaborative Scholarship

Among faculty, students, communities, industry, government, and international partners, with appropriate ethical frameworks for co-authorship and publication.

Developing Scholarly Excellence

Through faculty specialization aligned with institutional priorities and societal needs, building recognized centers of expertise across the University.

Transforming Academic Units into TRC Integration Hubs

Where instruction, research, innovation, creative work, and community engagement are intentionally connected, and where faculty are formed as Ignatian educators grounded in the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm.

Institutionalizing the Living Lab Pipeline

A five-phase process (Grounded Discovery, Innovation Strategy, Engaged Deployment, Scholarly Contribution, and Venture Translation) through which scholarship is directly translated into societal transformation.

Strengthening the Service-Learning Program

As the University’s principal pedagogical bridge connecting instruction, research, innovation, creative work, and community engagement, maintaining its established paradigm of equal emphasis on learning outcomes and meaningful service to partner communities.

Building a University-wide Culture of Inquiry

That extends into Basic Education, supporting teachers in action research, reflective practice, and innovative pedagogy, and students in developing curiosity, creativity, and social responsibility.