A proposed five-year development plan for Asian Development Foundation College, Tacloban City, School Years 1998-1999 to 2002-2003 (project paper no. 2)

The study formulates a five-year development plan for Asian Development Foundation College (ADFC). Specifically, the study seeks to assess the external and internal environments, determine the educational goals and values of stakeholders and vision-mission statement of the school, determine the goals, objectives and action plans to accomplish the goals, and determine the procedures to monitor the progress and keep the plans on track.The descriptive developmental type of research was employed in this study. It involved description, recording, analysis, and interpretation of the existing conditions through the survey method. For the treatment of data, frequency, mean and percentages were employed.The findings revealed the following: Tacloban City\u27s population has an annual growth of 3.84 percent the urban area is the most densely populated with a population density of 40.13 per per hectare high percentage of the total population of the City are 10 years old and over are literate there are 24 pre-elementary schools, 46 elementary schools, 14 high school and 10 tertiary schools (including the ADFC) in the City the respondent school is moving towards modernizing its facilities to cope with the trends in technology the possible re-opening of Divine Word University (DWU) may be considered as a threat because of the University\u27stature majority of the ADFC\u27s clientele belong to the Roman Catholic group majority of the parents of ADFC students are college graduates and a few are master\u27s degree holders majority of the parents could be employees in bank and government offices and school teachers a good number of parents have their own businesses majority of the families belonged to the lower middle class level the number one goal expectation of the ADFC stakeholders is intellectual development and that the stakeholders expect that the school will develop in the students the necessary skills to enable the students to find immediate employment; the stakeholders also expect that the school should inculcate to the students the value of national identity, unity, discipline and citizenship and that the school is extensively implementing the desired goals of the stakeholders.Based on the findings of the study, the following conclusions are drawn: that there are opportunities from the external environment that ADFC can take advantage of in improving/expanding its programs and services t