Founding of RDMO
Ground Work for the Creation of the Research Department
In 1999 Dr. Eugene Reyes established the very first Research Department of the institution.
The primary concern of this founding stage of development was identifying in-house staffs that have the talent and qualification to engage in research. The office was initially designed as a Research and Development Planning Management Office (RDPMO) whose approach is to identify plausible research topics that may be recommended to the various departments for development and write-up.
Parallel to this initial function, the RDPMO was also actively engaged in its own researches, of which resulted the very first article contribution to an international research publication, the Journal of Chemical Education of the University of Wisconsin in October 2002 entitled “DeLorenzo’s Four Interesting Mysteries Verified”.
It is of great credit to the institution that in just three years, the RDPMO established international presence in academic journal publications.
The latest contribution to an international journal was just recently published and was co-authored by Dr. Reyes himself.
Reyes, E.M. & Lopez, C.P. (2008). The L-NU Research Management Paradigm: An Innovation to Develop Research Culture in a Private HEI in the Philippine Setting. Academe: Journal of Leadership and Management in Higher Education, 1 (1):47-55
Banking on insight, Dr. Reyes reviewed the viability of the RDPMO approach and realized that centralizing the source of topics for research negated the potential of other departments to develop their initiative to come up with their own research interests in line with their field of specialization.
Dr. Reyes thereby revised institution’s approach to institutional research and established a policy of encouraging research to emanate from the departments. As a tool of implementation and management, the Faculty Research Program (FRP) was ratified and the RDPMO was changed to Research and Development Management Office (RDMO).
The function of the office shifted from centralized source of topic to centralized management and coordination of institutional researches initiated by the various academic departments.
With the evolution to the RDMO, Dr. Reyes re-shaped the organizational structure of the Department. He established the three units that would have specialized functions in aid of management of research. The Research and Development Unit (RDU) which takes charge of the content monitoring of the researches, The Academic Review Publications Unit (ARPU) which takes charge of the technical and editorial aspects of the papers generated and the Data Information and Statistics Unit (DISU) with takes charge of the validation of data and their treatment in the researches.
From ground zero, Dr. Reyes has organized the RDMO into the following fully developed organizational structure of L-NU’s research department: