Family and society involvement is a powerful influence on the success of the school's programs and activities. When families are involved in school's programs and activities, they can help in giving brilliant ideas on how the programs and activities be more intellectual. Their outmost support can make their children cooperate well in school. They can also help in covering the little some of expenses in the programs and activities. The school budget is barely enough to cover core academic programs. Very little is left for enrichment programs and many times are left out of the budget. In addition of paying for programs, maintenance and upgrades for the schools are rarely covered by the school's budget. Many times, schools manage to maintain their facilities by support and donations from the community. This also helps to make the children more interested in their studies and demonstrate more positive attitudes and behaviors. For these reasons, increasing family involvement in school is an important goal for schools, particularly those serving low-income and other students at risk of failure.

There are suggested ways on how schools, families, and communities can work together to build strong partnerships to make the school the best environment next to home. It is organized around strategies for overcoming common barriers to family involvement in schools. These strategies include:

• Overcoming time and resource constraints.
• Providing information and training to parents and school staff.
• Restructuring schools to support family involvement.
• Bridging school-family differences.
• Tapping external supports for partnerships.

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Students have a major role to play in managing disasters. They can:

• Spread awareness about disasters and tips to handle them.
• Organise mock camps in their holidays in neighboring villages to train people to cope up with disasters like earthquakes
• Be part of 'emergency rescue teams' - mostly the training goes side by side along with 'compulsory military training' programs (another opinion: search and rescue is a highly specialized job and should be left to professionals)

  A big aspect of disaster management is preparedness.

  The basic role of the student is AWARENESS of what to do during and after disasters. This would lessen panicking, paranoid and uncontrollable people running around. Knowing what to do when disaster strikes will also lessen the death toll. Knowing what to do after disaster, and at least basic first aid, will enable students help the authorities in saving lives.

The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, founded in 1611, is not only the oldest University but also the oldest School in Asia.

The Claim that the University of San Carlos traces its roots to the Colegio de San Ildefonso (1595) is invalid since their is no clear link between the two. After the expulsion of the Jesuits, the Colegio closed down.

Years later, the colegio's facilities was used by its new owners and opened with a new name.

Only the building of Colegio per se lived on BUT the Colegio de San Ildefonso was never again revived.

Unlike UST, USC never experienced a homogeneous growth that is why, it cannot claim its roots from Colegio de San Ildefonso.

UNIVERSITIES IN THE PHILIPPINES

• University of Santo Tomas in Manila was founded in 1611.
• Colegio de San Juan de Letran was founded in 1620.
• Ateneo de Manila University, with present address in Quezon City, began in 1859.
• University of San Carlos in Cebu City was founded in 1867
• Universidad de Santa Isabel, Naga, founded 1869
• National University in Manila was founded 1900
• San Beda College in Manila was founded in 1901.
• Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental was founded in 1901.
• Batangas State University in Batangas City, Batangas (formerly Pablo Borbon Memorial Institute of Technology or TRADE) was founded in 1903.
• Bulacan State University in Malolos City, Bulacan, formerly (Bulacan College of Art and Trades or BulSU) was established in 1904.
• Western Mindanao State University, Zamboanga City was founded 1904
• Polytechnic University of the Philippines Manila established 1904
• University of San Agustin,Iloilo City was founded in 1904, The FIRST UNIVERSITY in Western Visayas.
• Central Luzon Agricultural School, now Central Luzon State University was founded in 1907
• Centro Escolar University in Manila was established in 1907.
• University of the Philippines in Manila was founded in 1908.
• De La Salle University in Manila was founded in 1911.
• Saint Louis University in Baguio City was founded in 1911.
• Bukidnon State University in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon was established in 1924
• Far Eastern University in the City of Manila - established 1928
• Saint Joseph's College Of Quezon City- established 1932
• Adamson University in Manila was founded in 1932.
• Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro City was established in 1933.
• University of Nueva Caceres, founded 1948