Pampanga Agricultural College

                                                                                                                                               

PAMPANGA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

Year Approved: 2009

Perched on a white background, the institution adopts green and golden-yellow as its official colors. Both colors typify agriculture. The green color represents sowing and growing/blooming; while golden- yellow illustrates reaping or harvesting fruits of labor

The carabao’s head symbolizes agriculture. The carabao is the national animal, a draft/work animal used by farmers in cultivating the field and used for other farm-related work/activities. Hence, it is a fitting figure or symbol of agriculture – and the institution adopts this symbol being an agricultural school. The symbol is found at the center of the institution seal indicating that first and foremost, PAC is basically an agricultural school. Further, the carabao symbolizes raw (pure) power which typifies that the institution’s main endeavors and strengths lie in its mandate to pursue aggressive agricultural development programs for nation building. Thus, agricultural development is the institution’s core and unified role/function

The triangle symbolizes the three-fold functions of the institution, namely; instruction, research and extension while the shield was taken from the seal of the province of Pampana and town of Magalang, where PAC is located. The year 1975 signals the year PAC started operating as a state college, through R.A. 4576, approved on June 19, 1965

The torch and book represent instruction. Instruction is the fundamental mandate/function of the institution. Instruction is basically knowledge sharing by the institution to its students and other clienteles to bring about intellectual transformation, change in values, attitudes and desired behavior towards the attainment of quality of life for everyone. The book symbolizes the source of knowledge and knowledge enlightens peoples’ mind, making them better and more productive individuals. A torch emits or brings out light, thus the light enlightens and guides our path toward genuine progress

The beaker which symbolizes research is found at the center of the first-inner triangle, and inside the beaker is the head of a carabao. The latter represents research activities encompassing agriculture and allied fields. The beaker, being inside the inner triangle, means that research is the mainspring or major source of knowledge and technologies and later utilized or applied through the avenues of instruction, production and extension

The ricefield, mountain and shaking hands represent the overall extension thrusts of the institution. The institution’s extension programs and other relevant/related initiatives find their rightful place and meaning in the farming communities in the region beneficiaries of these technologies. It also depicts the institution’s mutual (give and take working relationship) and productive partnership/linkages with other development-oriented institutions in order to achieve a more enhanced quality of life in the countryside

The rice plant, with its grains of golden-yellow, represents production and/or business affairs which is one of the fundamental functions of the institution. It is the testing arm for technology verification/validation specifically on a large scale or commercial proportion with potential for income generation

Finally, the circle symbolizes unity among the institution’s various stakeholders in pursuit of development

Legal Basis: Republic Act 4576 – An Act Converting the Pampanga Agricultural School in the Municipality of Magalang, Province of Pampanga into Pampanga Agricultural College

Mandate: The Pampanga Agricultural College advocates a dynamic mechanism for developing skills and knowledge of individuals in the quest for improved quality of higher education in particular, and quality of life, in general. The institutional development goal of the College is to develop PAC into an effective institution of higher learning for agro-ecopolitan education and allied fields, research, extension and production leading to the educational, cultural, social, political and economic well-being of the people within the next decade