FORMDEV Mission

The College of Computer Studies (CCS) has a special program and community called FORMDEV (Formation and Development), the mission of which is to proclaim and demonstrate the Lasallian and Gospel values of faith, zeal, and love, especially for one’s community and for the poor.

A major component of the FORMDEV program is a 0.5-unit course, also called FORMDEV, offered to CCS freshmen. The goal of the FORMDEV course is two-pronged:

- To introduce CCS freshmen to the life and values of the Founder of the Brothers of the
Christian Schools, St. John Baptist de la Salle; and
- To assist them in relating the life and values of St. La Salle to the life of Jesus and the
values of God’s Kingdom, and to their own lives, values, and dreams.

History

FORMDEV began, by God’s grace, as the “CLP” group in SY 1999-2000. The group’s objective was simple: to study the life of St. La Salle, with the hope that it would inspire the members of the group to be more Christ-like and more concerned about the plight of the poor.

The CLP group was originally composed of CCS faculty members led by the CCS dean, but it eventually grew to include students and co-academic personnel. When the group finished studying Br. Luke Salm’s The Work is Yours in SY 2001-2002, the student members, in a meeting of the group with Br. Cecilio Hojilla at the Brothers’ House in DLS-Dasmariñas, unanimously suggested that all CCS students should have the same experience of getting to
know St. La Salle and the members of the CCS community more deeply.

Preparations were then made to offer a course called FRMDEV1 (Formation and Development 1) to all CCS sophomores the following year.

FRMDEV1 was offered for the first time in SY 2002-2003, with more faculty than student facilitators.

Beginning SY 2003-2004, however, there have been more student facilitators than faculty, and the course and program began to be called FORMDEV.