29/07/2026
๐๐ก๐ฒ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ก๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐
๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง!
The push to force student institutions into the Office of Student Formation and Activities (OSFA) cannot be understood as a mere administrative update as it is but a direct enforcement of corporate governance within the university. At the top of the institutional hierarchy sits an eleven-member Board of Trustees (BOT), the ultimate decision-making body that sets school policies according to their own economic and class interest; dominated by corporate figures, including banking executives and infrastructure moguls. Their primary objective is not the expansion of democratic learning, but the protection of the university's bottom line and the alignment of the curriculum with market demands. To these capitalist educators, education is a commodity, and a militant, unified student movement represents a direct threat to profit extraction.
For more than forty years, student governance derived its mandate solely from the collective power of the studentry, serving as a frontline shield against aggressive tuition fee increases, oppressive campus regulations, and the silencing of critical voices. OSFA registration seeks to break this independent legacy by replacing democratic student sovereignty with administrative oversight, forcing organizations into compliance through exclusionary waivers, pre-publication oversight, and the denial of basic institutional access to those who refuse to bow.
This institutional repression on campus is directly tied to the broader crisis of the neoliberal education system. Instead of raising critical, scientific, and nationalist thinkers capable of serving the people and advancing national industrialization, the Philippine educational system has been systematically reshaped into a transmission belt for foreign imperialist interests. Through the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED)โvia policies like CHED Memorandum No. 9, competency-based curricula, and relentless fee deregulationโlearning is transformed into a commercialized product purchasable only by those who can pay. The true orientation of this system is to churn out cheap, docile, and semi-skilled labor to be sold off to multinational corporations and foreign capital, keeping the country tied to a backward, pre-industrial economy. Capitalist educators and state bureaucrats actively sell out the youthโs future for profit, corporate partnerships, and institutional kickbacks.
OSFA registration functions precisely as the local administrative shield engineered to protect these bureaucrat-capitalist and neoliberal interests. Just as the reactionary state uses bureaucratic regulation, forced co-optation, and fascist repression to suppress the mass movement, the Board of Trustees utilizes OSFA to pacify campus activism before it can challenge tuition hikes, commercialization, and labor exploitation. The policyโs enforcement of restrictive waiversโwhich penalize groups for partnering with unregistered coalitionsโis a calculated attempt to break student solidarity, isolate progressive voices, and reduce basic institutional rights to revocable privileges. Under the guise of student development, OSFA establishes a system of oversight and structural censorship intended to domesticate student leadership and ensure that critical organizing never disrupts the corporate machinery.
Genuine student representation does not seek validation from the boardrooms that profit from its oppression. Registering under OSFA surrenders student autonomy directly to the Board of Trustees, institutionalizing administrative control over our right to organize.
The power of the student movement has always emanated from the collective strength and mandate of the studentry. We must boldly expose the Board of Trustees and their economic and class interests, reject the false legitimacy of administrative control, and fulfill the historic role of the militant youth!
Carolinians, build an uncompromising, autonomous student movement that fights unyieldingly for scientific, nationalistic, and mass-oriented education!
LUMAKAS, LUMALAWAK, LUMALABAN!
