"Build Campfires of Hope for the Country and the World towards Integrity of Creation, Justice and Peace ."
ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR 2024-25
second Semester
Enrollment NOW OPEN!
Start of Classes: January 14, 2025
For inquiries, please contact the
REGISTRAR or ACADEME SECRETARIAT
Landline: (632) 8523-8265 to 67
Email: info@asinet-online.org
How to Register
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“Our richness is our love…
made genuine whenever we forget ourselves to give from our poverty to serve the poor…
We humbly beseech you, O God to become incarnate in us,
to give us more love for the poor, more love for our country, more peace in ranks!”
- FRANCIS SENDEN, CICM -
Source: “Humans of Pinas” asked the ASI President’s Executive Secretary to make a write-up of some distinguished Pinays. This was published in the ASI Facebook on March 28, 2021
One of the areas that women have excelled in the Philippines is education. Dr. Mina Ramirez is one rare gem excelling in this field. Dr. Mina Ramirez is the female successor of Rev. Fr. Francis Senden, cicm, PhD, founder of the Asian Social Institute (ASI), after his death in 1973.
Introducing Dr. Mina Ramirez in one of her public lectures, Dr. Sixto K. Roxas who is known as an advocate of Eco-System Based Sustainable Organizing and Management (ECSOM), stressed the point that the story of ASI is the story of Mina:
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Vision:
An Asian Social Science Graduate School for Transformative Praxis towards Integrity of Creation, Justice and Peace (ICJP)
Mission:
We, the ASI Community (BOT, Administrators, Faculty Students, Graduates and Associates and Circles and Networks of Friends) commit ourselves to the following Mission Elements:
- Christian in inspiration;
- Ecumenical and Interfaith in reality assessment, action, reflection and celebration;
- Grassroots in orientation
- Asian in character
- Global and Cosmic in Perspective
- Interdisciplinary in Approach
- Culturally and experientially grounded
- Humane, Creative and Liberating in process.
Goals:
- To give access to students of modest means but with talent and leadership potential to take up graduate studies;
- To facilitate the self-empowerment of grassroots leaders, families and communities;
- To make ASI a converging place for leaders of diverse backgrounds (cultural, religious and national affiliation, race, gender, and levels of education ) to reflect on the implementation of human rights and corresponding responsibilities;
- To heighten the consciousness of people to existential realities as a take-off point for action and advocacy;
- To fully implement its long-term programs of Co-Creating Bio-Regional Communities;
- To facilitate the establishment of Basic Ecclesial Community Cultures in various dioceses in the Philippines;
- To develop doing research from an existential phenomenological perspective.
- To develop an integral ecological life-style through education and the nurturance of creation or socially engaged eco-spirituality. Through learning modalities, both face-to-face encounters and virtual on-line teaching and learning system, to instil the values of common good, social justice, principle of subsidiarity, richness of differentiation, solidarity and communion.
- To instil the human spirit in digital modalities of encounter and thus contribute to human flourishing.