THE RITES, RITUALS AND ARTIFACTS OF STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES (SUCs)

This paper profiled and discussed the practice and preservation of organizational culture of State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in Region III, Philippines from the insights of administrators and faculty members. A list to measure the extent of practice of the cultural forms such as rites and rituals and the extent the respondents maintain the artifacts was utilized to gather the data. SPSS 16 was used to produce the mean and the t-Test. The findings revealed that the respondents practiced the rites and rituals mainly the conduct of orientation of new faculty and staff and the conduct of meetings, a way to monitor accomplishments of employees; and highly maintained the Artifacts mostly the manners of disseminating mission and vision statements and appropriately addressing people within the organization. Evidence supporting a no significant difference between the perceptions of the respondents on the extent of practice of Rites and Rituals and preserving Artifacts was found.