The Commission on Higher Education received information that the International Academy for Leadership and Management (IALM) and its consortium partners, La Sallette Christian College, Inc., and ACTS-Philippines Indigenous People, Inc., have been awarding honorary doctorate degrees or honoris causa in violation of CHED Memorandum Order No. 09, Series of 2021, or the “Revised Policies and Guidelines on the Conferment of Honorary Doctorate Degrees by Higher Education Institutions in the Philippines.”
In light of this information, please be advised that only CHED-recognized higher education institutions can award honorary doctorate degrees.
As IALM is not a higher education institution in the Philippines, and La Sallette Christian is not a CHED-recognized higher education institution, honorary doctorate degrees awarded by IALM and its consortium partners will not be recognized by CHED.
SGD.
J. PROSPERO E. DE VERA III, DPA
Chairman
Commission on Higher Education