17/09/2026
☝️☝️ ALHAMDULILLAH! ALHAMDULILLAH! ALHAMDULILLAH!
🎓 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PIONEERING BATCH OF REGISTERED SOCIAL WORKERS OF SULU STATE UNIVERSITY! 🎓
With immense pride, joy, and gratitude, we celebrate the remarkable achievement of the Pioneering Batch of the Sulu State University – School of Social Work (SuluSU-SSW), our beloved SALUTIS SERVATORES — “Saviors of Well-being.”
15 out of 19 examinees (78.95%) have successfully passed the Social Work Licensure Examination and are now Registered Social Workers (RSWs)—a remarkable achievement that stands above the national passing rate.
This milestone is more than a percentage. It represents the culmination of your patience, perseverance, courage, sacrifice, faith, and unwavering enthusiasm to become professionals committed to serving individuals, families, groups, and communities with competence, compassion, dignity, and ethical responsibility.
To our pioneering graduates: you were brave enough to begin the journey when the path was still being paved. You carried not only your personal dreams but also the hopes and aspirations of your families, your University, your School, and the Tausug community.
Today, you stand proudly as PROUD TAUSUG REGISTERED SOCIAL WORKERS. 🫶🏼
Your success marks a historic chapter in the story of the Sulu State University School of Social Work. May your professional journey always be guided by the values that brought you here—service, integrity, compassion, social justice, and commitment to human dignity.
Our deepest appreciation and heartfelt gratitude go to our beloved University President, Prof. Charisma S. Ututalum, CESE, for her untiring support, trust, encouragement, and commitment to the growth and development of the School of Social Work and its students.
Alhamdulillah, this achievement is a testament to your leadership—from the Year of Transcendence to the Year of Legacy.
Under your leadership, Sulu State University proudly celebrates its first 15 pioneering BSSW graduates who are now Registered Social Workers. This historic achievement will forever form part of the University's legacy and will inspire the generations of Social Work students who will follow.
Our sincere gratitude also goes to our Vice President for Academic Affairs, Assoc. Prof. Alijandrina T. Jaliliul, Ed.D., for your valuable guidance, academic leadership, and immense support in creating an environment where our pioneering students could learn, grow, and prepare for professional excellence.
We likewise extend our heartfelt appreciation to our Director for Student Affairs and Services, Engr. Firash Zhed S. Ututalum,M.Sc., for your guidance, encouragement, and unwavering support to our students throughout their academic journey. Your commitment to student development and well-being has contributed meaningfully to this milestone.
To our dedicated Dean of the School of Social Work, Asst. Prof. Dared Mailiza A. Alih, RSW, RN, LPT, MAN, MSSW, thank you for your steadfast leadership, guidance, and commitment to molding our students from the beginning of their journey until this momentous achievement. Your dedication to the School and your students is deeply valued and appreciated.
To our dedicated faculty members of the School of Social Work, thank you for being among the people behind this success. Your countless hours of teaching, mentoring, coaching, assessing, encouraging, and challenging our students have helped shape them into competent, ethical, and compassionate future Social Work professionals. Your commitment to preparing our students for their chosen profession is truly commendable.
A special and heartfelt thank you to the CQA Review Center for your dedication and efforts in preparing our pioneering graduates for the Social Work Licensure Examination. Thank you for equipping our Salutis Servatores with the knowledge, skills, techniques, strategies, and confidence necessary to face one of the most significant examinations of their professional journey.
Your commitment to strengthening their academic preparation and helping them translate their classroom learning into licensure-readiness has been an important part of this achievement. You have been part of the journey that brought our pioneers to this historic moment. 💙
To all the mentors, coaches, reviewers, and individuals who generously shared their time, expertise, encouragement, and wisdom, our sincere gratitude goes to each of you.
And most especially, to the parents and families of our pioneering graduates—this achievement belongs to you, too.
Thank you for your sacrifices, prayers, patience, encouragement, and unconditional belief in your children. You have continually strived to provide them with opportunities to pursue their dreams and become professionals who can serve others.
Behind every RSW is a family that prayed, sacrificed, encouraged, and believed.
Today, your prayers have become part of this beautiful achievement. ❤️
🫶🏼 TO OUR SALUTIS SERVATORES
You started as pioneers.
You entered a path that had never been walked by a graduating batch before you.
You faced challenges.
You endured uncertainty.
You studied, practiced, struggled, learned, and persevered.
And today, you are REGISTERED SOCIAL WORKERS. 👩🏻💼👨🏻💼🎓
You are not simply the first graduates of the program to reach this milestone.
You are the foundation upon which the next generations of Social Workers of Sulu State University will build. Carry the name Sulu State University with pride. Carry your identity as Tausug Social Workers with dignity.
And carry the spirit of SALUTIS SERVATORES — Saviors of Well-being wherever your profession takes you.
May you serve with competence and compassion, uphold human dignity, advance social justice, and remain committed to the welfare of the people and communities you are called to serve.
🎓 CONGRATULATIONS, OUR BRAVE PIONEERS!
15/19 — 78.94%
15 Pioneers.
15 New Registered Social Workers.
15 Proud Tausug Social Workers.
One historic milestone for SuluSU School of Social Work.
☝️ Alhamdulillah for the blessing.
☝️ Alhamdulillah for the journey.
☝️ Alhamdulillah for everyone who became part of this success.
From the Year of Transcendence, we now witness the beginning of a Year of Legacy.
Mabuhay ang Pioneering Batch of SuluSU School of Social Work!
Mabuhay ang SALUTIS SERVATORES!
Mabuhay ang Registered Social Workers of Sulu! 💙💜
