Lord Don Fray Francisco Gainza or Bishop Gainza as we know of saw the potential of women to be

educators, and might I just remind everyone that this was the same century in which women were
just seen as housewives and producers of children, He envisioned a school where each parish was
required to send one representative to be schooled as a teacher. The plan was that once they were
through with their schooling, they would return to their communities to teach. He fought long and
hard to gain the funds needed to complete the school and once it was finished he petitioned that the
local administrators of the province should help shoulder the costs. The school was opened on April
12, 1868. In Sept. 18, 1875, Colegio de Sta. Isabel became the first normal school for women in the
Philippines and Southeast Asia under the name Escuela Normal de Maestras of Colegio de Sta.
Isabel. And then from the period of 1877 up to 1898 the school had 300 graduates.
When the Spanish signed the instruments of surrender on September 18 1898, it took place here at
Colegio de Sta. Isabel. The provincial governor surrendered the entire province to the two corporals
of the revolutionary forces, Elias Angeles and Felix Plazo.
After many more fruitful years the Colegio de Sta. Isabel finally gained its University status in the
year 2001, this changing its name to what we know now as Universidad de Sta. Isabel.
And that ends the story on how this school came to be
now we will begin our tour of the different places/locations/areas here in the university.

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