Leadership and Growth in the Islands
students it’s a pleasure
and it’s an honor to be here and
i want to thank you for having me
my name is ancito i uh i am
from uh from the state of church
i came from a very small village
if you go to my village still uh
the way this used to be it’s about
almost two hours from the center
we have no road we have no electricity
it is still very traditional
and i’m saying this because i’m very
grateful
very grateful to be here
here at the university of guam and to be
a faculty
and gratefully administration
grateful to the uh to those that have
been with me
on this journey and really do your
studies
i have learned this from dr magnus and
he always said
our students make us
look good or students
make us feel proud
and certainly that’s a very very
incredible
statement i learned from it
and really your students without you i
would not be teaching here
without the administration without the
support
from the dean from my colleagues i will
never be here
so really you know what i what i mean to
say is uh
i came from an island
that the value christmas
and i think you know that’s one thing
that i want to share with you
uh today and it’s very profound
you know i know president of the
university is now talking about island
wisdom
but uh respect is a very core value
of how we grow up in the island and
why i believe it’s very important for
students to remember
and to learn because this is how i know
god
and how it helped really helped me
throughout my journey everywhere i go
i’ve been very lucky i came from a very
poor family i thought that i would never
make it to college
because they have no money to send me to
college
but uh because of very good friends
support services
here i am i am the faculty here at the
university
but uh i think you know i would really
say the key
people that have been very helpful to me
it’s because of response respecting my
culture
you do not talk much you nessa
respecting my culture you
you get along with those people around
you
uh respect in my culture you care about
those people around you
respecting my culture you always
listen to them and make sure that you
help them
in any way you can and really i think
that’s really what i’ve been very lucky
for
uh anywhere that i go people always help
me
and i think it’s the bottom line is
because
i always make sure that i saw that my
profound response
i always make sure that uh when they
need help i should be there to help them
i always make sure that uh
i will not come in a meeting with them
to argue
and that’s what i’ve been doing all
these years
and now when i came in at the university
in 2005
the university of guam was new to me
teaching at this level
was very new but i was grateful that uh
i had my dean at that time dr rodriguez
is now our senior vice president and
profess
uh she was very helpful to me i had dr
mcneeds
dr lee those were my very good
colleagues at that time
they would always look at me and said
and sito
what can we do to help you
and i’m so grateful they were sharing
with me this is the way we teach those
courses
these are our course syllabus and this
is the way you can teach that course
you don’t have to really speak all the
time but you know you can give students
assignments
you can prove them into groups of
detailed discussion
so it’s really in my team mates
my team members that they have been very
supportive
and as i said those that they were
around me
everywhere i go very very grateful
and then i found the students
are so important because
i end up learning so much from my
students
uh some of the research that i am doing
now
that i’m working on now these are
research done by my students
i didn’t know how to do powerpoint my
students teach me how to do part 5
oh my gosh what can i say
and again you know that’s why you know
when dr magnets was saying that
nancito would always be grateful would i
always be proud
we’ll always really say thank you to our
students because they make us look good
look so proud in the communities so
really students i can say
you are the university of one and this
university exists because of you
but let’s go back to my
main point i would say that anywhere you
go
if you have that finest quality of
respect
and i’ve seen it uh when you study the
most
successful organization of this world in
this world
what do they have at the very highest
level of leadership
they have integrity and humility you can
never go wrong
and i’ve seen that in my own culture
how they teach you when you are real
always
respect anybody anywhere you go
i learned that in my culture
that i would never talk back to my
mother and i know
my mother intentionally did many things
many times
i know she knows is wrong but she
destiny
whether or not unseat or whatever points
from here but i cannot say
i know you’re wrong but who am i to say
to my mother that’s his friend so really
uh ladies and gentlemen remember
that is a very powerful core values of
our culture
never never never argue with your mother
never
never never argue with your father
always always always respect your
sisters
make sure that you protect them and
anywhere they go you will always do that
in terms of
security of their safety and then
get along with your brothers and cousins
anywhere in those communities the others
no matter what always pay respect to
them
so i think you know this really that’s
what i want to say with you
anywhere you go with that new jersey
chicago from here from the philippines
from i would say that’s a very universal
uh quality of human beings
and i say this because
now i found the more history
the world is in leadership i studied in
conference
good degree and i learned from him
that at the very top it’s about humility
and activity
and that’s what i learned from the very
beginning in my own culture
it’s about integrity and humility and
i’ve seen that india when i go
that’s what they have and the finest
this most successful
organization in the world they’re
successful because
their humility and their integrity
and now you know when again you know the
president of the university
is speaking about ion wisdom that’s a
very core
portfolio of iron wisdom that i want to
thank
really the president now that you know
that’s
it’s exciting for me because it takes
somebody from outside
to come and tell us you must tell
your own people your own culture because
it has so much to contribute to the
world
and really i want to thank dr christ
for that involved in his life that is
doing for the
university and for the region so again
christina
to ease and every one of you and dr
magnets
dr rivera for the program dr sanders
what an honor to be here and i want to
thank you
for having me to speak to you and i hope
it makes sense
for a better future