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, Started on 2013 -
Completed on 2014
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This study aimed to determine the construct of extension from the university faculty
perspective and the relationship between demographic profile and extension involvement. Twenty-eight
faculty members were purposively selected with considerations such as employment status (contractual,
temporary and permanent), at least four years in service, and present on that day of distribution of
questionnaire forms. Both descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS program and Wordle
application were used to analyze data. Results showed that 58% of the respondents are female; 54% are
contractual; 1-10 years in service; 1-5 years in doing extension with 1-5 extension involvement commonly
gift-giving and clean- up drive; gender is related to extension involvement; there is a substantial positive
relationship between employment status and extension involvement; only 41% of the variance in
extension involvement can be attributed to the combined effect of years in service and years in doing
extension; nature of extension is service; the purpose of extension is formative; and the level of
engagement is already engaged. Based on the obtained results, the study concluded that there are more
female contractual faculty members involved in extension activities; gender, employment status, years in
service and years in doing extension are related to number of extension involvement of faculty members;
the construct of extension is perceived as HEIs’ function to help the needs and in the development of the
community since extension is still on the nature of service with formative purpose. Yet, they agree that
university extension is already engaged.