Philippine Normal University North Luzon

Philippine Normal University North Luzon, formerly known as PNU Alicia or PNU Isabela, is the third regional branch of the Philippine Normal University, established under Republic Act No. 4242, principally authored by then Isabela lone district representative Delfin Albano. It opened on 26 July 1971 in the Home Economics Building of Alicia Central School, and moved a year later to its present five-hectare site in Barangay Aurora, on land donated by Rev. Cornelio Tomas of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines and by the Abuan family. It began with the Bachelor of Elementary Education and has since broadened its curricular offerings, adding graduate programmes serving teachers in nearby public and private schools. The parent university was declared the country's National Center for Teacher Education in 2008 under Republic Act No. 9647, a designation that frames the work of all its campuses. As a specialist teacher-education institution rather than a general state university, its programme range is narrower by design, concentrated on preparing and upgrading teachers for the schools of Isabela and the wider Cagayan Valley.