IN Pangasinan, full-time professors, instructors, and teachers of the university were employed. They taught for ten (10) months every school year, divided into two (2) semesters of five (5) months each, due to the school calendar. Although the two (2) months of summer vacation were excluded from their regular teaching schedules, they were paid their salaries on a regular monthly basis, including the months of summer.
During the semestral break of 1981, however, the full time teachers were paid their regular monthly salary without their Emergency Cost of Living Allowances (ECOLA).