RCC then, opened its Early Childhood Education Center at Catmon Campus in January 1997. Evolving from the MRBOLC's experience with community-based day care centers and a replication of what has been studied and observed by two RCC faculty members in Canada, the center caters to six months to three-year-old children. Initially, it catered to the children of RCC personnel. After more than half a century of service to the community, the institution felt the need to raise itself to a higher level of commitment to develop Filipino Christian graduates, morally upright and imbued with the ideals of justice, freedom, peace and love. This was concretized through its plan of activities and development efforts in the pursuit of the university status.