The Ateneo de Zamboanga University through the Ateneo Research Center welcomes researchers, faculty and administrators from Higher Education Institutions of the Zamboanga Peninsula to the ARC REGIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2016. This annual conference is being conducted to provide faculty members from AdZU and those coming from other universities and colleges in region 9 the opportunity and venue to share their research findings to fellow members of the academe as well as to the general public.