12 November 2014 The Chancellors The Dean, UP Cebu Former Chancellors Manuel Agulto and Rex Victor Cruz Please allow me to provide our faculty and CU administrators the following clarifications of the recommendations of the OVPAA related to Merit Promotions: Process: The guidelines attached to the President’s Memorandum dated 8 July 2014 calling for the 2014 Merit Promotions provides on page 3 that “recommendations for promotions for crossing rank (from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor), and for the Associate Professor rank and above will be endorsed by the Chancellor to the OVPAA System Committee formed by the President, chaired by […]
UPLB BS Biology Program gets AUN-QA Standard Accreditation
UPLB’s BS Biology program under the Institute of Biological Sciences (IBS) of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), has received certification as an accredited program under the ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) System on November 5, 2014. The date of effectivity is from Feb. 18, 2014 to Feb. 17, 2018.The accreditation signifies that the UPLB BS Biology curriculum adheres to international academic standards, and it is at par with biology programs from other leading ASEAN universities within the network. This is the first and so far the only AUN-QA accreditation for any BS Biology program in the Philippines. Read […]
UP Manila Museum of a History of Ideas inaugurated
On 22 October 2014 the University of the Philippines Manila inaugurated its Museum of a History of Ideas (UPM-MHI, also called UP Manila Museum). The museum celebrates the contributions of the University to the critical imagination that shaped the Philippines as a nation in the early 20th century. The museum is one of UP’s centennial projects and was spearheaded by Sen. Edgardo Angara. The curator, Marian Pastor Roces, explained that the museum wants to highlight the role of UP in shaping the intellectual development and cultural imagination of the nation. They limited the years of focus, only those from 1910-1929. Knowing that many of UP’s old artefacts were destroyed in the war, they have called for donations (of materials, of funds to buy materials). The aim is to build a “living” museum which means that there is a unit that will […]
TACLOBAN DECLARATION urges the national government to focus efforts on mangrove protection
In the wake of Supertyphoon Yolanda, the Philippine government released PhP347 million for mangrove rehabilitation, with plans to allocate another PhP1 billion. However, ground assessments in Eastern Samar and Leyte showed the mangroves to be recovering from minimal to partial damage. Or they sustained no damage at all; only a few mangrove patches were totally devastated. These findings were shared during the Post-Yolanda Workshop: Mapping Yolanda’s impact on Philippine mangroves: impacts and recovery held in U.P. Diliman last 21-22 March 2014 with attendees from the scientific and NGO communities based in Metro Manila. Hence the need to bring these results to local stakeholders in […]
