At the celebration of the 2015 Bar Examination passers, current UP College of Law Dean Danilo L. Concepcion quoted the text message of former Dean Merlin M. Magallona, “It is good to hear that we are back to normal.” The text message was sent to Concepcion after Magallona learned that the UP College of Law is the top performing school in last year’s bar examination, garnering a passing rate of 89.73 percent,…

(MAY 4)— Four UP College of Law (CL) graduates made it to the top 10 out of the 1,731 examinees in the Bar examination held in November 2015 at the University of Sto. Tomas. According to Inquirer.net, Rachel Angeli B. Miranda, who is also a Philippine Daily Inquirer scholar, topped the bar exam with a rating of 87.40 percent. Other successful examinees who made it to the top 10 were: Jayson C. Aguilar, third place (86.75%); Giselle P. Hernandez, sixth place (86.10%) and Jedd Brian R….

      (ABR. 25)—Idinaos noong Abril 19 ang Pagpapatibay ni Dr. Grace R. Gorospe-Jamon bilang ika-9 na direktor ng UP Diliman Extension Programs sa Pampanga at Olongapo, sa mismong kampus ng UP Diliman Extension Program in Pampanga (UPDEPP) sa Clark Freeport, Mabalacat, Pampanga. Si Gorospe-Jamon ay propesor ng agham pampulitika…

(APR. 25)— Dr. Wilhelmina Q. Ramas, professor emerita at the UP College of Arts and Letters (CAL), passed away on April 17. She was 93. Ramas was born on Feb. 7, 1923. She took up BS Education in UP and graduated magna cum laude in 1948. She obtained a master of arts in Literature at the Northwestern University in Illinois, USA in 1955 and PhD in English Literature at Fordham University in New…

Office of the University Registrar The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (OVCAA) has been revitalized with the UP Board of Regents’ approval of the unit’s proposed restructuring at its 1316th Meeting on Mar. 31. The restructuring involves institutionalizing three offices, namely the General Education Center (GEC), Office of Field Activities (OFA) and the Office of International Linkages (OIL) and “expanding the services of, restructuring and/or renaming the five current offices,” the proposal noted. Prior to its…

Chancellor Michael L. Tan (APR. 7)—This statement updates previous information about the Faculty Center (FC) fire of Apr. 1, as well as responds to the most frequently asked questions, mainly from affected faculty, staff and students. Cause of the fire.  The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) continues to investigate the circumstances around the fire.  Our previous experience is that a report can take several weeks.  Meanwhile, the university itself is conducting a parallel investigation, looking mainly into compliance with several policies related to fire prevention.  A memo issued right after the fire reminds all deans and directors to strictly impose night…

Based on the findings of the team from the Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology, air pollution levels at the CAL building are 3 to 5 times higher than normal. It is advised that people limit their prolonged stay in the building. Classes at the CAL building and FC are suspended until 8 April 2016, Friday.

Based on the findings of the team from the Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology, air pollution levels at the CAL building are 3 to 5 times higher than normal. It is advised that people limit their prolonged stay in the building. Classes at the CAL building and FC are suspended until 8 April 2016, Friday.

A Consortium of Philippine Publishing Houses announces its “Sagip-Guro Campaign” The University of the Philippines Press, Anvil Publishing Inc., the Ateneo de Manila University Press, and the De La Salle University Press are each offering special sales packages, to benefit the teachers whose offices were gutted in the fire that hit the UP Diliman Faculty Center last April 1, 2016. Starting April 6 until November 29, the University of the Philippines Press will be giving a 75 percent discount to all its titles. It will also donate a set of its…

  Books in the Philippines generally tend to have short shelf lives.  Our environment is host to many conditions that are not friendly to books, conditions that constantly threaten their survival.  One of such is the frequency of fires. As a book historian, I know this all too well, for there is no dearth of accounts of the burning of books throughout Philippine history.  Take, for example, the fires at the San Agustin convent in Intramuros in…