ILOILO City – Preparations are underway for the 43rd Commencement Exercises of the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV), its first face-to-face commencement activities in the new normal, on July 21, Thursday, 4 p.m. at the newly inaugurated Oblation Avenue, Iloilo City campus.
More than 800 students from the various UPV colleges, including UP Tacloban College, are expected to graduate.
Here is the list of activities:
* Papuri – July 20, Wednesday (8 a.m., UPV Auditorium)
* Parangal – July 20, Wednesday (6 p.m., UPV Auditorium)
* Baccalaureate Service – July 21, Thursday (9 a.m., UPV Auditorium)
Graduating students are expected to be in the auditorium area at 3 p.m. on the 21st.
Photo walls will be set up near the auditorium, where graduating students can have their photos taken with their parents and classmates.
The processional will start at 4 p.m.
The Commencement Program will begin at exactly 4:30 p.m.
UP Tacloban College will have its separate commencement exercises on July 26, Tuesday.
Dr. Maria Cynthia Rose B. Bautista, UP’s Vice President for Academic Affairs, will address the graduates.
Bautista is a professor of Sociology at UP Diliman. She was the former dean of UP Diliman’s College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, executive director of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies, and commissioner of the Commission on Higher Education.
Bautista served on the advisory or governing boards of institutions such as the Philippine Institute of Development Studies, Philippine Social Science Council, Human Development Network, Asian Scholarship Foundation, and the NUS Asian Research Institute. She chaired the UNESCO National Commission’s Social Science and Humanities Committee and the ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework Task Force and sat on the Executive Committee of the ASEAN Quality Assurance Network.
Bautista completed her BA degree in Sociology from UP Diliman, magna cum laude, and later earned her MS and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
She was awarded by the National Academy of Science and Technology as Outstanding Young Scientist and with an Outstanding Publication Award. She was also cited as one of the Ten Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service. She was also given the Achievement Award for Social Sciences by the National Research Council of the Philippines.
