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26 JANUARY 2009. VOLUME 40. NUMBER 16. 12 PAGES
DLSU hosts ASEAN business educators’ conference See page 3
Ramos-Horta shares optimism Museum opens third term Engineering student is RP’s on the attainment of peace exhibit 10th Chess Grandmaster
2 9 11 Ramos-Horta shares optimism on the attainment of peace Despite many conflicts in many parts of the world, Timor-Leste President and 1996 Nobel Laureate for Peace José Ramos-Horta expressed optimism that “peace is attainable in our lifetime.” During his lecture titled “Is long lasting peace an attainable served as the exiled spokesman for the East Timorese resistance dream?” at the Teresa Yuchengco Auditorium of De La Salle during the years of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor from University last January 15, Ramos-Horta said political disputes 1975 to 1999, during which time he also served as the Permanent could actually be resolved much more easily than personal Representative to the UN of the Revolutionary Front for an wounds. Independent East Timor (Fretilin). Sharing his many years of experience fighting for the For the Bridges program, Ramos-Horta became the fourth independence of Timor-Leste, he gave a simple piece of advise: guest speaker to visit the University, following Nobel Laureates “Do not disregard what is in the minds and the hearts of people Prof. Robert Mundell (1999 Nobel Prize winner for Economics) who have been traumatized by violence.” and Prof. David Jonathan Gross (2004 Nobel Prize winner He stressed that every individual is responsible in the for Physics), as well as former World Bank President James attainment of peace, and urged leaders to practice Wolfensohn. compassion and humility. During the program, he was conferred a Doctor of He also decried the continuing production of Humanities (honoris causa) degree by DLSU President and mass weapons, noting how Asia has become the Chancellor Br. Armin Luistro FSC and DLSU Board of Trustees most “nuclearized” part of the world. “No amount Chair Joaquin Quintos IV. of weapons can prevail over our ideals,” he said. The Bridges lecture series, hosted through the International Ramos-Horta is a co-recipient of Peace Foundation, was organized together with Far Eastern the Nobel Peace Prize, together with University, and with the support of Washington Sycip, founder Bishop Carlos Belo, the religious of the SGV Group and of the Asian Institute of Management, as leader of East Timor, for his the Philippine honorary chairman of Bridges, and Jaime Augusto significant contributions to Zobel de Ayala, chair and CEO of the Ayala Corporation, as the the independence of program’s Philippine chairman. Timor-Leste. He DLSU hosts ASEAN business educators’ conference De La Salle University, through the Ramon V. del Rosario Sr. Graduate School of Business (GSB), hosted the ninth ASEAN Graduate Business/Economics Programs (AGBEP) last January 15-16 at the Century Park Hotel in Manila, gathering 30 heads of business schools of 10 leading universities in the region to tackle recent global developments and issues affecting the business programs of higher education institutions.
GSB Dean Dr. Philip Juico, who internationalize graduate business/ Process, and What ASEAN Can Learn” served as chairman of the AGBEP economics programs of AUN member from the United States. NAFSA, an Network, in his welcome remarks noted universities at the regional and global association of international educators, that the conference also underscored levels. promotes the exchange of scholars to and the role of technology as it gave the The two-day deans’ conference was from the United States. participants the opportunity to interact only one of the many activities of AGBEP. Dr. Louie Divinagracia, with resource speakers from two remote The network also hosts bilateral meetings agriculturist and member of the sites through video conferencing. that include programs on student and International Society of Southeast Asian Also welcoming the participants faculty exchange as well as joint research Agricultural Sciences, chairholder of were AUN Executive Director Dr. and publication. the distinguished Professorial Chair in Piniti Ratanankul, DLSU President and Former ASEAN Deputy Secretary- Entrepreneurship, and director of the Chancellor Br. Armin Luistro FSC, and General and DLSU Professor Emeritus MBA and DBA programs of DLSU, DLSU Vice Chancellor for Lasallian Dr. Wilfrido Villacorta delivered a likewise delivered a talk via video Mission and External Relations Br. presentation on the topic “ASEAN conferencing. He shared a paper on “The Bernard Oca FSC. Regional Integration and Inter-Regional Competitive Environment of ASEAN Composed of the faculties of Cooperation,” sharing a historical Agribusiness.” business and economics of the ASEAN background on the regional cooperation The second day of the meeting University Network member universities, as well as the vision of an East Asian focused on the change of deans and school AGBEP seeks to promote and strengthen community. members, progress report on student and a relationship among academicians, The participants were also able faculty exchange, and school/country scholars, and students in the areas of to interact with Diana Bartelli Carlin of reports by AGBEP members. Juico also business and economics; to help uplift the University of Kansas, who serves as announced the turnover of AGBEP the quality level of graduate programs chair of the NAFSA Bologna Task Force, chairmanship to Dr. Myrna Austria, related to business and economics who delivered in real-time a presentation dean of DLSU College of Business and of AUN member universities; and to on “The European Experience, Bologna Economics. DLSU welcomes Universidad de La Salle Colombia January 26: The transfer visiting professor De La Salle University welcomed Jose Alberto of relics of Dueñas Guarnizo, marketing area coordinator of St. La Salle Universidad de La Salle in Colombia (ULS), as visiting professor for this trimester. He is teaching Every year, on January 26, the Lasallian community in the Philippines commemorates an undergraduate course in International Business the life of St. John Baptist de La Salle. The feast and a graduate course on Global Markets day of our Founder actually falls on April 7, under the Business Management Department. during the summer break. To let members of the community join in the celebrations of St. La Dueñas is the first faculty from ULS to come to DLSU Salle’s life and legacy, we thus mark January 26 under the academic linkage program between the two institutions as the most opportune time to do so. established in November 2005. The partnership between ULS and DLSU aims to promote This special day historically marks the cooperation in teaching, research, and community service through an transfer of St. La Salle’s relics to the chapel of the international exchange of students, staff, and knowledge. In particular, Generalate in Rome in 1937. The relics were earlier collaboration may be carried out in the areas of student, faculty, and kept at Rouen for 187 years, where he spent his technical and administrative staff exchange; exchange of academic final days, and at Lembecqlez-Hal in Belgium for materials; joint research and publication; joint organization of another 31 years. conferences, seminars, and other academic meetings; joint Proclaimed as a saint in 1900 and made organization of special technical and administrative Patron Saint of all those who work in the field of programs; and joint production and delivery of courses education, he inspired others how to teach and care and programs. for young people, how to meet failure and frailty Dueñas holds a masters degree in Global with compassion, how to affirm, strengthen, and Marketing and diploma in Marketing Management heal. from Staffordshire University in England. He also Born to a rich family, St. La Salle chose has various trainings in international marketing, to renounce a privileged life and instead created teaching in virtual environments, entrepreneurship, a religious congregation and school that would and strategic competitive management from ULS, provide opportunities for growth for children of the Georgetown University, Sabana University- less privileged. Colombia, and the United Nations Industrial He was a pioneer in founding training Development Organization (UNIDO). colleges for teachers, reform schools for His research interests include delinquents, technical schools, and secondary marketing strategies, small and medium schools for modern languages, arts, and sciences. enterprises, and cross-cultural business His work quickly spread throughout France relationships. and, after his death, continued to expand across the globe. Currently, there are De La Salle schools in 80 different countries.
Source: www.lasalle2.org US State Department names DLSU faculty as ASEAN research fellow International Studies Department Associate Professor Dr. Renato De Castro was recently named fellow for this year’s United States State Department’s Association of Southeast Asian Nation’s (ASEAN) Research Fellowship. After being chosen for the fellowship conducted by the Philippine-American Educational Foundation last December 2007, De Castro left for Arizona State University where he will teach a course on International Relations of Southeast Asia while conducting a six-month research titled “China’s Emergence, the ASEAN States, and US Influence in Southeast Asia.” Furthermore, De Castro will attend academic conferences on his research topic, deliver lectures in various think-tanks in Washington D.C., and observe how American universities manage their degree programs on International Studies. Conceived in 2005, the ASEAN Research Fellowship was initiated by the State Department as part of the overall US diplomatic program to enhance Washington’s relations with ASEAN.
Faculty releases new book on Filipino philosophy University Fellow Dr. Florentino Timbreza of the Philosophy Department has come out with his newest publication, Filipino Philosophy Today, courtesy of National Book Store. The book chronicles the author’s corpus of voluminous articles and researches over a span of four decades of teaching Filipino philosophy. In the book, which consists of 16 chapters, the author discusses the rationale and foundations of Filipino philosophy, the fragments of the people’s philosophy of life, and the sources and characteristics of Filipino thought and values. With his new book, Timbreza continues to contribute in the articulation and formalization of Filipino philosophy and the propagation and intellectualization of the Filipino Language.
Pandaraya: A Contemporary Filipino Term for Sin? First of two parts
By Dr. José de Mesa
Confronted as we are today by the deplorably pervasive yet seemingly acceptable corruption in different areas and various levels of personal and social life, we may begin to wonder whether, ethically and religiously, our sense of what is wrong has been terribly dulled. WhatO mbudsman former Simeon Marcelo had said when he was still in office is indicative of this situation. R“ ight now,” he once remarked, “there seems to be no outrage and repulsion when [general public] see a blatant violation of law, and the absence of commitment and passion to work against it.”1 And commenting on how widespread corruption is destructive in several ways,E ric Batalla says, “Perhaps, most important, institutionalized corruption damages the national psyche.I t miseducates and tells people that there is nothing wrong in being corrupt. Wealth and power have become the prime measures of individual Filipino success.”2 Or, could it also be that the way we understand “sin” as Catholics is no longer relevant? Customarily understood as the violation of divine laws, many Catholics are generally unaware that sin, “ the believer’s word for things not right in our world,”3 has been and can be interpreted differently depending on the historical and cultural context in order to be effectively understood.
Sin interpreted in various historical and cultural ways This is certainly true, for instance, of the various theologies and doctrine of “sin” articulated within Western Christianity which Filipinos inherited from missionaries fromE urope and North America. There sin has been interpreted as the violation of divine, natural or ecclesiastical law (the legal perspective), as infidelity to one’s personal relationship with God (the personalist perspective), and as selfishness that creates sinful structures (the social perspective). But even the Bible itself contains different contextual interpretations of sin. Thus “sin” is “rebellion” when interpreted in the context of God’s authority over humankind. It is an “abomination” if the perspective is that of God’s holiness. Within the framework of the covenant, sin is perceived as “infidelity” and “adultery.” In the light of divine wisdom, sin is surely “foolishness.”4 Moreover, we rightly reminded that the bible employs an array of cultural images to depict sin: missing the target, wandering from the right path, straying from the fold, a hard heart, stiff neck, blindness and deafness, overstepping of a line and failure to reach it, a beast
1 As cited in CyberDyaryo at http://www.cyberdyaryo.com/features/f2002_1204_01.html 2 Eric C. Batalla of the Political Science Department of De La Salle University-Manila, “De-Institutionalizing Corruption in the Philippines” at
crouching at the door, and an attack or evasion or building contractors have been known for neglect of divine calling.5 using inferior quality of materials for the Since theology recognizes history and construction to increase profit at the expense culture as contexts which must be seriously of the safety of their clients; government considered and often regards them as the officials engaged in kick-backs and using starting point for understanding the different people’s money for their own interests; when elements and aspects of the Christian faith, election results of the official tally of votes it only makes sense that we take Filipino are altered as in the infamous “dagdag-bawas” history and culture as constitutive elements scheme; workers not getting justly paid for in interpreting what sin is.6 Widespread and their labor9 and among workers who shortchange the now deeply rooted corruption in the country those who hired them for particular tasks. can neither be denied nor ignored. This is why Clearly, those engaging in pandaraya benefit Jesuit anthropologist, Albert Alejo, to the detriment of those they have deceived or insists that we talk at the present time cheated. about daya because, for him, “this is Pandaraya is corruption within: Pandaraya where we have to live out our faith.” 7 So is not just an ambiguous external act; it arises how can we as Filipinos talk today about from within (loob). There is an awareness that sin relevantly and effectively to re- it is wrong (mali) and evil (masama) and the awaken a right sense of it? I suggest that intention to engage in it. It is interesting we reinterpret and speak about sin in terms to note that small kids at play, who have not of pandaraya. yet had any instruction on what is right and Corruption within and without as “Pandaraya”8 wrong, intuit pandaraya as wrong. Engaging in The root word daya in the vernacular pandaraya results in a guilty awareness of it: refers to any deceitful action (gawang one knows he/she/they are madaya.10 Pandaraya, panlilinlang); it is obscuring or distorting being a chosen attitude and a deliberate act, the truth in order to deceive (pagtatago assumes that one is free to do so or to avoid o pagpilipit sa katotohanan sa layuning it. Pandaraya for Filipinos is intentional magligaw). Hence, a person is regarded and malicious. No one gets involved in it, as madaya if his or her behavior and words as it were, passively or accidentally.Walang deliberately present falsehood as truth, napapadaya! In this lies the gravity of making another believe what is really not pandaraya. It is bad enough when we shortchange the situation and so leads the other astray or mislead others involuntarily. People are out of self-interest. So any action or means hurt, but they are not as angered as when they intended to deliberately deceive for self know that the action which affected them has advantage is considered pandaraya. In been a calculated one. I n this case, “their other words, it is a malicious and deliberate attitude is not just sorrowful... our victims shortchanging of the other. face us indignantly. For they know we have Pandaraya is corruptionwithout : dirty violated them with something powerfully and play and “fixed” games in sports competitions peculiarly personal. We have willingly hurt like basketball; when something is purchased, them. We have done it in purpose.” 11 Unlike but the quality or amount or weight of what kasalanan which can be involuntary, pandaraya was bought is short of what has been paid for; or daya is inexcusable. In the local imagination
5 Cornelius Platinga, Jr., Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin (Leicester: Apollos, 1995), 5. 6 Vatican II in Gaudium et Spes, art. 58 states that “the discoveries of different cultures to spread and explain the message of Christ to all nations, to probe it and more deeply understand it, and to give it better expression in liturgical celebrations and in the life of the diversified community of the faithful.” All quotations from the Second Vatican Council are taken from Walter Abbott, S.J., ed., The Documents of Vatican II (New York: America Press, 1966). 7 Albert Alejo, S.J., “Daya at Laya: Pagmumuni sa Etika ng Pagkakatotoo,” Tinig Loyola II:2 (February, 2001), 4. Translation mine. 8 “Daya” means cheating, committing fraud; trickery, deceit. José Villa Panganiban, Diksunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (Lungsod Quezon: Manlapaz Publishing Co., 1973). The 1914 Diccionario Tagalo-Hispano (Madrid: Ediciones Cultura Hispanica, 1965) of Pedro Serrano Laktaw gave daya the meaning of engaño. Pandaraya is the deliberate act of perpetrating daya. 9 We note the protest of the prophet Jeremiah against this practice: “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbors work for nothing, and does not give them their wages; who says, ‘I will build myself a spacious house with large upper rooms,” and who cuts out windows for it, paneling with with cedar, and painting it with vermillion.” (Jer. 22:13). 10 “What makes sin really sin is guilt. Guilt is the free decision to evil, evil with regard to God and man.” Cf. Schoonenberg, “Sin,” 89. 11 Cornelius Platinga, Jr., Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin (Leicester: Apollos, 1995), 2-3.
“It is what comes out of a person that defiles. For it is within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly.A ll these evil things come from within, and they defile the person.” (Mk. 7:20-23)
and parlance, napadaya (unintentionally made to Mark, “It is what comes out of a person that to commit daya ) is not possible. How can it be defiles. For it is within, from the human heart, otherwise, if it is intentionally malicious? that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, People know it is evil; it is wrong. In religious murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, terms, it is “sin.” licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly.A ll Pandaraya is destructive and harmful to these evil things come from within, and they both victim and perpetrator, the former being defile the person.” (Mk. 7:20-23). deceived, shortchanged and unjustly treated, So when one looks for an embracing theme while the latter is corrupted by profit and for what is concretely evil and dehumanizing power (dinaya ang sarili at naging madaya), in contemporary Filipino society and may be becoming in character what he has been doing. expressive of what “sin” is in the Filipino But pandaraya incorporates not only the sense setting, one which suggests itself ispandaraya . of what is wrong (ang mali) and evil (ang To commit it is to lack integrity, to be masama). It also includes the idea represented disrespectful of human dignity and destructive by hamartia, the main term for “sin” in the of well-being. Pandaray a is being untruthful in New Testament because it fails to honor the terms of what is genuinely human, and unfaithful Filipino relational standard of utang na loob, in terms of justice-filled relationships. I t our debt of human solidarity to one another. also undoes the life-giving, ruining what Because of a common loob or humanity, theutang gladdens the heart. L ife-giving relationships na loob we owe one another is that of respecting, are eroded or even destroyed by pandaraya, enhancing and, if need be, defending each eroding trust which is essential not only other’s personhood. Pandaraya is a refusal to in personal relationships, but in building render what we owe each other as human persons community among people and ordering a society with a commonloob , which according to Christian worthy of human beings. Religiously, pandaraya Tradition is God-given and made in the image is a betrayal of who we really are, of ourloob , and likeness of God. I n short, hindi na tayo which the Filipino culture acknowledges as makatao: we have become less human because of somehow reflective of God. But even if we see pandaraya. From the Filipino cultural point of possibilities withpandaraya , we are at present view, we can even press for a higher standard, accustomed to refer to “sin” as“kasalanan.” that of kagandahang-loob, the supreme human value for Filipinos, and one that has quite a Christian ring to it. In situations when one is confronted with a choice between what is beneficial to self and what brings well-being to the other, Filipinos know from experience that pagpaparaya is a virtue that can overcome evil. To my mind, all the above elements may be a distinct advantage in using pandaraya as a contextual interpretation of what “sin” is, 13 not to mention the fact that “gawa mong di matuwid” (unrighteous deed) is considered by the Pasiong Mahal, the popular local narrative of the passion of Jesus, asdaya “ nang demoniong ganid” (the daya of the ravenous devil).13 So what corrupts is from within, not something from the outside. In the words of the gospel according
University Fellow Dr. José de Mesa is full professor of the Theology and Religious Studies Department of De La Salle University.
12 The English term “sin” is derived from the Middle English sinne, from the Old English synn; akin to Old High German, sunta. See Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (Springfield, Massachusetts, 1976). 13 René B. Javellana, S.J., ed., Casaysayan nang Pasiong Mahal ni Jesucristong Panginoon Natin na Sucat Ipag-alab nang Puso nang Sinomang Babasa (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1988), 112, 219. 14 Albert E. Alejo, S.J., Tao Po! Tuloy!: Isang Landas ng Pag-unawa sa Loob ng Tao (Quezon City: Office of Research and Publications, Ateneo de Manila University, 1990), 29-33. Museum features GENRES OF VISUAL NARRATIVES De La Salle University’s The Museum features this third term an exhibition titled “HISTORICAL, FICTIONAL, and METAPHORICAL: Genres of Visual Narratives in Philippine Art.” Through history, fiction, and metaphor, the exhibition seeks to engage the viewers in a dialogue and transform them into participants who can relate to the stories in the artworks. Visual clues help the viewers explore narrative art and see how stories are expressed by the artists. The exhibition aims to help the viewers learn, get inspiration, and preserve memories and culture by understanding the various experiences of people through different genres. Featured works from the Wili and Doreen Fernandez collection are by Virgilio Aviado, Manuel Baldemor, Benedicto Cabrera, Orlando Castillo, Araceli Dans, Carlos “Botong” Francisco, Anita Magsaysay-Ho, Manuel Rodriguez, Sr., Manuel Rodriguez, Jr., Vin Toledo, and Pepito Frianeza. From the DLSU Art Gallery collections, the featured artists are Angelito Antonio, Federico Aguilar-Alcuaz, Norma Belleza, Jemo Bitancor, Jose Blanco, Wenceslao Garcia, Jose Joya, Isabelo Quiles, and Roger San Miguel. Lasallians participate in annual Marketing tilt Besting hundreds of aspirants from various universities in the Philippines, five Lasallians were chosen as part of the top 25 Marketing Management Trainees by the MarkProf Foundation last December 6 at the Asia Pacific College auditorium. This year’s batch of top honorees include Rona Raissa the participants into groups. In working to improve social Angeles (CAM-MMG), Joel Concepcion (ACM), Ricky enterprises, the groups which handled Rags 2 Riches and Manna Limlingan (AE-BSA), Ranier Macatangay (AE-MFI), and Elinor from Heaven, won first place. Concepcion, who graduated third in Malicdem (ISE-MMG). the batch, was one of those who worked on Manna from Heaven. Aspirants went through a series of group case analyses and Third place went to Team Spark, which presented a proposal individual idea tests to make it through the elimination stages. to Pag-asa sa Paglaya Multi-Purpose Cooperative. Malicdem Once selected to be in the top 25, they were to accomplish various was part of this team. oral and written examinations which determined their individual The MarkProf Bootcamp, which aims to “develop class ranking. Each trainee was also expected to meet the grade tomorrow’s leaders today” by mentoring the potential marketing cut-off. giants, is an annual tilt hosted by A Marketing Plan Competition was the MarkProf Foundation that launched which clustered started in 2004. Its founders are Ding Salvador, managing consultant of Lamoiyan Corporation, and Josiah Go, best-selling author and former president of the Philippine Marketing Association. Engineering student is RP’s 10 th Chess Grandmaster John Paul Gomez, a graduating Mechanical Engineering student and also the team captain of the De La Salle University Chess Team, earned the Grandmaster Title in the 38th Chess Olympiad last November in Germany. He is the country’s 10th Chess Grandmaster. The University honored Gomez for his remarkable achievement last December 12 at the St. La Salle Building Board Room. Among those who attended the event was Rep. Prospero Pichay, Jr., National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) president. Gomez expressed his gratitude towards his coach and his teammates. He likewise mentioned the support of DLSU Vice Chancellor Br. Bernie Oca FSC, former DLSU President and staunch supporter of chess Br. Roly Dizon FSC, Rep. Pichay, and his father for their unwavering support to him and to the game. His previous achievement in the Philippine Grand Finals last July and his triumph in Germany, wherein he bested other competitors from various corners of the globe, were enough for him to earn the full International Grandmaster title.
LA SALLE TEAM tops accounting competition De La Salle University was declared champion in the Team category grand finals of the 10th nationwide search for Outstanding Students in the Philippines, organized by the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA).
The event held at Century Park Hotel in Manila last October 25 covering various fields of study such as Financial December 11 was also hosted by the Association of Certified Accounting, Management Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Public Accountants in Commerce and Industry (ACPACI), Management, Information technology, Business Law, Taxation, together with Philippine Duplicators, Inc. and Economics. Conrad Jonathan Lee, Dexter Yu Galan, and Liana Katrina Results on the national ranking revealed that Lee, Galan, Igna comprised the winning team which bested seven other teams Mabel Buted, and Jane Carol Chiu were among the 21 contenders from schools such as Ateneo de Davao University and University who advanced to the grand finals under the Individual category. of San Carlos. Chiu emerged as the first runner up. Prior to the finals, 216 students from 46 colleges and universities nationwide took the qualifying examination last Continuing excellence in teaching highlighted in aces De La Salle University and three University Fellows received awards from the Metrobank Foundation, Inc. this year as part of the latter’s efforts to promote a culture of excellence in education in the Philippines. University Fellow Dr. Tereso Tullao Jr. of the Economics University, together with 11 other PEACE honorees, during the Department was among the recipients of the prestigious ceremony. Metrobank Foundation Award for Continuing Excellence and The awards were given in line with the 30th anniversary Service given last January 22 at the Metrobank Foundation Inc.’s celebration of the Metrobank Foundation and the 25th anniversary headquarters in Makati City. of their annual Search for Outstanding Teachers. The presentation Tullao and two other full professors of DLSU, De La Salle of the Metrobank Foundation Awardees for Continuing University Vice Chancellor for Research Dr. Wyona Patalinghug Excellence and Service was the highlight of the event. and Counseling and Educational Psychology Professor Dr. Rose The Search for Outstanding Teachers, annually organized Marie Salazar-Clemeña, were cited for continuously contributing by the Metrobank Foundation in partnership with the Department to their respective fields after already being honored by the of Education and the Commission on Higher Education, promotes foundation as Outstanding Teachers. a culture of excellence in education by recognizing the country’s Tullao was named an Outstanding Teacher in 1993. best mentors who can be upheld as models not only for educators Patalinghug received the same award the following year, while but for other community members as well. Clemeña was cited in 2000. “Embodying a lifelong commitment to the pursuit of excellence, the ACES Awardees continue to make substantial contributions to their chosen discipline and have bequeathed a legacy of achievement to their peers and the community as a whole,” the citation read. Also, DLSU was honored as one of the first batch of Metrobank Foundation Partner in Empowering and AdvoCating Excellence (PEACE). DLSU President and Chancellor Br. Armin Luistro FSC received the award in behalf of the
DLSU is among the recipients of the Metrobank Foundation PEACE Award.
Salazar-Clemeña, Tullao, Patalinghug
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