2401 (twen´te fôr´,o, wun) is a landmark number along Taft Avenue. It is the location ID of De La Salle University, home to outstanding faculty and students, and birthplace of luminaries in business, public service, education, the arts, and science. And 2401 is the name of the official newsletter of DLSU, featuring developments and stories of interest about the University. 12 JANUARY 2009. VOLUME 40. NUMBER 15. 12 PAGES DLSU HOSTS RAMOS-HORTA LECTURE See page 3 New linkage to reinforce FIELD NOTES: Lasallians plant 100 trees continuing education De La Salle Brothers in celebration of UP’s for CEOs come to Manila centennial 4 6 11 CED FacultY memBers WIN ASIA-PacIFIC research AWard Two faculty members from the College of Education received recognition for the paper they presented in the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) Conference 2008 held last November 26 to 28 at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Minnie Rose Lapinid, assistant they were able to come up with a research Board in terms its quality and extent to professor of the Science Education proposal that can institutionalize service- which it has generated a substantive result of Department, and Lemuel Toledano, learning pedagogy in La Salle schools. importance and impact focusing on system faculty of the Educational Leadership Dean of Student Affairs Voltaire wide practice and policy making. Winners and Management, won for their research Mistades also presented his research titled were awarded certificates and $AUD 500 paper titled, “Towards Developing Service “Cognitive Expectations and Student for researchers coming from a developing Learning Projects for Community Members Achievement in Introductory Physics” at country. of Jaime Hilario Integrated School (JHIS) in the conference. His research investigates EERP is an international, Bagac, Bataan.” They received the APERA- the extent of change in students’ cognitive professionally refereed journal targeted at Educational Research for Policy and Practice expectations – beliefs about the learning education professionals with an interest in (ERRP) Award for the best article submitted process and the structure of knowledge – the ways in which educational research can by a young researcher for publication in the after going through an Introductory Physics inform, and be informed by, educational EERP journal. course that was taught with the support of decision and practice in the Asia-Pacific Their research project focused on web-based technologies. region. addressing the needs of the community Submitted research papers were members by integrating academic activities judged by a panel from the APERA to community involvement and aimed at Executive and the assisting in the actualization of ERPP Editorial La Salle’s vision to serve the underprivileged and at the same time develop scholarly outputs that can support the transformative type of education that they would like their students to experience. In the end, DLSU HOSTS RAMOS-HORTA LECTURE De La Salle University will host the last leg of the lecture series “Bridges: Dialogues Towards a Culture of Peace” here in the Philippines, with invited guest speaker 1996 Nobel Laureate for Peace His Excellency Prof. José Ramos-Horta, President of Timor-Leste, on January 15 at the Teresa Yuchengco Auditorium. As part of the lecture series of the remained until his election as President International Peace Foundation, Ramos- of East Timor in 2007. Horta is the fourth guest speaker to visit The lecture series, hosted through the University, following Nobel Laureates the International Peace Foundation, Prof. Robert Mundell (1999 Nobel Prize is organized together with Far Eastern winner for Economics) and Prof. David University, and with the support of Jonathan Gross (2004 Nobel Prize winner Washington Sycip, founder of the SGV for Physics), as well as former World Bank Group and of the Asian Institute of President James Wolfensohn. Management, as the Philippine honorary Ramos-Horta is a co-recipient chairman of Bridges, and Jaime Augusto of the Nobel Peace Prize, together Zobel de Ayala, chair and CEO of the with Bishop Carlos Belo, the religious Ayala Corporation, as the program’s leader of East Timor, for his significant Philippine chairman. contributions to the independence of The International Peace Foundation Timor-Leste. He served as the exiled started Bridges in Thailand, and extended spokesman for the East Timorese this year to the Philippines, with the aim resistance during the years of the of facilitating and strengthening dialogue Indonesian occupation of East Timor from and communication between 1975 to 1999, during which time he also societies in Southeast Asia as well served as the Permanent Representative to as with people in other parts of the the UN of the Revolutionary Front for an world, to promote understanding and Independent East Timor (Fretilin). trust. Moreover, when Ramos-Horta Through Nobel Laureates received funds from the Nobel Prize, a and with local universities and portion went to the establishment of the other institutions in Southeast José Ramos-Horta Microcredit Fund for Asia, Bridges seeks to contribute the Poor, which is in full operation today to the United Nations’ Decade for a with a payback rate of 97 percent. Culture of Peace and Non-violence, After serving as Timor-Leste’s with the establishment of long-term first Foreign Minister, Ramos-Horta was relationships which may result in appointed as Prime Minister in 2006 by common research programs and other then President Xanana Gusmão where he forms of collaboration. Photos, from top, show Ramos-Horta and other featured speakers of the Bridges lecture series in DLSU: Nobel Laureate for Physics David Gross, Nobel Laureate for Economics Robert Mundell, and former World Bank President James Wolfensohn. NEW LINKAGE TO REINFORCE CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR CEOs De La Salle University through the College of Business and Economics (CBE) signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Ivy Global Education Culture Academy-Seoul in Korea to hold together a series of seminars on the Philippine economy, regional integration, and globalization for CEO participants of the Korea Real Estate Consulting Institute. The signing was held at the CBE Research and of seminars is to be scheduled by mutual agreement through the Development Conference Room last December 16, with CBE period of two years beginning December 2008. Dean Dr. Myrna Austria representing the University and Ivy The MOA embodies the opportunity to develop fruitful Global Education Culture Academy Business Administrator Prof. academe-industry linkages, deepen social and cultural exchange, Young Su Lee. Witness to the event was Chairman Doo Hee Lee broaden knowledge, and assist in the continuing education of of Dae Myung Consulting and Reality Co. business leaders in the Asia-Pacific region particularly in the Under the agreement, a six-month and 15-day program areas of decision-making, international management ability, will be jointly designed and endorsed by both parties. The series leadership and global strategy approaches. DLSP re-elects National Mission Council officers De La Salle Philippines (DLSP), Fernandez FSC, Ramon del Rosario, Jr, Cirilo Tolosa as corporate secretary and the network of 17 La Salle schools Br. Armin Luistro FSC, Atty. Eduardo Atty. Isabel Tolosa as assistant corporate committed to work together for a more Cueto, and Dr. Oscar Hilado as National secretary. efficient and effective implementation Mission Council members for another During the meeting, the DLSP of the Lasallian Mission, held its 2008 three years. president reported on the efforts of the Corporation Meeting last November 26 The National Mission Council network toward achieving the vision of at the DLSP multipurpose hall of the Br. also re-appointed Br. Edmundo and Del becoming One La Salle; revitalized by Andrew Gonzalez Building. In affirmation Rosario, Jr. as co-chairs and Br. Armin as one Lasallian Mission of providing access of the positive strides that DLSP has DLSP president and chief mission officer. and equity to a “human and Christian taken towards a more unified Lasallian Likewise upheld as corporate officers education for the young, especially the Family, the body re-elected Br. Edmundo were Vicente Gamo as treasurer, Atty. poor.” Members of Gifts for the Jaime Hilario Integrated School. the DLSU-Parents of University Students Organization (PUSO) visited the Jaime Hilario Integrated School in Bagac, Bataan last November 22, spending the day with pupils from Grades 1 to 3. The parents distributed gifts to the children, which included school items and food, as well as to the La Salle Brothers taking charge of the school. The group also donated a laptop, a box of pediatric medicines, and boxes of school and office materials. This school, which started in 2006, is one of the newest apostolate for the less privileged by the Christian Brothers in the Philippines and has a little over 100 pupils from Grades 1 to 3 only. The children receive a full Lasallian education with books and other support materials coming from La Salle Green Hills. UNIVersITY FelloW delIVers paper IN CONFereNce OF the AmerIcas De La Salle University Fellow Dr. José M. de Mesa, participated and delivered a paper titled “Feeling as Solidarity in Filipino Popular Catholicism” in the Conference of the Americas organized and sponsored by the Catholic Theological Union and DePaul University in Chicago, USA last October. With the theme, “Transformed by Hope: Building a Catholic Social Theology for the Americas,” the conference was mainly participated in by well- known theologians from the Americas and had Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez, OP, the “Father of Liberation Theology” as the keynote speaker. De Mesa spoke in a session organized en conjunto on “Popular Catholicism and Interculturality” where he was joined by a distinguished Latino theologian from the University of San Diego, Dr. Orlando Espin, who also delivered a paper. DEAL chair serves as resource speaker in language confabs Dr. Danilo Dayag, chair of the Department of English and Applied Linguistics, recently delivered lectures in various conferences.