I'M INTO YOU SEASON 2

Chapter 115

3:41 PM

Nagbasa-basa pa ako tungkol sa UP history at nag-enjoy talaga akong kilalanin noong nagsisimula pa lang ito bilang isang unibersidad sa Pilipinas.

University of The Philippines Education

In April 23, 1985, UPD was formally declared a constituent university (CU). UPD also kept with the information-driven culture all over the globe. Installation of a fiber-optic network linking the various colleges in the campus, or Diliman Network (DilNet), began in the mid-1990s during the term of Chancellor Roger D. Posadas and continued under the term of succeeding Chancellor Claro T. Llaguno. The DilNet serves as UP’s gateway to the global network of the Internet. The campus also welcomed fledgling technology companies in its technology park.

Tasked to spearhead the development of programs to use Filipino in undergraduate instruction, research and extension activities was the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino created in March 1990 during UP President Jose V. Abueva’s administration. It was also to oversee the implementation of the UP Language Policy and to coordinate the efforts of academic units in developing teaching and research materials in Filipino. It was also in 1990 that the University Center for Women’s Studies (CWS) – the first such center in a Philippine university – was established as a concrete step toward a more gender-sensitive society.

In 1995, the Materials Science and Engineering Center was established in UPD to help accelerate the development and technological capabilities in advanced materials such as polymers, semiconductors, superconductors, ceramics, alloys and others. To promote engineering, UP President Emil Q. Javier initiated the establishment of the National Graduate School of Engineering in 1997.

Chancellor Posadas initiated the establishment of the Technology Management Center (TMC) in Jun. 1995 and offered a year later the Master of Technology Management program in Jun. 1996.

Seeing the need for reforms in the GE program, the GE council consulted the concerned sectors and  proposed a revitalized GE program (RGEP) which was implemented in 2001. The RGEP subsumes the old GE program and it adapted the objectives and framework of GE program but opened up a lot more avenues for learning as it is based on the premise of freedom of choice and no prerequisites.

The first Interactive Learning Center (ILC) was inaugurated in UPD in Oct. 2003. The ILC was created as a support facility to strengthen the teaching of GE in the UPS.

In 2007, the Engineering Research and Development for Technology (ERDT) was established with the approval of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The ERDT is a joint project of eight universities with UPD as the lead university. It is a 10-year development program that seeks to address the lack of engineering manpower with advanced degrees to jumpstart high-value economic activities for the country.

In order to achieve its mission, the ERDT has an infrastructure component, consisting of the construction of buildings to house the following departments at the new Engineering Complex: Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute; Institute of Civil Engineering; Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering; Industrial Engineering and Operations Research; Mechanical Engineering; and Energy and Environmental Engineering.

Coinciding with the centennial anniversary celebration in 2008, a new UP charter was enacted into law on April 28, 2008. Republic Act 9500, also known as the University of the Philippines Charter of 2008, declared UP as the national university, “a public and secular institution of higher learning and a community of scholars dedicated to the search for truth and knowledge as well as the development of future leaders.”

UPD is also the site of the country’s National Science Complex. Notable academic and research units of UPD centered at the Complex include MSI, the National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS), the National Institute of Physics (NIP), and the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (NIMBB), all pioneers of scientific research and development in the Philippines.