UPAA opens nominations for Distinguished Alumni Awards 2013

The University of the Philippines Alumni Association (UPAA) has announced the search for nominees for the UPAA Distinguished Alumni Awards 2013.

The awards are conferred on alumni who have demonstrated in their chosen field of endeavor, exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions that bring about substantial benefits to society and distinct honor to the University. Recognition is given to achievements and contributions that impact the community in which the alumni are or have been active, whether this is at the local, national or international level.

Nominations for the awards will be accepted from any U.P. alumnus or alumni chapter until January 31, 2013. The award ceremonies will be held during the U.P. General Alumni-Faculty Homecoming & Reunion on Saturday, June 22, 2013 at Luciano E. Salazar Hall, Ang Bahay ng Alumni, U.P. Diliman Campus, Quezon City.

Each year, the University of the Philippines Alumni Association (UPAA) gives recognition to alumni achievers, as follows: UPAA Most Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Award, UPAA Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Awards, UPAA Distinguished Alumni Awards, UPAA Distinguished Service Awards and UPAA Multi-Generation U.P. Alumni Family Awards.

Award nominations will be considered in such thematic categories as public service and good governance, poverty alleviation and human development, peace and social cohesion, gender equality and women empowerment, community empowerment, environmental conservation and sustainable development, entrepreneurship and employment creation, institutional or corporate social responsibility, culture and the arts, science and technology, education and health, or as defined by the achievements of a deserving nominee.

For the past few years, UPAA makes special effort to identify for nomination, unsung alumni achievers -- those whose achievements in little-known corners of the country are exceptional but have remained unheralded and unrecognized.

For inquiries, please contact the UPAA Secretariat at 632-9206868, 632-9206871, 632-9206875 or email upalum.awards2013@yahoo.com. Visit the UPAA website http://www.upalumni.ph for complete details.

UPAA opens nominations for Distinguished Alumni Awards 2012

The University of the Philippines Alumni Association (UPAA) has announced the search for nominees for the UPAA Distinguished Alumni Awards 2012.

The awards are conferred on alumni who have demonstrated in their chosen field of endeavor, exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions that bring about substantial benefits to society and distinct honor to the University. Recognition is given to achievements and contributions that impact the community in which the alumni are or have been active, whether this is at the local, national or international level.

Nominations for the awards will be accepted from any U.P. alumnus or alumni chapter until March 31, 2012. The award ceremonies will be held during the U.P. General Alumni-Faculty Homecoming & Reunion on Saturday, June 23, 2012 at Luciano E. Salazar Hall, Ang Bahay ng Alumni, U.P. Diliman Campus, Quezon City.

Award nominations will be considered in such thematic categories as public service and good governance, poverty alleviation and human development, peace and social cohesion, gender equality and women empowerment, community empowerment, environmental conservation and sustainable development, entrepreneurship and employment creation, institutional or corporate social responsibility, culture and the arts, science and technology, education and health, or as defined by the achievements of a deserving nominee.

This year, UPAA is making a special effort to identify for nomination, unsung alumni achievers -- those whose achievements in little-known corners of the country are exceptional but have remained unheralded and unrecognized. Also to be honored are families who have produced U.P. alumni across at least three successive generations, i.e., families with alumni among their grandparents, parents or children.

For inquiries, please contact the UPAA Secretariat at 920-6868, 920-6871, 920-6875 or email upalum.awards2012@yahoo.com. Visit the UPAA websitehttp://www.upalumni.ph/ for complete details.

U.P. Alumni support U.P. Law Professors vs. Supreme Court Show-cause Order

UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Press Release

4 November 2010

The University of the Philippines Alumni Association (UPAA) yesterday expressed full support for the position of the university’s law professors on the plagiarism controversy involving a justice of the Supreme Court.

The UPAA, the official umbrella organization of the university’s alumni and their chapters worldwide, also called for the immediate withdrawal of the SC order requiring the professors, including the incumbent and former deans of the UP College of Law, to show cause why they should not be disciplined for criticizing the plagiarism they said was committed by Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo, and for calling for his resignation.

In a Board-approved resolution, the UPAA said that “as citizens, lawyers and educators in our country where no one is above the law and the acts of officialdom are subject to public scrutiny, the UP College of Law professors have both the right and the duty to voice their vigilant and well-considered criticism of the plagiarism and demand the resignation of Justice del Castillo"

Del Castillo was the ponente for the Supreme Court decision in Vinuya vs. Executive Secretary, G.R. No. 162230. The UP law professors had pointed out that he committed plagiarism by failing to cite the sources of verbatim passages he used in his ponencia, and demanded that he resign. The Supreme Court subsequently absolved del Castillo from the charge of plagiarism for supposed lack of malice or of negligence on his part. In turn, the SC asked the professors to show cause why they should not be disciplined for criticizing the plagiarism and calling for the justice’s resignation.