List of Announcements

UA&P and ABCI create W & A Brown Scholarship Endowment for public school students

In a remarkable step toward promoting quality education and supporting financially challenged but deserving students, the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) signed a Deed of Donation with Mrs. Annabelle P. Brown, Director and Executive Committee member of A Brown Company Inc. (ABCI), on July 12, 2023, marking the establishment of the W & A Brown Scholarship Endowment.

The W & A Brown Scholarship Endowment is a testament to the shared vision of UA&P and ABCI, wherein education is seen as a potent tool for empowering young minds who can be catalysts of change in society in the future. The scholarship will cover the student's tuition fees, miscellaneous fees, and a Php5,000.00 book allowance per semester. ABCI will select one scholar from the list of accepted scholarship applicants from public high schools to be provided by the Admissions Office of UA&P.

Incorporated on December 21, 1966, A Brown Company, Inc. has emerged as a force in the real estate and power industries in Cagayan de Oro City. Over the years, the company has charted a remarkable journey, diversifying its business interests and embracing new opportunities in power generation, public utilities, and agribusiness, particularly in the palm oil industry. Mr. Walter W. Brown, Mrs. Brown's husband, sits as the Chairman of ABCI.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown are staunch advocates of character formation among the youth, especially the underprivileged. Mrs. Brown is also the Founder of Alalay Sa Pamilya at Bayan (APB) Foundation, Inc., which established seven years ago the Campaign for Character Education Tenacity (CACHET) in close partnership with the I Am STRONG program of UA&P. CACHET aims to help the young make good and responsible day-to-day decisions on areas such as home and family life, studies and career, friendships and social responsibility, and love and courtship through participative and interactive approaches as well as peer and adult mentoring. CACHET has now dealt with close to 500 public schools, 170 of whom have CACHET Clubs, actively participating in quiz bee and art summits, self-reflection workshops, and family sportsfest, among many other socio-cultural, moral, and leadership development undertakings.

With the establishment of the W & A Brown Scholarship Endowment, Mr. and Mrs. Brown have made a decisive step to push their advocacy further by helping public school students receive UA&P education centered on whole-person development.

Mrs. Annabelle P. Brown with (from left) ABCI President Mr. Robertino Pizarro, UA&P President Dr. Winston Conrad Padojinog, ABCI Executive Vice President Mr. Paul Francis Juat, and UA&P co-founder Dr. Bernardo Villegas.

Sources:
https://abrown.ph/about/
https://www.marketscreener.com/business-leaders/Annabelle-Brown-072GYT-E/biography/
https://www.marketscreener.com/business-leaders/Walter-Brown-064Q0M-E/biography/
https://www.forbes.com/profile/walter-brown/?sh=732572d2206

Mentoring Space at Study Hall A

The Center for Student Affairs - Office of Student Mentoring would like to invite mentors and their mentees to the Mentoring Space at Study Hall A. They may do their mentoring session and grab free snacks from August 17 to 31, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm (Monday to Friday). Feel free to also leave some goodies for other mentor-mentee pairs to enjoy.

UA&P welcomes pioneer PLM scholarship grantees

On August 1, the University of Asia and the Pacific held a welcome briefing for the first-ever recipients of the distinguished Placido L. Mapa Jr. Scholarship Endowment (PLM Grant).

The five UA&P freshmen who have been selected to receive the PLM Grant are the following:

Melvin Jabez Gonzales Canoza (Valenzuela City School of Math and Science)
Lauren Elise Alo Hao Cuenco (St. Benedict Childhood Education Centre)
Juliana del Rosario Hisoler (PAREF Southcrest School Inc.)
Love Andrea Mariano Lazo (Pasig City Science High School)
David Neil Joseph Velardo Lumba (Marist School Marikina)

The grantees will receive 100% coverage of tuition and miscellaneous fees, a stipend of Php8,000 and Php1,000 Internet allowance monthly for 10 months, a laptop, and Professional Development Coaching sessions by designated UA&P Board of Trustee (BOT) members.

Present during the event were the following donors of the scholarship endowment, as well as members of the UA&P BOT, the Management Committee, and the Mapa family:

Mr. Philip Francisco U. Dy - Executive Vice President of Metrobank Foundation, Inc., and Deputy Executive Director of GT Foundation, Inc.
Ms. Lilac C. Lazaro - Head, GT Foundation Inc. Secretariat
Ms. Laarnie T. Luna - Program Officer and in-charge of the Education programs, GT Foundation, Inc.
Ms. Annie Fuentes - Executive Director of Mercury Drug Foundation, Inc.,
Mr. & Mrs. Nicky Mapa, Ms. Lourdes Mapa, and Ms. Misel Mapa
Dr. Winston Conrad Padojinog – UA&P President
Dr. Amado Saquido – UA&P Vice President for Academic Affairs
Dr. Robert Miguel Roque – UA&P Vice President for Business Development and Alumni Affairs
Mr. Manuel F. Ayala – UA&P Board of Trustee
Ms. Jane A. Pulido – UA&P Board of Trustee

The grant is named after Dr. Placido L. Mapa, Jr., the Chairman of the Center for Research and Communication (CRC) and its successor institution, UA&P, until his demise on May 5, 2019, at the age of 86.

UA&P welcomes contributions from any individual or organization. For more information, please email [email protected].

(L-R) UA&P Vice President for Business Development and Alumni Affairs Dr. Robert Roque, Melvin Canoza, Lauren Elise Hao Cuenco, Juliana Hisoler, Love Andrea Lazo, David Neil Joseph Lumba, and Ms. Annie Fuentes (Executive Director, Mercury Drug Foundation, Inc.).

Server maintenance on August 16

Please be informed that there will be a scheduled downtime on our servers on August 16 (Wednesday) at 9:00 pm. The EmpowerEd production core server and database server will undergo a scaledown considering the load in the system has gone down with the completion of the undergraduate and graduate program enrolment period. The downtime will last up to one hour.

During the interruption, the EmpowerEd system will be inaccessible.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.