BIGGKAS+ call for donations
BIGGKAS+, in collaboration with the Center for Student Affairs, CDE Center, and Human Resource Management, is calling for cash donations for the 2023 Balik-Eskwela outreach activities of UA&P for the benefit of Pineda Elementary School (with a population of 1,702 students and 70 teaching/non-teaching personnel).
The funds raised from this initiative will be used for the following activities:
School Readiness Project
- Activity: (a) Basic reading, writing, and arithmetic refresher classes; (b) Early Childhood Development Seminar for Parents
- Participants: (a) 100 incoming Grade 1 students (w/ identified deficiencies); (b) parents
- Dates: Refresher classes - June 19 to 30 (10 sessions); Parent’s seminar and orientation (TBD)
- Venue: Pineda Elementary School
- Items needed: Snacks for the participants
Cleaning 101 at Pineda Elementary School
- Activity: A 2-hour talk on the effective and efficient ways of cleaning school facilities, the appropriate use of cleaning materials and equipment, pre- and post-activity exercises to prevent injury, and conserving resources to ensure sustainability.
- Participants: PES faculty members and parents (around 100 participants)
- Date: July 19, 2023 (tentative schedule)
- Venue: Pineda Elementary School
- Items needed: Cleaning materials
Employees who wish to donate through salary deduction (for the June 16-30 and/or July 1-15 payroll) may accomplish this form on or before June 30 (Friday).
Employees who wish to volunteer to help with the implementation of these outreach activities may get in touch with Ms. Michelle Alejandro ([email protected]) or Ms. Zoila Pilola ([email protected]).
On behalf of our partner school and community, we thank everyone in advance for their support and collaboration.
Appointment of Mr. Guillermo B. Pablo III as Vice President for Administrative Affairs
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Guillermo “Mito” B. Pablo III as the Vice President for Administrative Affairs effective 1 August 2023.
Mr. Pablo III has been with us as a Consultant since September 2022 and brings with him over 40 years of leadership experience in public and private financial institutions as well as family businesses.
We enjoin the University community to welcome and extend their support to Mr. Pablo as he takes on the new role in service of our stakeholders.
We express our deepest gratitude to Mr. Rolando “Roly” D. Sison for his invaluable service and exemplary leadership for the past 14 years. His corporate wisdom and staunch support for innovation have contributed to the University’s transformation in terms of financial management and digitization, upkeep of our campus and facilities, and reforms in our human resource management practices that have improved our operations and services and helped us weather several challenges, especially during the pandemic.
We wish Mr. Sison the best in his retirement and future endeavors.
ICT Advisory: Server maintenance on May 23
Please be informed that there will be a scheduled downtime on one of our servers on May 23 (today) at 9:00 pm. The EmpowerEd production core server will undergo a scale-down considering the completion of the forecasting process. 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.
CDE Center Moving Up Day
Everyone is invited to "Dare to Dream: 10 Years of Forging Little Stars," CDE Center's Moving Up Day 2023, at the Li Seng Giap Auditorium on May 24 (Wednesday) from 9:00 to 11:00 am.
The program may be viewed/downloaded here.
For inquiries, please message Dr. Lexie C. Estacio at [email protected].
LIB midyear term business schedule
The University Library’s business schedule effective May 22 to August 02, 2023 is as follows:
Monday to Friday
8:30 am to 5:30 pm
Saturday
8:30 am to 12:00 pm
The University Library Café by Corbeau Coffee Co. will observe the following schedule:
May 22 to May 27, 2023
8:00 am to 5:00 pm
May 29 to Aug. 02, 2023
8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Ask ViRA for real-time virtual reference assistance from Monday to Saturday. All offline messages will be responded to the following workday. You may also send LIB an email at [email protected] or [email protected].