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Dr. Julio Teehankee elected PPSA President
Dr. Julio Teehankee, Full Professor of Political Science and International Studies has been elected as President of the Philippine Political Science Association (PPSA). This was announced after the first meeting of the Board of Directors on June 14, 2017. The new Board was elected in the Association’s recent Congress in Cebu last May 13, 2017. Associate Professor Ador Torneo of the Political Science Department was also elected Secretary of PPSA.
The PPSA is a non-partisan, and non-sectarian organization of academic professionals founded in 1962 to promote and support the discipline of Political Science as well as maintain and encourage contacts with similar professional or scholarly organizations in the interest of mutual enlightenment. The PPSA seeks to bring together political scientists from all as well as similar fields of inquiry and practice both within and outside the academic setting in order to expand awareness and understanding of the politics of Asia and the study of all issues in the field of Political Science by Filipino political scientists. PPSA is a member of the Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC).
Teehankee, who is completing his term as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, is widely recognized in the fields of Political Science, International Studies, and Development Studies. He continuously holds leadership positions in prominent professional organizations in these fields. He was former President and current Executive Secretary of the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), Asia’s leading academic organization dealing with political and international studies. He also serves as Adviser to the Association of Political Consultants in Asia (APCA), the professional organization of individuals in Asia that actively promotes political campaigns and communication, public affairs, government relations, and other similar professions involved in the practice of political consulting; and, the Philippine International Studies Organization (PhISO), the pioneering professional organization dedicated to the promotion of International Relations (IR) as a field of study in the Philippines. Teehankee also sits in the Technical Committee on Political Science of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). He will serve as PPSA President for two years.
DLSU to hold national conference on teaching literature, humanities
The Department of Literature of De La Salle University will conduct “Writing the Classroom: National Conference on the Teaching of Literature and the Humanities” from May 25 to 27 at the Verdure, 4/F Henry Sy, Sr. Hall, in Taft Avenue, Manila.
This is open to all teachers of literature especially those who are teaching in either senior high school or college levels.
The 3-day conference will have plenary lectures, lesson planning workshops, and teaching demonstrations on the following topics: teaching poetry, teaching fiction, teaching drama, teaching creative nonfiction, teaching 21st century Philippine literature, teaching Afro-Asian literature, teaching Anglo-American literature, teaching literary theory and criticism, and teaching Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere.
Recognized by the Commission on Higher Education as a Center of Development, the DLSU Department of Literature is home to writers and scholars who are respected and published in the Philippines and abroad. It has on its faculty winners of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards and the National Book Awards.
The conference fee is P1,500 that comes with a teaching manual. The fee does not include food and accommodation. For more details and reservations, please email the conference director, Dr. John Iremil E. Teodoro, at john.iremil.teodoro@dlsu.edu.ph or call telephone number 524-4611 local 541 or 532 and look for Donna Mina.
CHED grants five-year autonomous status to DLSU
The five-year status is the highest granted by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and was received by only three universities. Among the benefits of the grant is the University’s exemption from the issuance of Special Order for its graduates and from regular monitoring and evaluation by CHED.
The University also receives priority in the grant of subsidies and other financial incentives or assistance from CHED whenever funds are available. Likewise, the University is authorized to grant an honorary degree to deserving individuals in line with the provisions of the existing CHED issuance on conferment of honorary degrees.
Other benefits include the privilege to determine and prescribe curricular programs to achieve global competence as well as the privilege to offer extension classes. The University may also establish linkages and offer programs via the alternative mode such as distance education or transnational education. It is also allowed to increase tuition without securing a permit from CHED.
