THE OFFICIAL QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES FOUNDATION • CEBU CITY • PHILIPPINES SECOND QUARTER ISSUE • APRIL-JUNE 2018
ISSN (Online) 2508-044X • ISSN (Print) 2508-0431 • Copyright 2017
NEW ZEALAND SCHOOL, USPF AND PINOYCARE INK TRIPARTITE MOU EmployNZ Ltd., University of Southern Phils. Foundation, and PinoyCare Visa Center officially forged a Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding on April 18, 2018.
University President Atty. Paulino A. Yabao with select members of the University Council welcomed Jay Banner, Managing Director of EmployNZ Ltd. of Tauranga, New Zealand, and Ms. Aliriza Lagradilla, Vice President of PinoyCare Visa Center in behalf of CEO Ms. Prisca Nina Mabatid. The business meeting opened with formal introductions. It is followed by Jay Banner’s presentation on EmployNZ Tertiary Institute and dialogue related to the curriculum and partnership in general. The meeting concluded with the Tripartite MOU signing. Thereafter, the campus tour guided by USPF Info & Marketing personnel Grace Clabesillas, Southern Scholar editor in chief Vinni Larrazabal Martinez, USPF Panthers import Richy Managor with the
University heads ensued. Finally, a welcome luncheon at the ancestral home of USPF Founders now Circa 1900 – Casa Dos concluded the affair. Members of the University Council who witnessed the signing and participated in the hosting include: VP for Admin Engr. Antonio Lapingcao, Jr.; VP for ICT Mr. Lester Gastala, college and school deans Mr. Charles Roy Baguio (Arts & Sciences), Dr. Venus Empuerto (Business & Mgt), Mrs. Merlyn Ouano (Nursing), Ms. Sophia Godin (Accountancy), and director for alumni & external relations Dr. Kath Solon-Villaneza. EmployNZ is one of four New Zealand schools that USPF and PinoyCare partnered with. The partnership focuses on study-work program in New Zealand.
Forged partnership between USPF and Overseasvidhya of India | In photo: (L-R) VP for ICT Mr. Lester Gastala, VP for Academics Dr. Ernesto Alolor, VP for Administration Engr. Antonio B. Lapingcao, Jr., University President Atty. Paulino A. Yabao, Director for Finance Mrs. Rosalina Sepulveda, Overseasvidhya President Sonu S. Rajput, and Overseasvidhya representatives
the college course offerings underwent an assessment and monitoring by the CHED Regional Office 7 to strengthen compliance with the prescribed minimum requirements. We saw the professionalization of our graduates after they successfully hurdled the board and bar examinations given by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and the Supreme Court. We extend our warm felicitations to 27 (May 2017) and 20 (November 2017) new Certified Public Accountants, 31 (September 2017) and 81 (March 2018) new Registered Pharmacists, 5 (June 2017) and 17 (November 2017) new Registered Nurses, 15 new Licensed Elementary teachers, 17 new Licensed Secondary Teachers, 70 new Registered Social Workers, 6 new lawyers, 6 new Civil Engineers, one new Mechanical Engineer, 2 new Architects, and 5 new ATTY. PAULINO A. YABAO Geodetic Engineers. For University President having passed these difficult Welcome to the new Academic Year professional examinations, we thank them 2018-2019! To our old students, welcome for the great honor they have brought to back! To our new students and the college their Alma Mater. Their future is secured. freshmen who just graduated from the We wish all the new board and bar passers new senior high school program, welcome as well as all the graduates success and a to the University of Southern Philippines brighter future. Indeed, they have built the foundations of their future and realized Foundation! This is an opportunity to look back their dreams while at USPF. The Jose Rizal Museum, the University’s and forward. Looking back, the past Academic Year culture treasure, had been transferred 2017-2018 had been very challenging to all from Lahug Main Campus to the Mabini of us. In the early part of the First Semester Campus. Phase one of the new Jose Rizal the University went through a change of Museum has just been inaugurated on May administration in the installation of the 25, 2018 on time for the annual celebration new university president. Toward the end of the Cebu’s GABII SA KABILIN featuring of the First Semester, the preparation of 27 museums and cultural heritage sites in our intent to apply to CHED’s Institutional Metro Cebu. We also look forward to a brighter new Sustainability Assessment (ISA) was commenced by complying with the academic year. We start the new academic year with requirements prescribed by the SelfEvaluation Document (SED) provided by newly revised course offerings in all colleges CHED Regional Office No. 7 which we hope pursuant to relevant CHED memorandum can be submitted to CHED national office orders as a result of the K to 12 program, in the earlier part of this new academic and an improved study program for year. Before the Second Semester ended, graduate courses.
University President’s Corner
WELCOME Message
By July, the new Engineering Machine Shop will be completed and operational, with better machineries and tools replacing the old ones. The Engineering laboratories are renovated to provide two more laboratories, this time for electrical engineering. New equipment are acquired for engineering courses to keep abreast with new technological developments. Generally, facilities are improved and the school buildings for elementary and junior high school are repainted ready for the opening of the new academic year using mainly the university color to enhance a lighter ambiance while coolly contrasting with the surrounding greenery that stimulates intellectual capability of the human brain. In the coming months we will witness the start of more efforts to propel further USPF’s positive image as a research university, to advance her presence in the community and educational circle, and to establish more linkages in attracting other educational institutions from abroad, companies and philanthropic entities to partner with USPF in her endeavour toward achieving academic excellence and to bring quality education to her students. By October 2018, the construction of the new building in the Lahug Main Campus will be completed and ready for use at the start of the second semester on November 2018. The new building will house on its 4th floor six science laboratories. There will be 24 classrooms mainly on the 2nd and 3rd floors. There will be on the 2nd floor an additional conference room and a new Learning Commons which will be an innovative addition to the existing libraries. The ground floor provides 2 more classrooms, 2 offices and a much bigger modern canteen which will use the “clean as you go” system to strengthen customers’ positive habit of cleanliness and respect for others. We look forward to more success from our students in their cultural, athletic and other extra-curricular endeavours. We expect more numbers of graduates to successfully hurdle the board and bar examinations. To all our students, thank you for enrolling at USPF where we “pursue excellence for total human development” of our students. We wish you all the best as we begin another academic year in our journey toward realizing your dreams at USPF. God bless!
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COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK
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USPF leads Danish student interns placement in Cebu USPF Social Work department headed by Mrs. Rosario Sequitin led the placement of eight (8) Danish interns from University College Lillebaelt (UCL) College in Odense, Kingdom of Denmark for June to November 2018. Under the six months internship program are interns: Sissel Westergaard Pøtzsch, 23 years old; Stine Bonde Ølund, 23; Paulina Landtved Rasmussen, 22; Isabel Juliette Jensen, 23; Stephanie Franka Hardy, 25; Theis Smith, 29; Christian Albrecht Rasmussen, 28; and, Emma Therese Wridt
Hessellund, 22. USPF Social Work department placed the Danish interns to long-time local partner agencies and schools, including: NPO Seven Spirit in Parian thru USPian alumna social worker Dorothy Fortuna, JPIC-IDC Mobile School in Pelaez thru education officer Genna Annabelle Buot, St. Francis of Assisi School at Peace Valley thru school principal Gilbert Jatayna, Gawad Kalinga Day Care at Budlaan thru teacher-in-charge Merlinda Batiancila, and at USPF’s own Kindergarten program in
USPF represents academe sector on approved
ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCE
Lahug thru elementary school principal Dr. Elaine May Patiño. Danish students’ internship in Cebu is one of the best partnership practices of USPF and Denmark under the cross cultural exchange as stipulated in the memorandum of agreement. For more information on the USPF Department of Social Work activities, please stay in touch with Mrs. Sequitin at rsequitin@uspf.edu.ph. *photos courtesy of Mrs. Sequitin
USPF thru Mrs. Rosario Estrada Sequitin, chairperson of the USPF College of Social Work, represented the academe sector and stood with the commissioners of the Cebu City Anti-Discrimination Commission on June 5, 2018 in a discourse with the press on the approved Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of City Ordinance No. 2399 which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability, age, health status, sexual orientation and gender identity, ethnicity and religion. The ordinance champions human dignity and respect for human rights on its way to making Cebu a discrimination-free city.
*photo © Alvin Dizon courtesy of Mrs. Rosario Estrada Sequitin
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USPF is 1st DOTaccredited University training center in Cebu University of Southern Philippines Foundation (USPF), the 1st University that is a Department of Tourism (DOT)accredited training center here in Cebu, invites all interested Senior High School graduates, college students and professionals who are physically fit and who have good written and spoken communication skills in English and other languages (e.g. Nihongo, Mandarin, Spanish, Thai, Korean) to join the 160 hours REGIONAL TOUR GUIDE TRAINING COURSE scheduled on July 16 to August 10, 2018 at USPF Mabini campus. The training course which leads to a LICENSE IN TOUR GUIDING is DOTaccredited and is in partnership with USPF and Cebu Association of Tour Operations Specialists (CATOS). Interview for the 1st batch of 25 is set on June 11. Application forms are with Mrs. Odette D. Jereza of USPF Lahug campus.
in photo: USPF trustee Mrs. Lourdes D. Jereza with Southwinds managing director Mrs. Alice Kintanar Queblatin pose for posterity at Centro Caffe, USPF Lahug campus
For more details speak with: • • •
LANE of Southwinds Tours and Travel at 0922.878.0336 or (032) 231.0052; email inbound@southwindstoursphils.com LENLEN of Destination Specialist at 0917.308.3669 VELMA of CATOS secretariat at 0998.553.8532
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MARCH 2018 PHARMACY Licensure Examination Results 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48.
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MACAHIG MA ANTONIETTA ABAYAN MANALILI TRIZIAN KEANAH DAITOL MAQUILAN NICASIO III CORAÑES MAYON JUHAYNAH MANAN MOCTAR SHIRMA SAMUD MONDEJAR JIEZL ROMERO MUEVA MA CONCEPCION MILITANTE MURILLO ARBELL DAMASCO NAKILA ZINA CLAIRE GABITO NECESARIO DENISE GAYLE LODOVICE NUEVO MARY ROSE CALLEJA PALARCA JYRA KAYE TORREQUEMADA PARREÑAS MARIA ANGELIE POLONDAYA PEPITO RALPH ROVAN HURBODA PONCE RAYMOND PRANZA LORAINE KEITH ALSOLA RAMO MARYLIN DARA BUNTAG RONDA CZARLYN FRANCES VIVERO ROTA CHESTER KENT CLARENCEABUYOT SACEDON REY MARK OBERES SARIP LALAY SAMBOLAYANG SAVELLON AHMED NEIL SABDANI SION JAN MARENE MIÑOZA TABOADA LOVELY THERESE TABOTABO TAN HENNIE KHU TEJADA MARJA MIHANI LLAUDERES TIIN KRISTINE KAYE MALUBAY TILLADA JED SIMON CAÑETE TOLEDO AMY GRACE INDAYAN UY MIKAELA ANDREA VILLA KRIS COLEEN LUMBIN VILLAMOR VALERIE ANN JOY GUATLO YUSON DANNA LOU MACALALAD
2017 BAR EXAMINATION RESULTS
Congratulations!!! 1. ATTY. YVONNE AUSSIE ABAPO 2. ATTY. JAY ROZEN BARTZAN 3. ATTY. ARJAM BONSUCAN 4. ATTY. SHIERA MAE BUTAR 5. ATTY. JEAH JEAN GACANG 6. ATTY. KIRST DEON MOJICA Your USPF Family shares your success!
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timeline
05.08.2018 USPF joins MOA signing among 10 new school members of Central Visayas Consortium on Health & Research Development (CVCHRD) at Cebu Normal University
05.16.2018 Philippine Military Academy and USPF strengthen educational partnership with the PMA Southern Tour 2018
alumni activities
• ES Class of ’93 converged for their 25th anniversary reunion on April 8, 2018. For more information about what’s cooking in this chapter, stay in touch with Ingrid Castañes-Uy.
• HS Class of ‘94 fortified their camaraderie on their 24th anniversary grand reunion held Under the Sambag Tree at USPF Lahug campus.
• HS Class of ‘78 celebrated their 40th Anniversary on May 1, 2018. A luncheon was held at Golden Cowrie-Lahug from 11 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Thereafter, the Nostalgic Walk at USPF Lahug campus from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. For more information about the chapter activities, get hold Ms. Catherine Pedrosa-Sambrano, Mr. Mario Belonguel and Ms. Joselina Cabucos-Minoza. Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/316988158324940/
• HS Class of ‘98 reunited for their 20th Anniversary on May 19, 2018 at Casa Dos, Sanjercas Ville Ext Rd, Cebu City. Want to be a part of the next big event of the chapter? Contact Ms. Dindin Briones Bartolabac. Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/ groups/uspbatch98/
• Graduate School (GS) - Davao Chapter gathered for their 2nd Alumni Homecoming on May 20, 2018 at Molave Hotel, Tagum City, Davao. The chapter was led by Batch 24 president Ariel S. Daquio with mobile numbers 0912.694.7908.
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The University of Southern Philippines Foundation became one of the privileged delegate schools who represented Region 7: Central Visayas in the Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) National Games last April 22-26 2018. Tagbilaran City, Bohol hosted the said games with over 6,330 athletes from 600 private colleges and universities in all 17 regions. With their thunderous win on Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Incorporated (CESAFI) beach volleyball games, USPF’s iconic trio Menchel Remulta, Earl Cansico and Edmar Malata clinched a bronze medal for the PRISAA beach volleyball games. Despite the foreign domain of the games and the temperamental weather, these Panthers still managed to proudly represent the whole re-
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PANTHERS clinch bronze at PRISAA gion 7 and even brought glory to their Alma Mater. “I feel very grateful to our Almighty Father, to USPF, to my dear family and friends, and to everyone who became part of our success up until now,” Cansico said. “Bronze, silver or gold --- it is still a win. We won because many believed that we can. Winning, no matter what sport, gains back not just our confi-
dence, but also the confidence of all the USPF Panthers,” Remulta said. After their PRISAA win last April, these Panthers only have a month and a few days to enjoy their summer vacation. “Even during summer, my body misses the feeling of being in training. Unlike most teens, we’re not having an endurance battle on whether we go to the beach or not. We’re contemplating to practice or not,” 18-year-old Malata re-
marked. Their coaches, Cecil Jotjot and Francis Aboc, expressed their gratitude to all the Volleyball Panthers for always having the determination to withstand the practices as panthers while equally having the willpower to sustain their academic standing as University scholars. (Sarah Mae Abuhan)
USPF JOSE RIZAL MUSEUM JOINS
2018 USPF held the timely grand opening of its new Jose Rizal Museum on the 25th of May 2018, during the Gabii sa Kabilin, the annual summer heritage event in Cebu. USPF joined at least 26 other participating museums which opened doors to the public from 6:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight for an allentrance ticket sold at only P150. After the two-year closure, the USPF Rizaliana museum introduced five galleries that highlights Rizal’s life in Europe: (1)
USPF’s history and its link to Dr. Jose Rizal; (2) reimagined bedroom of Rizal in Europe; (3) train scene of Rizal’s travels all over Europe; (4) photo collections of Rizal’s friends and acquaintances while in Europe; and, (5) Rizal’s eye instrument for ophthalmology. University president Atty. Paulino A. Yabao and chairman of the board of trustees Mrs. Teresita Villa Ponce did the honors of cutting the ribbon at the grand opening together with board secretary trustee Mrs. Rowena Jereza Martinez, trustee Mr. Prisco Ponce, trustee and Jose Rizal Museum consultant Mrs. Lourdes de Dios Jereza, trustee Prof. Jay Bernardo (with wife Geraldine), and trustee Atty. Evelyn Trani. Guests from the tourism sector included the Department of Tourism region VII head for standards & accreditation Ms. Judy Gabato in behalf of regional director Shalimar H. Tamano, Cebu Association of Tours Operations Specialists (CATOS) president and owner of Southwinds Tours and Travel Mrs. Alice Kintanar Queblatin,
and Mrs. Belinda K. Navascues. University officials present at the event included vice president for academics Dr. Ernesto L. Alolor, vice president for ICT Mr. Lester B. Gastala, director for finance Mrs. Rosalina Jereza Sepulveda, director for cultural and athletic affairs Mr. Glenn Albutra, director for alumni & external relations Dr. Kathleen Solon-Villaneza, procurement manager Mr. Brian D. Jereza, information and marketing officer Mrs. Grace Clabesillas, accounting officer Mr. Philip Yap, head of security Mr. Rey Navares, learning resource center manager Ms. Susan Perez, Mabini campus principal Mrs. Maura Villamor, elementary school principal Dr. Elaine S. Patiño, and USPF Alumni Assoc. Inc. officer Mrs. Basilides C. Bandajon. Faculty and staff of both USPF campuses also attended the event. USPF sister school Bantayan Southern Institute (BSI) faculty and staff headed by administrator Mr. Auggie D. Jereza also supported Gabii sa Kabilin at USPF.
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