Tanzanian Professor Teaches Mission Studies at Divinity School
A professor from Tanzania starts this school year his three-year teaching assignment at the Divinity School under an arrangement with the United Evangelical Mission (UEM). Rev. Dr. Josephat Rweyemamu handles courses under the University’s International Center for Mission Studies in Asia. He teaches two subjects this school year, “Trends in Mission” and “Mission in Evangelism”. […]
Grade 4 Pupil Advances to Int’l Math Tournament in Hong Kong
A fourth grader from the Elementary Department made it to the Philippine team for an international mathematics tournament in Hong Kong on July 18 to 22. Carlos Miguel Angelo Salazar advances into the Chong Hua Cup: Creative Mathematics Competition and Search for the Star of the Math Olympic after he succeeded in a series of […]
Trauma Healing Course Slated June 24-27
Consistent with the University's focus on disaster risk mitigation, the Religion and Peace Studies Department offers a four-day course on Trauma Healing Skills Training on June 24 to 27 at the Multi-purpose Room. This course is aimed at the capacity building for individuals who deal with the psychosocial impacts of nature- and human-caused traumas. Target […]
Fun Twist to Campus Orientation Organized for New Students
The Silliman University Student Government (SUSG) spearheaded a fun and creative way of introducing new students to the campus in a program it termed as SUGOD (Silliman University Grand Orientation Day). Organized by the Student Rights and Welfare Committee on June 14, SUGOD adopted an “Amazing Race” concept in giving the new students a glimpse […]
Student Orgs Undergo Orientation on Handling Finances
Fifty-eight student leaders from different registered student organizations in Silliman attended an orientation on June 16 on how to handle their respective organizations' finances and undertake transactions at the Business and Finance Center. Resource persons were key frontline personnel at the Business and Finance Center: Mrs. Marcia Luz Salcedo, who reviews vouchers, and Accounting Department […]
Deep Blue Sea
… AND DEEP BLUE SEA …By Dr. Ben S. Malayang III, President (Sermon delivered on June 15, 2014 at the Silliman University Church.) TEXT Exodus 14:10-16 Imagine you’re Moses. You are leading a people, weak because of years of slavery, poor and defenseless, plodding slowly across a vast, hot desert, urged on by the powerful […]
PRESS STATEMENT on Requirement of Master’s for Faculty
Silliman University is implementing the requirement of at least a master’s degree for all faculty teaching college courses in the University effective this school year 2014-2015. This is deemed requisite by pertinent government regulations and recent decisions of the Supreme Court. (This is except for those teaching Architecture, which is allowed by law to be taught […]
Ms. Josyl Jane Guevara
She was raised in a Christian home in Pagadian City. Her father was a pastor, and evenings at their household were set apart for family devotions. The whole family gathered in the living room, hymnal music played and sung, scriptures read and the Gospel preached. This was the childhood of High School Music Teacher Ms. […]
Passion to Serve
Learning to Serve in this Knowledge Society By Dr. Betsy Joy B. Tan, Vice President for Academic Affairs (Message delivered during the service-learning orientation for students from George Mason University on June 13, 2014.) In the Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Prof. Graciela Chichilnisky of Columbia University wrote in 1998 about the Knowledge […]
Friends Pool Funds for 7th Placer to Take Agriculturist Exam
Orlando Paculanang Cabugnason only wanted one thing: a college diploma. It was a promise he made to himself and one that he wanted for his family. He would be the first in the family to graduate from college. But little did Orlanz know that God did not only answer His prayer; He added an unexpected […]
