Leadership Reflections

(This page temporarily features articles by Dr. Betsy Joy B. Tan, Vice President for Academic Affairs, who has been designated as Acting President in concurrent capacity, while Dr. Ben S. Malayang III is on official leave. Dr. Malayang, who is in the United States to meet with the different alumni chapters and attend the Tipon […]

Discussions on environmental issues in academic circles tend to focus on science and economics, leaving out the vital component of social justice. Linking social justice as a core issue in scholarly treatments of environmental protection and preservation has been comparably sparse. When we think of the environment, we think of natural resources: mountains, bodies of […]

Ben S. Malayang III, PhD | Silliman University Recent works on conservation explore how we think when we do environmental science.[1] Let me focus on three most recent: Frodeman (2011) talks of how our approaches to doing environmental science are mired in a morass of (1) Kantian assumptions (on the inherent value of disciplinal specializations);(2) Humboldtian […]

(Keynote, 2011 National Conference, Philippine Physics Society, held at Silliman University, April 6-7, 2011) Ben S. Malayang III | Silliman University   Two weeks ago, a Singaporean academic told of an old story about how a boy saved the people of his coastal village. One early morning, the boy had risen up well ahead of everybody […]

as we cross the rivers of our days, let our faith shine before all and sundry by how we live our lives as fellowship and burnt offerings in altars of fieldstones in the places where we cross.

Graduation never fails to leave a mark in any student. It is one of life’s milestones that can make you and your family proud. I congratulate the members of Class 2011 on your academic accomplishment. Together with the rest of our Silliman community, I wish you the best that life could offer. I send you […]

This story reminds us about how vastly different is the way we forgive and how God forgives. As we enter the season of Lent,

Silliman is one place where all who come to it to study, work, or to simply luxuriate in brief moments of  remembering their past in Silliman, can find a wealth of opportunities to enrich and transform one's mind, body, soul and spirit. Silliman affects our entire being: our outer sense of self and our inner sense […]

Psalm 142: 5-7 May I please invite you to prayer: Lord, open our ears so that we may listen, and our hearts so that we may hear. Amen. It?s terrible to be in prison. It is not pleasant at all to be confined against your will, even if you?re in prison for some really good […]

The Founders Day celebration is starting to pick up as we move towards the next two weeks when most activities take place and the biggest number of alumni and guests return home. Many have expressed nostalgia over the mention of Silliman. It brings back memories of old campus days when what have become of them […]