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Silliman University was listed among the country’s best performing Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) by the Philippine Business for Education (PBEd). PBEd is a non-profit organization that represents the business community’s response to the need for consensus and sustained advocacy in education reform. In a recent study released on February 9, PBEd identified 12 top schools […]

Two students from the College of Business Administration, who ran under the same political party, are occupying the top two posts of the Silliman University Student Government (SUSG) by the opening of School Year 2015-2016. Management junior Kirk Philip F. Emperado won as president, while his party mate, Accountancy sophomore Nikko Paolo V. Calledo raked […]

An all-student production that culminated with its own version of film awards almost filled the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium on February 25. The 1st Silliman Film Open screened a total of 19 short films produced, directed and edited by Silliman students and where actors were Silliman students as well.   Festival director Asst. Prof. […]

This year’s batch of students under the Juris Doctor (JD) program defended their theses in a process described by a popular humanitarian lawyer as “the only in the Philippines”. Atty. Herminio “Harry” Roque, Jr., Director of the University of the Philippines Law Center Institute of International Legal Studies was one of the panelists that put […]

Four students from the Department of History and Political Science reaped awards during the 2015 Political Science Students Association of the Philippines (PSSAP) Conference held February 11 to 15 in Cebu City. Two are in their third year: one majoring in Political Science and the other in History; and the other two are in their […]

Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Marvic Mario Victor F. Leonen gave a talk on how the Philippine Constitution has been shaped by a post-colonial flaw in our national consciousness and how this manifests in current pursuits for peace in Mindanao, on February 16 at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium. The Associate Justice discussed “The […]

Twenty-six presidents and representatives of local and international alumni groups gathered on campus for the first-ever Alumni Summit held February 7 to 8.   The summit, which was organized by the Silliman Alumni Association, Inc. (SAAI), led by national president Atty. Mikhail Lee Maxino, highlighted the need for alumni chapters to further collaborate and assess […]

Economics professor Winnie Monsod on Monday said corruption and the “feudalistic economy” prevailing in the Philippines are evil and the elite or landholding composition of Congress was sustaining that evil. Professor Monsod spoke to an audience of mostly college undergraduates in a forum in Silliman University sponsored by the Philippine Daily Inquirer and organized by […]

An all-female team from the College of Law bagged all three speaker awards during this year’s Grand Law Debate against Ateneo de Manila University Law School held February 16 at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium. (The debate team from the Silliman University College of Law [L-R]: Fatima Ayesh Bahjin, Kristine Felva Licup, Johanna Adanza […]

An alumnus who now serves as an independent consultant to the Geneva-based Henry Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue was on campus to shed some light on the Mindanao conflict, the peace process and its mechanisms. In partnership with the Religion and Peace Studies Department, Mr. Michael Frank Alar led a lecture-discussion titled “Understanding the Mindanao […]