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Over 30 teachers and guidance counselors from the Elementary and Early Childhood Departments underwent an orientation seminar dubbed “COEPING” on May 26. COEPING stands for “College of Education Program for Inclusion Across Generations.” It is a program geared towards inclusive education. It seeks to educate, equip and empower teachers in accommodating and managing learners with […]

Silliman University is one of three institutions in the Philippines linking participants to the Korea Development Institute for the Global Distance Learning Seminar Series that covers ten topics over a seven-month period. The seminar series is a course in itself. It offers lessons via distance learning on the development experience of Korea from an aid […]

College of Computer Studies OIC-Dean Dr. Dave E. Marcial was elected president of the Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators (PSITE). Dr. Marcial is the first from the Visayas region to occupy the post PSITE president. He took his oath on May 23. Within the same month of May, the PSITE officers conducted a benchmarking […]

A graduate of Silliman University topped the Foreign Service Examinations (FSO) of the Department of Foreign Affairs. Stacy Danika S. Alcantara, who obtained her degree in Mass Communication, summa cum laude, in 2009 leads this year’s passers of only 30. The FSO is one of the toughest exams administered to those aspiring to become diplomats. […]

Two professors from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) in Lubbock, Texas handled a course on the use of simulation as a teaching pedagogy in nursing on May 19 to 23 at the William Barry Thompson Hall. Dr. Sharon I. Decker, System Coordinator for Simulation, and Dr. Maria Christina R. Esperat, Associate Dean for […]

University Librarian Mrs. Lorna T. Yso and American Studies Resource Center (ASRC) Reference Librarian Mrs. Nenith P. Calibo attended the first Combined American Spaces (AS) Regional Conference sponsored by the United States Embassy on May 20 to 23 in Manila.   Themed “21st Century American Spaces – Innovation, Learning and Entrepreneurship,” the conference gathered over […]

Twenty-five faculty of information technology from universities in Visayas and Mindanao were hosted at the College of Computer Studies for a two-day Outcome-Based Education (OBE) Seminar-Workshop for Information and Communications Technology. The seminar-workshop on May 22 to 23 was facilitated by Mr. Oliver Malabanan, consultant to the Technical Panel for Information Technology Education of the […]

Silliman University is the only university in the Philippines, and one of only two in Asia, that landed a spot on the list of “50 Most Beautiful Christian College and University Campuses in the World“. The Christian Universities Online (http://www.christianuniversitiesonline.org/) released the list last month containing a description of each university. This year's listing is […]

A faculty of the College of Computer Studies was among 16 school representatives invited to Indonesia to share best practices on integration of local knowledge in classroom instruction, service-learning and research.  Dr. Dave E. Marcial represented Silliman in the Philippine-Indonesian Local Knowledge Exchange program spearheaded by the Asian University Digital Resource Network (AUDRN) from April […]

Chemistry professor Dr. Paulina Aspilla was recognized for her research during the 2014 Commission on Higher Education (CHED) REPUBLICA Awards held May 20 in Quezon City. Professor Aspilla was presented with a Qualifier Award for her research, “A Partial Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) Library of the Economically Important Red Alga Eucheuma Denticulatum (N.L. Burman) F.C. […]