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Around 60 secretaries and office assistants of Silliman University underwent a five-module workshop on marketing and client relations on May 3 and 4 at the Uytengsu Foundation Computer Studies Hall. A project of the Staff Development Committee and the Human Resource Development office, the workshop sought to empower the University’s support staff and provide them […]

Silliman University President Dr. Ben S. Malayang III is among those calling on the Supreme Court (SC) to stop the field testing of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in the Philippines. Said to be under field trial in four provinces in the country are Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) talong (eggplants), a GMO variety. These eggplants, which are […]

Two history professors of Silliman University who take charge of programs that promote study in the United States attended the EducationUSA East Asian and Pacific (EAP) Triennial Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on March 29 to April 3. Dr. Earl Jude Paul Cleope and Prof. Regan Jomao-as were among seven Philippine delegates to the conference […]

Why should people of faith care about the environment? This question sets the tone for the forum dubbed “Faith + Environment” that the Justice and Peace Center is holding on April 28 at the Instructional Media and Technology Center. The forum tackles the same question in their theme “Why People of Faith Should Care About […]

Miss Silliman 2009 Glenna Christina Ortiz Duch is among the 48 official candidates in the Miss Philippines-Earth pageant, representing the whole province of Negros Oriental.   A consistent honor student and an academic scholar, Duch is an incoming third year student in Silliman majoring in Management. She graduated salutatorian from the High School Department of […]

 A total of 14 academic offerings of Silliman University received the highest accreditation distinction from two independent private accrediting associations. Level IV Accredited Status was granted to seven graduate degrees by the Association of Christian Schools, Colleges and Universities-Accrediting Agency, Inc. (ACSCU-AAI) for the period April 2012 to April 2016, while seven undergraduate programs received […]

 Silliman University is offering the degree of Master in Peace Studies (MPS) effective June this year. The program provides options for students to choose from three tracks: Thesis Track (39 units), Non-Thesis Track (42 units; with internship requirement) or Certificate Program (18 units). Three majors or areas concentration have been developed to cater to the […]

The missionary work of Drs. Robert B. and Metta J. Silliman, after whom the Silliman University Main Library facility was named, comes to life in a book recently published by an American historian. Mission Accomplished: Robert and Metta Silliman’s Mission Work in the Philippines, 1924-1966 chronicles the story of the Silliman couple as American missionaries […]

Three students from the College of Business Administration are among only 30 students accepted into “Best Meets The Best” program of the American Chamber (AmCham) of Commerce in the Philippines running April 14 to 21. Vanessa Bea Hinoguin, Galileo Gene Robin and Miguel Angel Naldo were selected from among 121 applicants from 25 universities nationwide […]

Eleven writers from different parts of the country are this year's fellows to the prestigious 51st Silliman University National Writers Workshop (SUNWW).  The workshop this year runs from April 30 to May 18 at the Silliman University Rose Lamb Sobrepeña Writers Village located at the scenic Camp Lookout in the municipality of Valencia.  SUNWW Director-in-Residence […]