Konteksto | ‘Negosyonibersidad’
Bagama’t nangangakong hindi palalayasin ang mga manininda, nakapagtatakang mas binibigyan ng prayoridad sa espasyo ng kampus ang mga “taga-labas” sa halip na ‘yong mga bahagi ng komunidad.
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Bagama’t nangangakong hindi palalayasin ang mga manininda, nakapagtatakang mas binibigyan ng prayoridad sa espasyo ng kampus ang mga “taga-labas” sa halip na ‘yong mga bahagi ng komunidad.
The University of the Philippines community condemned the recently signed Declaration of Cooperation between UP and the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
The spokesperson of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), in elaboration of the AFP chief-of-staff’s tale of a “Red October” leftist-rightist conspiracy to oust President Rodrigo Duterte from power, said last week that the country’s university and college...
UP has declared Sept. 21 as A Day of Remembrance to honor the memories of those who struggled against Marcos’ dictatorship and highlight the university’s role in defending “academic freedom, civil liberties, and human rights.”
They vowed to stand up against the attacks on people's democratic rights.
The admonition that University of the Philippines students shouldn't be protesting in the streets but should instead be in their classrooms, and that by doing the first they're wasting the people's money, UP being a state university supported by their taxes, has...
"This 2018, we hope that the case against Palparan be finally resolved soon. The case has been running since 2014, and it has been a long ordeal for us and all of Palparan’s victims. We want to see him in jail this year.”
The glitches in accessing SAIS triggered the camp-out of protesting students who failed to register.
The lightning protest at this year’s UP graduation commemorated the 10th year of disappearance of Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño.
“The proposed reform will not raise the quality of UP education contrary to what the proponents say. UP has long suffered from dilapidated facilities, high tuition, and exorbitant fees due to lack of state support. What we need is a truly progressive, patriotic and mass-oriented UP education, not more colonial education.”
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Lumad extrajudicial killings and forced evacuations due to military and paramilitary forces rampaging across the indigenous people’s ancestral domain in the remaining frontiers of Mindanao have finally made its...
Citing data from the Office of Scholarships and Student Services (OSSS), the Office of the Student Regent revealed that 5,391 students applied for student loans in UP Diliman alone. As of last semester, the OSR said, 1,218 students were not able to pay their loans before the scheduled release of grades.
By being defensive and resorting to the distasteful tack of insinuating that serious family problems likely triggered the suicide, UP officials not only miss the entire point but also the opportunity to confront the real problems plaguing the entire university.

U.P. kilos and tulong kabataan(Photo by Jhun Dantes)

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"If we are given a zero budget, would that mean that we would land in the top position?" UP student regent Krissy Conti told bulatlat.com, adding that Malacañang should not compare the University of the Philippines with other private universities that are profit-oriented.

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Even the University of the Philippines effectively raised its tuition by changing the "default bracket" of students to P1,000 to P1,500 per semester.
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis When asked whether he would increase the tuition during his term, new UP President Alfredo Pascual replied with a resounding "No." That was a bold declaration coming from a "dark horse" and an "outsider" who won the race for the UP...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
The student body, faculty and non-academic staff members of the University of the Philippines in Diliman are waiting for the election of their new chancellor, and many of them are hoping that it will be Professor Rolando B. Tolentino.
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