Alumni

The UP Open University (UPOU) Office of Public Affairs (OPA) participated in the 2020 UP Alumni Relations Committee (ARC) Convention held on November 3 and 5, 2020 (Tuesday and Thursday) 9-11 AM via Zoom Meeting. The ARC Convention aimed to to build on the achievements from the 2019 ARC Convention held at Benitez Hall in UP Diliman; reaffirm agreements in seamlessly providing and exchanging information of UP alumni, and to address new concerns of the Office of Alumni Relations (OARs), Office of the University Registrar (OURs), Information and Technology Development Center (ITDC), and Computer Center. During the first day of [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) welcomed the new students through the Virtual Sunduan and Student Orientation 2020 Ceremony held on 12 September 2020. The program has been spearheaded by the Office of Student Affairs (OSA) in coordination with the Office of Public Affairs (OPA), Multimedia Center (MC),  and with the help of other UPOU offices.  The program, held via zoom, was hosted by Mr. Rudy Pullian of OSA and was also live streamed via UPOU Website and UPOU Networks Facebook Page. Mr. Pullian stressed that even in the midst of the pandemic; everyone was enjoined to take [...]

A workshop for students and alumni of the Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Studies (BAMS) students and alumni was held on 19-20 October 2018 at Parque Espana Hotel in Muntinlupa City, Alabang. The activity was facilitated in by Assistant Professors Al Francis D. Librero and Diego S. Maranan. The workshop was held to provide students with a capacity building activity to help them improve their production work, as well as help in the planning and implementation of their special projects. The activity is also a planning session for students with regards sharing of their work and offering of support to [...]

Young Billy always dreamed of donning the Sablay, and being the persevering student that he is, everything coursed as planned. He was about to enroll at the University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College under the Bachelor of Science (BS) in Accountancy, his “first-loved” degree. However, fate intended for him to steer toward another direction when the result of his Department of Science and Technology – Science Education Institute (DOST–SEI) competitive examination was released three days before his high school graduation. Being in the lowest economic stratum where he had to support himself and his family, Billy chose practicality over [...]

To properly organize and mobilize the UPOU Faculty of Education (FEd) alumni towards the goal of better education quality and access, FEd held its first Alumni Association Organizational Meeting last September 28, 2018, 11 a.m. at Mer-Nel's Place, Los Baños, Laguna. The meeting started with Prof. Ricardo T. Bagarinao, Dean of FEd, providing the rationale for organizing the alumni association chapter and the two representatives from UPOU Alumni Foundation Incorporated (UPOU AFI) namely Herbert P. Sancho, PRO and Dhojie N. Yanto, Auditor presenting a background information on the role of the association in UPOU AFI. The discussions revolved around alumni [...]

The UP Open University (UPOU) organized and conducted the first-ever Campus Tour for its new and old students and alumni on 09 August 2017 at the UPOU Headquarters in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. The Campus Tour provided a venue for students and alumni to get to know their university more by experiencing the campus physically, and meeting UPOU staff and faculty face-to-face. Since UPOU delivers its instructions fully online, the opportunity for students to visit the campus and physically interact with professors and student support staff is usually during their graduation. Most of the interactions of UPOU students are done [...]