Dr. Primo G. Garcia has been appointed as the new Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (VCAA) of the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU). He will serve at the pleasure of Chancellor Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria starting 1 March 2022.   Dr. Garcia served as Dean of the Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) for two terms, first from 2016 to 2019, and the second from 2019 to 2022.  He led the Faculty in reaching its goals and achieving milestones, particularly on the development, institution, and revision of degree programs; increase of enrolled students and graduates; academic support for [...]

Assistant Professor Rita C. Ramos has been reappointed as the University Registrar of the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU). She was appointed to the position in 2020 and will continue to hold the post until 28 February 2023, in support of Dr. Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria's third term as UPOU Chancellor Asst. Prof. Ramos began her career in UPOU in 2006 as a Senior Lecturer/Clinical Preceptor in the Master of Arts in Nursing (MAN) program.  She then became an Assistant Professor with the UPOU Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) in 2010.  She took the post as [...]

Dr. Joane V. Serrano, the current Director of the UPOU Public Affairs Office, is the new Dean of the Faculty of Management and Development Studies effective 1 April 2022. With her 27 years of service in the university, Dr. Serrano, is committed to empowering and motivating both the young and mature and to putting in place a faculty-based learning support system for the institution and its stakeholders for her term as the new dean of FMDS. Through her philosophy of participation and co-creation, proactive and anticipatory, collaborative, creative, and critical stance, Dr. Serrano wanted to take a new direction for [...]

Dr. Diego Silang S. Maranan, the former Officer-in-Charge (OIC) for the Office of Student Affairs (OSA) and Program Chair for the Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Studies, is the new Dean of the Faculty of Information and Communication Studies (FICS) effective 1 April 2022. As Dean, Dr. Maranan has his strategic proposals for teaching, research, administration, and extension at the Faculty of Information and Communication Studies (FICS) and UP Open University (UPOU).  With over 17 years of working experience in arts-driven groups, technology companies, and social justice organizations locally particularly with the International non-profit organization named Space Ecologies Art and [...]

Dr. Finaflor F. Taylan has resumed the role of Director of the Office of Gender Concerns (OGC) of the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) after she went on study leave to pursue her doctorate degree. Her appointment took effect on 1 March 2022 and will run until 28 February 2025.  Dr. Taylan is an Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) and the Program Chair of the Diploma in Women & Development and Diploma in/Master of Social Work programs.  She was appointed as the Director of the OGC in 2015 and served until she [...]

University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) welcomes newly appointed directors of the Office of Student Affairs (OSA), Office of the Public Affairs (OPA), and Office  Information and Communication Technology Development Office (ICTDO).  Dr. Ria Mae H. Borromeo is now the Director of the UPOU OSA. She has a Master’s and PhD degree in Engineering (Computing Science) from Keio University in Japan. Dr. Borromeo has been an Associate Professor with the UPOU FICS since 2012 and served as the FICS Faculty Secretary. She handles courses under the Bachelor of Arts and Multimedia Studies, Diploma in Computer Science and Master of [...]

(L-R) Mr. Peter A. Sy and Ms. Ria Valeria D. Cabanes As part of the Research Conversations: Ethics Series 2021, a joint webinar of the UP Open University (UPOU) Institutional Research Ethics Committee (IREC) and Research Publications Committee (RPC) of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (OVCAA) was held on 12 April 2022 to discuss the conduction of ethical research that considers the privacy of its respondents and its insightful processes that a researcher may practice or consider.  The resource speaker of the event was Mr. Peter A. Sy, from the UP Diliman Department of [...]