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Ex-UP Regent among top 15 citizens of QC

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The Quezon City Government is set to recognize former University of the Philippines Regent and College of Mass Communications Dean Georgina Encanto as one of the recipients of the Manuel L. Quezon Gawad Parangal for Outstanding Citizens of the city this Saturday at the Arete Museum’s Hyundai Hall inside the Ateneo de Manila University.

Encanto, 15 other individuals and five institutions will be awarded Quezon City’s highest citation in this year’s Gawad Parangal, which aims to recognize the extensive contribution of selected city residents and institutions to national development through their excellent work in their respective fields of expertise and advocacy.

The awarding ceremony is part of Quezon City’s month-long 80th Foundation Day celebration.

As a professor of journalism and administrator from the country’s sole national university, Encanto has been noted for launching several important programs and reforms that has produced generations of high-caliber media practitioners and communication scholars from all over the archipelago.

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As the dean of one of the country’s top communication schools from 1985-1991, the young Encanto facilitated the elevation of the UP Institute of Mass Communication to college status, the institution of new academic programs, the revival of the Philippine Communication Journal, the establishment of the prestigious Lopez Jaena Community Journalism Workshop, and the reactivation of the DZUP Radio Station as a laboratory station for broadcast communication students.

In 2015, she was appointed by former President Benigno Simeon Aquino III as one of the members of the UP Board of Regents, the university’s highest policy-making body.

Dr. Encanto received her degree in AB English and Comparative Literature from the UP College of Arts and Letters in 1967, graduating Magna Cum Laude.

She earned her Master in Arts in English and American Literature at the Brandeis University in Massachusetts in 1970, and her Ph.D. in Philippine Studies at the UP College of Arts and Letters.

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