Three distinguished UP alumni for 2016 have been tapped by the UP Alumni Association (UPAA) to serve as resource speakers at the forum of Alumni Council meeting on Friday, June 24, and will tackle issues on peace and development, communicating state agenda and media freedom, as well as urbanization’s impact on child development.
The alumni council meeting will be held at the Bahay ng Alumni in Diliman, which is one of the highlights of the UPAA’s Homecoming week. From the speakers’ three presentations, the UPAA Board will draft resolutions to be submitted to the UP Board of Regents, UP alumni in Congress for aid in legislation, and to selected government and private agencies for policy formulation.
Some 55 Distinguished UP Alumni have been chosen by the UPAA for the year 2016.
Amina Rasul-Bernardo, this year’s UPAA Most Distinguished Alumna, will speak on “Peace, Security, and Development”; Dr. Dante M. Velasco, Distinguished Alumnus in Communication, on “Communicating Your Agenda in Public and Private Governance under a Climate of Freedom’; and Dr. Cornelio G. Banaag, Jr., Lifetime Distinguished Service Awardee, on “Urbanization and Communication Technology: Impact on Child Development.”
Rasul-Bernardo has an A.B. in Economics from UP, a Master’s degree in Business Management from the Asian Institute of Management, and another Master’s in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Dr. Velasco earned his Ph.D. in Communication from UP, and his Master’s in Management from the Asian Institute of Management. He was consultant to the International Finance Corporation and the World Bank, and was DOTC undersecretary for Public Information and for Road Transport. UP Professor Velasco is also chairman of the UP College of Mass Communication Foundation.
After earning an A.B. History at UP, Dr. Banaag Jr. finished his M.D. also at UP. He is founder and director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Programs at PGH, the Philippine Children’s Medical Center, and The Medical City. He is professor emeritus (Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatry) at the UP College of Medicine.
Registration for the Alumni Council meeting will begin at 7:30 a.m., to be followed by the program proper at 8:30 a.m.-12p.m. Interested UP alumni and other parties are advised to contact Dheng UPAA for early reservations with telephone number (632) 9206868.