Faculty & Staff Planning Workshop 2025 in Mataas na Kahoy, Batangas

The UP Department of Geography is currently in a 3-day planning workshop for staff and faculty. The workshop is being held in Mataas na Kahoy's Shercon Resort in Batangas.

                     Clockwise from left: KS, MS, FFH, MSM, JP, EG, MCH, DG, CB, DSA, CC, ACC, JRC, LAO, YL, VJA, ES, AG

The first workshop focuses on Quality Assessment and post-iAADs (Internal Academic Assessment and Development System) evaluation that tracks the department's academic and extension outputs consistent with its vision and goal. Two other workshops focus on graduate and undergraduate concerns ranging to admission and curriculum mapping. Faculty resources in relation to student demand will be assessed in terms of future recruitment. The graduate program (the current MS Geography and the proposed PhD program in geography) hopes to dip from the deep pool of faculty with PhDs. Finally, professional development including faculty development and succession plans will be reevaluated with the return of faculty with PhDs and new full-time and part-time (at least temporarily) hires.

Staff development involves streamlining everyday administrative tasks. The Department recognizes and appreciates the contribution of the department's non-teaching staff in relation to carrying out the complicated programming of everyday departmental activities.

The workshop also allowed time for the members of staff and faculty to perfect their synchronized swimming skills.

Photos & Video: YL & JP

Obituary: Crisanto Angeles, 1947-2025

Crisanto "Mang Cris" Angeles was a foundational member of the Geography family since it separated from Geology and became an independent academic unit in 1983. Mang Cris served the department with commitment and loyalty and was there when ways of doing things shifted from analogue to digital and while the discipline itself went through various turns, shifts and changes. From the department's inception in 1983 until he retired 30 years later, he was a beloved member.

 

Our Department deeply mourns his passing and we wish to extend our prayerful sympathies to his family and loved ones.

Department of Geography Holds Curriculum and Administrative Workshop

By Marion Micah Tinio and Joseph Palis

The Department of Geography held a Curriculum and Administrative Workshop on August 24-27, 2018 at the Dinadiawan Beach Resort in Dipaculao, Aurora.

Attended by the regular and part-time faculty, administrative and research staff, the four-day workshop resulted in the formulation of an updated Vision and Mission for the Department, strategic scheduling of Departmental events for the academic year, discussions and clarifications of various teaching, research, extension and administrative tasks. Team building activities were actively participated in by the members of the faculty and staff to foster collegiality and camaraderie.

Visit the Department Website to learn more about its members.