Click here to watch the UP Centennial television advertisements being aired on Philippine television.

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Donations to the University of the Philippines may be deposited to the DBP (Quezon Avenue) Savings Account No. 5-01317-460-8 or to LBP (Katipunan, QC) Savings Account No. 1462-2220-21 for peso donations and Savings Account No. 1464-0032-46 for dollar (Dollar Swift Code: TLBPPHMMAXXX).

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UP will be 100 years old next year. It’s a good time to remember our times on the campus, the good along with the bad, and to say “Salamat, UP.” On this page are some prominent alumni reminiscing and saying “thank you” to their alma mater.
We also print here the lyrics by Romeo Candazo of [...]

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by Vicki Bello-Jardiolin
UP people think they’re superior, special, the best. Of course, I agree. But what was in the UP experience, the triumphs and mainly trials that became heartfelt memories, that helped create that unique animal, the UP alumnus?
“Surviving that gauntlet called registration,” says Gerry Gabriel, AB Philo ‘85. “Camping out with my [...]

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President Emerlinda R. Roman
UP Manila
January 8, 2008

When I took over as UP President in 2005, I said then that I considered myself especially privileged to be not just the University’s first woman president, but the president who would guide the University into its second century. The prospect was both daunting and humbling.
I also said that [...]

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The run-up to our Centennial celebrations has given us the opportunity to re-examine our record for the past 100 years and to reflect on what we hope to achieve in the next 100. That there have been problems is undeniable. But surely these are outweighed by our accomplishments. Though the University might be flawed—given that [...]

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The Manila Electric Company (Meralco), in cooperation with the University of the Philippines, announces the nationwide search for the second Gawad Haydee Yorac for Outstanding Public Service.
The award recognizes leaders from the private sector, government service and volunteer organizations whose attributes, personal work ethics and service to the nation are worth emulating.
Just like the late [...]

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Reprinted below is the ten-point UP plan drafted by UP President Emerlinda R. Roman in 2005.
 
University of the Philippines Plan (2005-2011)
A National University in the 21st Century
I. The UP Centennial
1. Celebrate the UP Centennial in 2008
1.1 Create a UP Centennial Commission that will oversee the following:

The UP Centennial Fund Campaign
UP Centennial Projects such as

a.) The [...]

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by Jo. Florendo B. Lontoc

Here, in detail, is a timeline of milestones in the efforts to revise the UP’s Charter.
1982 – President Edgardo J. Angara creates a Code Commission tasked to propose revisions to the University Code and the Charter. The Commission eventually prepares a written report, but is constrained by recognition that Congress and [...]

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