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 Malacañang intervention will be invoked in the process of changing the UP Charter.
November 1987 – A multi-sectoral ad hoc committee is formed to assist newly-installed UP President Jose V. Abueva and the BOR in the review and rewriting of the UP Charter, composed of representatives from faculty, students, and non-academic personnel who constitute a preparatory body for a “Charter Study Commission” set to be formed in the next year.