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Owls hailed as Overall Champion on Earth Days 2019 BY CHESA FILOSOFO The School of Education was crowned as the Overall Champion in the Earth Days celebration with the theme "RebEARTH: Resurgence of a Better World" held at Holy Angel University last July 24. Camille Quizon, Rachelle Rodriguez, Rhanie Ocampo, Cathrina Jane Manusig and Rovy Bryan Gamboa, who displayed their talents in singing and dancing, were declared as the victors in the Sayawit competition. With his winning speech that spoke of the solutions in preserving the flora and fauna, Abelardo Jr. Cortez bagged the championship title in the Impromptu Speech competition with the theme: “Reverberate: The Language of Inconvenient Truth”. Showcasing their creativity in arts, participants led by the two Officers -in-charge (OICs), Erika Manansala and John Michael Manalo, were announced as the first runnerup in the Tree of Life.
(From top) Cortez, Quizon and Lobo showed their best in different competitions held during the awarding day of Earth Days 2019 | Photo taken by Kurt DASAL
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HAU to adopt August-May Academic Calendar BY SOPHIA VALENCIA
After much deliberation, the Holy Angel University administration's plan to shift its academic year calendar to August-May will finally take full effect in the next school year 2020-2021. Along with other prominent universities like University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University, HAU has decided to align its calendar with foreign institutions as part of the university's "internationalization" and for its eventual integration to the planned Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Community (AEC) in 2015. The said decision has been in the works for the past two years but it was just finalized by the administration a couple of months back. According to Dr. Alma Espartinez, Vice President for Academic Affairs (VPAA), the synchronized calendar will lead to more opportunities
for HAU students who might want to study in other countries, since they can still be credited with the study abroad program.
sity to get the budget if the classes start in August unlike in June, where the budget only comes at the end of the year.
"By doing this, we can increase our foreign students. We can also get international speakers from other countries because if we would want to invite them during summertime, then it would be more possible since it is also summertime there [in their country]. In that way, there can really be an exchange between our faculty and theirs and I think that is one of the best ways by which we can know their culture," said Dr. Espartinez.
When asked about the problems foreseen, relative to this shift, the VPAA stated, "We would just have longer summer since it will be four months but it is actually not a problem because some proposals would be like having two rounds of summer. One summer is April to May and another one is June to July. For the students who want to graduate on time, if they want to enroll in 15 units, then they can do it by dividing it, 6 and 9, for the first and second summer, respectively."
She mentioned that the budget will be synchronized as well since it will be easier for the univer-
‘For the love of the college’,
LET review for Aeta Teacher Ed students held
Dr. Natividad seats as new dean
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BY LORAINE CLAVO AND ELEILA GONZALES Dr. Alma Natividad took up the post as the new Dean of the School of Education starting this academic year 2019-2020 after the retirement of former dean, Dr. Benita Bonus. According to Dean Natividad, Dr. Alma Espartinez, the Vice President for Academic Affairs offered her the position on early March this year. Dean Natividad was the former Program Chairperson of the department for three years and was already in service to the department for 15 years as a professor. This is why she accepted the position seeing that she already knew the operations and preparations within the workplace. On Shifting of Academic Calendar
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“For the love of college,” Dr. Natividad said, when asked about her motivation to accept the deanship. As the new Dean, Dr. Natividad already experienced problems and difficulties. The number one challenge is enrolment, owing to the fact that SEd has the second smallest number of enrollees for the current academic year. Another challenge is the different works in relation to the different accreditations.
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Despite the difficult ies, Dr.Natividad stated, “As the former program chair, I only do my job.”
Redefining the Impossible:
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Taking up her former position, Dr. Mutya Paulino is now the program chairperson of SEd‟s teacher education department.
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Reple survey reveals:
SEd okays Calendar Shift, Aircon and Bidet Installation
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In a survey conducted by The Reflection regarding matters raised during the body meeting with student leaders, it is revealed that majority of the students from the School of Education say yes to the proposed shifting of Academic Year calendar, installation of Airconditioning systems to classrooms, and installation of bidets to comfort rooms, considering an expected increase in the tuition fee. See other survey results on Page 8.