What UP Needs Most Is A Vision Of Loveliness – Time To Get Rid Of That Vision Of Barren Manliness!
They are Catanduanes State University President Patrick Alain Azanza, former 1-Edukasyon Party-List
Representative Salvador Belaro Jr, former Faculty Regent Angelo Jimenez, current UP Diliman Chancellor Fidel Nemenzo, former UP Diliman Vice Chancellor For Research And Development Benito Pacheco. and former UP Los Baños Chancellor Fernando Sanchez Jr.
My goggling says:
Mr Azanza is “considered an expert in ICT-based
education and ISO-certified learning environment” (facebook.com).
Mr Belaro “studied PhD in Educational Leadership Management at UP College of
Education” (facebook.com).
Mr Jimenez is a lawyer (asiapacificbasin.org).
Mr Nemenzo, current UP Diliman Chancellor, is a mathematician (en.wikipedia.org).
Mr Pacheco lists “Disaster Risk Management” as first in his list of expertise (scholar.google.com.ph).
Mr Sanchez is a former UP Los Baños Chancellor, a landscape horticulturist and
planner (uplb.edu.ph).
Azanza in ICT-based education, Belaro in Educational
Leadership Management, Jimenez in Labor, Nemenzo in Mathematics, Pacheco in Disaster
Risk Management, and Sanchez in Landscaping. Which one should be the next UP
President?
I have already written about emancipating UP from
the Oblation; check out my essay, “’Creative Freedom’ – UP, Time To Replace
Your Symbol Of Academic Freedom!” (Frank
And Healthy Minds, blogspot.com),
where I said in big, bold letters:
It occurred to me today,
Sunday, 16 Oct 2022, that changing the symbol of the University of the
Philippines System (UP) is long overdue – because the Oblation… has ever
inspired disapproval, even radicalism, and never creativity!
Why not “Marya”? Today, Sunday, 23 Oct 2022, I say now “Marya” – by
artist Maria Pureza Escaño – should be UP’s symbol, as it inspires imagination and
idealism.
Not one of the UP Presidential candidates has
stated his Vision & Mission for the University. About those subjects, here
is what Don Hofstrand of Iowa State University says (Aug 2016, “Vision
And Mission Statements – A Roadmap Of Where You Want To Go And How To Get There,”
Business Development, extension.iastate.edu):
Remember,
the vision is what you want to accomplish. Mission is a general statement of
how you will achieve your vision. Strategies are a series of ways of using the
mission to achieve the vision. Goals are statements of what needs to be
accomplished to implement the strategy.
All things considered, with what I have found out
above and what I know now, if you ask me today, my vote would go to Mr Sanchez,
who is a landscape horticulturist & planner.
As you can see with “Marya,” intelligent artists encourage other
people’s creative endeavors more than their critical thinking – a perfect fit
for perpetual anti-this and anti-that UP System!
UP could adopt “Marya” with the title “Ovation” to signify “prolonged
applause” as well as “fertility.” No more “Oblation”!@517
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