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  • WVSU Represents Indonesia at the ASEAN 55th Founding Anniversary Exhibit

    By Leo Almonte

    West Visayas State University (WVSU) represents Indonesia during the week-long ASEAN Exhibit: A Showcase of ASEAN Culture and Education that started last September 26, 2022, at Robinsons Mall, Jaro, Iloilo City. 

    ASEAN, a regional body, composed of 10 member states founded in 1967, is committed to promoting intergovernmental cooperation in economic development, security, military, politics, and education. 

    CHED Region VI and Western Visayas Association of Higher Education Institutions (WVAHEI) organized the event in collaboration with WVAHEI members to celebrate the 55th Founding Anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

    Higher Education Institutions participating in the event stand-in for an ASEAN member state through booths showcasing its culture. Assigned to represent Indonesia, WVSU’s International and Local Linkages Office (ILLO) booth featured its culture through Indonesian-inspired decorations, visuals, and symbols. 

    WVSU’s Janiuay and Lambunao Campuses put their culinary skills into high gear by preparing Indonesian cuisines like Beef Rendang, Ayam Goreng, Chicken Satay, Cilor, and Klepon. Mall goers swarmed the booths for free food tasting and a closer look at the display. ILLO staff and interns manning the booth donned  Indonesian-themed outfits. 

    The ASEAN Exhibit became an opportunity for the different WVSU campuses to work as a team and contribute to the event’s success. The other units that contributed to cultural production, logistics, booth set-up, concept development, theme, design and promotion were the Dance Cultural Affairs Office, College of Business and Management, Pototan Campus, MIS, PAMCO, WVSU Artist Guild, ILLO and PAMCO interns, and the General Service Office.  

    Like in all the booths, WVSU’s corner garnered visitors for selfies, food-tasting, and small talks with staff about their “adopted” country. The ASEAN Exhibit is open to the public until September 30, 2022 at  Robinsons Mall, Jaro, Iloilo City. 

     

  • WVSU Joins the 55th ASEAN Founding Anniversary Celebration

    By Abegail G. Lapating, Elyn Joy B. Estimada, Mary Angel Lou S. Tribiano 

    ILOILO CITY– In celebration of the 55th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Founding Anniversary and collaboration with the Western Visayas Association of Higher Education Institutions (WVAHEI), CHED Region VI launched the ASEAN Exhibit: A Showcase of ASEAN Culture and Education, a week-long celebration, last September 26, 2022, at Robinsons Mall Jaro, Iloilo City.

    West Visayas State University (WVSU) showcased the culture of Indonesia together with nine other private and government higher educational institutions around Panay and Guimaras, representing the ten ASEAN members.

     Various Colleges and universities exhibited the rich culture and heritage of ASEAN nations through their well-designed, thematic, and festive booths with the University of Antique representing Brunei, Iloilo Science and Technology University (Cambodia), West Visayas State University (Indonesia), Aklan State University (Laos), Capiz State University (Malaysia), Colegio de San Jose (Myanmar), Northern Iloilo State University (Singapore), Guimaras State University (Thailand), Iloilo State College of Fisheries (Vietnam), Central Philippine University (Philippines).

     Dr. Raul C. Alvarez (Regional Director, CHEDRO VI), Dr. Lilian Diana B. Parreño (Guimaras State University President), and Dr. Raul F. Muyong (Iloilo Science and Technology University and WVAHEI President) opened the exhibit with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Dr. Ma. Asuncion Christine V. Dequilla,  VP for Academic Affairs, represented WVSU in the event.

    Representatives from different colleges and universities joined the parade of flags in their respective traditional attires. The cultural group from WVSU, Panayana, sang the opening prayer, followed by their soulful renditions of the Philippine National Anthem, ASEAN Hymn, Iloilo City Hymn, and CHED Hymn.

    Dr. Raul Muyong delivered the welcome message, while  Dr. Raul C. Alvarez declared the ASEAN Exhibit open after his keynote speech. Day One of the Celebration commenced with successive cultural presentations of groups from each university and college.

    The ASEAN Exhibit is open to the public from September 26 to 30, 2022, at the Robinsons Mall, Jaro, Iloilo City.

  • Journal for Law Advocacy – Clinical Legal Education Program and Revised Model Law Curriculum

    The WVSU Journal for Law Advocacy (JLA) is an academic journal committed to the development of legal scholarship for and from the Visayas Region and Southern Philippines. The student-run editorial board adheres to a double-blind peer review process as its editorial policy to determine the quality of submission both from law students and legal practitioners. JLA’s inaugural issue carries the theme “Electoral Laws and the 2022 Philippine Election” and contains seven carefully selected chapters that provide important legal analyses of electoral issues that limit, if not hostage, the conduct of free and fair elections in the Philippines. In preparation of the journal’s official launch by October 1st of 2022, online versions of the seven stand-alone chapters will be shared to the reading public. For this week, JLA is featuring its maiden commentary contributed by Judge Enrique Trespeces of the WVSU College of Law.
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    The inaugural issue concludes with a commentary on the Clinical Legal Education Program (CLEP) and its relation to ethical-driven lawyering – an important pedagogical improvement in law school curricula that can help bridge the gap between the study of law and practice of law that can help address some of the systemic electoral issues discussed in earlier chapters of the first issue of the Journal. Entitled “Clinical Legal Education Program and Revised Model Law Curriculum: Championing Law Advocacy and Ethical-driven Lawyering”, Judge Trespeces notes that Revised Model Law Curriculum launched in the last quarter of 2021 now zeroes in on the pressing need for lawyers not only to be practice-ready but ethically-driven as well. He cites his own survey that from 2017 to 2021, 430 bar discipline cases docketed at the Supreme Court, which reflected the “dark side” of lawyering, spread throughout the legal profession. The author argues that the integration of a clinical component of legal and judicial ethics in procedural subjects like criminal procedure, civil procedure in dispute resolution, and evidence rules is a significant enhancement of achieving ethical-driven lawyering. To illustrate, the editors take note that WVSU College of Law recently integrated its CLEP learning activities into the teaching of the course Administrative Law, Law on Public Officers, and Election Law. This timely integration of CLEP activities to relevant subjects, such as Election Law, coincided with the recently concluded 2022 National Elections. Without a doubt, strategies like this are in accord with CLEP’s goal to inculcate in students’ values of ethical lawyering and public service. Judge Trespeces in his conclusion notes that these initiatives require the concerted efforts of all stakeholders to set the CLEP in motion in order for its objectives to come to fruition.

    The student editors, as well as contributing authors of this inaugural issue, hope that readers arrive at a more complete picture of the interplay of law, jurisprudence, and electoral reform in the Philippines. The different chapters of this volume earnestly put together provide at the very least, a diagnosis of each of the key areas of reform in the Philippine electoral system. The official date of the Inaugural Launching of the Journal for Law Advocacy is on October 1st of 2022, 3:30pm onward at the Moot Court, Quezon Hall Building. If you wish to attend the said event and if you have inquiries on how to submit your original legal manuscripts or on how to subscribe to our Journal, please email the Journal’s Executive Editor – Clyde Gacayan at col_journal@wvsu.edu.ph

  • WVSU Sees Increase in Enrolment this S.Y. 2022-2023

    By Abegail G. Lapating and Ciarra Mae Imbang with PAMCO.

    West Visayas State University has 21,640 enrollees on all campuses in the first semester of the school year 2022-2023, which is higher than the 20,576 enrollees during the first semester of the previous school year.

    In an interview with Ms. Mardy A. Ledesma, director of office of the admission and records/registrar, the general number of enrollees in WVSU for S.Y. 2022-2023 reached a total of 9, 286 for the main campus only.

    The Baccalaureate Programs have a total of 6,608 enrollees. The College of Education tops the number of enrollees with 1,631, followed by the College of Business and Management (1,049) College of Arts and Sciences (1,044),  College of Information and Communication Technology (840), College of Communication (510), College of Nursing (487), College of PESCAR (487), College of College of Medicine (476) and College of Dentistry (84).

    The Integrated Laboratory School (ILS) has a total of 595 enrollees while the Post-Baccalaureate Programs have a total of 212 (136 in Distance Education, and 76 in College of Law). .

    In Graduate School Program, there are a total of 1,871 enrollees: 262 in College of Arts and Sciences, 151 in College of Business and Management, 15 in College of Communication, 1134 in College of Education, 82 in Distance Education, 46 in College of Information and Communications Technology, 51 in College of Nursing, 130 in College of PESCAR.

    This data includes the number of enrollees per college in WVSU main campus only.

    “There are barely any  issues in the system”, Ms. Ledesma said that.  “The students are already familiar with the university’s IUIS. The office, together with the MIS, conducted an orientation to new students on the process of online registration as well as the college secretaries and advisors. Although there were glitches in the system, the issues were addressed immediately.  Aside from orientation, infographics were also posted in various Facebook pages of WVSU.” 

    According to Ms. Ledesma, WVSU extended the enrollment for one week because the accounting office introduced a payment gateway. Students have options to settle their enrollment fees at payment centers like 7/11 and banks.

    “As of now, there are just minimal enrollment  challenges like connectivity and Internet disruptions, Ms. Ledesma said.

    The demand for credentials and other documents from continuing and newly graduated students has been keeping the office of admissions and records/registrar  busy. Among the documents that students have been requesting are the Certificate of Registration for DSWD educational cash assistance and the Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID).

    Ms. Ledesma is assuring the student body  that their office is  on track in upgrading the system with the help of MIS office technical team to minimize the glitches as well as concerns regarding the enrolment process.

  • Journal for Law Advocacy – Election related offenses and disinformation

    The WVSU Journal for Law Advocacy (JLA) is an academic journal committed to the development of legal scholarship for and from the Visayas Region and Southern Philippines.  The student-run editorial board adheres to a double-blind peer review process as its editorial policy to determine the quality of submission both from law students and legal practitioners.

    JLA’s inaugural issue carries the theme “Electoral Laws and the 2022 Philippine Election” and contains seven carefully selected chapters that provide important legal analyses of electoral issues that limit, if not hostage, the conduct of free and fair elections in the Philippines.  In preparation of the journal’s official launch by September 23rd 2022, online versions of the seven stand-alone chapters will be shared to the reading public. For this week, JLA is featuring the co-authored chapter of Prosecutor Victoria Heler and Theda Grace Gumban, faculty and student respectively of WVSU College of Law.

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    Entitled “Towards a Clean and Honest Election: Jurisprudence on Election-related offenses”, the authors revisit important provisions of the Omnibus Election Code of the Philippines and provide a discussion on frequent election violations and related jurisprudence. This includes vote-buying and vote-selling, conspiracy to bribe voters, wagering upon the result of the election, and coercion of subordinates among others. The authors provide a thematic discussion of offenses during voter registration, campaign, voting day, and canvassing. 

    Heler and Gumban also provide a rundown of special laws that govern the conduct of elections in the country and argue that while these laws are designed to ensure a peaceful and effective method of selecting political leaders, these laws have to face challenges arising from COVID-19 and disinformation networks in social media.

    The student editors, as well as contributing authors of this inaugural issue, hope that readers arrive at a more complete picture of the interplay of law, jurisprudence, and electoral reform in the Philippines. The different chapters of this volume earnestly put together provide at the very least, a diagnosis of each of the key areas of reform in the Philippine electoral system. For inquiries, please email the Journal’s Executive Editor – Clyde Gacayan at col_journal@wvsu.edu.ph

  • WVSU Participates in the First Iloilo Transport Summit

    By Abegail G. Lapating and Ciarra Mae G. Imbang

    Student Regent Hershey Geline represented West Visayas State University (WVSU) during Iloilo City’s transport summit held at University of the Philippines Visayas Little Theater, Iloilo City Campus, last  August 30, 2022, at 7:30 A.M

    Organized by the Office of Iloilo City Councilor and Committee Chairman of Transportation, Atty. Sedfrey L. Cabaluna, the event aims to solicit concrete solutions and recommendations to resolve the issue surrounding the modification of jeepney routes implemented by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB).

    The whole-day activity includes a series of presentations on the concept of the Public Vehicle Modernization Program, Local Public Transport Route Plan (LPTRP), amendments and modifications, other sectoral presentations, team workshops, and discussions in line with the Transport System in Iloilo City.

    Student Regent Hershey Geline Sumpay and WVSU USC Councilor Arlie Bosque were among the participants, and other representatives from the University of the Philippines (UPV), John B Lacson, Iloilo Science, and Technology University (ISAT U).

    At the event, Sumpay raised the issue of the lack of units of public jeepney vehicles and congestion. She also urged strengthening information dissemination to all commuters and implementing a 20% discount for students. 

    After the discussion, Bosque presented the collated recommendations of the student sector to the officers of LTFRB Region VI, Public Safety and Transportation Iloilo, Councilor Cabaluna, and all transport group representatives. One of the suggestions is implementing a coding system for private vehicles. 

    On Facebook, Arlie Bosque expressed his gratitude towards Atty. Cabaluna. “We would like to extend our gratitude to the office of Atty. Sedfrey Cabaluna for giving the students an avenue to voice our concerns on the effects of the LPTRP implementation in the city.”

    In an interview of Bombo Radyo with Councilor Atty. Cabuluna, he shared that there were over 100 attendees at the summit. Among the stakeholders are transport groups, academic institutions, commuters, and barangay officials. 

    The port Summit is led by the LPTRP Technical Working Team of Iloilo City and headed by Mr. Jeck Conlu and officials. Also present at the event are partnering agencies, namely PSTMO, Transport Cooperatives/Corporations, LTO, PNP, Provincial LGU, Media Partners, Business Sectors, Academe Sectors, Private Sectors, and participants from Bacolod City. 

  • WVSU Shares Best Practices in Quality Management System with MBHTE -BARMM

    By Mary Angel Lou S. Tribiano and Elyn Joy B. Estimada

    West Visayas State University shared its best practices in Quality Management System (QMS) with the delegation from the Ministry of Basic, Higher, and Technical Education (MBHTE) of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). WVSU hosted the QMS Executive Session last August 11, 2022, at the university campus.

    After the opening remarks of University President Dr. Joselito F. Villaruz, the vice presidents, unit heads, directors, and college deans participated as resource speakers. Dr. Villaruz defined quality management and how it impacts the university. He attributed the accomplishments of the institution to sound and effective quality management.

    Among the topics discussed by the resource speakers were the University Program Development, Teacher Education Program, Senior High School Implementation, Quality Assurance, Assessment, Customer Feedback Mechanism, Internal Quality Audit, Management Review, and Continuous Improvements. After the open forum moderated by Dr. Noemi B. Silva, a campus tour followed where the guests visited the College of Education, Basic Education School Laboratory, and QMS Room.

  • Journal for Law Advocacy – Philippine Party-list System and Representation of Marginalized Population

    WVSU Journal for Law Advocacy’s featured article for this week is written by Justin Bionat of the College of Law of the University of San Agustin. As with the first three papers we have released over the last two weeks which discussed about the interplay of electoral laws and jurisprudence, Bionat provides an in-depth analysis of the party-list system which has been increasingly used by political dynasties as a “back door entry” to secure congressional seats after exhausting their term limits.

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    In the fourth chapter entitled “The Philippine Party-list System and Representation of Marginalized Populations,” Bionat revisits the legislative intent behind the party-list system as illustrated in 2003 and 2009 party-list elections and notes that its true purpose is for sectoral representation, meant to promote social justice and to represent the marginalized and underprivileged sectors remain unfulfilled. Bionat proceeds with a careful examination of party-lists representatives occupying congressional seats in the 18th Congress and have principally sponsored bills in the areas of education, women, and gender, and senior citizens.
    Bionat argues for the necessity of revamping the party-list system to accommodate marginalized groups. A key strategy he suggests is to improve the process of accreditation of party-lists by the COMELEC. He a observes in the recently concluded 2022 national elections some interesting party lists groups declared eligible to run such as WOW Pilipinas Partylist, MOCHA Partylist, UMA Ilonggo Partylist, Barkadahan Partylist, and SMILE Partylist. From this, he emphasizes the need to improve the party-list system which is part and parcel of our flourishing democracy of, for, and by the people.

    The WVSU Journal for Law Advocacy (JLA) is an academic journal committed to the development of legal scholarship for and from the Visayas Region and Southern Philippines. In preparation of the journal’s official launch by September 23rd 2022, online versions of the seven standalone chapters will be shared to the reading public every week. For inquiries and to submit your original manuscript for publication, please email the Journal’s Executive Editor – Clyde Gacayan at col_journal@wvsu.edu.ph . 

  • Journal for Law Advocacy – Gains and Losses in Regulating Political Dynasties

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    WVSU Journal for Law Advocacy is featuring its third chapter written by Clyde Gacayan entitled “No Time Runs Against Families?: Gains and losses in regulating political dynasties in the Philippines”. In this chapter, Gacayan reviews previous bills that have attempted to define political dynasties passed from the 13th to the 18th Congress of the Philippines, and notes that from at least forty-five (45) bills passed in the last seventeen (17) years, not one have passed third reading. Moreso, majority of these bills are left pending in appropriate committees where they were assigned to.

    Gacayan argues that while there is sustained interest on the part of the House of Representatives and the Senate to fulfill their constitutional mandate to define and prohibit political dynasties, there is strong indication that both houses are seemingly adamant and tentative in their legislative position to pass the bill into law. Gacayan illustrates that the victory of the Marcos-Duterte tandem in the recent polls is an epitome of the continuing dominance of political dynasties – where dynasties are not only deeply entrenched but also capable of self-perpetuation admist good goverance reforms.

     

    He echoes what other political scientists claim that political dynasties themselves are not only electoral concerns but are wicked problems that has undermined the quality of democracy linked to deeper poverry and underdevelopment. Gacayan concludes that while it seems that no time runs against families in the last thiry-five (35) years, there is a silver lining if one is able to look at the progress made in progressive legislation, judicial activism, and by further educating the electorate.

    JLA is an academic journal  committed to development of legal scholarship for and from the Visayas Region and Southern Philippines.  The chapter is included in the Journal’s Inaugural Issue which carries the theme “Electoral Laws and the 2022 Philippine Election” containing seven carefully selected chapters that provide important legal analyses of electoral issues that limit, if not hostage, the conduct of free and fair elections in the Philippines.  In preparation of the Journal’s official launch by September 23rd 2022, advanced online copies of stand alone chapters will be shared to the reading public every Monday of the week.

    A total of four more papers tackling the party-list system, election-related offenses and rules on substitution will be released online in the next 4 weeks. Thereafter, a print copy of the Journal will be made available for distribution. For inquiries, please email the Journal’s Executive Editor Clyde Gacayan at col_journal@wvsu.edu.ph .

  • CHED hosts ASEAN’s 55th founding anniversary kickoff

    by Gian Kyra A. Morones / ILLO

    August 8, 2022 – CHED hosts their first hybrid virtual kick-off ceremony for ASEAN’s 55th founding anniversary. This year, ASEAN carries Cambodia’s chairmanship 2022 theme, ASEAN A.C.T. Addressing Challenges Together.

    The Assistant Secretary of ASEAN Affairs, Daniel Ramos Espiritu, opened the ceremony with his welcome remarks. In his speech, Daniel Espiritu highlighted how school closures due to the pandemic interrupted the development of education. With the sudden shift in traditional learning to online education, there had been a growing digital divide among students. By October of 2020, ASEAN leaders and experts created measures to promote digital literacy and development of transferable skills among youths and children. This is to ensure that education in the region is “equitable, inclusive and future ready”. Along with distance learning strategies, maximize e-learning platforms, open educational resources, and virtual peer exchanges in order to further improve the quality of education. He noticed that, “ASEAN remains united and strong even in the face of hardships”.

    “ASEAN remains united and strong even in the face of hardships.”

    The event’s guest speaker, Senator Loren Legarda, mentioned her first bill in the 19th Congress, the ‘One Tablet, One Student Program’ seek to provide public schools, universities and colleges a tablet for each student for the purpose of helping them cope with the changes in their education. In coordination with CHED, Senator Legarda helped in assisting students’ education through developing laws that provide financial assistance to their education like UniFast, Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act and the Enhanced Basic Education Program. She stressed that, “Filipinos, especially from lower income families, should know that they have such opportunities”. She also stated a problem concerning the young population as they face a disproportionate level of unemployment and under employment in which she hopes to address if given the chance. “It is imperative that we build a more resilient educational ecosystem”. She proposed to ramp up the skills development in education, sustainable development, gender equality and inclusivity.

    SEAMEO Director, Dr. Ethel Agnes Pascua Valenzuela stated that “we must strengthen the implementation of open, flexible and distance learning” and provide more importance to distance learning. The new normal education paved the way to a reimagined new normal and hybrid higher education. This new development in learning and education must be valued and acknowledged in order to adjust and move forward with ease towards new learning modalities.