Silliman Awards 452 Honor Students
The 52nd Annual Honors Day Convocation recognized 452 college students for their high academic standing on February 12 at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium.
Twenty received University Honors, 57, College Honors, and 375, Class Honors.
Click here to view the list of honor students.
Journalist Ms MelClaire Sy-Delfin was this year's speaker. Ms Sy-Delfin is a cum laude graduate of Silliman University in 1999 with a degree of Bachelor of Mass Communication. She was a consistent honor student during her college years and was her batch's Most Outstanding Student of the Year. A news reporter of GMA Network and a contributing writer of the New Media, Inc, an affiliate of GMA 7, Ms Sy-Delfin has received various media awards, including the 2007 Global Media Awards for Excellence in Population Reporting from the Population Institute in Washington, DC., USA.
During the convocation, Silliman will also honor the recipients of the 2010 Co-Curricular Awards. Most Outstanding Student of the Year is Nikko Paulo R. Cablao, a University Honors recipient. A graduating Biology major, Cablao is the incumbent Student Government Vice President and an active member of the Silliman University Kahayag Dance Troupe.
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324 Pass Nursing Licensure Exams
Silliman University garnered a passing rate of 97.3 in the Nurses’ Licensure Examination administered November 2009.
Of the 94,462 examinees in the country, only 37,527 made it, pegging the national passing rate at 39.73 percent.
Silliman had 324 passers out of 333.
The University’s consistent competitive performance in the licensure exam for nurses reaffirms the distinction granted on it by the Commission on Higher Education as a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education.
Click here to view the list of new Sillimanian licensed nurses
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SU Voted Rep to Philippine Social Science Council Board
In a memorandum issued this month by the Philippine Social Science Council, Inc. (PSSC), Silliman University has been voted as a representative to its Board of Trustees.
The selection was based on votes sent in by the PSSC’s associate member-organizations around the country. Only the two top of the four highest vote-getters are invited to sit as representatives to the Board. All four become voting representatives in the General Assembly.
Silliman, through the University Research Center headed by Director of Research Dr. Enrique Oracion, received 11 votes, the highest among the four selected. Next to Silliman were: Social Weather Stations (9), University of the Philippines (UP) College of Mass Communication (8) and the UP Population Institute (8).
This development allows Silliman to represent the other associate member-organizations and participate in deliberations on policy matters in both the Board and General Assembly of PSSC.
PSSC is a private organization of professional social science associations and social science research and instructional institutions in the country. Established in 1968, it has 14 regular member-organizations and 39 associate member-organizations.
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Service-Learning Center Hosts Students from San Diego
Fourteen students and three faculty members from Francis Parker School in San Diego, California are in Silliman University from February 8 to 20 for service-learning in the University’s partner communities.
This is the second batch of senior high school service-learners from Francis Parker. Throughout their stay, they will have immersion activities and actual community engagement in five partner communities and organizations of the Service-Learning Center (SLC).
Headed by Program Coordinator Prof. Emervencia Ligutom, SLC promotes the concept of service-learning as a teaching method that enables students to gain actual experience through application of theories and classroom discussions in the community. It employs evaluation and processing mechanisms that involve journal writing, in order to monitor the progress of the students in their assigned communities.
The guests from Francis Parker School are: Deon Randall, Demare Harries, Adam Dean, Katherine Kidd, Nicholas King, Matthew Koehler, Lauren Lynch, Alex Belli, Brian Weatherford, Aaron Penner, Hannah Rigsby, Rianna Runnels, Keeley Moore and Liza Burtin. They are on the Silliman campus with their teachers: Ms Carol Obermeier, Mr. Grant Lichtman and Mr. Philip Trotter.
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