As the lone
nominee during the Search for the new Arts and Humanities Cluster Head,
Professor Lilia Tio now sits for the position after being elected last July 22.
“The Cluster Head oversees the
welfare of the different programs of the Arts and Humanities (AH) Cluster like
the Fine Arts Program, Mass Communication Program and the General Education
Program. She delivers the concerns of the cluster during the meetings of the Dean’s
Academic Committee,” said Prof. Belinda Espiritu, Program Coordinator for Mass
Communication in AH Cluster.
Dr. Espiritu initiated the
nomination and wrote the justification for Tio’s candidacy.
“Prof. Tio is our senior. She
served UP ahead of us. She is gifted of intellectual capability and has proven
her capacity to organize different projects like the Creative Writing Seminars
and Forums and put things in place. She has the concern for the cluster and can
oversee things,” she added.
As a nominee she was tasked to
present her vision mission and strategies on July 17 attended by the Arts and
Humanities professors and some Fine Arts students.
It was discussed in her vision
the developing of a reputable Arts and Humanities Cluster as she sees the
potential of the cluster to become something greater than what it is now.
Tio hopes to
have visible developments that will benefit the
professors, students, and the university as well during her term.
Her
strategies includes the elevation of the Mass Communication and Fine Arts
programs into departments, have masterals for the Fine Arts and Mass
Communication programs where in the curriculum from UP Diliman will be borrowed
and adapted for the mean time, but will be developing its own curriculum once
the masterals in Fine Arts and Communication and Media Studies have been
finalized.
Instituting a new
curriculum – Bachelor of Arts in Creative Communication, strengthening of the
academic programs and establishing a function, strengthening of the faculty
profile is one way to keep the faculty and staff of the AH Cluster to be
updated with the events happening around them and conducting seminars and
workshops to help them become equipped in teaching.
“Prof. Tio had to face the strengthening of the different programs
of the AH Cluster, boost the programs especially the Product design,
strengthening of faculty profile and constitution, the enrolment, equipment and
facilities,” Espiritu said.
The Product design course runs
in the University of the Philippines Cebu for 5 years while the Studio Arts
came first as a course in the Fine Arts Program.
Last August 31 the cluster
proposed its course programs as departments and further elevate the it as the
Arts and Humanities College in connection with the school’s preparation to
become a Constituent Unit in the University of the Philippines system as soon
as Prof. Lorna Almocera, Associate Dean for Administration signals for the
implementation of the proposal.
No comments:
Post a Comment