Category: NEWS & EVENTS

Everyone is under stress trying to cope with the novel coronavirus pandemic, but students are especially vulnerable: They’ve lost access to their friends, their campus communities, and the structure and rhythm of the academic year. This special collection, available online and free, includes some of our strongest pieces on how faculty members can help students cope. The Chronicle of Higher Education also has a collection that includes articles on how to make online teaching more sensitive to student concerns, how to spot potential mental-health issues, and more.

As the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) continues to spread globally and with the alert level raised to “code red sub-level 1” by the Philippine Department of Health (DOH), many of the crucial matters in life need to be rethought and rearranged. This includes not just work arrangements, but education as well. One option that is gaining rapid popularity is to maximize the use of the internet which allows the employees to work from home, and educational institutions to take advantage of online learning. 

Some tips on how you can migrate your residential class to online learning: Lecturing Online Asynchronously Most, if not all teachers, have already prepared their materials (PowerPoint presentations, handouts, etc.) for the rest of the semester. What can we do to the materials that we have? Translate these materials to video lectures and no, you […]

UP Diliman Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Community Affairs, and FOCA UP is calling everyone to donate the following for our pets: dog/cat cages & crates bottled water plastic containers dog food/cat food/hog & chicken feed/hay/grass betadine, gloves, syringes, alcohol, gauze dog shampoo, detergent powder old towels, blankets, tarpaulins dog […]

CALL FOR DONATIONS The evacuees of the Taal Volcano eruption are in need of immediate help. The University of the Philippines Taal Response Task Force is enjoining everyone to donate the following items: drinking water, canned goods, ready-to-eat meals, beddings, hygiene and health kits, towels, and face masks. Dropoff Point: UP Padayon Public Service Office […]

The University of the Philippines continues its disaster response efforts for the victims of the recent earthquakes in Mindanao. Cash donations are still being accepted through the UP Foundation, Inc. Donations will be used to purchase additional tents and bedding materials, medicine, sanitary items, and other immediate needs. Below are the bank details of UPFI: […]

With the initiative of HOT Philippines, the UP Resilience Institute YouthMappers is calling for volunteers (individuals and/or organizations) who would like to collaborate and join in mapping and/or validating Task #7147 (https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/7147). The task was created for mapping Tulanan & Kidapawan, North Cotobato and Magsaysay, Davao Del Sur which were the highly affected areas by the […]