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Duration: Shall take effect on the date of receipt by the service provider of the Notice to Proceed
UP Open University
1 Memorandum of Understanding between the University of the Philippines Open University and the Here’s-Hope Ministries, Inc.
(DORCAS House)
Project: Cooperative relationship to promote the following:
1. Provide social work field education placements at DORCAS for post-graduate students from the Social Work program of UPOU;
2. Enhance the social administration, project management, advocacy of children, and case work reporting of DORCAS, whichever is necessary upon agreement of the parties; and 3. Contribute to social
development in the Philippines in general and the development of the social work profession in particular.
The Board NOTED the following:
A. Delegated Authority to the President, subject to INFORMATION of the Board 1. Proposed UP Diliman Academic Calendar for Academic Year 2015-2016
The proposed UP Diliman academic calendar for AY 2015-2016 was approved by the UP Diliman Executive Committee through a referendum at its 22-23 April 2015 meeting. The President approved the academic calendar on 29 April 2015.
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2. Proposed UP Los Baños Academic Calendar for Academic Year 2015-2016 The proposed academic calendar for AY 2015-2016 was approved by the UPLB Executive Committee through a referendum. The Officer-In-Charge of the University approved the academic calendar on 15 May 2015.
3. Contracts/Agreements
(Delegated Authority to the President subject to information of the Board [cost not exceeding P75 Million Pesos, 1286th BOR Meeting, 28 February 2013])
Note: These agreements have gone through the standard University processes from the Constituent Universities (CUs) concerned and the University System. In cases where there were irregularities in the processes, the documents were returned for review of or to exact compliance by the concerned.
CU Title of Parties to the Contract/s PROJECT / AMOUNT / DURATION UP
System
1 Construction Agreement between the University of the Philippines and Paul G. Marquez, doing business under the name and style of PGM Construction and Plumbing Services
Project: Proposed Budget Office Site Development and Storage Room, Apacible St. PNB Building, UP Diliman Amount: P519,633.03
Duration: Seventy-five (75) calendar days
UP Diliman
1 Construction Agreement between the University of the Philippines Diliman and Modesto P. Villegas, doing business under the name and style of M.P. Villegas Construction
Project: Proposed College of Law Canteen located at College of Law, UP Diliman, QC.
Amount: P1,295,730.01 Duration: Sixty (60) Calendar
days UP
Diliman
2 Deed of Donation between the University of the Philippines Diliman (Donee) through the UP Engineering Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (UPERDFI) and the Semirara Mining and Power Corporation (Donors)
Project: Establishment of two (2) Federico E. Puno Professorial Chairs in Engineering at the College of Engineering, UP Diliman
Amount: Initial fund of P2,500,000
Duration: Will commence Academic Year 2015- 2016
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UP
Diliman
3 Deed of Donation between the University of the Philippines Diliman (Donee) through the UP Engineering Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (UPERDFI) and the following:
1. San Roque Power Corporation, 2.
Team Energy Foundation, Inc., 3.
Marubeni Philippines Corporation (Donors)
Project: Establishment of four (4) Federico E. Puno Professorial Chairs in Energy Engineering at the College of Engineering, UP Diliman
Amount: P120,000.00/year Duration: Academic Year
2015-2016 and committed to donate same amount every year for five years UP
Diliman
4 Deed of Donation between the University of the Philippines Diliman (Donee) through the UP Engineering Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (UPERDFI) and The Family of Ernesto G. Tabujara represented by Ricardo A. Tabujara III and Victor N. Villagracia (Collectively referred as Donor)
Project: Establishment of Chancellor Ernesto G.
Tabujara Professorial Chair in Engineering at
the College of
Engineering, UP Diliman Amount: Initial fund of
P120,000.00 and
committed to donate same amount every year for five years
Duration: Academic Year 2015-2016 and committed to donate same amount every year for five years UP
Diliman
5 Deed of Donation between the University of the Philippines Diliman (Donee) and the Manila Electric Company (MERALCO) (Donor)
Project: Upgrade of Lecture Hall 120 located at the ground floor of the EEEI Building
Amount: P4,000,000.00 Beneficiary: Electrical and
Electronics Engineering Institute (EEEI), UP Diliman
NOTE: The Board gave an omnibus notation for Items A.1–A.3, including all its sub-items.
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A. Petition in the OASH Case No. 002-2012 (For Sexual Harassment) Requesting that the One-Year Suspension on Grounds of Sexual Harassment be Replaced with Compulsory Community Work
Highlights of the Discussion
1. Atty. Maria Inez Vasquez of the Office of the Vice President for Legal Affairs (OVPLA) narrated to the Board a summary of the facts of the case leading to the filing of a complaint by the victim to the Office of Anti-Sexual Harassment (OASH).
The OASH then started its investigation. After the respondent’s admission of having committed the offenses, the Office of the Chancellor issued the decision finding the accused guilty of sexual harassment and imposed a penalty of one-year suspension upon the student-respondent. The student-respondent is asking for clemency that the one-year suspension be changed to community service, which was the recommendation by the OASH who handled the case. However, since the penalty of sexual harassment is not provided in the Implementing Rules of the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act, the OASH cannot impose such a sanction and instead, recommended to the student to petition the Board to change the penalty.
2. The OASH and the Chancellor found that the student committed a grave misconduct with expulsion as a penalty. However, due to several mitigating circumstances, such as, the ready admission of the guilt, the remorse of the student, and some personal circumstances, the penalty of expulsion was changed into one-year suspension.
3. Faculty Regent Padilla asked the minimum and the maximum penalty for the offense under the implementing rules to understand the basis of the Chancellor for the one- year suspension instead of expulsion.
4. Atty. Vasquez explained that the maximum penalty is expulsion and the minimum is one-day suspension. The penalty of expulsion was reduced to one-year suspension because of several mitigating circumstances enumerated earlier. According to the Chancellor, he was following precedent that mitigating circumstances have been recognized by the university.
5. According to Atty. Vasquez, community service as a penalty had already been imposed by the Board of Regents before but for a hazing case. Under the 2012 Code of Conduct for the Students, community service may be imposed but not to offenses involving bodily harm. Sexual harassment falls under bodily harm based on the new Code. However, the offense happened prior to the application of the new Code of Students Conduct which was approved in 2014.
6. Regent Gonzalez-Montinola asked if the rule states that the Chancellor can reduce the suspension period to as short as one day because she was uncomfortable doing an exemption to the rule by allowing community service as a penalty, when the Chancellor, on his own, can lower the suspension period.