31 May 2024

OVPAA Memorandum 2024-65

For:         Vice Chancellors for Academic Affairs (VCAAs)

                Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (ADAA), UPTC

                University Registrars (URs) 

                     Director Paulo Noel G. Paje, UP ITDC 

From:     Leo DP Cubillan

                Vice President for Academic Affairs

    Subject:  Posting of the Revised UP Privacy Notice for Students and Use of Certification and Data Privacy Consent Forms for AY 2024-2025
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In compliance with the National Privacy Commission Guidelines on Consent NPC Circular No. 2023 - 04, we enjoin your respective offices to post the attached revised UP privacy notice for students (links further below) on the UP System privacy site, privacy.up.edu.ph, and on the proper CU websites.  

We further enjoin our University Registrars (URs) to use the attached certification and data privacy consent forms starting AY 2024-2025 and inform the academic units to use similarly worded forms for the admission of new graduate students, JD and MD students, VAAS,  etc. Units may also seek assistance from their CU Data Privacy Office (DPO) in preparing such forms. 

Teams from the University of the Philippines Mindanao (UPMin) carried out the Affirmative Action Program throughout May 2024 to promote applications and preparations for the UP College Admission Test (UPCAT) 2025.

Career talks, a UP college orientation, academic enhancement sessions, and a UPCAT test simulation comprise the Affirmative Action services to prepare senior high school students for the UPCAT2025, which will be held on August 10-11, 2024.

Faculty members from the colleges, student volunteers from the Ugnayan ng Pahinungod volunteer program, and staff members from the Registrar's, the Extension, and other offices comprised the Affirmative Action teams to the various public high schools.

The Dula Perpetual Trophy

Dula, a Cebuano word for "play," is the name of the University of the Philippines Mindanao’s (UPMin) annual sports festival. UPMin students, faculty, and staff, clustered by colleges and the administration, compete in an intense two-to-three-day period of the Dula. The champion claims the Dula perpetual trophy, a wooden sculpture with the Oblation statue on top, and holds on to it in the year it reigns.   

Unknown to many, the Dula perpetual trophy was designed back in UPMin’s early days by a pioneer UPMin BA Social Science student. Atty. Yuri M. Beluan, a former vice-chairperson of the UP Mindanao University Student Council who graduated with the Class of 2000, recalls the trophy’s creation. 

[reprint] UPMIN TEAMS RULE BLUE BIRD CUP 2024
Sun.Star Davao 24 May 2024 BY MARIANNE L. SABERON ABALAYAN

THE University of the Philippines Mindanao (UPMin) dominated the Blue Bird Cup 2024, clinching championships in both the men's and women's open divisions at the UP Mindanao Admin Field.

The UPMin Men's Football Varsity Team clinched the men's title by defeating the Aces Football Club, 1-0, behind the goal of Paul Vincent Elises, who was also named the most valuable player (MVP). Teammates Cefie Gabisan and Dadel Oyao were honored as the best midfielder and best defender, respectively.