Memo # 13

To: All Councilors, UPVCC-SC
From: The Chairperson
Re: 10th General Assembly

What: Regular Meeting
When: August 1, 2006; 9:30am-12nn
Where: Student Council Office

The order of business is as follows:

1. Approval of Agenda
2. Approval of the Minutes from the Previous Meeting
3. Business Arising from the Previous Meeting
4. Communications

a. 10th Systemwide Student’s Congress

5. Announcements
6. Year-level Reports
7. Committee Reports

a. CRAW Committee
b. EDRES Committee[1]
c. Environment Desk
d. Gender-Youth Desk
e. KULKAT Committee
f. SOFS Committee[2]
g. Sports Desk[3]
h. STRAW Committee[4]
i. Pulse Desk[5]

8. COOK Out Updates
9. UP Cebu Student Summit Outputs[6]
10. UP President Consultation Assessment
11. UMAKSYON Concept Paper
12. Other Matters

In the service of the students and the people,

Karlo Mikhail Mongaya
Chairperson

[1] Tuition Increase Final Recommendation discussion
[2] UNISO updates
[3] Intramurals updates
[4] ROTC updates, Report on July 28 mass action, etc.
[5] 4-day school week & Boarding House survey
[6] Student’s Agenda for Dean Selection

Memo # 12

The Student Council (SC) together with the Office of the Student Regent (OSR) and Katipunan ng Sangguniang Mag-aaral sa UP (KASAMA sa UP) will be holding the UP Cebu Students Summit this July 27, 2006.

This activity aims to consolidate the ranks of student leaders in UPVCC and to form unities regarding the imperative issues faced by the students. Both local and national issues such as the Tuition fee increase and the implications of the Arroyo regime’s “All-Out War” to the youth and student sector will be tackled in the said activity.

We cordially invite you to participate in this summit.

Here are some of next week's scheduled activities:

July 27:

UP Cebu Student Summit
9:00am to 12:00nn
Arts & Sciences Lobby

UP President Student Consultation
3:15pm to 4:15 pm
Conference Hall

July 28:

Board of Regents Meeting Trooping, Alternative Classes!
9:00am to 12:00nn
Assembly & Program - UP Cebu Open Stage

We believe that this will be a great opportunity to help inform our students about the current situation in our university and to form solidarity in advancing the rights and interests of the students.

In the service of the students and the people,

Karlo Mikhail Mongaya
Chairperson

Students Agenda for 2006 UPVCC Dean Selection

We, the Iskolars ng Bayan of the University of the Philippines Cebu College, unite in presenting this agenda to the nominees for the UPVCC Dean Selection:

• To unite with the UP students and community in opposing all budget cuts for the UP and education budget and in asserting for higher state subsidy;
• To prevent any tuition increase during his/her term;
• To push for the imposition of moratorium on laboratory increases;
• To help stop the collection of exorbitant fees, i.e. late registration fee, dropping fee, Leave of Absence fee, change matriculation fee, processing fee, and the like;
• To preserve and protect the academic mission and purpose of the University especially against the intrusion of the market;
• To uphold campus press freedom and ensure autonomy of publications over fiscal and editorial policies;
• To uphold the academic freedom of every member of the UP community;
• To protect students from political repression;
• To push for a nationalist UP education that is relevant to the Philippine society;
• To prioritize, recognize and protect the democratic rights and interests of UP constituents and the Filipino people;
• To ensure institutionalized democratic consultation as part of the administrative conduct of UP in creating and/or reviewing student policies;
• To review the effectiveness of and institute reforms in the Standardized Tuition and Financial Assistance Program (STFAP);
• To reform current guidelines repressing students' right to organize;
• To monitor and lower rental fees rates collected for the use of college facilities;
• To address the opening of second gate near the undergraduate building;
• To ensure transparency and accountability to the constituents in all administrative activities;
• To institutionalize a sectorally-representative assembly similar to UP Manila's Pamantasang Asambleya;
• To uphold the continued existence of the UP High School;
• To facilitate the development of the Cultural Center and to ensure its accessibility for the UP Community's use;
• To prevent the privatization of the College¡¦s idle lands; and
• To prevent any planned demolitions of informal settlers in UP lands without relocation.
  

Proposed this 27th day of July, 2006 at the 1st UP Cebu Students Summit held at the Arts and Sciences Bldg Lobby, UP Cebu College.

Message from the Chairperson

Butyag Student Council Publication Date: [July 3, 2006]

From the University of the Philippines Cebu College Student Council, warm nationalist greetings to all the brave and genuine Iskolars ng Bayan who were united in opposing the proposed tuition increase in the June 30 Systemwide mass action.

Due to the unity and show of force that we projected in all UP units the UP Board of Regents has decided to postpone the discussion of the proposals to another date. We have temporarily stopped the approval of the said P200 to P600 per unit tuition hike.

This is another testimony to the fact that it is only through collective action that we can bring our struggles to victory.

The Student Council calls on each and every one to be vigilant against all anti-student policies that the administration would like to approve without any consultation.

Once more, we thank everyone who heeded the call to wear black, the more than a hundred UP Cebu students who participated in last Friday’s collective gathering, and everyone who gave support to our fight in defense of the right to education.

Fellow Iskolars, our fight has just begun.

No to Tuition and Other Fee Increases!
Uphold Poper Student Consultation!
Fight for Higher UP & Education Budget!