Dr. Maria Cynthia Rose B. Bautista, University of the Philippines' Vice President for Academic Affairs, will address the graduates of UP Visayas in its first face-to-face Commencement Exercises after the pandemic. The 43rd Commencement Exercises will be held at the Oblation Plaza of the University of the Philippines Visayas, Iloilo City Campus, on July 21, 2022, at 4:30 in the afternoon.
VP Bautista is a professor of Sociology at the University of the Philippines Diliman. She was the former Dean of UP Diliman's College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Executive Director of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies, and Commissioner of the Commission on Higher Education.
Bautista served on the advisory or governing boards of institutions such as the Philippine Institute of Development Studies, Philippine Social Science Council, Human Development Network, Asian Scholarship Foundation, and the NUS Asian Research Institute. She chaired the UNESCO National Commission's Social Science and Humanities Committee and the ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework Task Force and sat on the Executive Committee of the ASEAN Quality Assurance Network.
Bautista completed her BA degree in Sociology from UP Diliman, magna cum laude, and later earned her MS and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She was awarded by the National Academy of Science and Technology as Outstanding Young Scientist and with an Outstanding Publication Award. She was also cited as one of the Ten Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service. She was also given the Achievement Award for Social Sciences by the National Research Council of the Philippines.
Other activities in line with the Commencement Exercises include
Papuri, a recognition program for graduating honorific scholars and special achievement awardees, on July 20, 2022, at 8:00 a.m.; Parangal, a Commencement Concert in honor of the UPV graduating students and their parents, alumni, and benefactor, on July 20, 2022, at 6:00 p.m.; and Baccalaureate, an ecumenical service to be attended by graduating students on July 21, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. (With sources from the UP Website)
