Dr. Liberato V. Laureta, Jr., retired faculty member of the Institute of Aquaculture, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, received his appointment as Professor Emeritus, as conferred by the Board of Regents during its 1334th Board of Regents Meeting on April 06, 2018, upon the recommendation of the President of the University, University of the Philippines System, effective upon his retirement on May 23, 2017. Along with this title are all the rights and privileges as well as duties and obligations attached to the position in accordance with the rules and regulations of the University and the Constitution and Laws of the Republic of the Philippines.

Continuing its aim to provide academic support to student in terms of supplemental resource materials, the Teaching and Learning Resource Center facilitated the registration of student with G.E. courses in the semester to the G.E. Portal on.

The official academic year starts on August 6, 2018, but for some of the freshmen in the University of the Philippines Visayas, it started two weeks earlier as they get the first taste of UP education in the Summer Bridge Program in Mathematics conducted by the Teaching and Learning Resource Center at the UPV Miagao campus.