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UPV Extension Building in Antique to undergo completion of construction in 2025

UPV Extension Building in Antique to undergo completion of construction in 2025

The University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) Extension Building in Antique will undergo completion of its construction in 2025, according to the UPV Office of the Vice Chancellor for Planning and Development (OVCPD). 

P30 million has been allocated in the 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA) of the UP System for the expansion and operationalization of the said facility located in Brgy. Nauring, Pandan town, Antique. 

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension, the project's end user, submitted the proposal last year. 

To recall, the UPV Extension Building in Antique was launched on Aug. 25, 2023. It was completed through the efforts of Sen. Loren B. Legarda, who was the Deputy Speaker when the project commenced, who allotted funds in the GAA Fiscal Year 2019. Sen. Legarda personally led the ceremonial inauguration of the facility on March 14, 2024. 

During the inauguration, the Bautista-Ordinario family, the lot donors for the facility, offered to donate an additional 800 square meters in an adjacent lot. 

A related project titled, "Acquisition of Lot, UP Visayas, Pandan, Antique" has also received funding worth P5 million ' through the 2025 GAA-UP System to be implemented by the UPV OVCPD. It is likewise a priority initiative of Sen. Legarda. 

The UPV Extention Building in Antique is projected to offer postgraduate programs to people in Antique and Northern Panay. Currently, the facility serves as a venue for training and seminars conducted by UPV. 

Once operational, the facility shall also be open for collaboration with the University of Antique, particularly in special lectures and laboratory activities to enhance the learning of both UA and UPV students. 

UPV intends to bring the programs of the Archipelagic and Oceanic Virtual University (AOVU) and the Resilience and Sustainable Development Academy to the extension facility. (With sources from UPV OVCPD)

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