OBSERVERVolume 2, Issue 4, May 2013 The Official Publication of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines

TESDA’s Joel Villanueva

Technical Education Skills and Development Authority (TESDA) Director

General Emmanuel Joel J. Villanueva, a young, energetic and visionary

man is the guest speaker of the 2013 Commencement Exercises (morning

cluster) of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, May 10.

The graduation rites, which will be held at the World Trade Center in Pasay

City, has 3,138 graduates who took various degree programs in the University. The

University confers Villanueva a doctorate degree in Humanities, Honoris Causa.

Villanueva was a three-term representative

of Citizen’s Battle Against Corruption (CIBAC)

Partylist before he joined the Aquino administration

to lead TESDA. He was the driving force behind

the Juvenile Justice Act and was instrumental in

9485 which sought in reducing if not eliminating

allowed absentee voting for Overseas Filipino

additional privileges to senior citizens.

For his exemplary showing, he won back-

to-back honors as one of the Ten Outstanding

Legislators of the Philippines in 2004 and 2005.

As TESDA Director-General, he recognizes

the importance of technical education and the

need to upgrade the skills of workers. He offers the public an option to improve

their lives. He seeks partnership with private organizations to ensure that

same opportunities to OFWs to upgrade their skill.

Moreover, Villanueva believes that the biggest contribution he could make

to TESDA would be the rationalization of the TESDA Techno-Park in Taguig

City. It is envisioned to be a state-of-the-art showcase of the different technical

modalities including environment-friendly technologies, products proto-types and

entrepreneurial opportunities. The Techno-Park will focus on producing a world-

class workforce on key employment generation in such areas as agri-business,

business process outsourcing and the creative industries, tourism and retirement

health and wellness, general infrastructures, electronic and semi-conductors.

Villanueva is a University of Santo Tomas (UST) 1996 graduate of Bachelor of

in Business Administration at the Harvard University, in Massachusetts, USA.

(P S. S / A O. C)

Consul General

Lhuillier

The Polytechnic University of the Philippines

bestows an honorary doctorate in Humanities

(honoris causa) to diplomat and philanthropist

Jean Henri Diago Lhuillier on May 10 during its year-

end commencement rites at the World Trade Center

in Pasay City.

PUP President Dr. Emanuel C. De Guzman

confers the

degree on the

Harvard Business

School alumnus

who is also the

honorary consul

general of the

Marino to the

Philippines.

Lhuillier was

acknow ledged

“not only for his

achievements but

also for his sense

of community”

and his “vision of

a good society that in a moral universe is a vision

cognate with mankind, with the universal spirit.”

Lhuillier is known for his corporate responsibility

projects in sports and business. He is also noted

for his humanitarian activities along the areas of

nationwide scholarship program, nationwide day

care center feeding program with medical missions,

outreach programs, cultural enhancement, and

special projects.

(D E D

A O. C)

The

6,399 Comprise

PUP Class of 2013

A total of 6,399 graduates from the largest state university of the Philippines march the

stage of the World Trade Center in Pasay City during the 2013 year-end commencement

exercises, May 10.

The graduates from the main campus of the Polytechnic University of the

Philippines in Sta. Mesa, Manila produces in its honor roster 43 magna cum laude

and 234 cum laude.

PUP President Dr. Emanuel C. De Guzman confers various undergraduate

degrees to 3,138 graduates in the morning cluster and 3,261 graduates in the

afternoon cluster of the day-long commencement exercises.

The morning cluster valedictory address is delivered by Francidieto Tutor

Garcia Jr. (magna cum laude). The cluster includes the College of Accountancy and

Finance with 1,092 graduates; College of Engineering, 852; Institute of Technology,

University, 88; and College of Law, 12.

While the afternoon cluster’s valedictory address is delivered by Ann Jun

Alejandro Magnaye (magna cum laude). The cluster is composed of the College

College of Social Sciences and Development, 398; College of Science, 326; College

of Computer and Information Sciences, 263; College of Education, 229; College of

Arts and Letters, 159; College of Human Kinetics, 95; College of Political Science

Director General Emmanuel Joel J. Villanueva of the Technical Education and

Skills Development Authority addressed the morning cluster while San Marino

Honorary Consul General to the Philippines Jean Henri Diago Lhuillier spoke before

the afternoon cluster. President De Guzman conferred to both Villanueva and

Lhuillier the degree Doctor of Humanities, honoris causa.

chairpersons, and faculty members witnessed the graduation rites.

(DAN ESPONILLA DALAC)

Francidieto Tutor Garcia Jr.

magna cum laude

Ann Jun A. Magnaye

magna cum laude