The University of the Philippines Board of Regents (BOR) on Monday chosen College of Law Dean Edgardo Carlo Vistan as the brand new chancellor of UP Diliman.
This was introduced by UP President Angelo Jimenez on Monday.
Vistan will change outgoing chancellor Fidel Nemenzo, who served his three-year time period from 2020 to 2023. Other candidates vying for the place have been Nemenzo and Archaeology Professor Victor Joaquin Paz.
Prior to his appointment, Vistan served as one of many pioneer school members of the Angeles University Foundation School of Law in 2006. He transferred to the UP College of Law in 2015 earlier than shortly taking a research depart for his Masters of Law program in Yale Law School in 2016. He was then admitted to the college’s Doctor of the Science of Law program in 2017.
Vistan was designated director of the UP Office of Legal Aid in 2019.
Student anger
FLASH: Binalot ng tensyon ang Quezon Hall ng UP Diliman dahil sa galit na mga mag-aaral na humihingi ng paliwanag sa Board of Regents kaugnay sa pagpili kay UP College of Law dean Edgardo Carlo Vistan II bilang twelfth chancellor. @dzbb pic.twitter.com/KKqcUWD6qH
— Glen Juego (@glenjuego) April 3, 2023
Meanwhile, pressure arose on campus as some college students converged on Quezon Hall to ask the BOR to elucidate their resolution to pick out Vistan, in accordance with a report by dzBB Super Radyo’s Glen Juego.
The college students demanded transparency on the voting and mentioned there was no democracy within the choice course of. They additionally mentioned the BOR didn’t heed the voice of the UP Community as a number of scholar teams and school members expressed help for Nemenzo’s re-appointment.
“Hindi tayo papayag na patuloy na magbingi-bingihan ang BOR sa ating mga panawagan! Hindi tayo papayag na patuloy na manaig ang interes ng iilan!” the UP Diliman University Student Council mentioned in a tweet.
Mga Iskolar ng Bayan, kalampagin ang BOR sa Quezon Hall!
Hindi tayo papayag na patuloy na magbingi-bingihan ang BOR sa ating mga panawagan! Hindi tayo papayag na patuloy na manaig ang interes ng iilan!
BOR, OVERTURN THE VOTES!
PUBLICIZE THE VOTES!
UPHOLD TRANSPARENCY! pic.twitter.com/0zGXPzELJZ— UP Diliman University Student Council (@USCUPDiliman) April 3, 2023
Members of the UP Police are already on the web site, the report added. — Sundy Locus/BM, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
