What UP Needs Most Is A Vision Of Loveliness – Time To Get Rid Of That Vision Of Barren Manliness!

No ladies included, I don’t know why; 6 gentlemen are competing to be the next UP President: Patrick Alain T Azanza, Salvador B Belaro Jr, Angelo A Jimenez, Fidel R Nemenzo, Benito M Pacheco, and Fernando C Sanchez Jr. A UP alumnus, I care less who they are – I care most about what each as UP leader can present as Vision & Mission.

They are Catanduanes State University President Patrick Alain Azanza, former 1-Edukasyon Party-List Representative Salvador Belaro Jr, former Faculty Regent Angelo Jimenez, current UP Diliman Chancellor Fidel Nemenzo, former UP Diliman Vice Chancellor For Research And Development Benito Pacheco. and former UP Los Baños Chancellor Fernando Sanchez Jr.

My goggling says:

Mr Azanza is “considered an expert in ICT-based education and ISO-certified learning environment” (facebook.com).
Mr Belaro “studied PhD in Educational Leadership Management at UP College of Education” (facebook.com).
Mr Jimenez is a lawyer (asiapacificbasin.org).
Mr Nemenzo, current UP Diliman Chancellor, is a mathematician (en.wikipedia.org).
Mr Pacheco lists “Disaster Risk Management” as first in his list of expertise (scholar.google.com.ph).
Mr Sanchez is a former UP Los Baños Chancellor, a landscape horticulturist and planner (uplb.edu.ph).

Azanza in ICT-based education, Belaro in Educational Leadership Management, Jimenez in Labor, Nemenzo in Mathematics, Pacheco in Disaster Risk Management, and Sanchez in Landscaping. Which one should be the next UP President?

I have already written about emancipating UP from the Oblation; check out my essay, “’Creative Freedom’ – UP, Time To Replace Your Symbol Of Academic Freedom!” (Frank And Healthy Minds, blogspot.com), where I said in big, bold  letters:

It occurred to me today, Sunday, 16 Oct 2022, that changing the symbol of the University of the Philippines System (UP) is long overdue – because the Oblation… has everinspired disapproval, even radicalism, and never creativity!

Why not “Marya”? Today, Sunday, 23 Oct 2022, I say now “Marya” – by artist Maria Pureza Escaño – should be UP’s symbol,  as it inspires imagination andidealism.

Not one of the UP Presidential candidates has stated his Vision & Mission for the University. About those subjects, here is what Don Hofstrand of Iowa State University says (Aug 2016, “Vision And Mission Statements – A Roadmap Of Where You Want To Go And How To Get There,” Business Development, extension.iastate.edu):

Remember, the vision is what you want to accomplish. Mission is a general statement of how you will achieve your vision. Strategies are a series of ways of using the mission to achieve the vision. Goals are statements of what needs to be accomplished to implement the strategy.

All things considered, with what I have found out above and what I know now, if you ask me today, my vote would go to Mr Sanchez, who is a landscape horticulturist & planner.

As you can see with “Marya,” intelligent artists encourage other people’s creative endeavors more than their critical thinking – a perfect fit for perpetual anti-this and anti-that UP System!

UP could adopt “Marya” with the title “Ovation” to signify “prolonged applause” as well as “fertility.” No more “Oblation”!@517