Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

Marking Milestones: Asian Center Faculty Promotions in 2025

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The UP Asian Center warmly congratulates the esteemed faculty promoted during the 2025  Faculty Merit Promotions.  These promotions are a recognition of their dedication and commitment to teaching, research, public service, and a concrete embodiment of UP's core values, honor and excellence. More importantly, this achievement is a testament to the valuable contributions they make in advancing Asian and Philippine Studies within the Philippines and beyond.

WITHIN THE RANK OF ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

•   Ariel C. Lopez, Ph.D.
•   Michelle R. Palumbarit, Ph.D.

FROM ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TO PROFESSOR

•   Jocelyn O. Celero, Ph.D.
•   Maria Cecilia T. Medina, Ph.D.
•   Noel Christian A. Moratilla, Ph.D.

WITHIN THE RANK OF PROFESSOR 

•   Gonzalo Campoamor II, Ph.D.
•   Tina S. Clemente, Ph.D.
•   Antoinette R. Raquiza, Ph.D.
•   Joefe B. Santarita, Ph.D.
•   Henelito A. Sevilla Jr., Ph.D.

 ABOUT THE 2025 FACULTY MERIT PROMOTIONS

The Board of Regents (BOR) approved the 2025 Faculty Merit Promotion (FMP) Guidelines during its 1398th meeting on 27 March 2025. These guidelines were reviewed and revised by the System Academic Affairs Committee (AAC), the President’s Advisory Council (PAC), and the BOR based on feedback from the previous promotion cycles (2019–2022), as well as inputs from all Constituent Universities (CUs) and Autonomous College (AC).

In the FMP, UP faculty are promoted in cycles based on a set of guidelines determined by the administration and approved by the BOR. The four ranks are instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor.  Each faculty member could be promoted within their rank, from instructor 1–7, assistant professor 1–7, associate professor 1–7, professor 1–12, or cross-rank into the next position. (Dimasupil 2025).

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References:

Dipasupil, Reg. 2025. "More Than 1,000 UP Faculty Could Miss Promotion Under New Guidelines." Philippine Collegian, 21 June. https://phkule.org/article/1579/more-than-1000-up-faculty-could-miss-promotion-under-new-guidelines.

MEMORANDUM NO. PAJ 25-05, "CALL FOR APPLICATIONS TO THE 2025 FACULTY MERIT PROMOTION," 3 April 2025. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ym65-So0ORa0l3NqzI5X4vd8cDVGpKlU/view

The Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman offers M.A. degrees in Asian Studies with four fields of specialization: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. The UP Asian Center also has an M.A. program in Philippine Studies that allows students to major in Philippine society and culture, Philippine foreign relations, or Philippine development studies. It also offers a Ph.D. program in Philippine Studies in conjunction with the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. For an overview of these graduate programs, click here. As an area studies institution, the Asian Center also publishes Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, the latest issue of which can be downloaded at the journal's website. For other news and upcoming events at the Asian Center, click here.