31 May 2024

OVPAA Memorandum 2024-65

For:         Vice Chancellors for Academic Affairs (VCAAs)

                Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (ADAA), UPTC

                University Registrars (URs) 

                     Director Paulo Noel G. Paje, UP ITDC 

From:     Leo DP Cubillan

                Vice President for Academic Affairs

    Subject:  Posting of the Revised UP Privacy Notice for Students and Use of Certification and Data Privacy Consent Forms for AY 2024-2025
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In compliance with the National Privacy Commission Guidelines on Consent NPC Circular No. 2023 - 04, we enjoin your respective offices to post the attached revised UP privacy notice for students (links further below) on the UP System privacy site, privacy.up.edu.ph, and on the proper CU websites.  

We further enjoin our University Registrars (URs) to use the attached certification and data privacy consent forms starting AY 2024-2025 and inform the academic units to use similarly worded forms for the admission of new graduate students, JD and MD students, VAAS,  etc. Units may also seek assistance from their CU Data Privacy Office (DPO) in preparing such forms. 

The Dula Perpetual Trophy

Dula, a Cebuano word for "play," is the name of the University of the Philippines Mindanao’s (UPMin) annual sports festival. UPMin students, faculty, and staff, clustered by colleges and the administration, compete in an intense two-to-three-day period of the Dula. The champion claims the Dula perpetual trophy, a wooden sculpture with the Oblation statue on top, and holds on to it in the year it reigns.   

Unknown to many, the Dula perpetual trophy was designed back in UPMin’s early days by a pioneer UPMin BA Social Science student. Atty. Yuri M. Beluan, a former vice-chairperson of the UP Mindanao University Student Council who graduated with the Class of 2000, recalls the trophy’s creation.