URC Launches Online Electoral Poll Today
An online electoral poll will be launched today, Wednesday, 20th February, by the University Research Council (URC). This was announced in the General Faculty Meeting held at the Finster Auditorium on Monday, 18th February. This online survey is part of the wider...
Community Reflection Prepares the Ateneo Community for 2013 Elections
To prepare the different sectors of the Ateneo de Davao community for a more informed decision regarding the national and local elections in May of 2013, the Arrupe Office of Social Formation (Arrupe) in partnership with the Ignatian Spirituality and Formation Office...
Club Leaders and Moderators Undergo Training Workshop for Blue Vote 2013
As an offshoot of the community reflection session given to administrators, faculty and students on 19th January, the Office of Students Affairs (OSA) represented by Ms. Theresa Salaver-Eliab, in tandem with the Arrupe Office of Social Formation (Arrupe) represented...
Student Exposure Program in Pablo-Stricken Areas Eyed for Volunteers
This year, the Ateneo Student Exposure Program (ASEP), an institutionalized exposure program for student volunteers since 1978, is being mapped out to serve areas and communities hardly hit by Tropical Storm Pablo. The Arrupe Office of Social Formation, where the ASEP...
Special Mass for the Death Anniversary of Fr. Pedro Arrupe
To pay tribute to Fr. Pedro Arrupe, the twenty-eight Superior General of the Society of Jesus and one of the most influential Jesuits in the twentieth century, the Arrupe Office of Social Formation will celebrate a special mass today at five o’clock in the afternoon...
Power Generators to be Provided by Ateneo in Areas Devastated by Pablo
In a move to expand the university’s assistance to several areas that took a heavy pounding from Pablo, the University President Fr. Joel E. Tabora, SJ will lend 6 generators to mitigate the need for electric power. In a briefing on 12th December 2012, Fr. Tabora has...
Pablo’s black ill wind that blows no good
“Nakita na namo ang kolor sa hangin, itom!” This piece of assertion expressed in collective certainty reverberated during several group sharings that the community of barangay Haguimitan in Monkayo conveyed to the Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU) student volunteers,...
Ateneo’s Aid Serves IP Communities in ComVal’s New Bataan
In response to request of the indigenous communities that hardly ever received any relief goods since the start of the relief distribution, the Ateneo de Davao University led by its High School unit, and accompanied by a college faculty, went back to New Bataan in...
ADDU Evaluates Relief Operation, with Strong Commitment to Continue
Davao City (13 December 2012) -- A week after tropical storm (TS) Pablo’s onslaught into the eastern and southern part of Mindanao, the Ateneo de Davao University conducted an initial assessment of its ongoing relief operation. Two separate meetings were called to...
ADDU Relief Operation Reaches Cateel and Baganga in Davao Oriental
With a truckload of relief goods packed the day before, the Ateneo de Davao University through the University Community Engagement and Advocacy Council (UCEAC) and the University Research Council (URC) mounted a relief operation in Davao Oriental, penetrating places...
Fun Run on Dec. 9 Highlights Anticorruption Campaign
In support of the celebration of the International Anticorruption Day declared by the United Nations every 9th December, a fun run is being organized this coming Sunday, December 9, 2012, by the Office of the Ombudsman in Mindanao, in collaboration with the Ehem!...
ADDU Brings BFA Discourse on Centerstage
After extensive preparations by key offices spearheaded by the Ignatian Spirituality and Formation Office (ISFO), in coordination with the University Community Engagement and Advocacy Council (UCEAC), the University Research Council (URC), the office of the Academic...
BFA and I-RISE: An Experiment in Research, Instruction and Community Engagement
The much talked-about forum on the Bangsamoro Framework Agreement (BFA) on 26th November 2012 at the Finster Auditorium was a concerted effort of many key offices in the university that pooled their resources together to implement the I-RISE Approach, a modular...
ADDU Relief Operation for Pablo Survivors Continues
The relief operation of the university in response to the havoc wrought by storm Pablo is ongoing. The packing and repacking of food stuffs are currently being done at the Samson Covered Court, with the assistance of student volunteers and student leaders. The...
ADDU Personnel and Student Volunteers Deliver Relief Goods to Survivors of Storm Pablo
A group of Ateneo de Davao University personnel and some students, primarily student volunteers and office staff of the Arrupe Office of Social Formation (formerly SICO), departed for Nabunturan of the province of Compostela Valley this morning, 5th December, to...
Beth Arcena of Arrupe Takes the Helm as the New Chair of Leadership Center
Ms. Lilibeth Leh-Arcena, the director of the Arrupe Office of Social Formation, is appointed as the new chair of the Ateneo de Davao University Center for Leadership. The appointment was announced by university president, Fr. Joel E. Tabora, SJ, on 12th November 2012...
Arrupe, ISFO, OSA and UCEAC Map Out Next Steps in the Work of Formation
Davao City (30 October 2012) -- The mid-year evaluation and planning of the Arrupe Office of Social Formation (formerly the Social Involvement Coordinating Office, or SICO) last 11th-12th October at Eden Nature Park turned out to be a strategic attempt to synchronize...
Arrupe Partners with Language Center on Language Research
The Arrupe Office of Social Formation (formerly the Social Involvement Coordinating Office) was tapped by the Department of Languages, through its Language Center, on a study which focuses on the use of language/s in the different communities in the National Service...