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AULP IN MACAU

Fifteen selected university and college presidents and top-level officials in eight countries in Asia participated in the Asian University Leaders Program held Jan. 17-21 in Macau, China. The gathering, held at the Institute of Tourism Studies, was sponsored by the Hong Kong-based Asian Christian Higher Education Institute of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia.

The Philippine participants were Dr. Manuel Pajarillo, president of De La Salle - Lipa, and Dr. Betsy Joy Tan, vice president for Academic Affairs of Silliman University. Judge Rafael Crescencio Tan, husband of Dr. Tan, and a faculty member of the SU College of Law, was an observer in the executive training In 2005, Fr. Demetrio Peñascoza, president of the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos, also participated in the training program.

The program focused on tertiary-level leadership with emphasis on management, leardership of an institution with Christian heritage, education and resource management.

Organizers said the AULP aims to strengthen leadership and management practices of trustees, presidents, vice presidents, deans and key support staff of Asian institutions of higher learning with a Christian tradition. Participants are holding administrative posts for not more than three years.

The other participants came from East Timor, India, Indonesia, Korea, People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Thailand.

Resource persons were academic and resource management specialists from the United States, Hong Kong and China as well as Dr. Betty Abregana, of Dumaguete City, who is UBCHEA program director for South Asia, and ACHEI associate director.

The other speakers included Dr. Timothy Light, chair of the UBCHEA Board of Trustees; Dr. Dennis McCann, Filbright scholar in resident at the Hong Kong America Center and the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Dr. IU Vai Pan, rector of the University of Macau; Dr. David Kwang-sun Suh, ACHEI executive director; Dr. Willi Toutosa, UBCHEA trustee, and Dr. Patricia Stranahan, newly-installed UBCHEA president.