Institute gives service awards to 121 employees, 45 retirees, and 4 posthumous awards

by MSU-IIT Office of Public Information | Jul 15, 2014 | MSU-IIT Campus

by Christine Godinez Ortega

For their loyalty and continuous service to the Institute, 121 MSU-IIT employees will receive various awards during this year’s 46th Charter Day on July 12, 2014 at the Gymnasium.

The Service Award is given to those who have served from ten to 15 years; the Molave Award for those who have served 20 years; the Tindalo Award for those who have served 25 years; the Kamagong Award for those who have served 30 years; the Magkono Award for those who have served 35 years, and the Ruby Award for those who have served 40 years.

Prof. Elmer Nacua, Acting Head of the Human Resource Management Division (HRMD) said that one of the criteria in determining the awards is that the length of “continuous, unbroken service of the employees should be correct” and should match the records kept in the Office of the Institute Secretary and those in the HRMD’s.

Nacua said the service and other awards were first given out during the term of the former Chancellor Dr. Camar A. Umpa. At present, the Institute has a total of 834 employees.

Other awards include the Pamana Awards in recognition of the employees who have recently retired and the Posthumous Awards. -Christine Godinez Ortega for OC-OPI

Below is the complete list of awardees this year released by the HRMD:

FOR PAMANA AWARD

FOR POSTHUMOUS AWARD

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Ambassador Mac Arthur Corsino is 46th Charter Day Speaker

by MSU-IIT Office of Public Information | Jul 7, 2014 | MSU-IIT Campus

by Christine Godinez Ortega

Philippine Ambassador MacArthur F. Corsino is this year’s Charter Day Speaker.

Corsino’s last post as Philippine Ambassador was in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti and the Bahamas. He was also a former Philippine Consul General to Oman, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Washington D.C.

He finished his undergraduate and graduate courses in education at Silliman University. He later taught Political Science and became Head of the Southeast Asian Studies Program at Silliman while working as Editor for the Negros Chronicle in Dumaguete City.

As a Fullbright Hayes scholar, he took his doctorate in Political Science at the Northern Illinois University (NIU) where he received a Graduate Honor Fellowship, and the NIU Maryanov Award as Most Outstanding Graduate in Political Science in 1977; and his Post Graduate Fellowship at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

He became the Executive Director of the Philippine Conference at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and received a Research Fellowship at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. He conducted Professorial lectures in Silliman and on Public Administration at the UP Diliman.

In 1976, he received a Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the International Studies Association; the Silliman University Outstanding Sillimanian Award in 2009; the Dipolog City Centennial Pangadlaw Award in 2011; and, the Distinguished Service Award from the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2012.

As a DFA official, he attended international conferences, meetings and programs as Philippine representative to the US and Canada, Belgium, France, Finland, Turkey, Cyprus, China, Japan, Bangladesh, Sabah, Cambodia, Malaysia, Oman, Muscat, Jamaica, Haiti, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and in the Philippines. Throughout his academic and diplomatic career, he has addressed a total of 19 universities and colleges.

Aside from his address during the 46th Charter Day Program on July 12, 2014 at the Gym, he will give a short lecture on nationalism in the Caribbean countries before the Departments of Political Science and History, College of Arts & Social Sciences at the Institute Boardroom on July 11, 2014. – Christine Godinez Ortega for OC-OPI

Photo credit: Photos from Barry Schrader’s column, DeKalb, Illinois

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