Student Life

 

The offices described in this section work to support UB students in all aspects of college life, especially by offering programs and services to make your stay at University of Baguio as exciting and successful as possible.

Office of the Student Affairs

The Office of Student Affairs (OSA) supervises, regulates and guides the operation of all recognized student organizations and student activities. Committed to the furtherance of the cultivation of the mind, the heart and the spirit, the OSA assists in developing the managerial and leadership potentials of students through encouragement, assistance and supervision of student involvement in co-curricular activities on and off campus. The office likewise ensures that the objectives of the various organizations are in accordance with the University vision, mission and objectives.  The office is tasked with approving the application for recognition of new student organizations, accrediting existing ones, and evaluating student leaders on matters affecting their organizational operations.

Review Center

The Review Center is committed to the University’s pursuit of excellence with the mission of being a key partner in the realization of a perfect institutional licensure-passing rate for all its alumni. It envisions itself as the benchmark of academic and commercial institutions that offers robust review courses that will ensure a successful outcome in the board examination. The Review Center aims to be an innovative and cogent alter ego of the academic heads in instituting programs, enhancements and interventions that will assist the students in their preparation for licensure tests.

UB currently offers 3 board review courses. Three are in-house review courses: Licensure Examination for Criminologists, Teachers and Med Technologists. These are four-month review courses offered to graduates in their respective fields, scheduled at least four months before the scheduled board exams. Seven courses have imbedded review subjects, that is, review classes are included in the course requirements before graduation. The imbedded reviews are in Architecture, Civil Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Sanitary Engineering, Nursing, Accountancy and Law. The rest of the other review courses are for Dentistry, Physical Therapy, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Optometry.

Scholarship and Student Assistance Program

In addition to the financial grants provided by various institutions, UB is generous in giving scholarships to deserving students, which may be classified into Entrance Scholarships, Scholastic Awards and Exchange Programs, and Service Grants.

Entrance Scholarships are given to students who graduate as: (a) Valedictorians, Salutatorians and Honorable Mentions; (b) UB and National Science High graduates; (c) Best in Mathematics, Science or English; (d) Editors-in-Chief and Assistant Editors of school paper; and (e) Student Council Presidents and VPs.

Scholastic Awards and Exchange Programs include (a) Academic Scholarships, (b) Foreign Exchange Scholars, (i.e., faculty and students from sister schools, such as Nagasaki Wesleyan University, Japan, Muan Phon Technical and Commercial College, Thailand and Rajahat Maha Sarakham University, Thailand), (c) Faculty Graduate Program, (d) Public School Teachers Scholarship Grants, (e) Military and Police Scholarship Grants, and (f) International Hotel On-the-Job Training.

Service Grants are provided for (a) employees and faculty dependents, (b) athletes, choir and dance troupe members, and (c) marshals. Student assistants recruited for work in the library and various departments are provided scholarships while at the same time doing on-the-job training.

Among the Financial Grants are: (a) National Integration Study Grant Program (NISGP), (b) Selected Ethnic Groups Educational Assistance Program (SEGEAP), (c) Private Education Student Financial Assistance (PESFA), (d) Study Now Pay Later Plan (SNPLP), (e) Philippine Veterans Administration (PVA), (f) Presidential Decree 577, (g) Public School Teacher (PST), (h) Filipino-Japanese Scholarship Foundation, (i) (FILJAP), (j) Fund for Assistance to Private Education (FAPE), (k) Rotary, (l) ROTARACT Exchange Program, (m) UB Presidential Awards, (n) UB Alumni foundation, Inc. (UBAFI), (o) the PNP Balik-Aral Program, (p) Metrobank Scholarship Foundation and (q) Jollibee Aral-Kabuhayan Scholarship.

Library and Internet Services

The University library aims to provide access to the learning resources and information services in support of the teaching, learning and research activities of the institution’s faculty and student populace. As the information resource center, the University library offers academic resources and services that cover all of the University’s curricular offerings and instructional programs.

The main library with a seating capacity of 300 readers has a floor area of 809 square meters. It is housed at the fourth floor of the FB Building and is composed of the (a) General Collection Section which contains the general fields of Education, Liberal Arts, Engineering and Architecture, Information and Communications Technology and Hotel and Restaurant Management; (b) Reference Section; (c) Filipiniana Section; (d) Periodicals Section; and (e) Allied Medical Sciences Section.

The library extension, on the other hand, has a seating capacity of 350 readers and has a floor area of 971.94 square meters. It occupies the fourth floor of the Commerce Building and houses the following sections: (a) Commerce and Criminology Section; (b) Law library; (c) Relegation Section; (d) Fiction Section; (e) High School Book Collection; (f) Technical Section; and (g) CD Multimedia Section.

At present, there are two internet libraries in the University. One is located at the mezzanine of the fourth floor of the Commerce Building while the other one is at Room 501, fifth floor of the FB Building. The internet library aims to (a) provide the students and faculty with reasonable access to the internet for them to make updated researches; (b) obtain information that may strengthen and improve their studies, make friends, communicate through internet and job hunt by use of e-mails and chat sites; (c) get comfortable in the use of computers and internet; and (d) enhance their computer and internet literacy.

The Audio-Visual Center is a special library service which is located at the ground floor of the Au-Gym. Special materials or non-print materials and their accompanying equipments are made available to faculty members. Part of the services rendered for all sections in the library is the provision of discussion rooms and photocopying centers. This is to further enhance and aid the students on their use of the library. These discussion rooms are located in the main and extension libraries.

 

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