SANGGUNIAN SECRETARIAT

FACULTY DAY MEETING

Date: January 22, 2015

Room 200 MVP Student Leadership Center

Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights
sanggusecgen@gmail.com

Venue: Leong Hall Auditorium

Time: 8AM-4PM

AGENDA (underlined = to be continued, italics = postponed/deferred):

1) General Announcements
2) Calendars for Upcoming School Years
3) Strategic Management Updates: LS Strategic Initiatives along Key Result
Areas
4) Budget Allocation
5) World Caf Session
6) Working With & Mentoring Students at Risk
7) Faculty Mentoring and Sharing
1) General Announcements
a. Classes for the entire Holy Week will be suspended
b. There will be 2 study days before final exams
i. Study days are school days with no requirements and deadlines to
allow students to recover
ii. Mitigate increase in student and faculty stress
c. Offsetting school days: conversations to compensate for days lost
i. Monday 5 days lost
ii. Tuesday 2 days lost
iii. Wendesday 1 day lost
iv. Thursday 3 days lost
v. Friday 4 days
vi. Make up classes:
1. March 29-30 will adopt Friday and Monday schedules
respectively
2. April 6 will adopt a Monday schedule
2) Calendars for Upcoming School Years
a. 1st sem 5day break during late October (APEC)
b. 2nd sem at least 5 days break during Holy Week
c. Seniors exams will be one week before regular exams
3) Strategic Management Updates: LS Strategic Initiatives along Key
Result Areas
a. Curriculum (Interdisciplinary courses and initiatives)
i.
Enablers
a. Interdepartmental conversations
b. Interdisciplinary course grants
ii.
Indicators
a. Number of new interdisciplinary courses
b. New minor programs
c. Upcoming programs:
i. Area Studies c/o SOSS
ii. Sustainability c/o JGSOM
iii. Design & Innovation c/o SOH
iv. Data Science & Analytics c/o SOSE
b. Research and Creative Work (research and creative outputs)
i. Enablers
a. Support structures for research loading
b. Doing well in terms of papers/publication output

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i.
From 700 to 800 between 2009 & 2014
c. Formation and Outreach (Discipline and interest-based formation
initiatives)Enablers
i. Enablers
a. ADSF
b. Formator development program
c. 69 instances of departments involved with formation
d. Internationalization (faculty and student exchanges and joint programs)
i.
Enablers
a. VPUGR & Internationalization committee
b. Funding support for faculty exchange
c. Steadily increasing number of students on JTA
d. Doing well with inbound students as well; almost 200 on
campus
ii. Joint degree programs need some work: trying to have 10 joint degree
partnerships by 2018
4) Budget Allocation
a. Total of Php 1.5B
i. Teaching : 483M
ii. Formation: 96M
iii. Research: 37M
iv. Internationalization: 21M
v. Shared Resoures: 343M
vi. Etc.
5) World Caf Session
a. There is a need for clearly established goals for individual faculty
b. Individual goals tied in with departmental and institutional goals
6) Working With and Mentoring Students At Risk c/o Dr. Queena Lee-Chua
a. The number of fragile students has grown exponentially
i. There were 60 students consulting last sem in the Math
department, not for math but for personal problems
ii. About 1/3 of these cases were urgent
iii. When Dr. Lee-Chua began teaching in 1987, students consulted
mainly for Math problems
1. More serious cases began cropping up in 1995 (a few
depression and near-suicide cases)
2. By 2000 there were 10 cases like these
3. By 2006, there were up to 20
4. By 2011, there were more than 30
5. Last schoolyear, there were 43
6. Last semester, there were 60
iv. The problems faced by students were the same problems the
teachers themselves faced when they were our age, but students
now respond differently
v. We are not a hospital! We are a school!
vi. Students say that when they have problems, big or small, they
often want to approach their teachers, not Guidance or ADSA,
because they see them everyday, and deal with them the most

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Room 200 MVP Student Leadership Center

Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights
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1. Whether they like it or not, teachers are the frontliners in

dealing with this problem
2. This is Ateneo. People care.
vii. We zero in on suicide, but there is also an alarming rise in panic
attacks and depression in campus
There is a call for more uniform standards, policies, readings,
requirements, grading systems across all the different subjects so that
students dont favor one subject/teacher over another (especially in
service courses)
i. Lets stop talking about weeding out students; our students are
not weeds to be eliminated! (OAA already did the weeding out)
The more privileged students are more sensitive and less resilient
i. Many instances of students and learned helplessness
ii. Let us earn their RESPECT, rather than their fear. A little anxiety
is fine, but mentally blocking fear? No one can learn.
iii. Suicide is aggression turn inward.
iv. The Harvard Condition newly coined term from The Crimson
(Harvard publication); the appearance of normalcy but the reality
of distress.
There will be practical training sessions that cover active listening,
suicide, self-harm, anxiety, panic attacks, phobias & Aspergers
We are Ateneo. We care.

7) Faculty Mentoring and Sharing

a. In the 90s, there were graduates who started teaching in the Math
department, and were eventually involved in projects; eventually
opportunities for them were found
b. Flow of mentoring process: starting to teach being mentored
getting PhD
i. Theres a lot of informal mentoring that goes on, such as passing
on the culture, etc.
ii. Experience of being mentored (accdg. to sir Ian Garces): I
learned hwo to teach from my teachers; from one, how to manage
boardwork, and when proving theorems, writing them down.
PREPARED BY:
Jose Antonio Luna
2 Block I2 Representative
School of Social Sciences School Board
Sanggunian ng mga Mag-aaral ng mga
Paaralang Loyola ng Ateneo de Manila