Valentine's Day was auspicious for University of the Cordilleras (UC) students who broke the soil at the Burnham Park Rose Garden to jumpstart the university's latest initiative to enhance the portion of the park with rose blooms and other ornamental plants.

A convoy of five buses and four support vehicles bearing books and personnel motored from Baguio City to Tabuk in the province of Kalinga November 5 for a mass donation of at least 8,779 volumes of books to 54 public and private schools in the Kalinga provincial schools division spearheaded by the University of the Cordilleras (UC) Community Extension and Services Office (CESO) in cooperation with the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), through a book grant from the non-government organization, Children's International Philippines Inc. (CIPI).

Five-year old Lorraine Agatha Urbino eases into her new wheelchair aided by her mother Sheila Marie David. This was a moment to cherish and they smile at each other.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Cordillera regional office has turned over a livelihood grant to the University of the Cordilleras (UC) workers union, Kapatiran ng mga Empleyado sa University of the Cordilleras (Kapatiran) on Monday, to jumpstart a livelihood enhancement program for the university's workforce.

The classroom, as a learning environment, is also a melting pot for individuals with diverse learning styles.

Measles is a public health problem that the national government, through the Department of Health (DOH) sought to eliminate since 1998, through a vaccine dispersal program called "Ligtas-Tigdas" and "Knockout Tigdas." The target is to achieve 95% immunization coverage among the most vulnerable group in the population, the children, in the nine months to under- eight years age bracket.

Reading is considered one of the core competencies necessary in a person's acquisition of learning skills, along with writing and arithmetic.

The University of the Cordilleras' (UC) "Adopt-A-Scholar" program, an activity that supports the education of Benguet students from pre-school to high school, is now on its second year.

In Remembrance of a Dear Mother

In honor of the enduring contribution of Evangelina D. Salvosa in the evolution of the university as a beacon of higher education in these mountain highlands of the Cordillera, the UC College of Nursing Bldg. was formally named as the Evangelina D. Salvosa Building (EDS Bldg.).

The most recent readership survey conducted by the National Book Development Board reveals that reading educational books has declined across all age groups. It also revealed that it is caused by bookstores not within walking distance; there are some who were not aware if a library exists in their locale. Data gathered also showed that there are only 511 municipal libraries out of 1,496 municipalities, and 49 provincial libraries out of 80 provinces in the country. It is also seen that watching TV, movies and videotapes, listening to the radio, playing video games or browsing social network and going to malls seem much more fun to do. Perhaps parents, educators, publishers, and advertisers ought to do more to portray book reading as fun to do too. Gone were the days when kids are curled up in a couch with a nice pocketbook.