Warriors of the University of the UU直播’s Caloocan campus, kindly be informed of the celebration of UE Caloocan Week 2025!

There will be preliminary activities this Thursday and Friday, February 27 and 28, with the main week running from the first Monday to Saturday of the new month, March 3 to 8, 2025, across various venues of our Caloocan campus and online!

Cheers, take care, and see you at these activities, Caloocan Warriors!

The University of the UU直播-Caloocan marks its campus-wide celebration of UE Caloocan Week 2022, under the overall theme of “U Can”鈥攁 positive, abridged version of “UE Caloocan”.

While online activities for this year鈥檚 UE Caloocan Week festivities began last February 16, 2022, the 60th commemoration Caloocan City Day, with a Thanksgiving Mass, the bulk of the events will take place on March 1 to 5, 2022.

As with last year鈥檚 UE Caloocan Week, all happenings will be held entirely virtually. Nevertheless, UE Caloocan has lined up an array of online activities aimed at providing an enriching experience that will appeal to the intellectual and emotional well-being of the UE Caloocan community.

Happy UE Caloocan Week 2022, Caloocan Campus Warriors!

The opening activity is a Thanksgiving Mass, hosted by the UE Basic Education Department-Caloocan through its official Facebook page. The Mass starts at 9 a.m. today, February 16, 2022, and will be streamed live here: 
The Mass Celebrant is Fr. Ni帽o Jomel H. De Leon.

The UE Caloocan Week 2022 theme is ‘UE CalooCAN’, and this reminds us of the importance of solidarity and gratitude that no matter what the challenge is, we are assured that we will thrive.

The rest of the activities of this year’s UE Caloocan Week celebration will be conducted in early March 2022.

Thank you, take care, and Happy Caloocan Day, Warriors of the UE Caloocan!

This momentous and timely webinar was conceived to bring together scholars from different countries to share their experiences and research outcomes on the critical role of mass media amid a global pandemic, along with talk on recent innovations, practical challenges encountered, and other allied disciplines. The holistic nature of the event is also envisioned as an opportunity for collaborative research.

There will be five main speakers on as many topics, namely Ms. Karen Davila of the Philippines, who will tackle the event鈥檚 eponymous topic of 鈥淭he Critical Role of Mass Media in a Global Pandemic鈥�; Dr. Bunty Avieson of Australia, who will take on 鈥淲ikipedia鈥檚 War on the Covid Infodemic鈥�; Dr. Porranee Singpliam of Thailand, who will cover 鈥淎 Cultural and Gendered Studies Approach to Understanding Inequalities amid Covid-19: A Case of Transgender and Sex Workers as Mediated through the Thai Media鈥�; Ms. Esther Ho of Malaysia, who will speak about the 鈥淭he Intersection between Mass Media/Pop Culture and the Formation of Religious Beliefs/Identities鈥�; and Dr. Augustus Ceasar D. Latosa of the Philippines, who will discuss 鈥淒isinformation as Crisis within a Global Health Crisis鈥�.

Ms. Davila is a well-known professional journalist and broadcast anchor who has received awards internationally, including an award from the New York Festival and the Ten Outstanding Young Men Awards for Broadcast Journalism in 2008. She has more than 20 awards in professional journalism from local and international organizations. She was one of People Asia Magazine’s People of the Year in 2013. She was also recognized by the Philippine Senate as one of the Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS).

Dr. Avieson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. A former journalist and award-winning author, she has published three novels, a novella and two memoirs, which have been variously translated into Japanese, German and Thai. Dr. Avieson spent a year in 2008 to 2009 in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, jointly funded by the United Nations and the newspaper Bhutan Observer, to teach journalists and editors, as well as to advise media stakeholders, as part of the country鈥檚 move to democracy. She also acted as a consultant to Reporters Without Borders鈥� Asia-Pacific desk. Her PhD explored the emerging media landscape in Bhutan, which continues to be a research interest, along with literary journalism, memoir and Wikipedia studies. Dr. Avieson teaches journalism in the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, but is currently on research leave to undertake a three-year, Australia Research Council-funded project, investigating the development of the Dzongkha Wikipedia in Bhutan.

Dr. Singpliam is the Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Deputy Director of the Bachelor of Arts in Language and Culture (BALAC) program of the Bangkok, Thailand-based Chulalongkorn University. She earned both her Ph.D. Cultural Studies and her M.A in Cultural Studies from the Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies of Japan鈥檚 Waseda University, and her BA in Language and Culture from the Faculty of Arts of Chulalongkorn University. Her research interests cover gender studies, Thai studies, media and cultural studies, body theory and feminist thoughts.

Ms. Ho is a Malaysian queer feminist theologian with a background in media, culture, gender and sexuality studies. She graduated with an MA Intercultural Theology from Germany鈥檚 Uni G枚ttingen and is currently teaching media studies at Monash University in Malaysia. Outside of class, Ms. Ho is fascinated by the possibilities when media, culture, and religious and gender identities intersect and shape who a person is.

Dr. Augustus Ceasar D. Latosa is a Senior Lecturer of the University of the Philippines-Diliman and a Professorial Lecturer of Far UU直播ern University-Manila. He is the Managing Editor of FRAMEwork: The Asia-Pacific Journal of Communication, and is a
John Harper English Language Specialist. Dr. Latosa earned his Ph.D. in Communication and New Media from National University of Singapore, and his MA in Speech Communication and BA in English Studies from UP Diliman.

This daylong international webinar will also feature five student researches and a faculty research study by UE CAS Caloocan constituents.

This UE webinar will be live-streamed on ACTIONS鈥� Facebook page ().

Warrior students, faculty members and more, especially mass media enthusiasts, are encouraged to check this out!

As with the 2020 Congress, 2021 ASER will be co-convened by the University of the UU直播-Caloocan and Surabaya, Indonesia-based STIE Mahardika, with Australia鈥檚 Academy of Entrepreneurs as the virtual host. Just as with the 2020 Congress, 2021 ASER is a higher education forum aimed at gathering and disseminating research output from the scientific community in the field of sustainable business, with the ultimate goal of encouraging networking among participants from various institutions and countries while drawing up ideas in the field of sustainable business that can be realized locally and internationally. With 鈥淲e Can Change the World: Creating Sustainable Enterprises for Global Impact鈥� as the theme, the 2021 ASER will feature presentations and papers that will tackle valiant, inclusive and resilient鈥攁nd globally impactful鈥攅nterprises.

2021 ASER鈥檚 topics are divided into three tracks, with corresponding sub-tracks, namely:

Track 1: Entrepreneurial Strategies for a Post-Pandemic Future 鈥�
1. Opportunities, Sustainability, and Impact in a Changed Global Marketplace
2. Digitalization and Social Media-Enabled Platforms for Sustainable Impact
3. The Internet of Things (IoT) and Strategic Realities Reshaping the Virtual Enterprise

Track 2: Sustainable Enterprises and the Asian Entrepreneurial Society 鈥�
1. New Markets and Opportunities at the Bottom of the Pyramid
2. Entrepreneurship in Disproportionately Impacted Communities
3. Social Entrepreneurship Networks across Sectors and Geographical Boundaries

Track 3: Rethinking the Business Model for the New Normal 鈥�
1. Planet, People, and Profit at the Center of Emerging Models of Change
2. Collaborative Virtual Work Spaces, Hubs and Markets
3. Co-Creation and Innovation Post-Pandemic

The Congress鈥檚 call for papers was made open in 2020 to academics and researchers within and outside UE, its local and international academic partners, academicians and researchers from other HEIs, and research-oriented members and constituents of professional organizations such as PICPA, the government and our alumni, such as through the UE CBA Caloocan Alumni Association, Inc.

The 2021 ASER proper will be open to academics, researchers, professional organizations, business owners and managers, government officials and employees, and alumni.

The 2021 ASER speakers will be (in alphabetical order) Dr. Rafuddin Ahmed, Ms. Paula Mills, Dr. Semerdanta Pusaka, Dr. Francia Santos, Dr. Faiz Shah, Dr. Daniel Susilo and Dr. Keichi Yamada.

The registration fee is PhP 300.00 or US$6.00. Please register here: 

For inquiries, please email <2021aser.virtual@gmail.com>.

We look forward to your participation, warrior professionals and students of UE and beyond!