THE NUMBER of Artlets students who made it to the dean’s list or those who obtained a grade average of 1.75 and above rose by 9.8 percent this year.
A total of 1,776 Artlets were included in the dean’s list during the first and second terms of academic year 2023-2024, higher than 1,617 from the previous year based on the list of awardees obtained by The Flame.
The Communication program continued to garner the highest number of dean’s listers at 363. It was followed by the Political Science program, which had 230 dean’s listers.
Of the total figure, 224 were from Legal Management; 188 from Behavioral Science; 125 from Journalism; 123 from Creative Writing and 114 from Economics.
Asian Studies had a total of 88 dean’s listers, followed by Philosophy with 80; Sociology with 79; English Language Studies with 64; History with 58; and Literature with 40.
The dean’s listers were recognized during the 2nd St. Thomas More Excellence Awards.
During the event, the Fr. Valentin Marin O.P. Award was given to 85 students for successfully publishing their research or creative works. The highest number of recipients came from the Political Science program, with 24 students, followed by Journalism at 19 and Sociology at 16.
The Miguel de Benavides Outstanding Achievement Award, a faculty-wide citation for exceptional accomplishment in a scientific or academic discipline, was awarded to Political Science alumnus Miguel Racelis.
AB also conferred the Quezon Leadership Award on Political Science students James Egwaras and Lance Johann Sajenes. The award honors students who have shown exceptional leadership in organizations outside the University. Several graduates across different programs were also recognized, namely Devon Garcia and Hannah Pabalan from Economics, Dale Marollano from Philosophy, Gavin Barreiro from Behavioral Science and Marie Lagrisola from Creative Writing.
Seven AB student organizations reaped the Fr. Bartolomé de las Casas Award for their contributions to community development, namely the UST Asian Studies Society, the UST Artlets Economics Society, the UST Journalism Society, the UST Scarlet AB, Artistang Artlets, the Literary Society and AB Pax Romana.
Meanwhile, the St. Dominic de Guzman Award, which is given to student organizations with exceptional work in planning events that are meaningful to the University, excluding community service, was bagged by three program societies: the UST Asian Studies Society, the Political Science Forum and Artlets Economics Society.
The Artlets Economics Society also earned the Pope Leo 13th award for its active community outreach and involvement.
The Dr. Milagros G. Tanlayco Outstanding Educator Award, which is granted to academic staff members who have shown efficiency and effectiveness in teaching, was bestowed to 12 non-tenured instructors and 13 tenured faculty members.
Non-teaching personnel Maria Leticia Cabral and Rasel Namora-Camerong were also given the Outstanding Support Staff award.
The Dean’s Circle Award, which was launched last academic year to recognize students in their batch with the highest grade average per term, was not held in the latest edition of the St. Thomas More Excellence Awards due to class suspensions.
“The Dean’s Circle was supposed to be included if we held [the awards] for 3 days. Otherwise, it won’t work; only class presidents were invited. We had hoped to highlight the number one per batch and program but classes were suspended,” Turingan told The Flame.
Block representatives, student organization heads and University personnel received their accolades on Nov. 22 at the UST Medicine Auditorium. F
