ANTHROPOLOGIST and writer Michael Tan has been reappointed chancellor of the Diliman campus of the University of the Philippines (UP), a post he has held since March 2014. On Thursday, the UP System’s Board of Regents affirmed that Tan, 64, would serve for another three-year term. The deliberations for the post of Diliman chancellor took place at Quezon Hall of the UP campus in Quezon City. Other nominees were Aura Matias of the College of Engineering and Roland Tolentino of the College of Mass Communication. Tolentino, was recently appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as board member of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board.

Source: Manila Times January 29, 2017 13:08 UTC