13 November 2012
FR. ANTHONY S. SALAS, SVD, MMVice President for Academic
AffairsUniversity of San CarlosCebu City
Dear Father Salas:
Greetings!
The Cities of Cebu and Haarlemmermeer, The Netherlands celebrate
20 years of strong and continued sister-city relationship. In
connection with this linkage, the incumbent mayor of Haarlemmermeer
along with 15 other delegates will be conducting a delegation visit
to Cebu City from November 26, 2012 to December 1, 2012. Through
student-initiated efforts, the delegation has included in its
itinerary a visit to the University of San Carlos (USC) in order to
impart in a forum their best practices on urban development and in
line with the sister city relationship.
Guided by the universitys vision and USC Department of Political
Sciences theme of Reinventing the Face of Politics, The Carolinian
Circle of Young Diplomats (CCYD) in partnership with The Carolinian
Political Science Society (CPSS) and the Political Science Society
of the University of the Philippines Cebu is organizing an academic
forum with the theme: 20 Years of Cebu Haarlemmermeer Sister City
Link: Strengthening Relations, Fostering Partnerships, Empowering
Citizenship. This forum will be held on November 27, 2012 from
2:00-5:00 in the afternoon at the Gansewinkel Hall, USC Downtown
Campus with Haarlemmermeer Mayor Theo Weterings as speaker. We will
be inviting local officials, bureaucrats and representatives of
civil society who are involved in urban planning and development.
More importantly, and in view of the interdisciplinary
underpinnings of the topic, we will enlist the participation of
political science from USC as well as from other schools; and civil
engineering and architecture students from USC. We strongly believe
that as leaders and community builders of the future faced with
urban problems as experienced in metropolitan areas of the country
we have much to gain from this activity.
In view of the foregoing, we respectfully request your good
office to approve this undertaking and deem the same as an
alternative learning activity for the participating USC students as
listed in Annex A hereof and for them to be excused from their
classes accordingly. To be followed will be the list of attending
students, faculty, local officials, bureaucrats and representatives
of civil society and organizations from outside USC.
Thank you very much for supporting this timely endeavor.
Very respectfully yours,
DANICA BLANCHE FERNANDEZProgram Coordinator
Noted by:
ATTY. ARCHILL NIA F. CAPISTRANO, MInternatRelCCYD Adviser
Endorsed by:
MS. GRACE CHUA MAGALZO, MPOSC, LLBChairpersonUSC Department of
Political Science
ATTY. JOAN S. LARGO, LLMDeanSchool of Law and Governance
