Message from the Vice President
A Message from the Vice President for the Loyola Schools
Warm greetings to all Ateneans in the Loyola Schools!
With hope and joy, I welcome 2,500+ Freshers this School Year 2019-2020. Filled with enthusiasm to explore your new environment, I figure that you are also ready to swing into the rhythm of the new core curriculum on its second year of implementation.
With hope and joy, I welcome 2,500+ Freshers this School Year 2019-2020. Filled with enthusiasm to explore your new environment, I figure that you are also ready to swing into the rhythm of the new core curriculum on its second year of implementation.
To be Atenean in the Loyola Schools is exciting! The learning atmosphere allows you to cultivate your varied interests. You may be a Chemistry major but you can also be playing the flute in Blue Symphony. You can be a math whiz in management engineering but that doesn’t prevent you from sashaying poetry in your minor in creative writing or becoming a thespian in an Entablado play production. You are Ateneans, after all, filled with passion for what you do in the Loyola Schools – a playing field of ideas and practices that cut across boundaries; a seedbed for interdisciplinary collaboration, and where your interests and involvements cross pollinate either in your chosen major fields of study or in cu-curricular activities like in the orgs. Beyond Loyola Schools, you can also explore other horizons by joining some 300 students who participate in our student mobility programs annually. You will enrich your cultural experience, earn new knowledge about your fields, and gain greater self-confidence through, for example, the European Summer Study Tours and the Junior Term Abroad Program.
Take advantage of the learning spaces around you: the Rizal Library with its numerous resources accessible online and on well-stock shelves; the Areté that spawns creativity in theater, design, creative writing, art, science, and where projects hatch out-of-the-box solutions to societal concerns; the Eugenio Lopez Multimedia Center, acting as a mini television studio that lends to experimentation in media communication; the John Gokongwei student Enterprise Center where student businesses are incubated and flourish; the Ateneo Innovation Center where science and technology spark off new ways of looking at reality.
But also get that mind off the study every once in a while to recharge – a necessary component of wholeness. For the sports-inclined, let the water sooth your limbs in our Olympic swimming pool; test your foot agility in the football field; keep those legs sturdy by running around the tracks on campus; sweat it out in the PE rooms and in the Blue Eagle Gym. For those who simply need spaces of rest, there are sanctuaries that quiet the racing mind and heart from the pressure of study: stillness in the Church of the Gesu, a quiet repose in a cozy corner at the College Chapel, a meandering in the Marian Garden, a reflective walk under the canopy of trees on the road towards Gate 2.5, a stroll around the sprawling grassy Bellarmine field, a slowing down in the soothing presence of twitting birds and colorful butterflies in the Ateneo Wild.
All this and more comprise the package of your Ateneo education, which invites you to approach life from the perspective of blessing whose direction is towards God’s greater glory: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. Towards this destiny of peace and inner freedom, your courses, org activities, and other co-curricular engagements will expose you to situations that cultivate compassion, that awaken your heart to feel for the other, and allow you to see yourself in the greater scheme of things: the beauty of creation, the plight of the needy, the successes of the upright, the ills of society, and some lights of hope.
For God’s greater glory, your Ateneo education will nurture your passion for the fullness of life so that you will be encouraged to take on leadership roles with the commitment to serving the common good. Ignatius of Loyola left the pomp and glamor of his nobility to be in the service of the Lord. Such is the call for Ateneans too, as sons and daughters of Ignatius, to leave an unhealthy sense of self behind to be able to embrace the other and become Lux in Domino – Light in the Lord.
I wish all Ateneans a good year of learning and plenty of blessings!
Take advantage of the learning spaces around you: the Rizal Library with its numerous resources accessible online and on well-stock shelves; the Areté that spawns creativity in theater, design, creative writing, art, science, and where projects hatch out-of-the-box solutions to societal concerns; the Eugenio Lopez Multimedia Center, acting as a mini television studio that lends to experimentation in media communication; the John Gokongwei student Enterprise Center where student businesses are incubated and flourish; the Ateneo Innovation Center where science and technology spark off new ways of looking at reality.
But also get that mind off the study every once in a while to recharge – a necessary component of wholeness. For the sports-inclined, let the water sooth your limbs in our Olympic swimming pool; test your foot agility in the football field; keep those legs sturdy by running around the tracks on campus; sweat it out in the PE rooms and in the Blue Eagle Gym. For those who simply need spaces of rest, there are sanctuaries that quiet the racing mind and heart from the pressure of study: stillness in the Church of the Gesu, a quiet repose in a cozy corner at the College Chapel, a meandering in the Marian Garden, a reflective walk under the canopy of trees on the road towards Gate 2.5, a stroll around the sprawling grassy Bellarmine field, a slowing down in the soothing presence of twitting birds and colorful butterflies in the Ateneo Wild.
All this and more comprise the package of your Ateneo education, which invites you to approach life from the perspective of blessing whose direction is towards God’s greater glory: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. Towards this destiny of peace and inner freedom, your courses, org activities, and other co-curricular engagements will expose you to situations that cultivate compassion, that awaken your heart to feel for the other, and allow you to see yourself in the greater scheme of things: the beauty of creation, the plight of the needy, the successes of the upright, the ills of society, and some lights of hope.
For God’s greater glory, your Ateneo education will nurture your passion for the fullness of life so that you will be encouraged to take on leadership roles with the commitment to serving the common good. Ignatius of Loyola left the pomp and glamor of his nobility to be in the service of the Lord. Such is the call for Ateneans too, as sons and daughters of Ignatius, to leave an unhealthy sense of self behind to be able to embrace the other and become Lux in Domino – Light in the Lord.
I wish all Ateneans a good year of learning and plenty of blessings!
Maria Luz C. Vilches, Ph.D.
Vice President for the Loyola Schools
Contact Information
Office of the Vice President
Phone:
426-6001 loc. 5000-5006
Fax:
426-6096
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