UP Mindanao Vice-Chancellor for Administration Leo Manuel Estaña gave updates and action plans in response to issues and concerns raised in the Consultation for Nonteaching Personnel organized by the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Administration and held at Lorenzo Hall, UP Mindanao, on March 25, 2026.
All UP Workers Union-UP Mindanao chapter president Analiza Fulvadora and chapter vice-president Joel Sagadal initiated the discussions relating to jobs, working conditions, housing, transportation, and campus food. In addition, the sector leaders sought clarifications in personnel recognition, training and development, and resources, among other issues.
Vice Chancellor Estaña presented the administration’s recent accomplishments before addressing each concern in the presence of Chancellor Lyre Anni Murao and other administration unit heads before the overflowing assembly.
Kasmira Blaise Sigue, vice-president of the Research, Extension, and Professional Services (REPS) Association, likewise raised issues and concerns relating to their sector.
Chancellor Lyre Anni Murao, in her welcome remarks, offered the “Amuma” framework to guide the discussion.
“Amuma in English means to care, to nurture, and to nourish,” she said. “That is the kind of culture that we want to build in UP Mindanao.
We are now living in a disruptive world, and that is why, for a better future, we can agree on how we can create value for one another, for our community.
Everything that we do, whether it is in our programs, our people, and our partnerships, should be guided by amuma or caring: for oneself, for each other, our community, and our planet.
Let us agree on how we can support each other to focus on growth so that we can collectively grow as individuals, as an institution, and as a university.”
