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The first Confucius Institute opened in 2004 in Seoul, South Korea, [14]: 166 after establishing a pilot institute in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in June 2004. The CI in South Korea is no longer active. The second Confucius Institute was opened on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park, also in November 2004. [15]
UP-NCPAG traces its roots to the Institute of Public Administration (IPA), which was established on June 15, 1952, after the University of the Philippines entered into an agreement with the University of Michigan in the United States to aid the former in providing technical assistance in the field of public administration as part of the Bell Mission's recommendations.
The School was formerly situated in Gonzalez Hall, where the UP Diliman Main Library is located. Constructed in the 1950s almost simultaneously with the arts and sciences, administration and engineering buildings, the Main Library was one of the first structures in the Diliman campus, designed by Juan Nakpil , the campus architect of that time.
On August 16, 1968, Metrocom dispersed a rally led by UP students at the US Embassy and Malacañang to protest the "Special Relations" between the Philippines and USA. Five UP students suffered bruises. In September 1968, Senator Lorenzo Tañada, head of the Movement for the Advancement of Nationalism (MAN) protested the Americanization of UP.
It serves as a satellite unit of UP Diliman. Located at the Bonifacio Global City district in Taguig, the campus hosts classes of the College of Law, and graduate courses and professional degree programs of other academic arms of UP Diliman, such as the Virata School of Business and the School of Statistics. [33]
The UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations Student Council (UP SOLAIR SC) was formally established in 2008, and is the official student representative of the School. This was previously held by the UP Industrial Relations Society (UP IRS) , when the officials of the organization represented the student body in the School.
In present days, the Asian Center is located at the GT-Toyota Center in UP Diliman. [5] The Center currently offers graduate degree programs in Asian Studies and Philippine Studies; training country and area specialists, while promoting initiatives to "understand the Philippines in its broader Asian context, and to understand Asia from the ...
Recommended by the Dean of the College of Business Administration, Cesar Virata, and endorsed by U.P. President Carlos P. Romulo, the School of Economics was established in 1965 as a degree-granting unit upon the merger of the Department of Economics and the Institute of Economic Development and Research (IEDR).