The UP Alumni Council, the advisory body of the UPAA, holds a meeting once a year. It drafts and passes resolutions that are presented for ratification to the general membership at the General Homecoming and Reunion.

For this year, the Council passed six resolutions, first of which is for UP to assist and influence the CHED to improve the quality of higher education nationwide by making the curricula more flexible and if possible, to dispense with licensing in the exercise of certain professions and thus, help in national development and meet global challenges.

The Council also underscored the need for UP to seek resources to support its programs independent from political powers. In relation to this, the Council called on the UP Board of Regents (BOR) and the UP System (UPS) administration to work for an annual budget higher than that allocated by Congress last year, and for the passage of a law allotting to the University a certain percentage of corporate taxes. The council also emphasized that the UP BOR & the UPS administration should take measures to ensure that the University's scientific research activities are always adequately funded. It further resolved that the UPAA enlist the expertise of its alumni members abroad to assist in the University's scientific research.

To strengthen arts and culture, the Council called on the University to help raise awareness of the importance of music and that the quality of music education in the Philippines be upgraded.

Another resolution, connected to the issue of security, emphasized the need to effectively fence the UP Diliman campus because of its loose land boundaries and of strengthening its security service.

The panel of discussants included: Dr. Jose B. Cruz Jr., Prof. Marvic F. Leonen, Dr. Judy M. Taguiwalo, Dr. Caesar A. Saloma, and Dr. Ramon G. Acoymo. The UPAC is chaired by Atty. Rita Linda V. Jimeno, UPAA 3rd vice president while the Resolutions Committee had Dr. Ruby G. Alacantara, Atty. Maria Paz Tagle-Chua, and Atty. Renato B. Valdecantos as members.

Meanwhile, six UPLB alumni and a UPLB alumni chapter were among the 27 awardees recognized by the UP Alumni Association during the UP General Alumni-Faculty Homecoming and Reunion on June 26 at Ang Bahay ng Alumni, UP Campus, Diliman, Quezon City.

The awardees and the respective categories in which they were recognized were Dr. Cleofas P. Rodriguez-Cervancia, BSA '68, MS '72, PhD '82 in Community Development through Research and Extension Services; Dr. Carolyn Anne L. Canda-Benigno, DVM '85 in International Public Service (Animal Health); Mr. Lucio N. Tabing, BSA '70 in Rural Community Empowerment through Broadcast Communication; Dr. Agustin B. Molina Jr, BSA '73, MS '79 in Science and Technology (Banana Research); Dr. Rey A. Elizondo, BSAE '68 in Science and Technology (Food Engineering); and Dr. Cynthia T. Hedreyda, BSB '76, MS '83 in Science and Technology (Molecular Biology).

The UPLB Alumni Association-America was given the Service Award for an Alumni Chapter. (ES Mariveles)