Among the universities and colleges in the Visayas and Mindanao, the University of San Jose-Recoletos(USJ-R) has the highest number of passers produced in the May 2019 Certified Public Accountant Licensure Examination. Forty-eight out of 87 Josenian takers passed the examination, yielding a 55.17% passing percentage. This is about three times higher than the national passing percentage…
Josenian Jacob Rizada took the sixth spot of the May 2019 Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Licensure Examination. His exam rating is 87.33 — the highest examination rating among all Cebu graduates who took the three day examination on May 12, 19, and 20. In October 2018, he finished Bachelor of Science in Accountancy and graduated Cum Laude in…
Five hundred Josenian students finished a year-long youth development program dubbed as the Young Minds Academy (YMA) program, which was integrated in the Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS). Ten school and community-based projects were already implemented this semester while 40 more project proposals are to be implemented. Project Location Section Project Name Specific Location Beneficiaries Project Goal…
Six Cebu-based universities collaborated to launch the regional celebration of the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL) as prescribed by the United Nations. The celebration is expected to strengthen and reinforce the many standard-setting tools adopted by the international community which include specific provisions to promote and protect indigenous languages. This after a UNESCO report stated that 40% of the estimated…
Representatives of various colleges and universities in three Visayan regions were oriented on the systems for the disbursement and monitoring of the Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) for the current academic year. Over three hundred scholarship coordinators and administrators of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) from regions VI, VII, and VIII attended the said activity on March 16. It…
To increase the demand to stop single-use plastic, Greenpeace brought environmental speakers as well as the crew of their Rainbow Warrior ship to share to Josenians the horrid impact of plastic on the planet. Greenpeace campaigner Abigail Aguilar shared that recycling is not enough. She quoted a study stating that only 9% of the manufactured…
Strengthening "bridges and ladders" in the context of Philippine Catholic Education was the central topic of the 2019 National Higher Education Commission (NHEC) Summit attended by college and university representatives of CEAP member-schools. CEAP or the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines is the national association of Catholic educational institutions in the country. Now, it has…
Law graduates can now take their Master of Law in Cebu regardless from which school they graduated from. This after the University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R) signed a consortium agreement on February 8 with the San Sebastian College - Recoletos (SCCR) to offer Master of Laws, also known as Legum Magister (LL.M). "What’s unique about…
The Senior High School Department (SHS) of the University of San Jose-Recoletos conducted its first ever research convention on February 20 at the USJ-R Basak Campus. Dubbed as the "Josenian Research Summit," the event aimed to encourage the students to incorporate the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals when coming up with the topic for their research studies. It was spearheaded by the…
A group of engineering students will represent the University of San Jose – Recoletos (USJ-R) on the first ever DOTA 2 tournament organized by the Cebu City Government through the Office of the City Mayor. The team, dubbed as Blackpink, is composed of Jameson Eria Baguioro, Shem Al, Josh Go, Jan Lloyd Tumulak, Jessie Piedad, and Rafael…
University of San Jose - Recoletos
Year Founded 1947