The long history of Talavera House of Prayer - Recoletos (THP-R) was revisited by both incumbent and former administrators of the retreat house together with the Josenian community earlier today, May 30. THP-R is a facility located on a hill in Barangay Quiot, Cebu City. It is primarily used for group retreats and other religious events. A Eucharistic…
Fourteen students and a faculty member from the University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R) were chosen to make a gigantic mango dessert dubbed by the event organizers as the “biggest tapioca dessert in the world." They are Janwilliam Diola, Lance Jefferson Pacubas, Joden Malinao, Martin Gonzales, Christian Lawrence Rivera, Mharmel Chzai Borromeo, Hannah Mae Abad, Alliah…
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…
A group of Josenian IT students is developing a mobile application which can help drivers find proximate parking spaces and its corresponding rates. The application is called Car Space. Its proponents are Jesury Thomas Gadiane, Kevin Cerdon, and Noel Daniel Seldura. The three of them are second-year Information Technology students at the University of San Jose-Recoletos.…
Eighteen professionals from Region VIII were conferred with their masteral degrees on Business Management (MBM) by the University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R) on May 3. They are the first batch of Josenian MBM graduates from an off-campus program in the Eastern Visayas. The class is composed of officers from various electric cooperatives which are member-organizations…
After receiving his diploma, ETEEAP graduate John Carlo Barbac bent his knees on stage the Recoletos Coliseum and asked his girlfriend to marry him. Lanie Mae Marianito, 24, vehemently said "yes". They have been together as a couple for three years. In an interview, Barbac told USJ-R that he set three conditions on himself before…
The University of San Jose - Recoletos condemns the mass shooting incident today (April 11) at a coffee shop where two were killed and two others were injured. Click here to read about the incident: 2 killed, 2 wounded in a Cebu coffee shop pre-dawn shooting One of the baristas wounded is a 4th year…
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…
University of San Jose - Recoletos
Year Founded 1947