UP Mindanao provides a vibrant and diverse student life that offers numerous opportunities for personal growth, socialization, and extracurricular engagement. Our campus hosts a variety of student organizations, sports teams, cultural events, and volunteer programs that cater to different interests and passions. We also provide comfortable and modern student housing, as well as a safe and secure campus environment that fosters a sense of community and belonging.
Campus Activities
This portion acquaints the students to the different non-academic endeavors he/she may engage in.
The University provides numerous opportunities for the students to practice their skills/talents. The students can engage in any of the following activities:
Leadership Activities
There are many leadership opportunities in the University Student Council and the student councils of the university colleges. These councils aim to put students first, helping bridge the administration with the student body through town hall meetings and other activities.
Other activities include leadership camps to train students to be servant-leaders and competitions by the award-winning UPMin Debate Society.
Arts and Culture
Activities by the Creative Writing program (UP Literary Society), the UPMin Dance Ensemble, and resident company UPMin Koro Kantahanay enrich the arts and culture community in the region.
Journalism
The University values information and its dissemination. For that matter, all types of student publications are encouraged to be put up.
HIMATI is the official student publication. Its operations or financed by student contributions and its staffers are chosen from among students based on standard editorial criteria.
College-based student papers are envisioned it to be set up as the population grows.
Athletics Programs
The university is home to Mindanao’s premiere sports complex. The construction of various infrastructure will further support the award-winning athletic teams already existing in the university, such as women’s and men’s varsities in football, basketball, and swimming.
Political Activities
To encourage democratic representation and the right of students to organize them for self-government, student councils will be sustained in the University. The student can run for a seat in either his/her College Student Council or in the University Student Council.
The college-based student council is responsible for organizing programs and activities as well as expressing the sentiments of the students of the College. The College Student Council coordinates with the University Student Council in order to realize broader goals and objectives.
CAMPUS STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
Student organizations provide venues for leadership, camaraderie, and responsibility. In the University set-up, activities done within these organizations validate inputs in the classroom and develop within students the independence, innovativeness and initiative which have long been characteristics attached to the UP student. As such, under the principle of pluralism, the University has always supported and nurtured the setting up and continued existence of campus organizations. These organizations are categorized into University-based (U-based) or College based (C-based). The former is a category of organizations whose members come from different colleges in the campus and engage in a variety of activities which cater to the needs of the General Studentry while the latter comprise a category of organizations whose students belong to just one college. College-based groups support college-based activities.
Both U-based and C-based organizations are accredited and monitored by the Student Organizations and Activities Section of the Office of Student Affairs. Undergraduate freshmen students or specifically barred from joining organizations as the initial year is considered to be an “adjustment phase” to be fully devoted to purely academic pursuits.
Academic Organizations
Academic organizations pertain to academic departments and subjects or fields of specialization. They extend support to student(s) in the particular field of study for which they are organized, which is usually under the aegis of a particular department or institute.
Support includes tutorial services, informative seminars, and symposia designed to help students in the relevant field of study cope with the rigors of scholarship. These organizations may also engage in activities to raise funds to improve facilities in their department(s)/institution(s).
Civic Organizations
Civic organizations focus their attention on community service and development and engage in activities directed at a more extended orientation. They conduct in-house as well as extension activities which may include medical-dental missions, community organizing, and extension of help to social institutions, environmental protection, and the like.
Cultural Organization
These organizations tap and develop the artistic ingenuity of students and faculty alike. They afford a chance for budding journalists, playwrights, theater persons, visual artists and the like to showcase their creations and entice others in the university to do the same.
Every now and then, the present work that seeks not only to entertain but also to convey relevant positions to social, political, economic and cultural concerns.
Sports Organizations
Organizations supporting engagement in particular sporting activities may be organized. Students who are interested in participating in these specific activities may join such organizations.
Fraternities/Sororities
Fraternities and sororities have well entrenched ideals and traditions and are highly cohesive groups. The scope of their activities covers both College and University — wide projects.
Other Organizations
Religious Organizations
These organizations cater to a more spiritual orientation. Their activities, however, may range from purely religious gatherings to socio-political advocacy.
Although the University is secular by nature, it encourages plurality in spirituality. As such religious organizations from various faiths and denominations are supported and recognized by it.
Students who are in good standing may join these organizations as well as others which, in the course of the school year may be recognized in the University.
Varsitarian Organization
An organization of students from the same region or province.
Dormitory Hall Organization
An organization that is based in the residence hall in the campus.
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVITIES SECTION - OSA
The SOAS is charged with the coordination of activities, projects, and programs of Student Organizations. It processes official recognition papers of all UP Mindanao student organizations and conducts a yearly assessment of their activities. The SOAS extends assistance in the conduct of the annual election of officers of the University Student Council in coordination with other units in the University.
Interested?
UP Mindanao provides a vibrant and diverse student life that offers numerous opportunities for personal growth, socialization, and extracurricular engagement. If you find something that interest you, do not hesitate to reach out with the respective organization.
