UP president swears in new ASPAP officers

| Written by UP System Media and Communication Office

UP President Angelo Jimenez (10th from left) administers the oaths of office of the new ASPAP officers. Among them are UPOU Assistant Professor Juvy Lizette Gervacio (ninth from left) and UP NCPAG Dean Kristoffer Berse (12th from left). Gervacio and Berse will serve as the association’s VP for Visayas and secretary-general, respectively. Photo by Abraham Arboleda, UPS-MCO.

 

University of the Philippines President Angelo Jimenez administered the oaths of office of the 2026-2028 officers of the Association of Schools of Public Administration in the Philippines, Inc., Feb. 5 at Quezon Hall, UP Diliman.

 

ASPAP is a national organization of more than a hundred academic institutions offering degree programs in public administration, management, and governance. Since ASPAP’s establishment in February 1979, the UP National College of Public Administration and Governance has been its secretariat, with its dean serving as ASPAP’s secretary-general.

 

UP President Angelo Jimenez (center) gets himself acquainted with the ASPAP before administering their oaths of office. Photo by Abraham Arboleda, UPS-MCO.

 

UP NCPAG Dean Kristoffer Berse will serve as the association’s ex officio secretary-general. Dr. Juvy Lizette Gervacio, UP Open University associate professor in its Master of Public Management program, is ASPAP’s vice president for Visayas.

 

The elected ASPAP officers also include representatives from Nueva Vizcaya State University, University of Makati, Ateneo de Naga University, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Valenzuela, Bulacan State University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, and Pangasinan State University.

 

UP President Angelo Jimenez (eighth from left, pointing) shows the new ASPAP officers around his office. Photo by Abraham Arboleda, UPS-MCO.