President MGP appointed a new administrative head for the Human Resources Development Department and another for the newly-created Office of the University Accreditation Program earlier this month.

Dr. Erlinda C. Mones was appointed new HRDD director while Dr. Apolinar M. Alfonso was made the first director of the University Accreditation Program.

Dr. Mones earned her Ed. D. from Wesleyan, where she also received her M.A. in Educational Management and her undergraduate in BS Social Work. She has been a DSWD supervisor in Pampanga, and a Child Development coordinator at WUP.

She taught at WUP’s High School department, College of Social Work and College of Arts and Sciences, and in 1990 was appointed director of the Guidance and Placement Office until 2006, when she was appointed director of the Human Resource Development Department up until May 31, 2009.

In November 2010, she was reappointed as head of the office.

Dr. Alfonso graduated from the Philippine School of Business Administration as an Accounting major, and then pursued his MBA and later, his Ed.D. at WUP. He passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers (1990) and worked as faculty member at the General de Jesus College (where he became head of the Commerce Department) and The Good Samaritan College in the 1980s.

In 1987, Dr. Alfonso began teaching at WUP’s College of Business and Accountancy (then called the College of Commerce) and then served as the assistant dean of the same college from 2005-2006.

He was appointed dean of the college and served up until 2010.

Some 15 new appointments have been made by the Palomo administration to fill in the managerial and administrative positions vacated by retiring deans and directors this year.

In appointments made effective June 1, 2010, President Manuel G. Palomo installed 14 new deans, directors and program heads followed by another appointments for the newly-created Office of Scholarships and Scholar’s Affairs.

The President has also recently designated officers in-charge of the offices of the vice president for academic affairs, accounting and the registry department.

Selections were made based on strict qualifications on academic or administrative experiences and highest educational attainments.

Following are the latest additions to the management team:



An AB-English and Social Sciences graduate from the University of Sto. Tomas, Dr. Pascual took her Master of Arts in English at the Araullo University in Cabanatuan City in 1977, and her Doctorate in Education at WUP in 1997. She began her academic career as a high school teacher at the Immaculate Conception Academy in Boac, Marinduque from 1963-1965, and began teaching college as a social sciences professor at the Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology’s (NEUST) College of Engineering in 1982. She was NEUST’s Dean of Graduate School prior to becoming WUP’s acting VPAA.





Mr.Junard C. Benitez

An AB Economics graduate, Mr. Benitez pursued his Bachelor of Laws at the University of Manila and his MBA at the Philippine Christian University. He began as an extension and education officer at Cabanatuan City’s Department of Natural Resources. He was college instructor at Aldersgate College from 1983 to 1988 and then went to Manila to work as part-time professor at the University of the East. In January 1995, he was made Assistant to the Vice President of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, where he also taught from 1988-2004. His entry point at Wesleyan was in June 2004 when he was appointed Personnel and Support Services director. In 2007 he became Human Resources Development officer of the WUGGH, before becoming WUP’s HRD director on June 1, 2010. Aside from being a corporate member of the YMCA of Manila, Sir Junard has also been national president of the YMCA of Manila’s Association of College Club Advisers of the Philippines, as well as president of the National Association of Delegates’ Advisers to the Rizal Institute from 1996-1997.





Mrs. Emma V. Villaroman
Head, WUPCARE

Prof. Villaroman finished her BS Nursing degree and her Master of Arts in Nursing from Wesleyan University - Philippines. She has completed about 60 units of her Ph. D. in Psychological Guidance at the Araullo University – PHINMA Education Network and has passed its comprehensive exam. A registered nurse, she first worked at WUP as clinical instructor from 1986-2003. She was RLE coordinator at the same school from 2003-2006, Chief Nurse of the WUP Cardiovascular and Medical Center (now the Wesleyan University General Hospital and Cardiovascular Center or WUGHCC) and OIC-Dean of WUP’s College of Nursing before being appointed WUPCARE Director.




Rev. Dr. Rodel C. Layugan

At 40, Dr. Layugan is a relatively young chaplain. He hails from Nueva Vizcaya, where he finished his AB in English Literature from Aldersgate University. He received his Masters in Divinity from the UTS in 2004 and his Doctor of Ministry in Church Leadership and Administration from the Philippine Christian University in 2006. He was ordained minister by the United Methodist Church in 1992, served as part-time instructor at Aldersgate College from 2006-2009, as OIC of the Aldersgate Divinity School from 2006-2007, and as school director of the Maddela Beatitudes School from 2009-2010.





Dr. Melania C. Cenon

Dr. Cenon took courses on midwifery and nursing from the Good Samaritan Colleges and Nueva Ecija Colleges. She received her Bachelor of Laws from the Araullo University, graduating Cum Laude in 2002. Later on she finished her Ph. D. in Educational Management from the same university and her Master of Arts in Nursing (major in Administration of Nursing School and Nursing Services) from the MV Gallego Colleges. She possesses a long track record in the nursing profession, having been head nurse of the Good Samaritan Hospital and Al Mohammeda Health Center (Saudi Arabia) as well as charge nurse of Lefleur Greenwood Hospital, Promise Specialty Hospital and the Parkview Regional Hospital in the United States. Her entry to the academe began when she was appointed OIC of the AU College of Nursing in 1992. The next year she became the AU School of Midwifery’s principal, and three years later was appointed Dean of AU’s College of Nursing. She was the dean-at-large of PHINMA Education Network’s Nursing Program and was also dean of the University of Pangasinan’s (Dagupan City) Health Cluster prior to joining the Wesleyan family this year.





Prof. Cristy M. Fernando

The very youthful Ma’am Cristy has spent much of her early career as teacher at Wesleyan’s Elementary Department. She finished her Bachelor in Elementary Education from WUP in 1998 and her Master of Arts in Educational Management from the Araullo University just recently. She takes charge of the Elementary Department replacing the retiring Prof. Mildred T. Ancheta.








Prof. Henry Cocoy D. Nacpil

An AB Pscyhology alumnus from De La Salle-Dasmarinas, Prof. Nacpil finished his Master of Science in Educational Measurement and Evaluation at DLSU-Taft in 2002, and is currently taking up his MA. Ed. in Guidance and Counselling at Wesleyan. He is ripened by his experiences working for the Center for Educational Measurement. He has been working at Wesleyan since 2000 as university psychometrician and then as part-time faculty before being appointed OIC of the Guidance Office in 2006.







A young achiever, Dr. Subia has collected a total of five licenses in the fields of engineering, teaching and civil service. He was a 10th placer in the Sub-Professional Civil Service Examination (Paper and Pencil Test), and a topnotcher in the Professional Civil Service Examination (Computer-Assisted Test). Aside from this he is also a licensed teacher, a registered electrical engineer, and a registered master electrician. An Electrical Engineering alumnus from the Tarlac State University, he completed his M.A.Ed. in Mathematics from WUP and his Ph. D. in Mathematics Education from NEUST. He also finished his M.A. in Psychology from the Philippine Statesman College, in which he was granted a High Academic Distinction (an honor equivalent to magna cum laude). He has authored numerous books, modules and reviewers on mathematics and statistics and has conducted more than 20 researches. He spoke and presented statistical papers at many local, regional and national research fora. He has taught at the M. V. Gallego Foundation Colleges, AMA Computer College (Head, Engineering Department) and Honorato C. Perez Memorial Science High School. He is also a LET reviewer, as well as an adviser and thesis statistician of various graduate school students.

As leader of Nueva Ecija’s top learning institution, President MGP surrounded himself with distinguished advisers to aid him in implementing university policies. One of them is his external legal counsel, human rights lawyer and former party-list representative and Puwersa ng Masang Pilipino senatorial candidate Atty. JV Bautista.

A native of Guimba, Atty. Jose Virgilio “JV” Bautista graduated with a degree in AB Journalism from the University of the Philippines, where he was managing editor of the Philippine Collegian. Afterwards he immediately enroled at the UP College of Law, finishing a degree in Ll.B. in 1983.

In 1988, he was a Parvin Fellow at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in New Jersey. He has been working earlier as legal assistant and researcher at the Philippine Center for Immigrant Rights based in New York. His advocacy for human rights brought him to the Annual Human Rights Research and Teaching Seminar Center for Study of Human Rights in Columbia in June 1988, as well as to other international conferences which advocacies range from opposition to military bases to the amelioration of the lives of victims of the war in the Pacific. He has also been an NGO delegate to the United Nations, participating in various sessions and commissions such as the UN Commission on Namibia Special Asian Conference on the Namibia Question in Singapore, the UN Commission on Human Rights’s (UNCHR) 42nd Session in Geneva, the UN 3rd Special Session on Disarmament at the UN Headquarters in New York and as observer at UNCHR’s 35th session.

He was guest speaker at the Alliance for Philippine Concerns-USA’s (APC-USA) 3rd Annual National Convention at Hamline University in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In 1995 Atty. Bautista was chosen as the legal consultant of the National Democratic Font (NDF) during the latter and the Philippine government’s peace talks in Brussels, Belgium. A member of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG), he also served as chief legal counsel and trustee of the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines, Inc. (TFDP). He was also the legal counsel and a member of the Board of Directors of the Task Force Filipino Comfort Women.

Atty. Bautista has involved himself in different socio-civic and cause-oriented groups. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Cabanatuan City, was vice president of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, Nueva Ecija Chapter (1992-1996) and of the Philippine Association of Friendship with Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, Inc. (1992-1995), and president of Guimba New Years Association (1997-1998) . Apart from this, he is a trustee of the Lean L. Alejandro Foundation, Inc. since 1990, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Interest Law Center, Inc. (PILC) based in Manila.

From 1990 to 1995, Atty. Bautista worked as the executive assistant and regional liaison officer of then Senator Wigberto E. Tanada. In 1997-1998 he became a member of the Nueva Ecija Provincial Peace and Order Council in Cabanatuan City. He was the spokesman of the 13th House of Delegates of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines from 1997-1999.

From 2001 to 2004, he represented the Sanlakas Party-list in Congress. His tenure in the Lower House saw him becoming the first to expose the cheating in Sultan Kudarat during the 2004 national elections.

He was the legal counsel of the Nueva Ecija Doctors’ Hospital and Wesleyan University - Philippines in 2009 and currently counsel of VP Jejomar Binay. Since 2008 he is a trustee of the Freedom from Debt Coalition.

With this background, this human rights fighter has become one of the most accomplished Novo Ecijanos of his time.###