Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. assisted by CLSU President Edgar A. Orden viewed the exhibit of CLSU showcasing the generated technologies and products during his visit to the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization. The exhibit featured food products including nutribar, tilading, goat's milk, and the award-winning tilapia ice cream. In addition, technologies such as the ASF Test Kit, organic fertilizers, and mobile solar-powered irrigation pump were also displayed. On the other hand, the CLSU Maestro Singers were invited to sing the invocation and the Philippine National Anthem. Also, they rendered the song ‘Pilipinas Kong Mahal’ witnessed by President Marcos.

The UP Open University (UPOU) as the current President of the Consortium of Open and Distance Education Providers in the Philippines (CODEPP) conducted a Seminar-Workshop on Institutional Implementation of Open Distance eLearning (ODeL). Future plans for the Consortium were discussed with a main focus on the outcome for the year 2023—for the Founding Members of CODEPP to be accredited/ready for accreditation by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). The two-day seminar-workshop held last 3-4 April 2023 was hosted by the Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) in Batac City, Ilocos Norte. Coinciding with the event is the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) Signing held between MMSU President, Dr. Shirley Castañeda Agrupis, and UPOU Chancellor and CODEPP President, Dr. Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria. The MOA seeks to establish commitments on ongoing initiatives to advance distance education (DE) in the Philippines through CODEPP.

For more than a century, the Central Luzon State University (CLSU) is known to deliver quality education and breakthrough research in aquaculture, ruminant, crops, land and water management, organic farming, and precision and digital agriculture through its vision of becoming “a world-class National Research University for Science and Technology in Agriculture and allied fields”. From being an agricultural school in 1907, CLSU transformed into a comprehensive and internationally renowned institution of higher learning. This month, join us for a weeklong celebration of the 116th Founding Anniversary of our beloved university from April 11 to 14, 2023 with the theme “Celebrating a Borderless, Transformative, and Visionary Leadership in Higher Education”. A series of activities and events are set to take place that will bring the CLSU spirit alive. Follow our official Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/clsuofficialpage to stay updated.