The 2025-2027 One UP Professorial Chair (PC) Awards
and One UP Faculty Grant (FG) Awards

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• One UP PC & FG Awards Guide

At its 1309^th meeting held on 22 July 2015, the UP Board of Regents approved the allocation of Php 100 million per year for the period January 2016 - December 2018 for approximately 800 professorial chair awards and faculty grant awards to be distributed among academic units across all the Constituent Universities. Named One UP Professorial Chair (PC) Awards and Faculty Grant (FG) Awards, these aim to further provide recognition and incentives to faculty members who demonstrate outstanding performance in two out of three work areas of the faculty: teaching, research or creative work, and public service.

To encourage a higher standard of performance among the faculty, the Board of Regents also approved the continuity of the awards subject to the availability of funds in its 1323^rd meeting last 16 December 2016. The revised guidelines have also been approved by the Board on its 1340^th meeting last 3 December 2018 to allow more faculty to apply. As per the General Appropriations Act for FY 2025, funding has already been earmarked for the awards. Hence, we are now accepting applications for the 2025-2027 One UP PC & FG Awards.

There are five (5) award categories:

1. Outstanding Teaching & Research, or
2. Outstanding Teaching & Creative Work, or
3. Outstanding Teaching & Public Service, or
4. Outstanding Research & Public Service, or
5. Outstanding Creative Work & Public Service

Below are sample titles of the Award:

Juan A. Dela Cruz, PhD
2025-2027 One U.P. Professorial Chair Award in Biology (Invertebrate Zoology)
for Outstanding Teaching and Research in UP Los Baños

Juan A. Dela Cruz, PhD
2025-2027 One U.P. Faculty Grant Award in English Literature (Poetry)
for Outstanding Creative Work and Public Service in UP Diliman

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A. TERMS AND CONDITIONS

GENERAL AWARD GUIDELINES

1. Faculty members are invited to apply for the 2025-2027 One UP Professorial Chair Awards and Faculty Grant Awards (One U.P. PC & FG Awards) which are intended to further provide recognition and incentives to those who demonstrate outstanding performance in two out of three work areas of the faculty: teaching, research or creative work, and public service.
2. Faculty members are asked to indicate targets for self-improvement in the three work areas and how they can contribute to their academic unit, the university, and the country in the next three years. This is based on the principle that one’s performance is, first and foremost, inner- or self-driven. The targets will not be considered part of the criteria for the current award which is based on past accomplishments.

GENERAL CRITERIA

1. The basis of the One UP PC & FG Awards is outstanding performance in two out of the three work areas of the faculty: 1) teaching, 2) research or creative work, and 3) public service. However, teaching is given primary importance no matter which work area combination a faculty applicant is vying for.
2. The evaluation criteria and scoring rules are provided further below. Points can be earned from a great variety of accomplishments.
3. The criteria that contribute to new knowledge have no cap/limit on points (see further below).

ENTITLEMENTS

1. Professorial Chair Awards of P10,000/month for 3 years are given to the highest performing full and associate professors.
2. Faculty Grant Awards of P8,000/month for 3 years are given to the second tier of performing full, associate and assistant professors. Instructors who have demonstrated exceptional performance may also receive a Faculty Grant Award.
3. Amounts stated are subject to disbursement rules stated (see below).

ELIGIBILITY FOR APPLICATION

1. Full-time, tenured, or non-tenured faculty members are eligible to apply for the 2025-2027 One UP PC & FG Awards for outstanding performance in a field or discipline. Part-time faculty members with plantilla items such as those from the College of Medicine are also eligible.
2. Faculty members on secondment, sabbatical, full time or part-time study leave, and other leaves during a portion of the evaluated period are eligible to apply for the award subject to the eligibility criteria set for the One UP Award (approved during the 1340^th BOR meeting last 3 December 2018).
3. Faculty must not have had any conviction for criminal or administrative offenses during the three (3) year evaluation period.
4. Faculty awardees of the Scientific Productivity System (SPS), Arts Productivity System (APS), annual UP-funded CU-implemented Centennial Professorial Chairs, and Faculty Grants (such as in UP Diliman, UP Los Baños, UP Manila) for outstanding publications, International Publication Awards, and awardees of national and international prizes or competitions, are eligible to apply to the One UP PC & FG Awards as long as they meet the criteria of the One UP Award.
5. Faculty who currently hold professorial chairs or faculty grants funded by non-UP donors for less than P10,000/month are eligible for the One U.P. PC & FG Awards as long as they meet the criteria of the One U.P. Award. They will continue to hold and receive funds from the privately funded professorial chair until its term expires, after which they will be transferred to and receive funds from the One U.P. PC & FG Award for the remainder of 2025-2027.
6. Faculty who currently hold professorial chairs or faculty grants funded by private donors for P10,000/month or greater are not eligible for the One U.P. PC & FG Awards.

AWARD DISBURSEMENT

1. The award will be terminated if the awardee receives any convictions for criminal or administrative offenses during the three (3) year award period.
2. Faculty awardees of One UP Awards may continue to receive entitlements in full if they get awarded SPS, APS, or annual UP-funded Centennial Professorial Chairs for outstanding publications, International Publication Awards, and awards of national and international prizes or competitions during the One UP Award’s disbursement period.
3. The Unit Head (Department/Institute/Center Chair) will be responsible in confirming that the faculty awardee complies with all these rules yearly through the submission of the Statement of No Conflict (SNC) to the Accounting and Budget Offices.
4. Retiring and expired faculty will cease to receive the One U.P. PC & FG Awards upon their retirement or end of service and will receive the pro-rated amount of the award in their last year of service.
5. Retiring faculty who have been extended will continue to receive the One U.P. PC & FG Awards.

PERIOD DEFINITIONS

SUPPORT TEAM

The Support Team may be contacted through [email protected]

APPLICATION AND EVALUATION PROCEDURES

SCHEDULE

1. The deadline for submission of applications online is on 01 November 2025 (Saturday, 11:55 pm).
2. The evaluation period for the 2025-2027 One U.P. PC & FG Awards is from 01 January 2022 to 31 December 2024. Applicants must have been employed as UP faculty during the evaluation period.
3. Awards will be announced on 16 December 2025. Applications may be withdrawn only before the Chancellor’s endorsement to the System Awards Committee.
4. The award period is from 01 January 2025 to 31 December 2027.
5. The award money will be released on the first or second month of each year, as soon as the faculty complies with the disbursement rules.
6. Subject to availability of funds, a call will be made regularly.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

1. Only online applications will be available through the UP Academic Data Collection Portal (https://adcp.up.edu.ph/). Faculty will be asked to upload scanned proof of accomplishments.
2. GUIDE: One UP Login Guide
3. Faculty applicants must log in with their official UP Email Account (ending in @up.edu.ph. all faculty must have a UP mail account. Please contact the UP Helpdesk at [email protected] or your CU’s computer center for inquiries on the setting up of the account.) Please make sure to regularly check messages sent to this email address as official messages and announcements will be forwarded to your UP Email address.
4. The Faculty Application Module may be editable until the said deadline. Additional items that faculty want to submit past the deadline must be forwarded to the Unit Awards Committee (formed by each Department/Institute/Center or by College for smaller units). The UAC will need to approve these additions.
5. All announcements will be done through memos and email blasts to registered accounts.
6. College or academic unit officials may organize one- or two-day assemblies or make other arrangements to guide the faculty to fill up the application forms efficiently and meet the deadline for submission of applications. IT specialists of the college or members of ITDC, if requested, can provide assistance during these assemblies. To request, please email the Support Team.
7. The Vice Presidents, other System officials, Chancellors, and other CU officials likewise may submit their applications with accomplishments and corresponding points/scores for teaching, research or creative work, and public service, which will be verified by their respective home academic unit’s One U.P. PC & FG Awards Committees. The scores for UP administrative work will be verified by the President (for Vice Presidents, Secretary of the University, Chancellors) or by the corresponding direct administration supervisors of the other System and CU officials.

EVALUATION PROCESS

PORTAL GUIDE: One UP PC & FG Awards Evaluation Guide

WORKFLOW

1. Each academic unit (Department, institute, Center) led by its head/chair will create a Unit Awards Committee (UAC), whose members will be selected among themselves by the Committee chair. The UAC Chair may or may not be the Unit Head (Department/Institute/Center Chair). The UAC will be responsible for auditing and verifying the data/information and corresponding points/scores provided by the faculty. Endorsement, re-scoring, additional entry, and other executory functions are only available through the UAC Chair’s evaluation account. Other UAC Members have read-only access to the applications.
2. If the Unit Head/ Dean/ Chancellor is also an applicant, please avoid assigning them as the UAC Chairperson.
3. The Unit must submit a list of their Unit Awards Committee members with their corresponding UP Email Addresses to the Support team through channels (up to the Chancellors) to ensure that the list is official. The list must also include the personal UP email addresses of the Unit Heads, Deans, and Chancellors (e.g. [email protected] NOT [email protected]). Please make sure that the list is provided to the Support team at least a week before the evaluation period starts.
4. PLEASE FOLLOW THE SCHEDULE BELOW AS STRICTLY AS POSSIBLE:
   
   

Evaluation Step	Dates
Unit Awards Committee Evaluation	2 November 2025 (12 AM) to 11 November 2025 (11:55 PM)
College Awards Committee Evaluation	12 November 2025 (12 AM) to 21 November 2025 (11:55pm)
CU Awards Committee Evaluation	22 November 2025 (12 AM) to 1 December 2025 (11:55 PM)
System Awards Committee Review	2 December 2025 (12 AM) to 5 December 2025 (11:55pm)
President/Executive Vice President's Approval	6 December 2025 (12 AM) to 10 December 2025 (11:55 pm)
Appeals	10 December 2025 (12 AM) to 12 December 2025 (11:55 PM)
Announcement of Awardees	16 December 2025

GENERAL PRINCIPLES IN SCORING AND RANKING OF APPLICANTS

The UAC may decide to change the self-scored points but with justification. They may also accept new entries in case the faculty applicant can still improve their points. Faculty who attain the minimum point requirements will qualify for the One U.P. PC and FG Awards. The ADCP System initially selects the 2 work areas with the highest points for consideration. However, the UAC may override the selected combination in case there are sub-criteria that are not met and the faculty applicant will be more qualified in a different work area combination. The UAC may also mark the application ‘ineligible’ for non-score reasons but this will require entry of justification (pending case, has existing PC that provides more than P10,000 a month, etc.). The justification must be duly reviewed by the succeeding line officials

For this call, ranking will now be strictly imposed. The general idea of the ranking is that those awarded Professorial Chairs must be performing at a much higher standard than those awarded Faculty Grants. Hence, a Professor or an Associate Professor may be awarded Faculty Grants instead of Professorial Chairs.

Given that different fields will have different average scores, the UAC will have the authority to endorse the faculty applicant for a PC or an FG. Succeeding approving line officials will need to compare the scores with other departments or colleges to benchmark to either endorse the UAC’s decision or return the application to the UAC with their recommendations. Rankings will be generated automatically by the system and may be requested from the Support Team.

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B. MINIMUM SCORES REQUIRED FOR AWARD ELIGIBILITY

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE requires the following points:

**Teaching of all nominated faculty must be at least satisfactory (equivalent to 10 points). For these categories, only 10 pts. maximum will be counted towards the 70 pts.

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C. SCORING RULES

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