Francisco T. Dalupan, Sr.
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Dr. Francisco T. Dalupan, Sr. is the founder, first Chairman of the Board and the President of the University of the East (UE).[1]
Dalupan graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University.
Dalupan, with his colleagues established the Philippine College of Commerce and Business Administration (PCCBA) at R. Papa Street, Sampaloc, Manila in 1946. The PCCBA admitted 350 students in the summer of 1947. The following year, more students enrolled and more academic units were organized, and the PCCBA moved to what is now UE's main campus on Claro M. Recto Avenue.
The PCCBA was granted university status on 3 July, 1951 and was renamed the University of the East. Dalupan became UE's first President and the Chairman of its Board of Trustees. The first members of the Board were Herminigildo B. Reyes, a businessman, scholarm and former Vice President of the University of the Philippines. Santiago F. de la Cruz, a CPA and business executive who later succeeded Dalupan as UE President.
Before founding UE, Dr. Francisco Dalupan was a co-founder of the Far Eastern University headed by Nicanor Reyes Sr., professors at the University of the Philippines Department of Economics.
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University of the East http://www.ue.edu.ph
- ^ "University of the East: Nearly 60 years of quality education for the masses", Manila Bulletin. Retrieved on September 19, 2006.
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