Both guests came for linkage purposes.

  The University of San Carlos, through the facilitation of the Office of External Affairs, received Prof. Dr. Bettina Beer, Director of University of Lucerne’s Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology in Lucerne, Switzerland, on 1 February, for the purpose of exploring practical steps in realizing its new academic partnership with USC’s Department of Anthropology, Sociology and History. Father Alexander Gaut, SVD, Department Chair, met Dr. Beer and introduced her to the faculty and student majors of the department.

Mr. Robert Lee, Honorary Consul of Canada in Cebu, visited Fr. Dionisio Miranda, SVD, University President, on 2 February, for the purpose of proposing potential academic exchanges between USC and Canadian schools and universities.