THE UNIVERSIDAD La Salle Mexico has conferred an Honorary Degree on De La Salle University Chancellor Emeritus Carmelita Quebengco.

UDM said it awarded the degree to recognize Quebengco’s adherence and commitment to his work, the arts, transformative learning, and quality academic formation.

It also acknowledged her educational projects and tireless work on behalf of persons with disabilities and indigenous communities.

“She is also a testimony to the leadership role of lay persons and women in the Lasallian educational mission,” ULSM said.

Quebengco taught at La Salle Green Hills High School and DLSU Graduate School of Education. She was also the director of University Research Office, head of the Educational Management Department, Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts.

She served as founding dean of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde and became the first woman chancellor of the university.

Quebengco initiated and developed educational innovations such as the Educational Development Special Program, the Arts Management Program, the program for the deaf at the De La Salle College of Saint Benilde, and the STAR Scholars Program.

Her research on Philippine indigenous education gave rise to the establishment in September 1984 of the Pundasyon Hanunuo Mangyan School in the uplands of Southern Mindoro.