THE HEAD of the University Integrated Media Center of the Visayas State University was elected as national president of the Association of Development Communication Educators and Practitioners Philippines.

VSU said that Dr. Ulderico Alviola is the second Viscan to serve as prime mover of ADCEP. The first was Dr. Rotacio S. Gravoso who completed two terms from 2015 to 2018.

Dr. Alviola recently finished his Straight Doctor of Philosophy in Development Communication from the University of the Philippines Los Baños under a joint scholarship grant from the German Academic Exchange Service and the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture.

Dr. Alviola is the longest serving vice president for the Visayas of the Philippine Association of Communication Educators — from 2014 up to the present.

ADCEP has more than 100 members in 27 schools offering Devcom.

ADCEP Philippines promotes and highlights the practice of development communication by sharing and discussing narratives, trends, difficulties, and the field’s future in local, national, and global contexts.