UP Diliman classes suspended on Feb. 25 in observance of EDSA People Power anniversary
The University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) has suspended its classes in observance of the 39th EDSA People Power anniversary.
In a Facebook post, the UP Diliman University Student Council announced the suspension in a memo signed by the UPD Chancellor Edgardo Carlo Vistan II following the former's request signed by 100+ councils and formations.
"All undergraduate and graduate classes (i.e., face-to-face, synchronous, asynchronous, and other modes of teaching/learning) at UP Diliman are suspended on 25 February 2025," the statement read.
Meanwhile, administrators, faculty, REPS, and administrative staff who wish to participate in activities must request a special work arrangement from their supervisor/department chair, which must be approved by the unit head/dean/director.
"Unit heads are urged to allow personnel, including those engaged on a contractual basis, to join such activities and accommodate special work arrangement requests. Please submit copies of the approved requests to the Human Resource Development Office via email (benefits_hrdo.upd@up.edu.ph) for recording," it added.
The announcement came after UP president Angelo Jimenez on Feb. 19 declared Feb. 25 an Alternative Learning Day across the university system to encourage administrators, faculty, REPS, students, and staff to "participate in meaningful and peaceful activities that honor the spirit of unity, freedom, and civil liberties."
This initially met mixed reactions as some social media users pointed out the delay of the announcement.
UP Diliman's Department of English and Comparative Literature declared class suspensions ahead of the QC campus as it said, "there is no alternative to history."
"We protest the Marcos Administration's erasure of EDSA," it wrote in a statement.
Meanwhile, classes are also suspended on Feb. 25 in UP Cebu.
The EDSA People Power was a series of bloodless demonstrations from Feb. 22 to 25, 1986, that toppled Ferdinand E. Marcos's 20-year dictatorship.
Last October 2024, his son and namesake, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., via Proclamation No. 727, issued a list of regular holidays and special non-working days.
This year, the EDSA People Power Revolution anniversary was declared a special working day, falling on a Tuesday.
It marks the second time Malacañang didn't declare the EDSA People Power a holiday.
Here is a list of other schools that declared class suspensions on Feb. 25 for the EDSA People Power anniversary.
