A FORMER dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters (Artlets) has been named executive editor of the International Studies in Catholic Education (ISCE) journal, joining an international team of academics and researchers.
Prof. Belen Tangco, O.P., who served as Artlets dean from 2003 to 2006, is the lone executive editor from Asia in the journal, which is composed of six other academics, all from the United Kingdom.
ISCE is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on Catholic education. It publishes research on theology, philosophy, history, educational and pedagogic studies, and social and economic science.
Tangco, a faculty member under the Department of Political Science, is the political science program lead at the UST Graduate School.
She completed her undergraduate political science degree at the Faculty of Arts and Letters with magna cum laude honors in 1971.
Tangco obtained her doctorate in political science with summa cum laude distinction from UST, and her doctorate in educational management from Centro Escolar University Manila.
Tangco, founder of the Young Thomasian Professionals Lay Dominican Fraternity, has been president of the Dominican Laity Provincial Council in the Philippines since 2016 and representative of Asia-Pacific in the International Council of Lay Dominical Fraternities.
She served as the international coordinator of the International Council of Lay Dominican Fraternities in 2013.
She was the convenor and organizer of the International Congress for Catholic Educators in Bangkok, Thailand in 2002.
Tangco represented the Union Mondiale Des Enseignants Catholiques or World Union of Catholic Teachers (UMEC – WUCT) in the United Nations and all other world organizations from 2017 to 2018.
She also represented the Catholic Teachers’ Guild of the Philippines as its national president during the general assembly of UMEC – WUCT in 2022 in Rome.
She held various posts at the Commission of Higher Education (CHEd): member of the technical panel for transnational education and distance education, humanities, social sciences and communication education, and a permanent resource person to the technical working group for pathways and equivalencies of CHEd for the Philippine qualifications framework.
In December, Tangco joined CHEd’s technical panel on transnational education and distance learning.