New UP Clarkfield Permanent Site
On June 22, 2007, in what can be the centerpiece of UP’s fifty-four-year-old existence in the province, the CDC turned over to the university a 3.28-hectare lot for UP Clarkfield’s permanent site. The site was given in a dramatic groundbreaking ceremony capped by an emotional alumni homecoming.
The new site is to be developed jointly by UP and CDC into a university town. When completed, it will make the Clark Freeport one of the few progressive special economic zones in the world to have an institution of higher learning in its premises. The proposed plan of the permanent campus will include a main building, a student and faculty dormitory, a gymnasium, a regional-cultural studies center and an alumni center. Today, it is serving as the intellectual capital of Region III, is recruiting the brightest in the region and has established an admirable record of intellectual and institutional accomplishments.
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