Student Life

Meet Halle (Hail) Encina, a second-year BS Home Economics student who bravely stepped up to the role of HE Representative for the academic year 2025-2026. In this article, we get to know her more not only as the department’s representative, but as a friend, colleague, and a person who, like everyone else, seeks to gain a deeper understanding of what they were really meant to do.

The Department of Home Economics Education proudly congratulates their students who have successfully completed their practicum in the course HEEd 149: Practicum III Management of School Food Service Centers. Here, they shared what kind of service they have chosen to provide and how they were able to successfully execute the practicum despite their challenges and trials, succeeding with the fruits of their labor to take with them in their professions. 

The Department of Home Economics Education proudly congratulates their students who have successfully executed their business venture plans in their HEEd 134: Practicum I Entrepreneurship Education. In this article, students shared their experiences in the month-long process of trials and errors, the risks they had to take, and the fruits of their hard work that made everything all worth it.

The Department of Home Economics Education proudly congratulates their very own student, Kalee Buxani, member of the UP Streetdance Club, for winning the UAAP Season 87 Streetdance Competition.

The Department of Home Economics Education blooms with pride and joy as they celebrate the achievements of their student athletes and achievers for the First Semester of A.Y. 2024-2025.

The Department of Home Economics Education, together with the Circle of Home Economists held a Home Economics Career Talk with the theme “Sailing across the sea of opportunities” last November 9, 2024 at CHE Gusali 2B.

The Department of Home Economics Education, together with the UP Circle of Home Economists, recently welcomed the freshmen and new students of the department through a short orientation, themed “Planted,” held last September 20 at Gusali 2B.

The Department of Home Economics Education, together with the UP Circle of Home Economists, held a party with the theme “Pagsibol, Pagyabong, Pamumunga” last August 9, 2024 at Gusali 2-B, College of Home Economics, to celebrate the milestones of the recent HE graduates.

The month of May has been a month filled with words of wisdom for the HEEd 233 Family Entrepreneurship Class as they learned straight from the stories of successful entrepreneurs of leading household names in the country.

On the 25th of September, the College of Home Economics community unveiled its way in such a grand scheme through the commemoration of its 62nd Founding Anniversary. With the theme, "Laro at Lasang Pinoy," CHE transformed into a Pinoy Games Festival for one whole day. Driven by Goal 3 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals - Good Health and Well-being, the event sought to promote culture, physical fitness, teamwork, sportsmanship, and enjoyment.

A classroom is a small bubble. However, students shall find themselves face-to-face with real life when this bubble bursts. On the 25th of November, the Department of Home Economics Education (DHEEd) and UP Circle of Home Economists (UP CHEc) joined forces to host HE Career Talk: CHEC LIST UNVEILED in order to ease them through such a crucial transition of curriculum-turned careers.

How do you envision families of the future? How do home economists make homes, families, and consumers of the future safe, happy and healthy? These are the questions posed to the members of the UP CHE community – students, faculty, staff, and alumni – during the HE Art Contest held last February to March 2024 by the UP College of Home Economics, through the Department of Home Economics Education. The contest was held in celebration of the World Home Economics Day 2024, with the theme “Home Economics 3.0: A Critical Update.”