National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera was honored with similar services in 2022, as well as visual artist Arturo Luz in 2021 and Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio in 2020.

and scholar who wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on Nora), the late professor Nieves Epistola (a well-respected English professor on campus), professor Bienvendio Lumbera (poet, librettist, scholar, and ...