On our 17th year as a university, we do not only celebrate the gains of our universityhood, we also look back and recognize the people whose contributions have helped shape the University of Antique into what it is today.

This year’s Conversion Day Guest of Honor and Speaker is one of the key figures behind this milestone. He served as the principal author and legislative sponsor of House Bill No. 4415, an Act converting the Polytechnic State College of Antique in the municipality of Sibalom into a state university, to be known as the University of Antique, which was subsequently transmitted to the Senate and enacted into law as Republic Act No. 9746, sponsored by then Senator Mar Roxas and signed by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

We are honored to welcome 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐁. 𝐉𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 as we commemorate 17 years of universityhood and recognize his instrumental role in this significant chapter of our academe’s history.