Dear uNAVSA family, Chuc mung nam moi! I would like to wish everyone a very happy and very prosperous new year. I hope that everyone will be able to celebrate this time with loved family and friends. I wish you and your family great health and happiness for this year of the Tiger (Xuan Canh Dan). Tet [...]
14 February 2010
Dear uNAVSA family, Chuc mung nam moi! I would like to wish everyone a very happy and very prosperous new year. I hope that everyone will be able to celebrate this time with loved family and friends. I wish you and your family great health and happiness for this year of the Tiger (Xuan Canh Dan). Tet [...]
10 February 2010
Dear uNAVSA community, On December 3, 2009, a group of 30 Asian American students were the target of a racially motivated assault at South Philadelphia High School, leaving several hospitalized. In the following months, the school and the school district’s administration have not been as responsive and decisive as the Philadelphia Asian American community would want. [...]
25 November 2009
Dear uNAVSA Community, After much deliberation among the submitted bids, we are pleased to announce WASHINGTON, D.C., as the venue for the 2010 uNAVSA-7 Conference! Congratulations to the members of the Mid-Atlantic region and Mid-Atlantic UVSA for a terrific effort in compiling a comprehensive conference bid proposal. uNAVSA would like to thank the organizations that submitted bid [...]
28 October 2009
uNAVSA Press Release October 28, 2009 San Jose Police Brutally Beat San Jose State University Student 20-year-old, Phuong Ho was brutally beaten by San Jose police officers on September 3, 2009 in his home. A cell phone video taken by Dimitri Masouris, Ho’s roommate, show police officers using batons and a Taser gun on the unarmed Phuong as [...]
13 October 2009
Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations (uNAVSA) Press Release SE Asia Typhoon October 13, 2009 For the past two weeks, Typhoon Ketsana has swept through Southeast Asia, devastating Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand and killing an estimated 400 people since Thursday, October 1. “Ketsana dumped the heaviest rains in more than four decades on Manila and surrounding areas, submerging [...]
09 October 2009
Dear uNAVSA Community, We are pleased to announce the 2009-2010 uNAVSA Collective Philanthropy Project (CPP) Directors, Phale Le and Lisa Nguyen. In this coming year, we hope to continue the great success of our annual CPP Campaign to raise funds and awareness for the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation (VAHF) and to help facilitate their project proposal. [...]
09 August 2009
Dear uNAVSA Community, uNAVSA-6 served as a monumental conference last week as it recorded the most diverse numbers of attendees ever within conference history. Fueling the conference atmosphere with energy, excitement and the thirst to learn, 350 Vietnamese students and young professional, from 39 different states and Canada, attended conference at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center [...]
15 July 2009
On behalf of uNAVSA I hope everyone is having a great summer and is excited for the uNAVSA6 Conference in only a couple weeks! The Council of Regional Representatives (CoRR) Elections will be held on Sunday, the weekend of the conference, which is a GREAT opportunity to get more involved in the community across North America. [...]
12 May 2009
Dear uNAVSA community, During the month of May, we celebrate Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) Heritage Month. First officially recognized by Congress in 1978 as the first week in May, it was permanently extended to encompass the month of May in 1992. Across many campuses and many communities, we celebrate and recognize this month as [...]
30 April 2009
Dear uNAVSA family, Today, we remember a time in history that has influenced generations of Vietnamese people. On this day 34 years ago, the Fall of Saigon marks the mass emigration from Vietnam by those seeking refuge from the War, marking the creation of the large Vietnamese diaspora and the divides, geographically and ideologically, that generations [...]
