Seventy-two researchers and academicians from the different academic institutions in the Visayas rubbed elbows on June 21-22, 2012 during the 9th General Membership Assembly of the National Research Council of the Philippines – Visayas Regional Cluster (NRCP-VRC) at the VSU's Center for Continuing Education. This year's assembly was dovetailed on the theme "Towards Building Dynamic and Invigorated Basic Researchers in the Visayas Cluster for Philippine Progress."

School Year 2012-2013 formally opened as VSU welcomed the 1,668 new freshmen and transferees during the New Students Orientation Program held on June 4, 2012 at the VSU Gymnatorium.

Engr. Manolo B. Loreto Jr., Dean of Students, said that the activity was meant to introduce the different services and programs that the University can offer to the new students and for them to feel the sense of belongingness as they adapt to their new environment and how to cope with the rigors of work expected from them as college students of this institution of higher learning.

The LEAD Agricultural Products Corporation located at the Unit 1208 Paragon Plaza, EDSA, Mandaluyong and the Visayas State University (VSU) Main Campus concretized very recently the Memorandum of Agreement for the implementation of the LEADS Agri Angat Pinoy Scholarship Grant.

Hon. Pelagio S. Apostol, Deputy Ombudsman for Visayas, dropped-by the University on his way to Ormoc City on June 14, 2012 and had a Dialogue-Forum with some VSU constituents at the Training Hall of VSU's Philippine Root Crop Research and Training Center (PhilRootcrops). In his welcome remarks, the University President, Dr. Jose L. Bacusmo, said that the VSU constituents were blessed to have the Deputy Ombudsman around to personally educate the VSU community on how to avoid committing mistakes and being prosecuted.

Dr. Jose L. Bacusmo, VSU President, delivered the State of the University Address or SUA to the faculty, staff, students, and guests during the Annual Academic Convocation on July 10, 2012 at the VSU Gymnatorium.

More than a year after the MOA for Project COMET (Consortium for Meteorology Education and Training) was signed on January 7, 2011 by the presidents of the four-member universities (BU, CLSU, MMSU and VSU), together with the DOST Undersecretary and officer-in-charge of PAGASA Graciano P. Yumul, Jr. and AGHAM Party List Representative Angelo B. Palmones, the three scholars from the Visayas State University Main Campus signed the Scholarship Agreement for the 2012 Junior Level Science Scholarships (JLSS) for BS Meteorology. The signing of the Scholarship Agreement took place in the afternoon of June 8, 2012 at the VSU Oriental Garden Viewing Pavilion.

Dr. Jose L. Bacusmo, VSU President, lauded those who are involved in changing the lives of the students to become good citizens and better persons during the oath-taking ceremony of campus advisers, campus ministers, and college/department-based guidance facilitators on July 12, 2012 at the VSU's Center for Continuing Education. The president pointed out that on top of VSU's responsibility of imparting knowledge and transferring skills to the students, it is likewise mandated to build characters of its students.