#VSUGrad2022 may already be over but we at the University Integrated Media Center (UIMC) are still in awe for a successful run of this seven-part celebration that included not just the flagship campus in Baybay City but also our component campuses in Alangalang, Isabel, Tolosa and Villaba.

In a time when we were asked to lock ourselves in our respective homes, we relied so much on social media to seek information about the pandemic, including for entertainment mainly to reduce our stress and anxiety brought by COVID-19.

VSU Devcom makes history!

For the development of a working prototype of the Portable Vacuum Fryer, VSU Vice President for Administration and Finance Dr. Daniel Leslie S. Tan together with two other researchers from the Philippine Rootcrops Research and Training Center (PhilRootcrops) bagged the 2nd highest award for the nationwide Search of the Most Outstanding Utility Model.

First of all, I would like to thank Dr. Edgardo Tulin for the introduction, a very flattering one. But I always tell everybody that if you make an introduction of me, please make it short. Because if it's long, that means you have a very long resume. If you have a long resume, that means you are already old.

For the first time, VSU breaks into the magic 10 circle of the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities placing 8th among the 366 public and private institutions in the country that were rated in the July 2022 edition of this international ranking system.  

I am greatly honored to stand here before these resilient graduates of 2020 and 2021. After two years, here we are, physically present to celebrate the success of these graduates. Delays are the beautiful languages of opportunities. Difficult times such as the COVID-19 pandemic was an opportunity to learn and master persistence and resilience. As I stand here before you, I feel the indescribable energy of success and the sense of excitement of everyone. COVID-19 is still a threat this time but not as the way we perceived it during its first wave. It is important to always remember that when times get tough, persevere, exude resilience.