Three years after VSU was granted the affiliate membership, the Southeast Asian University Consortium for Graduate Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources, or the University Consortium (UC), accorded VSU as one of its regular members. 

Out of several campus journalists nationwide, Amaranth’s Executive Editor Jerry V. Yubal made the cut to the Aries Rufo Journalism Fellowship—a national training program named after a veteran and multi-awarded investigative journalist who wrote for Newsbreak and Rappler on various issues, such as the church, judiciary, politics, and elections.