Welcome To Vietnamese Student Association

Thank you for visiting our new Internet site.  My name is Phukhanh Vu. I was a former student and I am one of the advisors for the Vietnamese Student Association at Orange Coast College.  Currently, I am a full-time senior network and information systems engineer with the Information Technology department on campus.  I am proudly to sponsor this great club with this website at http://www.vsaocc.org.

As a non-profit organization, we want to give you the opportunity to stay in touch with our club members as well as our advisors and officers. A new content management system will enable us to always keep you up to date. We are working on numbers of special offers to you when you become a member of this great club at Orange Coast College. Please come and join us.

The mission of the Vietnamese Student Association at Orange Coast College are to promote and preserve the Vietnamese culture and language in the community and the college for staff and students; to represent and to share the Vietnamese culture and language both on and off campus; to assist Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese students in gaining additional knowledge and understanding of the long-established culture; and to serve the community.

In past years, members of VSA have tried to pass on the Vietnamese culture and the history through various activities and community services, all of which ultimately lead to our biggest production of the year: the Annual Vietnamese Culture Night Show.

Throughout this event, we promote students to find their cultural identity and associate with new individuals. By participating in planning and performing cultural arts, the students have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the culture and history as well as developing leadership skills, talents, and bonds with others. Furthermore, the multi-cultural awareness of the show will attract both Asian and non-Asian community members.

As one of the advisors and program director for this event, I have been working extremely close with all board officers and VSA members for the past 12 years on this special occasion.  I have seen a huge improvement in providing leadership, a solid sense of teamwork, determination, and hard work from advisors, board officers and VSA members throughout this event.

I have to admit that the Vietnamese Student Association known as VSA OCC is one of the best clubs on and off campus.  One of the main reasons for its success is leadership and teamwork.  This event is known as the best from others staged at various schools throughout the state.  As advisors, we find that it is important to keep the show in the native language in order to preserve it among the Vietnamese youth, the students, and the community throughout this special event.  Please feel free to contact or email me if you have any other questions regarding the event.

In the meantime you can reach Phuong Thu Do, VSA President at 714-331-7829. We are looking forward to hearing from you. You can also contact us at our e-mail address: vsa@vsaocc.org.

Best wishes and have a great year to all!