Records of the Virginia Tech Asian American Student Union

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Records of the Asian American Student Union, 1997-2018, RG 31/14/7a, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.7 Cubic Feet 1 box, 1 oversize folder, 1 roll storage tube
Creator:
Virginia Polytechnic Institution and State University. Asian American Student Union
Abstract:
This collection contains event posters, DVDs, VHS tapes, a cut-out from the Collegiate Times, and a painted muslin canvas created by the Virginia Tech Asian American Student Union.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Records of the Asian American Student Union, 1997-2018, RG 31/14/7a, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains event posters, DVDs, VHS tapes, a cut-out from the Collegiate Times, and a painted muslin canvas created by the Virginia Tech Asian American Student Union. The majority of this collection is made up of event posters and audiovisual materials created by the VTAASU.

Front page of the Collegiate Times newspaper dated September 13, 2001, including articles about the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the reaction of the campus community, and Virginia Tech's fourth annual Celebration of Diversity which was held as plabnned on September 12, 2001 rather than being cancelled.

Biographical / historical:

The Virginia Tech Asian American Student Union (VTAASU) was founded in the early-1990s, in either 1991 or 1992. The VTAASU acts as an umbrella organization for the Asian/Pacific Islander/Desi American (APIDA) organizations on campus. The organization's mission statement is to "strive to enhance and further the individual, cultural, and ethnic diversities that exist in the APIDA communities" and to "make efforts to address the problems, issues, and concerns of the APIDA communities to the administration and other fellow student organizations".

Source:

Virginia Tech Asian American Student Union Gobbler Connect Website

Acquisition information:
The Records of the Asian American Student Union were transferred to Special Collections and University Archives in 2019.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Records of the Asian American Student Union commenced and completed in November 2022.

Arrangement:

This collection contains one series and a number of items not organized into series.

Series I: Events contains event posters, video recordings, and other items related to events hosted by the Asian American Student Union.