Taiwanese American Student Association at the University of Michigan
Identity Snapshot
- English: Taiwanese American Student Association at the University of Michigan
- Chinese: —
- Era: Contemporary
- Geography: Taiwanese American community
- Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)
The Taiwanese American Student Association (TASA) at the University of Michigan is a student organization dedicated to preserving and promoting Taiwanese culture among second-generation Taiwanese American students and the broader University of Michigan campus community. The organization also seeks to foster networks among its members. TASA is registered in the university’s official Maize Pages club directory and is recognized by the LSA Asian Languages and Cultures department’s student organization listing.
Role in the Community
- The club’s own activity is documented in the TAHS publication record (taiwaneseamerican.org), which places it as an active second-generation student club running cultural and recruiting events each academic year: a mass meeting inviting new students in fall 2012 ( 2012-09-13), a 「饺子夜」Dumpling Night in October 2012 ( 2012-10-19), a spring recruiting mass meeting ( 2013-01-15), a “Tea Pong” social in February 2013 ( 2013-02-22), a Whirlyball student social in spring 2012 ( 2012-04-10), a family crafts event ( 2013-11-23), and a Taste of Taiwan festival in March 2014 ( 2014-03-22). These are band-B bibliographic records only — no officer names or membership figures are recoverable from them.
- HOLD (partial): the older “TASA” hits in the corpus refer to a different body — the Taiwanese American Seniors Association of Southern California (Our Journeys 173 — 高安素《回顧走過廿八年》) or ITASA, the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Student Association (46. History of ITASA, ITASA newsletter) — and none of them documents the U-M club.
- Context (predecessor Taiwanese activity at U-M, from the corpus): the Ann Arbor campus has a documented lineage of Taiwanese student organizing that this club continues — Prof. Kun-Mu Chen 陳坤木’s 1960 softball team, the seed of North American Taiwanese softball ( 1960), the Formosan Club of the Univ. of Michigan with its own newsletters (Newsletters of Formosan Club of the Univ. of Michigan 密西根大學台灣同鄉會通訊), and the 1981 陳文成紀念基金會 founded after his memorial service in Ann Arbor (2017). The Ann Arbor Taiwanese community layer around the campus extends to its own institutions: the corpus holds a bibliographic record of the Ann Arbor Taiwanese Church’s 40th anniversary celebration on 2016-11-20 (2016), placing the church — and thus continuous Taiwanese community life on campus — back to c. 1976; and the wider Michigan layer includes the 密西根台灣人協進會 directory record (密西根台灣人協進會) and the NATPA Michigan chapter record ( NATPA 北美洲台灣人教授協會密西根分會).