Taiwanese American Student Association @ Ohio State University
Identity Snapshot
- English: Taiwanese American Student Association @ Ohio State University
- Chinese: —
- Era: Contemporary
- Geography: Taiwanese American community
- Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)
The Taiwanese American Student Association (TASA) at The Ohio State University is a registered student organization focused on exploring Taiwanese American identity and culture on the Columbus campus. Its founding year is not stated on available first-party sources, though the organization’s official website is hosted on OSU’s org.osu.edu platform and its 2026–2027 constitution is on file with OSU Student Activities. TASA is open to all students regardless of identity or background.
Role in the Community
- Community memoirs in the archive recall the Ohio State University Taiwanese Association as one of “the two most typical examples” (with the University of Texas at Austin Taiwanese Association) of the ~1970 campus Taiwanese-association wave: students broke away from Chinese Student Associations they saw as controlled by the consulate and the Kuomintang. See Our Journeys 76 (EN).
- An OSU team competed in the first Midwest Taiwanese softball tournament (1973-06-16/17, Purdue), among 11 teams — evidence of an organized OSU Taiwanese student community by 1973. See Our Journeys 376.
- The archive also holds a 2016 newsletter record (會訊) by OSU Taiwanese Student Association 哥城台灣同學會, showing the group active under that name in the mid-2010s — see OSU Taiwanese Student Association 會訊.
- 2013-04 — OSU hosted the 2013 ITASA Midwest Conference, documented in the Taiwanese American Press archive: 2013 ITASA Midwest Conference at The Ohio State University. This places the campus group within the Midwest intercollegiate Taiwanese student network (ITASA) in the contemporary era, independent of the TAH directory record.
- 2010-12 — a Taiwanese American movement speaker’s year-end recap records the Midwest Asian American Student Union (MAASU) conference at OSU as one of the campus stops on a nationwide tour that also included ITASA conferences (MIT, UT Austin, UCSD), TANG camps, and the TAF conference — corroborating OSU’s place in the Midwest Taiwanese/Asian-American student circuit in the contemporary era: On Discovering Passion & Purpose (Taiwanese American Press).
- HOLD: whether today’s registered TASA continues that 1970-era organization is not established on first-party sources; the founding year remains unstated. The corpus records the campus Taiwanese student presence under three names across eras (Taiwanese Association ~1970s, 哥城台灣同學會 2016, TASA present) without a first-party lineage statement.
- 2026-09-23 corpus re-grep (slice 09221200-19): new hits were incidental OSU mentions (OSU Haters tumblr racism coverage, Buckeye fandom, Ohio State University Press memoir review, Cleveland library memoir) — not absorbable for this org.
- 2026-09-24 corpus re-grep (slice 09230600-10): hit set unchanged — the three absorbable works (Our Journeys 76 EN, Our Journeys 376, OSU 會訊) plus incidental OSU mentions (Brian Yang Buckeye fandom, OSU Haters racism coverage). SKIP (verified-saturated).
- 2013-11 — Taiwanese American Press recorded campus chapter activity directly: a Taiwanese Brunch with TASA at OSU (2013-11-23) and a Moon Festival Showcase with TASA at OSU (2013-11-01), corroborating an active named TASA chapter hosting regular community events in autumn 2013 — see Taiwanese Brunch with TASA at OSU and Moon Festival Showcase with TASA at OSU.
- 2026-09-25 corpus re-grep (slice 09240400-18, done on canonical page; slice path was the redirect stub): absorbable set now Our Journeys 76 EN, Our Journeys 376, OSU 會訊, 2013 ITASA Midwest Conference, On Discovering Passion & Purpose (MAASU at OSU), plus the two new 2013 TASA-at-OSU event records above. Remaining hits (OSU Haters / twitter-wars racism coverage) stay incidental.
- 2026-09-25 corpus re-grep (slice 09240600-12): hit set unchanged — absorbable set already on page (Our Journeys 76 EN, Our Journeys 376, OSU 會訊, 2013 ITASA Midwest Conference, MAASU recap, two 2013 TASA-at-OSU event records); new hits only incidental (Grace Loh Prasad OSU-press memoir review, OSU Haters racism coverage, Buckeye fandom, deer-COVID news). SKIP-with-reason.