After a long evening, we congratulate our 2014-2015 executive board: President: Tiffany Bair Vice President: Nathan Kung Barnard Vice President: Corinna Lin Treasurer: Sean Liu Secretary: Julia Lai We are proud of all the candidates who ran. They have shown the utmost commitment to TASA. Great job to the entire […]
Spring 2014
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As the semester winds down, we conclude with a few events all happening this week. Taiwan Democracy in Transition and Lessons Learned from Hong Kong Join us this tonight at 7:30pm, 504 Diana for a panel discussion with Jerome Cohen, Murray Rubinstein, and Yu-Jie Chen. Serving with Compassion—Tzu Chi at […]
Congrats to the admitted Class of 2018! We enjoyed seeing you at our table during Days on Campus and hope to meet more of you! If you are interested in joining TASA next year (which you should!), then you should check out our Prospective Members page. We will be holding […]
After a week long break, we’re back and energized to conquer the rest of the semester! This Friday, we will have a booth at Matsuri in front of Low Library. Be sure to stop by and try our delicacy starting at 4pm! We have been organizing a Political Panel on […]
Last week, we visited the Taiwanese Economic and Cultural Office in New York where we met with Ambassador Paul Wen-liang Chang, Director-General, and learned about what they have been doing to help expand Taiwan’s international reach. There was a fun calligraphy session afterwards where we all practiced our skills. Thank you, TECO, for […]
Our inaugural event ROOTS that featured stories told by the Columbia community had us laughing, enlightened, and teary-eyed all throughout the night. Led by our very own TASA board members, Alison and Nathan, this event was a collaboration among several other cultural clubs. Thank you, storytellers, for being courageous and […]
This past weekend, we attended ITASA’s East Coast Conference at Yale University. We truly enjoyed featured speaker Andrew Yang‘s talk on entrepreneurship, and it has inspired us to think about pursuing this field. The workshops were a lot of fun, and we expanded our network by meeting other TASA members from various […]
ITASA is almost here!! This weekend, we’ll be heading up to Yale to attend ITASA 2014 East Coast Conference: WORK IN PROGRESS, where honorary attendees Andrew Yang of Venture for America, Bob Wu of Taiwanese American Citizens League, Joann Lo of Food Chain Workers Alliance, and many more will be speaking […]
This past weekend, several of our board members attended GLO (Global Leadership Organization) Leadership Conference in Boston! They learned how to effectively conduct a meeting, gained valuable mentors, and discovered the importance of setting life goals. We will be incorporating this newly gained knowledge in our weekly meetings! Interested in […]
Chinese New Year is this Friday!! We’re excited for the new year and even celebrated at our meeting with Taiwanese pineapple cakes! In addition to the events mentioned in the previous post, we will also be hosting a Political Panel! This panel will feature Professor Jerome Cohen of NYU Law […]