Dr. Jose L. Bacusmo, VSU President, lauded those who are involved in changing the lives of the students to become good citizens and better persons during the oath-taking ceremony of campus advisers, campus ministers, and college/department-based guidance facilitators on July 12, 2012 at the VSU's Center for Continuing Education. The president pointed out that on top of VSU's responsibility of imparting knowledge and transferring skills to the students, it is likewise mandated to build characters of its students.

The 88th Foundation Day of the Visayas State University (VSU) would be something different in all foundation day celebrations of the institution. The number 8 in the ordinal adjective 88th connotes "infinity" or "without end" and the number is doubled. The University has decided that since the number 8 is doubled it might as well need to have two anniversary speakers during the 88th VSU Anniversary Convocation Program in the morning of August 11, 2012.