The House Committee on Higher and Technical Education approved House Bill 4292 which seeks to establish a satellite campus of the Visayas State University in Hilongos, Leyte on March 19, 2024, in a deliberation meeting held at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City.

VSU forestry students talked about how their teamwork dynamics and excellent training from the Department of Forest Science (DFS) and College of Forestry and Environmental Science (CFES) served as their competitive edge after being declared as third runner-up in the overall 14th National Forestry Olympiad (NFO) held at the University of Philippines Los Baños this year.