About NSU SVEA

The Student Virginia Education Association (SVEA) is a professional pre-service teacher organization. It provides opportunities for college students to explore education as a profession. SVEA has as one of its primary goals to inform, educate and involve its membership in educational issues.

The NSU SVEA Chapter is proud to have been introduced to President McDemmond in her first months in Norfolk by the Education Association of Norfolk (EAN) as having, for the first time, become the largest chapter of the SVEA in the Commonwealth during their annual scholarship banquet. For seven years, the NSU SVEA Chapter maintains its status as one of the largest chapters in the Commonwealth. It is the largest chapter among Virginia's Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

History - the history of NSU SVEA is important to us and is reflected in this scan of the original 1949 Charter. Click here to view the image.

We are neither a "club" or a "social group." We are a nationally organized student professional organization with a national, full-time, elected chairperson and a nine-member appointed advisory committee of student members. We belong to the 2.8 million member National Education Association. There are no other professional student organizations as comprehensive as that of the NEASP.