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| {{short description|National association of students and student associations in the United States}} | |||
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| The '''United States Student Association''' ('''USSA''') was an American national ]. It was founded in 1978, and failed to elect new leadership in 2017. "Years of membership decline, restructuring of grantmaking portfolios in large private foundations, and toxic infighting" led to its operational collapse;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Huang |first=Beth |date=October 10, 2023 |title=What DSA Can Learn from Organizational Death In the Student Movement |url=https://forgeorganizing.org/article/what-dsa-can-learn-organizational-death-student-movement |access-date=Aug 16, 2024 |website=The Forge}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Patrick |first=Justin |date=March 2022 |title=Student Leadership and Student Government |url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1344509.pdf |journal=Research in Educational Administration and Leadership |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=9 |quote=the collapse of the United States Student Association in the late 2010s}}</ref> tax returns continued to be filed in subsequent years.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=United States Student Association |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237211922 |access-date=Aug 19, 2024 |website=]}}</ref> | |||
| The '''United States Student Association''' (USSA), founded in 1947, bills itself as the oldest and largest student association in the ]. It has a historical and current commitment to diversity and breaking the barriers to educational access imposed by inequality and discrimination. It strives to build a movement that is representative of the diversity lacking in political institutions, and organize to alter the relations of power. | |||
| The organization was born in August 1978 during a joint meeting between the ] (NSA), formed in 1947,<ref>{{cite web |title=United States National Student Association Collection {{!}} Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog |url=https://berea.libraryhost.com/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=205&q= |access-date=16 December 2019 |website=berea.libraryhost.com |publisher=Berea College}}</ref> and the ] (NSL), itself originally born of a split in 1971 with the NSA.<ref>{{cite web |last=Johnston |first=J. Angus |date=2009 |title=The United States National Student Association: Democracy, Activism, and the Idea of the Student, 1947–1978 |url=https://studentactivism.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/johnston-diss-5-81f.pdf |publisher=City University of New York}}</ref> The membership of both organizations voted overwhelmingly to merge due to overlapping lobbying work and student government-based membership.<ref name=NSA-history>{{cite web|title=A Brief History of NSA and USSA|first= Angus |last=Johnston |url=https://www.usstudents.org/history.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108160014/https://www.usstudents.org/history.html|archive-date=Nov 8, 2023|work=United States Student Association}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=United States Student Association |url=https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/united-states-student-association/ |access-date=Aug 16, 2024 |website=]}}</ref> The merger saw the NSL absorbed by the NSA, and the NSA renamed as the USSA, no new entity was created.<ref>{{Harvnb|Johnston|2009}} "Formally the merger was accomplished by absorbing NSL into NSA — the delegates to the conference amended NSA’s governing documents, rather than creating a new entity. They banned proxy voting in the new group, after nodding to NSL’s sensitivities by requiring that legislative stands be approved by a 60% super-majority vote in the plenary. And they gave the new organization its new name — The United States Student Association."</ref> | |||
| USSA was formed by a merger of the ] (NSA) and the ] (NSL); and it later absorbed the ] (NSEF). | |||
| By the mid-1980s, the USSA met annually in Washington, D.C., with several hundred students attending.<ref>{{cite news|title=BRIEFING; The Students Are Coming|first1=Phil |last1=Gailey |first2= Warren |last2=Weaver Jr.|date=March 16, 1985|work = ] | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/16/us/briefing-the-students-are-coming.html?searchResultPosition=11}}</ref> | |||
| Its political activism was cited in a 1995 lawsuit concerning the ]'s mandatory student fee. In '']'' 529 U.S. 217 (1999), the ] upheld the university's right to subsidize political speech with student fees. | |||
| In the early 1990s, the USSA advocated on behalf of students being eligible for ] and beginning to build credit.<ref>{{cite news|title=Using Credit Cards, Students Learn a Hard Lesson |first = Karen |last= de Witt|date=Aug 26, 1991 |work=The New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/26/us/using-credit-cards-students-learn-a-hard-lesson.html?searchResultPosition=13}}</ref> It also advocated against rising college tuition costs.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Solid-Gold U.S. Diploma |first=Philip |last=Crawford |work=]|date=Oct 5, 1993 |via=The New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/05/IHT-the-solidgold-us-diploma.html?searchResultPosition=14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Price of Higher Education Becomes Even Dearer |agency=] |work=The New York Times |date=Sep 28, 1994|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/28/us/price-of-higher-education-becomes-even-dearer.html?searchResultPosition=18}}</ref> | |||
| == Vision == | |||
| The student members of the United States Student Association work together with a vision for a just society in which generations of representative leaders understand their power and engage and empower diverse communities to create social change. | |||
| == Mission == | |||
| The United States Student Association, the country's oldest and largest national student-led organization, develops current and future leaders and amplifies the student voice at the local, state, and national levels by mobilizing grassroots power to win concrete victories on student issues. | |||
| The United States Student Association Foundation ensures the pipeline of effective student leadership by facilitating education, training and other development opportunities at national, state, and local levels in advocating for issues that affect students. | |||
| ==Core Beliefs== | |||
| USSA believes that education is a right and should be accessible for any student regardless of their socio-economic background and identity. We believe people who are affected directly by issues of access to higher education should be the ones identifying the solutions that make education accessible to them. Therefore, USSA is dedicated to training, organizing, and developing a base of student leaders who are utilizing those skills to engage in expanding access to higher education and advancing the broader movement for social justice. | |||
| ==Coalitions== | |||
| *National People of Color Student Coalition | |||
| *National Women's Student Coalition | |||
| *National Queer Student Coalition | |||
| *State and System Student Association Coalition | |||
| ==Staff== | |||
| USSA hires four full-time Association staff members and seven full-time Foundation staff members: | |||
| *President (elected by general membership) | |||
| *Vice-President (elected by general membership) | |||
| *Legislative Director | |||
| *National Field Director | |||
| *National Field Associates | |||
| *Trainings Director | |||
| *Electoral Project Director | |||
| *Communications & Technology Coordinator | |||
| *Alumni & Development Director | |||
| *Student Labor Action Project Coordinator | |||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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| ==References== | |||
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| ==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:15, 5 November 2024
National association of students and student associations in the United States| Predecessor | National Student Association and the National Student Lobby |
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| Founded | August 1978; 46 years ago (1978-08) |
| Defunct | 2017; 7 years ago (2017) |
| Type | Student lobbying organization |
| Location |
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| Area served | United States |
The United States Student Association (USSA) was an American national student advocacy association. It was founded in 1978, and failed to elect new leadership in 2017. "Years of membership decline, restructuring of grantmaking portfolios in large private foundations, and toxic infighting" led to its operational collapse; tax returns continued to be filed in subsequent years.
The organization was born in August 1978 during a joint meeting between the National Student Association (NSA), formed in 1947, and the National Student Lobby (NSL), itself originally born of a split in 1971 with the NSA. The membership of both organizations voted overwhelmingly to merge due to overlapping lobbying work and student government-based membership. The merger saw the NSL absorbed by the NSA, and the NSA renamed as the USSA, no new entity was created.
By the mid-1980s, the USSA met annually in Washington, D.C., with several hundred students attending.
In the early 1990s, the USSA advocated on behalf of students being eligible for credit cards and beginning to build credit. It also advocated against rising college tuition costs.
See also
References
- Huang, Beth (October 10, 2023). "What DSA Can Learn from Organizational Death In the Student Movement". The Forge. Retrieved Aug 16, 2024.
- Patrick, Justin (March 2022). "Student Leadership and Student Government" (PDF). Research in Educational Administration and Leadership. 7 (1): 9.
the collapse of the United States Student Association in the late 2010s
- ^ "United States Student Association". InfluenceWatch. Retrieved Aug 16, 2024.
- "United States Student Association". ProPublica. Retrieved Aug 19, 2024.
- "United States National Student Association Collection | Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog". berea.libraryhost.com. Berea College. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
- Johnston, J. Angus (2009). "The United States National Student Association: Democracy, Activism, and the Idea of the Student, 1947–1978" (PDF). City University of New York.
- Johnston, Angus. "A Brief History of NSA and USSA". United States Student Association. Archived from the original on Nov 8, 2023.
- Johnston 2009 "Formally the merger was accomplished by absorbing NSL into NSA — the delegates to the conference amended NSA’s governing documents, rather than creating a new entity. They banned proxy voting in the new group, after nodding to NSL’s sensitivities by requiring that legislative stands be approved by a 60% super-majority vote in the plenary. And they gave the new organization its new name — The United States Student Association."
- Gailey, Phil; Weaver Jr., Warren (March 16, 1985). "BRIEFING; The Students Are Coming". The New York Times.
- de Witt, Karen (Aug 26, 1991). "Using Credit Cards, Students Learn a Hard Lesson". The New York Times.
- Crawford, Philip (Oct 5, 1993). "The Solid-Gold U.S. Diploma". International Herald Tribune – via The New York Times.
- "Price of Higher Education Becomes Even Dearer". The New York Times. Associated Press. Sep 28, 1994.