United States Student Association
| Predecessor | National Student Association and the National Student Lobby |
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| Founded | August 1978 |
| Type | Student lobbying organization |
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Area served | United States |
The United States Student Association (USSA) is an American national student advocacy association. It was founded in 1978.
The organization was born in August 1978 during a joint meeting between the National Student Association (NSA), formed in 1947,[1] and the National Student Lobby (NSL), itself originally born of a split in 1971 with the NSA.[2] The membership of both organizations voted overwhelmingly to merge due to overlapping lobbying work and student government-based membership.[3][4] The merger saw the NSL absorbed by the NSA, and the NSA renamed as the USSA, no new entity was created.[5]
By the mid-1980s, the USSA met annually in Washington, D.C., with several hundred students attending.[6]
In the early 1990s, the USSA advocated on behalf of students being eligible for credit cards and beginning to build credit.[7] It also advocated against rising college tuition costs.[8][9]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ "United States Student Association". InfluenceWatch. Retrieved Aug 16, 2024.
- ^ 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.
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