Description
Correspondence, reports, memoranda, minutes of meetings, bulletins, circulars,
questionnaires, notes, lists, financial records, printed matter, photographs, and sound
recordings, relating to the international activities of the association, including
delegation and scholarship exchanges with other nations, American representation at
annual International Student Conferences, relations with analogous student organizations
abroad, and the effects of world politics on education.
Background
Founded in 1947 in Madison, Wisconsin, the United States National Student Association is a confederation of student bodies
at American colleges and universities represented
through their democratically-elected student government. The Association gives expression
to student opinion, seeks to increase students' responsibility and contribution to the
college community, and works to strengthen relations between American students and those
in other countries. Specific activities include operating a national clearing house for
information on student activities, cooperating with major educational and civil rights
organizations, sponsoring national student literary magazine contests and student
government achievement awards, conducting regional and national conferences, and making
studies of various student-related problems.
Extent
323 manuscript boxes, 7 envelopes
(135 linear feet)
Restrictions
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Availability
Collection open for research.