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Register of the United States National Student Association International Commission Records, 1946-1968
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Title: United States National Student Association International Commission Records,
Date (inclusive): 1946-1968
Collection number: 68011
Creator:
United States National Student Association. International Commission.
Collection Size:
323 manuscript boxes, 7 envelopes
(135 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: 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.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Collection open for research.
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[Identification of item], United States National Student Association International
Commission records, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1968.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Education.
Education--United States.
Student movements.
Student movements--United States.
Universities and colleges.
Universities and colleges--United States.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Relations.
Phonotapes.
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.
The International Commission is a division of the U.S. National Student Association and administers the international activities
of the Association. It conducts delegation and
scholarship exchanges with other nations, sends an American representative to the
International Student Conference, and maintains relations with analogous student
organizations in other countries, called national unions of students. The U.S. National
Student Association meets annually at various places with the other national unions at an
International Student Conference. A permanent, non-policy making body, called the
Coordinating Secretariat, administers the programs decided upon at the international
conference. Another organization, with which the International Commission interacts but
of which it is not a member, is the International Union of Students, a tightly structured
network of student groups in communist-controlled countries.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.