National association of students and student associations in the 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.
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