[3] The ACU has therefore maintained close ties with both the Society of Jesus and Belen Jesuit from its inception with many alumni and instructors serving as members.
Following the rise of the Castro regime with the Cuban Revolution and its anti-religion policies, the organization relocated to the United States in the 1960s where it began in Miami and has since spread to other cities.
: U.S. Latino Catholics from Colonial Origins to the Present (2015)[5] and the subject of the 2020 book History of the Agrupacion Catolica Universitaria.
[1] Their affiliate site through Belen Jesuit states that the ACU's goals for their members are "to fulfill man's purpose in life through individual perfection, conceived as apostolic action executed within one's own intellectual means, in order to occupy an influential position of true spiritual leadership.
"[1] ACU members include prominent and leading doctors, philosophers, bankers, attorneys, architects, artists, and engineers.
It is a Marian Congregation (CM) rooted in and guided by Jesuit principals and practices, such as the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola.