[1] It was the first national student government association to be formed in the United States.
NSFA maintained a strong interest in international affairs, serving as a member of the Confédération Internationale des Étudiants.
[2] It was supportive of civil liberties and student rights, but did little actual organizing.
Two hundred campuses sent representatives to NSFA's first full conference in 1926, and the Federation had a membership of 150 schools by 1933.
NSFA disbanded during the Second World War, and was succeeded as a national association of student governments by the National Student Association, founded in 1947.