SUSTA disseminates information about current issues in Ukraine among all students and other community members.

In August of that year, a joint meeting of the Cleveland and New York students clubs laid the foundation for the November forum that created an interim secretariat responsible for organizing the founding congress.

That congress was held at Columbia University in April 1953 with 68 delegates representing 22 Ukrainian student clubs attending.

The Congress declared that it was continuing the spirit of the First All-Ukrainian Student Congress held in Lviv 45 years earlier and that its purpose was to “ensure academic freedom and student rights and obligations, to represent individual student interests and nurture academic life, ... for building better organizational forums for Ukrainian students outside of Ukraine.” SUSTA was crucial to the efforts of the Ukrainian community in establishing Chairs in Ukrainian History, Linguistics, and Literature at Harvard University and to the formation in 1973 of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

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