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SUSTA
The Federation of Ukrainian Student Organizations of America
Motto	"VIRIBUS UNITIS"; (United effort)
Location	136 2nd ave, New York, NY 10003
Established	1953
Vice presidents	Mykyta Safronenko
Trustees	Bohdan A Futey, Eleonora Hust-Kulchytska†, Zinovii Melnyk†
Members	7573
Affiliations	UCCA (УККА), CUUS (ЦЕСУС), SUSK (СУСК), UACC (УАКРада)
Website	sustaportal.org

The Federation of Ukrainian Student Organizations of America or SUSTA, its acronym for Soyuz Ukrayinskykh Studentskykh Tovarystv Ameryky;(Ukrainian: Союз Українських Студентських Товариств Америки (СУСТА)) — a non-profit, apolitical, organisation run by Ukrainian and/or Ukrainian-American students/alumni of institutions of higher education. SUSTA was created in order to promote the creation and networking of Ukrainian student clubs at American universities, to educate and inform Ukrainian-American students about issues relevant to them, to encourage the development of a Ukrainian-American student movement, to foster an understanding among non-Ukrainian ethnic groups as to Ukrainian affairs and issues, to promote the formation of local Ukrainian clubs at American Universities and to support Ukrainian clubs with resources and ideas for events. The Federation welcomes all who are interested in Ukraine, its culture, history, and society.

Mission statement

The Federation of Ukrainian Student Organizations of America was established with the intention of fostering cooperation among Ukrainian Student Organizations and promoting their interests at large. SUSTA aims to facilitate the creation and development of Ukrainian student clubs and Ukrainian Studies programs at American universities. SUSTA disseminates information about current issues in Ukraine among all students and other community members.

History

In July 1952 the preliminary steps toward the formation of the Federation of Ukrainian Student Organizations (SUSTA) began with an initial organizing meeting held at the time of the UCCA convention in New York City. The 40 attending students set in motion the organizing process, which was primarily entrusted to the student community in Cleveland.

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 total membership of Ukrainian students at that time was 654 at 50 universities and colleges.

The first Congress elected an 11-member executive board that was headed by Eleonora Kulchycka as president. 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.

The Federation was dormant in the decade before its revival in 2006 by a group of students from Columbia University, Rutgers University, University of Michigan, and Villanova University.

Executive Boards

SUSTA’s official logo, as adopted from the logo created by Roman Tabatchouk for the 2006 SUSTA Conference at Rutgers University

Student of University of Maryland, Victor Zagreba - Regional Vice President (Washington). November 20, 2011.

SUSTA's Presidents

SUSTA's Presidents
Term	Name
1975-1976	Iwan Prynada
1973-1975	Eugene Iwanciw
1972-1973	Yuriy Serant
1971-1972	Inya Gikava
1970-1971	Nestor Tomycz
1969-1970	Kvitka Semenyshyn
1968-1969	Andrij W. Chornodolsk
1967-1968	Yuriy Kulchytskyy
1966-1967	Bohdan Satsiuk
1965-1966	Ihor Duma
1963-1965	Bohdan A. Futey
1961-1963	Volodymyr-Walter D Prybyla
1959-1961	Kostiantyn Savchuk
1957-1959	Zenon Kravets
1955-1957	Oleh S. Fedyshyn
1953-1955	Eleonora Hust-Kulchytska (First President of SUSTA)
1952	Zinovii Melnyk (Head of the Working Committee)

Past Executive Boards

Governing Board 2011-2012

Governing Board 2011-2012
Position	Name	University
President/Executive Director	Maksym Plakhotnyuk	University of Illinois at Chicago
Executive Vice President	Thomas Maksymiuk	Pennsylvania State University
Treasurer	Stephan Horon	Pennsylvania State University
Regional Vice President Washington	Victor Zagreba	The University of Maryland, College Park

Governing Board 2010-2011

Governing Board 2010-2011
Position	Name	University
President/Executive Director	Vira Partem	Lehigh University
Executive Vice President	Olya Yarychkivska	Columbia University
Treasurer	Roksolana Starodub	University of Pennsylvania
Secretary	Ostap Tymchuk	University of Pennsylvania
Webmaster	Pavlo Kononenko	Harvard University
Webmaster	Roman Vengrenyuk	Drexel University
Webmaster	Oleh Kotsyuba	Harvard University

Governing Board 2009-2010

Governing Board 2009-2010
Position	Name	University
President/Executive Director	Bohdan Pechenyak	Drexel University
Executive Vice President	Oleh Kotsyuba	Harvard University
Secretary	Tetiana Sears	Columbia University
Webmaster	Andrij Harasewych	Villanova University

Governing Board 2008-2009

Governing Board 2008-2009
Position	Name	University
President	Bohdan Ignaschenko	University of Pennsylvania
Executive Vice President	Iryney Makarukha	University of Pennsylvania
Director of External Relations, Websmaster	Andrij Harasewych	Villanova University
Business Director	Yuliya Sychikova	University of Pennsylvania
Director of Operations	Ksenia Yachmetz	New York University
Alumni Coordinator	Andrew Laszyn	Rutgers University
Director of Technology	Hanna Maksymova	University of Pennsylvania
Regional Vice President Midwest	Zenon Halatyn	Rutgers University
Regional Vice President Northeast	Victor Podpirka	New York University
Regional Vice President South	Gregory Marecki	Tufts University

Governing Board 2007-2008

Governing Board 2007-2008
Position	Name	University
President	Zenon Tech-Czarny	Rutgers University
Vice President, Webmaster	Andrij Harasewych	Villanova University
Project Director	Igor Makar	University of Pennsylvania

Governing Board 2006-2007

Governing Board 2006-2007
Position	Name	University
President	Adrian Podpirka	Columbia University
Vice President	Zenon Tech-Czarny	Rutgers University
Director of Public Relations	Mark Pokora	University of Michigan
Administrator, Webmaster	Andrij Harasewych	Villanova University