Muslim Students' Association

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The Muslim Students' Association, or Muslim Student Union, of the U.S. and Canada, also known as MSA National, is a religious organization dedicated to establishing and maintaining Islamic societies on college campuses in Canada and the United States. It serves to provide coordination and support for affiliated MSA chapters in colleges across North America. Established in 1963, the organization now has chapters in colleges across the continent^[1], and is the precursor of the Islamic Society of North America and several other Islamic organizations.

History

MSA National was formed in 1963 at the campus of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Today, the organization is itself manifest in various forms on several campuses across the United States and Canada. The groups are funded by campus students as well as the University to which it belongs.^[2] (One of the largest MSAs in the United States is the UIC MSA.) It is the first national organization to have a convert to Islam who was born in the U.S. as its head.

Organization

The Muslim Students Association of the U.S. and Canada is also known as MSA National. It is an umbrella organization for all of affiliated chapters at various campuses across the continent. Local chapters are only loosely connected with the parent institution, and often take different names, such as "Islamic Students Association", or "Muslim Discussion Group". Not all campus Muslim groups are necessarily affiliated with MSA National.

There is no fixed hierarchy between MSA National and local chapters; as such, the policies and views of the national organization are not necessarily shared by local chapters.

The United States and Canada is divided into five zones, three in the US and two in Canada. Each zone has a zonal representative, chosen by the members of the affiliated chapters within that zone. Chapters make up regional councils.

Activities

The MSA is engaged in various charitable activities. The John Hopkins chapter has raised funds to provide free meals during the Islamic month of Ramadan for both Muslims and non-Muslims. These meals have sometimes been held jointly with Hillel.^[3]

The MSA often raises funds through events known as "Fast-A-Thons", which originated at the University of Tennessee. The John Hopkins chapter donated funds from such an event to a homeless shelter.^[3] Other MSAs in the United States and Canada reportedly also hold similar events.

The MSA recently launched a "Peace...not Prejudice" campaign to dispel stereotypes and paint Islam in a positive light. [1]

Different campus MSAs put on agendas reflecting the views of their members. While some chapters are political, many are purely religious.

See also

• USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts
• Islamic Society of North America
• 2010 World Muslim Population

References

External links

• Muslims Students' Associations of the US & Canada
• List of MSA's Around the Globe
• Discussion about Diversity-NYTimes Article on MSAs

United States Campus Chapters

Sorted by ZIP code:

• Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR 00918, USA
• University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA
• Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
• Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
• Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
• Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
• Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA
• University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
• Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
• University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
• Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, USA
• Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
• Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA
• Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA
• Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
• New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
• Drew University, Madison, NJ 07940, USA
• Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
• Baruch College, New York, NY 10010, USA
• Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
• Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA
• Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
• Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA
• State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA
• State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222, USA
• State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USA
• Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13676, USA
• Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY 14222, USA
• State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
• Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
• University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
• Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
• Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
• Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA
• Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA
• Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, USA
• Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085, USA
• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
• Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
• University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
• George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
• Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
• University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD 20742, USA
• George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22033, USA
• Thomas Edison High School, Alexandria, VA 22310, USA
• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
• the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA
• Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA
• Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
• West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
• Guilford College, Greensboro, NC 27410, USA
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
• North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
• Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
• University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29201, USA
• Georgia Perimeter College, Alpharetta, GA 30022, USA
• Northview High School, Johns Creek, GA 30097, USA
• Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
• Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
• Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
• University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
• University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
• University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514, USA
• Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA
• Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
• University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
• University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
• University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
• University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688, USA
• Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37129, USA
• Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
• University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
• Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN 38501, USA
• University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA
• Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
• University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
• Berea College, Berea, KY 40404, USA
• University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
• Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
• Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
• University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
• Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA
• Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
• University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA
• Kent State University, Kent, OH 44420, USA
• College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, USA
• Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA
• University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
• Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA
• Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46222, USA
• Indiana University Northwest, Gary, Indiana 46408, USA
• Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
• University of Evansville, Evansville, IN 47722, USA
• Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
• University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
• University of Michigan at Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, 48128, USA
• Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI 48128, USA
• Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
• Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI 48710, USA
• Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
• Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA
• Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA
• Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
• University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614, USA
• University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
• University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53715, USA
• University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, La Crosse, WI 54601, USA
• University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54702, USA
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
• Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
• Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
• College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137, USA
• East West University, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
• University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
• Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616, USA
• Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL 60625, USA
• Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60626, USA
• University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
• Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625, USA
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
• Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA
• University of Missouri at St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA
• Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
• Truman State University, Kirksville, MO 63501, USA
• University of Missouri at Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA
• University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
• University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
• Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
• Washburn University, Topeka, KS 66621, USA
• Emporia State University, Emporia, KS 66801, USA
• Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260, USA
• University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182, USA
• University of Nebraska at Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
• Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
• Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
• University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA
• Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272, USA
• University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
• University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
• University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104, USA
• University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
• Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
• University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA
• University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA
• Rice University, Houston, TX 77251, USA
• Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
• University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
• Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
• University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
• Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
• University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
• University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
• Weber State University, Ogden, UT 84408, USA
• Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
• Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
• Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ 85308, USA
• University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
• University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
• New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles , CA 90089, USA
• University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
• California State University, Long Beach, CA 90840, USA
• California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
• California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330, USA
• Diamond Bar High School, Diamond Bar, CA 91765, USA
• California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly), Pomona, CA 91768, USA
• University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
• California Polytechnic State University,San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA
• Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
• Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
• University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
• Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA
• San Jose State University, San José, CA 95192, USA
• San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA 95207, USA
• University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211, USA
• Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
• University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
• Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA
• University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA

Canada Campus Chapters

Sorted by Canadian Postal Code:

• University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada
• Dalhousie Student Union, Halifax, NS, B3H 4J2, Canada
• University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3, Canada
• Laval University, Québec, QC, G1K 7P4, Canada
• McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 1X9, Canada
• Concordia University, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada
• University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, H3T 1N8, Canada
• Sherbrooke University, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada
• Carleton University ,Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada
• Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
• Trent University, Peterborough, ON, K9J 7B8, Canada
• University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada
• McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4L8, Canada
• University of Toronto at Scarborough, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4, Canada
• York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
• Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada
• University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A1, Canada
• University of Toronto at St. George, Toronto, ON, M5T 2Z9, Canada
• University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
• Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener, ON, N2L 3C9, Canada
• University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada
• University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 3K7, Canada
• Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, A1C 5S7, Canada
• University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada
• Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
• University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada