...[T]he Union of Students of the University of Alaska Anchorage represent all student interests, needs, and welfare within the university community, to supplement and complement education on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus; to provide for the expression of student opinion and interests to the community at large; to protect the rights of the students herein stated; and to promote an understanding of the concept of
self-governance...

-Taken from the USUAA Constitution Preamble