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  2. Sayre Female Institute, Lexington was founded in November 1854 as the Transylvania Female Seminary. In 1855, name changed to the Sayre Female Institute, and the state granted its charter in 1856 to confer collegiate degrees. Became co-ed after World War I and became a college preparatory school in 1962.

  3. Student council - Wikipedia

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    Israel's national student and youth council (Hebrew: מועצת התלמידים והנוער הארצית) is an elected body representing all youth in Israel since 1993. Representatives are elected democratically from district youth councils. (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Center, Haifa, Arab sector, South, North and the regional schools).

  4. Women's colleges in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1840, the first Catholic women's college Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College was founded by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin of the Sisters of Providence in Indiana as an academy, later becoming the college. The college became co-educational in 2015. Vassar College in 1862. Some early women's colleges failed to survive.

  5. Class president - Wikipedia

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    Class president. A class president, also known as a class representative, is usually the leader of a student body class, and presides over its class cabinet or organization within a student council. In a grade school, class presidents are generally elected by the class, a constituency composed of all students in a grade level.

  6. Fraternities and sororities - Wikipedia

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    Ownership and occupancy of a residential property where undergraduate members live. A set of complex identification symbols that may include Greek letters, armorial achievements, ciphers, badges, grips, hand signs, passwords, flowers, and colors. Fraternities and sororities engage in philanthropic activities, host parties, provide "finishing ...

  7. Student governments in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Other names are student senate, associated students (west coast institutions almost exclusively), or less commonly students' union. There was one instance of a government of the student body, at Iowa State University. [2] At Yale University, the undergraduate student government is known as the Yale College Council. [3] High school student ...

  8. Timeline of women's colleges in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1727: Ursuline Academy is the oldest Catholic school and the oldest school for women in the United States. It now provides primary and secondary education for girls. 1742: Bethlehem Female Seminary was founded in Germantown and later moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It received its collegiate charter in 1863.

  9. American University - Wikipedia

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    American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. American University was chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893 at the urging of Methodist bishop John Fletcher Hurst, who ...