The Hillel organization, which included all Jewish students enrolled at the university, was organized October 24, 1946. The UT Hillel House was established in 1969 in a house rented from UT at 2100 Terrace Avenue. The house was redesignated the Jewish Student Center in the late 1990s. The organization gave up its lease in 2003 because the center was being used less often and because the institutional master plan called for construction on and around the property.