During the 1903 session of the Summer School of the South, a group of 18 women participants formed the Southern Association of Collegiate Alumnae, mirroring the Association of Collegiate Alumnae founded in Boston in 1882 and the Western Association of Collegiate Alumnae founded in 1883, which had merged with the ACA in 1889. Years-long discussions between the SACA and the ACA resulted, in 1921, in the merger of the groups under a new name: The American Association of University Women.