Like the Associated Women Students organization, the Women’s Student Government Association evolved from the Women’s League, formed in 1893 following the readmission of women to the university. The organization’s constitution was published in 1895. The Women’s Student Government Association was traditionally composed of one representative from each women’s organization on campus.
In fall 1929 the Women’s Student Activities Council was formed to promote the interests of women students on campus. With Dean of Women Harriet Greve as advisor, this group served as a centralizing body for all the activities of the campus in which women participated. All women students were members of W.S.G.A., and by the mid-50s, those who wished to vote in elections for the council paid dues of 75 cents. In the early 1960s, the Women’s Student Government Association’s name was changed to the Associated Women’s Student Council.
The W.S.G.A. was the first true student “governing” body, as it regulated all matters pertaining to life of university women and provided the coordination of women’s activities on campus. The Associated Women’s Student Council ceased to exist in 1970.