LDS Student Association

LDS Student Association

LDS Student Association (also known as the Latter-day Saint Student Association or the LDSSA) is an organization affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which offers Latter-day Saint university and college students and others social, religious, and recreational activities.

The LDSSA was established in 1960, and today a chapter of the LDSSA exists in every location that an Institute of Religion of the Church Educational System has been established. Every Latter-day Saint student is automatically a member of the local LDSSA. Interested non-members of the church may join by enrolling at the Institute of Religion building. Each local chapter is administered by a stake president, who delegates most of the day-to-day responsibilities of the LDSSA to a president and council chosen from among the student members of the LDSSA.

In some areas of the United States, the members of the LDSSA may also be members of the Sigma Gamma Chi fraternity or the Lambda Delta Sigma sorority.

Two key figures in establishing the LDSSA were W. Rolfe Kerr and Elaine A. Cannon.

ee also

*Single adult

References

*Elaine Anderson Cannon (1992). [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/EoM&CISOPTR=3871&filename=3872.pdf "LDS Student Association"] in "Encyclopedia of Mormonism" (New York: Macmillan) p. 817.

External links

* [http://www.lds.org/institutes Institute finder] : find an Institute of Religion and a local chapter of the LDSSA


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