- 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 offersLatter-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 anInstitute of Religion of theChurch Educational System has been established. EveryLatter-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 astake 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 theSigma Gamma Chi fraternity or the Lambda Delta Sigma sorority.Two key figures in establishing the LDSSA were
W. Rolfe Kerr andElaine A. Cannon .ee also
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Single adult References
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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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