This collection follows the Associated Women Students at the University of Nebraska, established in 1911, the group served all female students until the organization's disbandment in 1970. In its early stages, the organization went through a series of name changes, from Girls’ Club to the Women Student Government Association until 1919 and then finally Associated Women Students. With its founding in 1911, the women at the University of Nebraska were represented and governing themselves several years before women had the right to vote in the United States.