ACUI (Association of College Unions International) is one of the oldest associations in higher education, and dates to 1914. This association is the largest organization that represents student activity centers and student unions in the United States. the organization has 522 member institutions in ten countries.

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Although primarily a United States organization, with university and college campus organizations as members in all 50 US states, ACUI also has affiliated student unions in

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United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and ...

Educational programs

ACUI's educational programs including seminars,http://www.acui.org/programs/professional/index.aspx?id=388

distance learning Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. Traditionally, this usually in ...

support, an annual conference,http://www.acui.org/programs/conference/index.aspx the Women's Leadership Institute, and the Institute for Leadership Education and Development (I-Lead).http://www.acui.org/programs/student/index.aspx

Intercollegiate competitions

ACUI is perhaps best known for organizing intercollegiate competitions in various non-contact sports and other activities, on a campus-team basis. These include

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pool,

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

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air hockey Air hockey is a ''Pong''-like tabletop sport where two opposing players try to score goals against each other on a low-friction table using two hand-held discs ("mallets") and a lightweight plastic puck. The air hockey table has raised edges ...

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-style trivia competition.

Collegiate Pocket Billiards National Championship

Presently titled the

ACUI Collegiate Nine-ball National Championship The ACUI Collegiate Pocket Billiards National Championship, in recent years known more specifically as the ACUI Collegiate Nine-ball National Championship, was an amateur United States annual Pool (cue sports), pool competition for university and c ...

, the organization's pool tournament was inaugurated in 1937, has featured separate men's and women's divisions since 1939, and is supported by both the

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(BCA) and the

Billiards Education Foundation Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . There are three major subdivisions o ...

(BEF).http://billiardeducation.org/acui-announces-collegiate-national-contestants/ The annual summer event's champions are listed in the BCA's ''Billiards: The Official Rules and Records Book''.

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* 1914 establishments in Ohio College sports governing bodies in the United States Organizations based in Indiana Student organizations established in 1914 {{sport-org-stub