A student activity center (SAC) is a type of building found on university campuses. In the United States, such a building may alternately be called a student union, student commons, or student center. The term "student union" refers most often in the United States to the building, while in other nations a "students' union" is the student government.
The first student activity center built at a public university in the United States was the Ohio Union (1909) at The Ohio State University. The largest student activity center is at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
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