UCAS Central Council on Admissions (UCCA) and Polytechnics Central Admissions System (PCAS) and the name UCAS is a contraction of the former acronyms UCCA and PCAS. An early proposal was made for the new merged body to be called PUCCA, but this was never adopted. UCCA was the older of the two bodies, having been formed in 1961 to provide a clearing house for university applications in the United Kingdom. It was created in response to concerns during the 1950s that the increase in University applications was unmanageable using the systems then in place, where each student applied individually to as
Student Organization for Black Unity black community, at which point its name was changed to the Youth Organization for Black Unity by Roderick D. Bush. Throughout North Carolina, under the Jim Crow laws, black colleges, including Spelman College and Howard University were created to provide an education to blacks that white colleges wouldn't accept. In the 1970s, in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, there was a move to integrate people of other races into these schools. A student group named the Student Organization for Black Unity was created to advocate for the maintenance of the schools as black-only institutions and to promote a