Dissolution
Since the Undergraduate Women's Union was a student led organization, it's upkeep depended on student involvement and interest. Over time, the students who helped run the union and were active participants graduated leading the union to seemingly dissolve by the late 1970s. Different campus organizations for women began emerge during the 1980s and 90s fulfilling a similar role as the union.
By 1978, many of the founding members of the UWU had graduated. With hardly any members, the union lost their funding. However, new students planned to reorganize the union including hosting one major event, a women's cultural festival. In the article to the left, a spokesperson for the union describes the small numbers of UWU members and lack of feminist activity on campus by the late 1970s, something they hoped to change.
By 1995, Pitt's Campus Women's Organization (CWO) became a prominent organization advocating for issues facing women attending the university. This Pitt News interview from 1995 with the CWO's co-president Stephanie Sudzina discusses the goals of this organization which are similar to ones laid out by the Undergraduate Women's Union two decades earlier. A key difference that Sudzina points out is that the CWO is "less radical" than groups that came before it. This relfects a larger cultural shift that may also explain why the UWU faded away by the end of the 1970s.