[1] Joseph P. Boone, a Baylor University graduate, was the first secretary.
In 1920, the first state-wide convocation members was held at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas.
300 students from twenty schools came for the development of programs.
Churches and state conventions were deemed crucial to its growth.
[2] In 2012, the network had more than 69,500 students actively involved in campus ministry through this organization and its affiliated state-level Baptist conventions, in 839 college and university campuses;[3] 782 of these are in the United States and 57 are in Canada.