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The Delta Chapter was founded by Elder Watson Diggs in 1915. The Delta Chapter was the last Chapter chartered under the fraternity's original name, Kappa Alpha Nu, and the first chapter designated after the fraternity's name change to Kappa Alpha Psi. Delta was the first chapter established at an historically black university. Epsilon 1915
The Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation, established in 1981, is the philanthropic arm of the fraternity and assists both alumni and undergraduate chapters in support of scholarships, after-school programs, and national projects such as Habitat for Humanity. [21] The Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation was conceived by Oliver S. Gumbs, the 23rd Grand Polemarch.
The campus of Indiana University at that time did not encourage the assimilation of Blacks. Kappa Alpha Psi is the second oldest existing collegiate historically Black Greek letter organization and the first intercollegiate fraternity incorporated as a national body. [1]
An asterisk (*) next to a charter date indicates that the chapter was re-chartered on that date. † The Alpha Phi chapter at Rutgers University had its charter revoked in 1972 and reorganized as Mu Upsilon Alpha, which in 2007 became a chapter of Mu Beta Psi .
Chapters of Alpha Kappa Psi are given names consisting of either one or two Greek letters. The names are issued in order according to the dates on which the chapters are chartered. Alpha is the name given to the founding chapter at New York University, followed by Beta at the University of Denver for the second chapter, then Gamma, and so on ...
Kappa Kappa Psi was founded on November 27, 1919, at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Kappa Kappa Psi became a coeducational organization in 1977, and at the national convention in 1989, the fraternity voted to call all members "brothers" regardless of sex or gender. [1] There are currently 210 active ...
Founded as Kappa Alpha Psi local fraternity in May 1966. Inactive since 1972. [88]: 59–61 Gamma Psi 1969 St. Louis University: St. Louis, Missouri: Inactive Founded as a chapter of Kappa Mu Sigma in 1956. In 1968 Alpha Phi Chi local fraternity, which was founded in 1966, merged with what had become the Sigma Pi colony. [90]: 2 Gamma Omega 1969
Alpha Kappa Psi (ΑΚΨ, often stylized as AKPsi) is the oldest and largest business fraternity to current date. [3] Also known as "AKPsi", the fraternity was founded on October 5, 1904, at New York University and was incorporated on May 20, 1905.