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A fraternity is usually understood to mean a social organization composed only of men while a sorority is composed of women. However, many women's organizations and co-ed organizations refer to themselves as women's fraternities. This list of collegiate North American fraternities is not exhaustive.
A fraternity is usually understood to mean a social organization composed only of men, and a sorority is composed of women. However, many women's organizations and co-ed organizations also refer to themselves as women's fraternities. This list of North American collegiate sororities and women's fraternities is not exhaustive.
A fraternity or fraternal organization is an organized society of men associated together in an environment of companionship and brotherhood; dedicated to the intellectual, physical, and social development of its members. Service clubs, lineage societies, and secret societies are among the fraternal organizations listed here.
The emblem was a shield with the letters K.G.R. over a circle with the golden rule on the center of which are two clasped hands. Below are five links of a chain with the letters F and P, which may or may not stand for Friendship and Protection. The order was divided into three classes, paying $500, #1,000, and $2,000 death benefits respectively.
In North America, fraternities and sororities (Latin: fraternitas and sororitas, 'brotherhood' and 'sisterhood') are social clubs at colleges and universities.They are sometimes collectively referred to as Greek life or Greek-letter organizations, as well as collegiate fraternities or collegiate sororities to differentiate them from traditional not (exclusively) university-based fraternal ...
Name Charter date and range Founding location Type Affiliation Status References Alpha Kappa Alpha: January 15, 1908: Howard University: Social, collegiate NPHC: Active Delta Sigma Theta: January 13, 1913: Howard University: Social, collegiate NPHC: Active Zeta Phi Beta: January 16, 1920: Howard University: Social, collegiate NPHC: Active Sigma ...
Name Greek letters Type Founding date Founding university Headquarters Chapters Total initiates Joined Notes Alpha Phi Alpha: ΑΦΑ: Fraternity December 4, 1906 Cornell University: Baltimore, Maryland: 706 [7] 200,000 [7] 1931 First intercollegiate African American fraternity. Only NPHC organization to be founded at an Ivy League university.
Ceres (women's fraternity) Chi Alpha Delta; Chi Delta Theta; Chi Gamma Epsilon; Chi Heorot; Chi Iota Pi; Chi Omega; Chi Tau (local) Chi Upsilon Sigma; Clovia (sorority) List of College of William & Mary fraternities and sororities; Colony (fraternity or sorority) Concilio Interfraternitario Puertorriqueño de la Florida