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Beta Pi: Fordham University: New York City, New York: Active Beta Rho: Loyola University Maryland: Baltimore, Maryland: Active [8] Beta Sigma: Northwest Missouri State University: Maryville, Missouri: Active Beta Upsilon: Slippery Rock University: Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania: Active Beta Chi: University of St. Thomas Active Beta Psi: St. Cloud ...
The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) [a] is the oldest academic honor society in the United States. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was founded at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, in December 1776. [ 4 ] Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences, and to induct outstanding students of arts and sciences at ...
When ACHS was officially established on December 30, 1925, its founding members were Alpha Omega Alpha, the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi. [2] Since then, more than 65 honors societies have joined ACHS, becoming an international organization. [3]
All collegiate fraternities and sororities, beginning with Phi Beta Kappa in 1776, had, at inception, either a tacit or overt spiritual component. This may have been as simple as an official opening or closing prayer, expanding to Biblical lessons contained within rituals, and rules regarding behavior that are modeled on various Christian, or Jewish strictures.
Pi Phi (ΠΦ) was founded in 1878 at Rochester Free Academy which was associated with the University of Rochester. Pi Phi spread to more than 110 chapters before lapsing into solely alumni chapters in the 1980s. Tau Kappa Delta (ΤΚΔ) was formed in 1924 at Pottsville High School in Pottsville Pennsylvania. The fraternity is active as of 2024.
Phi Kappa Psi (ΦΚΨ), commonly known as Phi Psi, is an American collegiate social fraternity that was founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in 1852. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The fraternity has over ninety chapters at accredited four-year colleges and universities throughout the United States. [ 2 ]
More than 140,000 men have been initiated into Phi Kappa Psi since its founding. When Phi Kappa Psi is extending to an institution that does not currently have a chapter, a probationary group called a "colony" is formed. After the criteria are met, that colony receives its charter and becomes a chapter.
Beta Sigma Psi, the oldest Christian fraternity, was founded as a national fraternity for Lutheran students in 1925 at the University of Illinois, home to the largest Greek system in the United States. The fraternity had its origins in the concerns of Rev. Frederick William Gustav Stiegemeyer, the son of a Lutheran pastor, who had been ...