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Pi Beta Phi (ΠΒΦ), often known simply as Pi Phi, is an international women's fraternity founded at Monmouth College, in Monmouth, Illinois on April 28, 1867, as I. C. Sorosis, the first national secret college society of women to be modeled after the men's Greek-letter fraternity. Pi Phi's headquarters are located in Town and Country, Missouri.
Many were what Pi Beta Phi then called "Associate chapters", not colonies, but rather 'Community' chapters not linked to a school, or "Alumnae chapters" that did not initiate new members. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Following is a list of I.C. Sorosis chapters from before the name change, which were either Associate (~Community) chapters or Alumni chapters ...
Suffragist and member of the National Woman's Party [2] Carrie Chapman Catt: Iowa Gamma Founder of the League of Women Voters: Grace Goodhue Coolidge: Vermont Beta 32nd First Lady of the United States and wife of Calvin Coolidge, charter member of the Vermont Beta chapter Cate Edwards: New Jersey Alpha
The UVA chapter, Beta Upsilon of Pi Kappa Phi was founded in 1961. [2] Pi Lambda Phi (ΠΛΦ) November 12, 1932: IFC Pi Lambda Phi, better known as "Pi Lam," founded a chapter, Omega Alpha, at UVA in 1932. During World War II the chapter membership began to decline, and the chapter was rechartered in 1969. [2] [97] [98] Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Delta Sigma Pi, a coeducational fraternity with a focus on business education [2] Delta Tau Delta; Kappa Sigma; Sigma Chi; Sigma Lambda Beta, a primarily Latin-American social fraternity [3] Sigma Phi Delta, an engineering fraternity [4] Sigma Phi Epsilon; Triangle Fraternity, an engineering, science and architecture fraternity [5]
Auburn University was established in 1856 in Auburn, Alabama. [1] Some 9,000 students are members of the 54 Greek letter organizations at Auburn University. These organizations are overseen by three governing councils: the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council, and the National Pan-Hellenic Council.
At formation it was known briefly as Pi Beta Phi professional fraternity, but changed its name because a woman's fraternity also known as Pi Beta Phi had prior claim to that name. [ 1 ] Its Beta chapter was established at the University of Michigan on April 1, 1898, with its first national general assembly in Ann Arbor on January 6, 1900.
Sigma Pi Phi is an African American professional fraternity. [1] Founded in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ,in 1904, it is the oldest Greek lettered fraternity for African Americans . [ 2 ] It is a community-based fraternity and does not have collegiate chapters.