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The fraternity or sorority badge is an enduring symbol of membership in a Greek letter organization. Most fraternities also have assumed heraldic achievements. Members of fraternities and sororities address members of the same organization as "brother" (in the case of fraternities) or "sister" (in the case of sororities).
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Depending on the size of the campus Greek system, the Fraternities and Sororities Project develops four templates of Wikipedia articles for Greek Chapter lists. Two of these constitute separate articles that are linked to the main university article with a hatnote. The third type is a table in a section of the main university page.
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.
Phi Delta Gamma originated from a high school fraternity, Alpha Iota Omega, which was founded in 1939. [1] When the brothers of Alpha Iota Omega enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (Colegio de Agricultura y Artes Mecánicas) of Mayagüez, some were offered the opportunity to pledge one of the original Puerto Rican fraternities.
Lambda Phi Epsilon is a North American Asian-American-Interest fraternity. [1] It has collegiate, graduate, and associate chapters. Associate chapters (colonies) are named for their institutions and are assigned a Greek Letter name once installed or chartered into "full" status as a collegiate chapter.
The University of Michigan's Peninsular chapter was founded on August 5, 1846, and is the oldest continuous Greek-letter fraternity on the campus. [8] Authorized on June 12, 1846, by the President of the Alpha Delta Phi, William Henry Goodrich (Yale 1843), seven members were the first of the chapter to be initiated as brothers.
The Kappa Alpha Society (ΚΑ), founded in 1825, was the progenitor of the modern fraternity system in North America.It is considered to be the oldest national, secret, Greek-letter social fraternity and was the first of the fraternities which would eventually become known as the Union Triad that pioneered the North American system of social fraternities.