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High school fraternities and sororities, also called secondary fraternities and sororities, were inspired by and modeled after Greek-letter organizations which became prevalent in North American colleges and universities during the nineteenth century (Owen 492). In some respects, these fraternities and sororities are designed to better prepare ...
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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
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.
Social, collegiate, or general fraternities in the North American fraternity system are those that do not promote a particular profession, as professional fraternities do, or discipline, such as service fraternities. Instead, their primary purposes are often stated as the development of character, literary or leadership ability, or to serve a ...
Phi Kappa National Fraternity (ΦΚ) is a secondary school social fraternity. Since its founding in the early twentieth century, Phi Kappa has chartered nearly fifty chapters in eight states in the Deep South. [1] No chapters of the fraternity have ever been chartered outside of the South.
The sorority was formed in 1897 at Central High School in Muncie, Indiania. It was originally a high school sorority but changed to become a community-based sorority after Indiana state laws prohibited Greek letter societies in public schools.
In the years prior to the formation of the Harvard Athletics Club, several high school fraternities had been founded in the Chicago area, and their popularity had grown tremendously. Omicron Kappa Pi was founded in 1893, and Beta Zeta Phi and Delta Sigma were founded in 1897.