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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 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.
National and local chapters watched by the Fraternity & Sorority Project are listed below. For convenience, the terms "Fraternity" or Greek Letter Organization (GLO) are used to refer to men's, women's, and co-ed groups.
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
Delta Gamma was founded as a fraternity in December 1873 at the Lewis School for Girls in Oxford, Mississippi, near the University of Mississippi. [5] It was called a fraternity because the term "sorority" was not yet in use. [5] The group's founders were Mary Comfort Leonard, Eva Webb Dodd, and Anna Boyd Ellington. [3] [5]
Alpha Phi International Women's Fraternity (ΑΦ, also known as APhi) is an international sorority with 175 active chapters and over 270,000 initiated members. Founded at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York in 1872, it was the fourth Greek-letter organization for women, and the first women's fraternity founded in the northeast.
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All fraternities had different rules and rites, but they all appear to have been complex. The service clubs that succeeded the fraternities also operated as social networks and did fairly similar charitable work. No general history has been written, but some of the many lodges that operated in the state of Victoria were: