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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.
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. It consists only of social collegiate fraternities; other types of social fraternal organizations can be found under the list of general fraternities .
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
Membership is open to men and women aged 18–56 years old who live in the "more healthful portions of the country." There were 5,000 members in the late 1890s. The governing body was the Supreme Council which was made up of the executive officers as well as representatives of the Grand Councils, which were the state-level organizations.
African-American fraternities and sororities are social organizations that predominantly recruit Black college students and provide a network that includes both undergraduate and alumni members. These organizations were typically founded by Black American undergraduate students, faculty, and leaders at various institutions in the United States.
Pi Beta Phi was founded as a secret organization under the name of I. C. Sorosis on April 28, 1867 at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. Pi Beta Phi is regarded as the first national women's fraternity, although Kappa Alpha Theta was the first Greek-letter fraternity known among women in 1870. [2]
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.
It was the first Greek-letter fraternity established for women. [1] [2] The organization has 147 chapters at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The organization was the first women's fraternity to establish a chapter in Canada. [3] Theta's total living initiated membership, as of 2020, was more than 250,000. [3]