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ALPHA PHI INTERNATIONAL fraternity

OUR FOUNDING

Alpha Phi was founded on October 10, 1872 by 10 courageous, driven, and intelligent women on the campus of Syracuse University. These women were also 10 of the 19 newly admitted women to the university. In a male-dominated world, these women established one of the first women's fraternities that stood, and currently stands for, sisterhood, service, leadership, and intellectual curiosity.

Today, the organization now has over 160 collegiate chapters and 150 alumnae chapters.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

Alpha Phi Founding Members

Alpha Phi is a sisterhood of outstanding women supporting one another in lifelong achievement.

MILESTONES

  • 1886: Became the first women's fraternity in America to build and occupy its own chapter house.

  • 1894: Became the first women's fraternity to use "traveling delegates," now known as Educational Leadership Consultants.

  • 1902: Called the inter-sorority meeting that resulted in the formation of the association now known as the National Panhellenic Conference, which then included Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, and Delta Delta Delta. This was the first intergroup organization on college campuses. 

  • 1906: Became an "International" fraternity when Xi chapter was chartered at the University of Toronto.

  • 1986: Introduced RESPOND: A Forum for Supportive Action, an anti-victimization education program dealing with alcohol abuse, acquaintance rape, eating disorders, suicide, hazing, and harassment.

  • 1988: Introduced risk management education to collegians.

  • 1990: Introduced a peer education program for AIDS education.

  • 2002: Invented the RPC Alternative Method for Release Figures Management, now used for Panhellenic recruitment nationwide.

  • 2004: The Alpha Phi Foundation developed its own Red Dress pin as a symbol of heart health for women everywhere.

  • 2006: Became the first women's fraternity to develop a values-based leadership institute for emerging leaders based on women's developmental leadership theories.

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