DePauw University

DePauw University

DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, USA, is a private, national liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. The school has a Methodist heritage and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is a member of both the Great Lakes Colleges Association...

, a small liberal arts college

Liberal arts college

A liberal arts college is one with a primary emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.Students in the liberal arts generally major in a particular discipline while receiving exposure to a wide range of academic subjects, including sciences as well as the traditional...

 located in Greencastle, Indiana

Greencastle, Indiana

Greencastle is a city in Greencastle Township, Putnam County, Indiana, United States, and the county seat of Putnam County. It was founded in 1821 by Scots-Irish American Ephraim Dukes on a land grant. He named the settlement for his hometown of Greencastle, Pennsylvania...

, bears the distinction of having an unusually high membership rate in Greek fraternities and sororities

Fraternities and sororities

Fraternities and sororities are fraternal social organizations for undergraduate students. In Latin, the term refers mainly to such organizations at colleges and universities in the United States, although it is also applied to analogous European groups also known as corporations...

, rating consistently above 70% in recent years. DePauw was ranked first in the U.S. for its fraternity and sorority scene in the 2006 and 2007 editions of the The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review

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's The Best 361 Colleges. The following is a listing of all Greek chapters to have existed at DePauw over the years:

Active fraternities

• Alpha Phi Alpha
  Alpha Phi Alpha
  Alpha Phi Alpha is the first Inter-Collegiate Black Greek Letter fraternity. It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its founders are known as the "Seven Jewels". Alpha Phi Alpha developed a model that was used by the many Black Greek Letter Organizations ...
  
   - ΑΦΑ Founded 2005.
• Alpha Tau Omega
  Alpha Tau Omega
  Alpha Tau Omega is a secret American leadership and social fraternity.The Fraternity has more than 250 active and inactive chapters, more than 200,000 initiates, and over 7,000 active undergraduate members. The 200,000th member was initiated in early 2009...
  
   - ΑΤΩ, ATOs, founded at DePauw in 1924.
• Beta Theta Pi
  Beta Theta Pi
  Beta Theta Pi , often just called Beta, is a social collegiate fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, where it is part of the Miami Triad which includes Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi. It has over 138 active chapters and colonies in the United States and Canada...
  
   - ΒΘΠ, Betas, founded at DePauw in 1845. Currently the oldest active chapter of its fraternity and the oldest active chapter of any fraternity in North America
  North America
  North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
  
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• Delta Tau Delta
  Delta Tau Delta
  Delta Tau Delta is a U.S.-based international secret letter college fraternity. Delta Tau Delta was founded in 1858 at Bethany College, Bethany, Virginia, . It currently has around 125 student chapters nationwide, as well as more than 25 regional alumni groups. Its national community service...
  
   - ΔΤΔ, Delts, founded at DePauw in 1882.
• Delta Chi
  Delta Chi
  Delta Chi or D-Chi is an international Greek letter college social fraternity formed on October 13, 1890,at Cornell University, initially as a professional fraternity for law students. On April 29, 1922, Delta Chi became a general membership social fraternity, eliminating the requirement for men...
  
   - ΔΧ, D-Chis, founded at DePauw in 1892.
• Delta Upsilon
  Delta Upsilon
  Delta Upsilon is the sixth oldest international, all-male, college Greek-letter organization, and is the oldest non-secret fraternity in North America...
  
   - ΔΥ, DUs, founded at DePauw in 1887.
• Kappa Alpha Psi
  Kappa Alpha Psi
  Kappa Alpha Psi is a collegiate Greek-letter fraternity with a predominantly African American membership. Since the fraternity's founding on January 5, 1911 at Indiana University Bloomington, the fraternity has never limited membership based on color, creed or national origin...
  
   - ΚΑΨ, Kappas or Nupes, founded at DePauw in 1990.
• Phi Beta Sigma
  Phi Beta Sigma
  Phi Beta Sigma is a predominantly African-American fraternity which was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students. The founders A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse, and Charles I...
  
   - ΦBΣ, Sigmas.
• Phi Delta Theta
  Phi Delta Theta
  Phi Delta Theta , also known as Phi Delt, is an international fraternity founded at Miami University in 1848 and headquartered in Oxford, Ohio. Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Chi form the Miami Triad. The fraternity has about 169 active chapters and colonies in over 43 U.S...
  
   - ΦΔΘ, Phi Delts, founded at DePauw in 1868.
• Phi Gamma Delta
  Phi Gamma Delta
  The international fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta is a collegiate social fraternity with 120 chapters and 18 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and its headquarters are located in Lexington, Kentucky, USA...
  
   - FIJI, FIJIs, founded at DePauw in 1856. Currently the oldest active chapter of its fraternity.
• Phi Kappa Psi
  Phi Kappa Psi
  Phi Kappa Psi is an American collegiate social fraternity founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania on February 19, 1852. There are over a hundred chapters and colonies at accredited four year colleges and universities throughout the United States. More than 112,000 men have been...
  
   - ΦΚΨ, Phi Psis, founded at DePauw in 1865.
• Sigma Alpha Epsilon
  Sigma Alpha Epsilon
  Sigma Alpha Epsilon is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity founded at the University of Alabama on March 9, 1856. Of all existing national social fraternities today, Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the only one founded in the Antebellum South...
  
   - ΣΑΕ, SAEs, founded at DePauw in 1949.
• Sigma Chi
  Sigma Chi
  Sigma Chi is the largest and one of the oldest college Greek-letter secret and social fraternities in North America with 244 active chapters and more than . Sigma Chi was founded on June 28, 1855 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio when members split from Delta Kappa Epsilon...
  
   - ΣΧ, Sigs, founded at DePauw in 1859.
• Sigma Nu
  Sigma Nu
  Sigma Nu is an undergraduate, college fraternity with chapters in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Sigma Nu was founded in 1869 by three cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia...
  
   - ΣΝ, Sig Nus or Snus, founded at DePauw in 1890.

Active sororities

• Alpha Chi Omega
  Alpha Chi Omega
  Alpha Chi Omega is a women's fraternity founded on October 15, 1885. Currently, there are 135 chapters of Alpha Chi Omega at colleges and universities across the United States and more than 200,000 lifetime members...
  
   - Alpha Chapter, founded at DePauw in 1885.
• Alpha Kappa Alpha
  Alpha Kappa Alpha
  Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of nine students, led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle...
  
   - founded at DePauw in 1991.
• Alpha Phi
  Alpha Phi
  Alpha Phi International Women's Fraternity was founded at Syracuse University on September 18, 1872. Alpha Phi currently has 152 active chapters and over 200,000 initiated members. Its celebrated Founders' Day is October 10. It was the third Greek-letter organization founded for women. In Alpha...
  
   - Gamma Chapter, founded at DePauw in 1887
• Delta Gamma
  Delta Gamma
  Delta Gamma is one of the oldest and largest women's fraternities in the United States and Canada, with its Executive Offices based in Columbus, Ohio.-History:...
  
   - Gamma Iota, founded at DePauw in 1949
• Kappa Alpha Theta
  Kappa Alpha Theta
  Kappa Alpha Theta , also known as Theta, is an international fraternity for women founded on January 27, 1870 at DePauw University, formerly Indiana Asbury...
  
   - Alpha Chapter, founded at DePauw in 1870, Theta is the first Greek-letter women's fraternity.
• Kappa Kappa Gamma
  Kappa Kappa Gamma
  Kappa Kappa Gamma is a collegiate women's fraternity, founded at Monmouth College, in Monmouth, Illinois, USA. Although the groundwork of the organization was developed as early as 1869, the 1876 Convention voted that October 13, 1870 should be recognized at the official Founders Day, because no...
  
   - Iota Chapter, founded at DePauw in 1875.
• Omega Phi Beta
  Omega Phi Beta
  Omega Phi Beta sorority was founded on March 15, 1989 at the State University of New York in Albany, New York. It was founded by seventeen women of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds...
  
  
• Pi Beta Phi
  Pi Beta Phi
  Pi Beta Phi is an international fraternity for women founded as I.C. Sorosis on April 28, 1867, at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. Its headquarters are located in Town and Country, Missouri, and there are 134 active chapters and over 330 alumnae organizations across the United States and...
  
   - Indiana Episilon Chapter, founded at DePauw in 1942.
• Psi Lambda Xi - A local sorority founded in March, 2007.

Inactive sororities

• Alpha Gamma Delta
  Alpha Gamma Delta
  Alpha Gamma Delta is an international women's fraternity, who are mainly sluts, founded in 1904 at Syracuse University. The Fraternity promotes academic excellence, philanthropic giving, ongoing leadership and personal development, and a spirit of loving sisterhood. Also known as "Alpha Gam" and...
  
  
• Alpha Omicron Pi
  Alpha Omicron Pi
  Alpha Omicron Pi is an international women's fraternity promoting friendship for a lifetime, inspiring academic excellence and lifelong learning, and developing leadership skills through service to the Fraternity and community. ΑΟΠ was founded on January 2, 1897 at Barnard College on the campus...
  
  
• Delta Delta Delta
  Delta Delta Delta
  Delta Delta Delta , also known as Tri Delta, is an international sorority founded on November 27, 1888, the eve of Thanksgiving Day. With over 200,000 initiates, Tri Delta is one of the world's largest NPC sororities.-History:...
  
  
• Delta Zeta
  Delta Zeta
  Delta Zeta is an international college sorority founded on October 24, 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Today, Delta Zeta has 158 collegiate chapters in the United States and over 200 alumnae chapters in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada...
  
   - Closed as summer 2007. This status may be affected by an ongoing lawsuit brought against DePauw University by the Delta Zeta national organization.

Specialized Greek-letter organizations

• Alpha Phi Omega
  Alpha Phi Omega
  Alpha Phi Omega is the largest collegiate fraternity in the United States, with chapters at over 350 campuses, an active membership of approximately 17,000 students, and over 350,000 alumni members...
  
   - A coeducational volunteerism/service fraternity. Active.
• Chi Alpha Sigma - A coeducational honor society for athletes. Alpha chapter founded at DePauw by former head football coach Nick Mourouzis. Active.
• Mu Phi Epsilon
  Mu Phi Epsilon
  Mu Phi Epsilon is a co-ed international professional music fraternity and honor society. It boasts over 75,000 members in 128 collegiate chapters and 74 alumni chapters in the US and abroad.-History:...
  
   - A coeducational music fraternity. Active.
• Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
  Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
  Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is an American collegiate social fraternity for men with a special interest in music...
  
   - A men's music fraternity. Inactive.
• Sigma Delta Chi - Now known as the Society of Professional Journalists
  Society of Professional Journalists
  The Society of Professional Journalists , formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is one of the oldest organizations representing journalists in the United States. It was established in April 1909 at DePauw University, and its charter was designed by William Meharry Glenn. The ten founding members of...
  
  , the national organization was founded at DePauw in 1909. Active.

Sources

• http://www.depauw.edu/student/greek/greeklistings.asp
• http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=17940
• http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=16880