Theta Nu Xi
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Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. (ΘNΞ) is a historically multicultural sorority founded on April 11, 1997, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, by seven women who sought to bridge cultural gaps. Theta Nu Xi was incorporated on April 29, 1999.

In 2001, Theta Nu Xi launched a functional Graduate, Alumnae and Professional (GAP) Program, the first of its kind among multicultural sororities. Theta Nu Xi continues to be the only multicultural sorority with a functional program to initiate and serve professional women beyond the collegiate years.

History

Theta Nu Xi was founded during a time when cultural Greek organizations began to proliferate on campuses across the United States. Theta Nu Xi was the first multicultural sorority founded in the Southeastern United States
Southeastern United States
The Southeastern United States, colloquially referred to as the Southeast, is the eastern portion of the Southern United States. It is one of the most populous regions in the United States of America....

. The sorority has since grown to nearly fifty chapters and colonies in its thirteen years of existence.

In the spring of 1996, Melissa Jo Murchison-Blake sought a sisterhood that openly embraced all women and crossed cultural boundaries. As a bi-racial woman, she did not want to choose between historically Caucasian or African-American sororities. Murchison-Blake felt that if she did choose one, she would be denying half of her heritage.

Murchison-Blake recruited six other women who would become the national founders of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority. In the early days of its existence, the sorority met resistance from its campus of founding. The Director of Greek Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill advised the national founders to consider joining an existing organization, expressing his concern that a new Greek organization based on the principle of multiculturalism, would not survive at UNC. Despite such resistance, the national founders' continued efforts set the stage for Theta Nu Xi's presence in the Greek, non-Greek, and surrounding communities.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill officially recognized Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority as the Alpha Chapter on April 11, 1997. To commemorate the end result of their perseverance, the national founders - now known as the Founding Monarchs - acknowledged April 11, 1997 as the official founding date of the organization. With the collaborative efforts of the Founding Monarchs and the initiates of Spring 1998, the organization grew exponentially.

The earliest members of Theta Nu Xi addressed an immediate need to develop an official process of expansion which would support new entities as well as serving the interests of the sorority. Under the visionary guidance of Anna Lamadrid, two new chapters of the sorority were founded in the spring of 1999 - one at North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University at Raleigh is a public, coeducational, extensive research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Commonly known as NC State, the university is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, and space grant institution...

 and one at UNC Greensboro
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro , also known as UNC Greensboro, is a public university in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States and is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system. The university offers more than 100 undergraduate, 61 master's and 26...

. The three groups of women designated themselves Alpha, Beta, and Gamma, respectively, and thus the national organization was born.

The Sorority incorporated on April 29, 1999 and with the participation of the Alpha Chapter and Beta and Gamma Colonies, the National Organization was established at the first annual National Convention on August 21, 1999. The first out-of-state expansion effort resulted in the founding of a chapter Utah State University in the spring of 2000.

Graduate, Alumnae, and Professional (GAP) Program

In the first national constitution, the earliest members of Theta Nu Xi had laid the foundation for an active post-graduate status. On July 19, 2000, 16 women petitioned the National Board to be granted status as an Alumnae Chapter. These women requested that a structure be put in place that would allow post-collegiate members the ability to participate fully in Sorority activities and the National Organization while a more complete structure was being developed. The National Board granted the 16 pioneers the equivalent of chapter status, allowing them to send representatives to the 2000 National Convention.

At this Convention, on behalf of the Alumnae Chapter, Soror Jerri Kallam submitted a resolution to establish Alumnae Chapter Standards. During the same meeting, Soror Amanda Greene, representing the Alpha Chapter, submitted a resolution to create a committee to examine the role of alumnae and professional membership. These resolutions were adopted and a committee was created. This committee, composed of Sorors Jerri Kallam, Christie Aden, Shannon Stewart and Melissa Murchison-Blake, was charged with refining and further developing the name, structure and important documents relating to alumnae and professional membership and so sparked the development of an official Graduate, Alumnae and Professional Program.

At the 2001 National Convention, the alumnae committee submitted a GAP policy along with supporting documents. Through the advocacy of this committee and the success of the program as evidenced by the GAP-initiated women present at Convention, the GAP Program was officially established and became the first of its kind for multicultural sororities. Founding Monarchs Melissa Murchison-Blake and Janelle Poe, along with Sorors Holly Woodard and Rebecca Treherne, officially chartered the first GAP Chapter on April 11, 2002.

Being the first multicultural sorority to offer an established Graduate, Alumnae and Professional Program, Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. began receiving numerous inquiries from interested women. As more women were initiated at this level, and as undergraduate members graduated, the GAP program became a crucial component of the Sorority's structure.

GAP women now serve on the National Board, support the undergraduate sisterhood as advisors, and participate in all aspects of Sorority operations including expansion teams, national committees, ONEVision - the official Sorority newsletter, and more.

National Founders

  • Geeta Nadia Kapur
  • Natalie Nicole Barker
  • Peggy Virginia Long
  • Melissa Jo Murchison-Blake
  • Brenda Imade Eribo
  • Katherine Ellen Stanley
  • Janelle Kalia Poe

Foundations

The mission of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. is to promote leadership, multiculturalism, and self-improvement through academic excellence, involvement in and service to the campus
Campus
A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...

 and community, as well as being living examples of sisterhood across different races, cultures, religions, backgrounds, and lifestyles.

The tenets of the Sorority are Scholarship, Service, Sisterhood
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...

, Leadership
Leadership
Leadership has been described as the “process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task". Other in-depth definitions of leadership have also emerged.-Theories:...

, and Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism is the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g...

.

The motto of the Sorority is "Sisters of Diversity, Together as ONE".

The objectives of the sorority are to incorporate separate cultures into one life, to build self-esteem through sisterhood, to participate in service activities, especially those concerning diversity in the community, to encourage academic excellence and overall self-improvement,and to promote unity among Greek organizations.

Regions

Region States Chapters
Mid-Atlantic North Carolina, District of Columbia, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia Alpha Chapter, Beta Chapter, Gamma Chapter, Delta Chapter, Eta Chapter, Pi Chapter, Alpha Delta Chapter, Alpha Kappa Chapter, Xi Beta Chapter, Xi Gamma Chapter, Xi Theta Chapter, and Central Virginia GAP Colony
Northeast Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont Nu Chapter, Rho Chapter, Sigma Chapter, Chi Chapter, Alpha Gamma Chapter, Alpha Theta Chapter, Alpha Iota Chapter, Alpha Lambda Chapter, Xi Alpha Chapter, and Xi Xi Chapter
Southeast Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee Zeta Chapter, Lambda Chapter, Alpha Alpha Chapter, Xi Epsilon Chapter, Xi Zeta Chapter, Xi Lambda Chapter, Xi Mu Chapter, GAP Anchor Chapter
Central Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin Kappa Chapter, Omicron Chapter, Upsilon Chapter, Phi Chapter, Alpha Beta Chapter, Alpha Epsilon Chapter, Alpha Eta Chapter, Xi Delta Chapter, Xi Iota Chapter, and Xi Nu Chapter
West Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming Epsilon Chapter, Iota Chapter, Mu Chapter, Tau Chapter, Psi Chapter, Alpha Zeta Chapter, Xi Eta Chapter, Xi Kappa Chapter, and Pacific Coast GAP Colony

Undergraduate Chapters

  • Alpha Chapter - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...

     http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/onetnx/index.html - Apr 11, 1997
  • Beta Chapter - North Carolina State University
    North Carolina State University
    North Carolina State University at Raleigh is a public, coeducational, extensive research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Commonly known as NC State, the university is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, and space grant institution...

     http://clubs.ncsu.edu/frat_sor/theta_nu_xi/index.htm - Mar 31, 1999
  • Gamma Chapter - University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    The University of North Carolina at Greensboro , also known as UNC Greensboro, is a public university in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States and is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system. The university offers more than 100 undergraduate, 61 master's and 26...

     http://www.uncg.edu/student.groups/tnx/ - Apr 21, 1999
  • Delta Chapter - Duke University
    Duke University
    Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

     http://www.duke.edu/web/thetanuxi/ - Apr 14, 2000
  • Epsilon Chapter - Utah State University
    Utah State University
    Utah State University is a public university located in Logan, Utah. It is a land-grant and space-grant institution and is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities....

     http://multiculture.usu.edu/organizations/sorority/webpage/index.htm - Apr 22, 2000
  • Zeta Chapter - Georgia State University
    Georgia State University
    Georgia State University is a research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves about 30,000 students and is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities...

     http://www.tnxzeta.com/ - Dec 10, 2000
  • Eta Chapter - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech , is a public land-grant university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia with other research and educational centers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and internationally.Founded in...

     http://www.thetanuxi.org.vt.edu/index.html - Feb 25, 2001
  • Iota Chapter - University of Utah
    University of Utah
    The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...

     http://www.nicoleteresa.com/iota/ - Feb 24, 2001
  • Kappa Chapter - Texas A&M University
    Texas A&M University
    Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...

     http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/ThetaNuXi/ - Commerce - Apr 1, 2001
  • Lambda Chapter - Florida State University
    Florida State University
    The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...

     http://fsuthetawomen.com - July 28, 2001
  • Mu Chapter - University of Arizona
    University of Arizona
    The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...

     http://clubs.asua.arizona.edu/~tnuxi/ - Dec 2, 2001
  • Nu Chapter - University of Pittsburgh
    University of Pittsburgh
    The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...

     http://www.pitt.edu/~tnxnu - Apr 14, 2002
  • Omicron Chapter - University of Houston
    University of Houston
    The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...

     http://tnxomicron.org/ - Dec 4, 2002
  • Pi Chapter - University of Virginia
    University of Virginia
    The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

     http://www.student.virginia.edu/tnxlove/ - Dec 7, 2002
  • Rho Chapter - Muhlenberg College
    Muhlenberg College
    Muhlenberg College is a private liberal arts college located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is named for Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America.- History...

     http://tnx-rho.tripod.com//index.html - Apr 27, 2003
  • Sigma Chapter - Syracuse University
    Syracuse University
    Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...

     http://students.syr.edu/tnx_sigma/ - Nov 1, 2003
  • Tau Chapter - Arizona State University
    Arizona State University
    Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

     http://www.asu.edu/clubs/thetanuxi/ - Nov 8, 2003
  • Upsilon Chapter - Indiana University, Bloomington http://www.iub.edu/~tnx/ - May 2, 2004
  • Phi Chapter - University of Texas at Austin
    University of Texas at Austin
    The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

     http://www.ut-thetanuxi.com/ - Austin - Oct 17, 2004
  • Chi Chapter - Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

     http://www.columbia.edu/cu/tnx/ - Nov 20, 2004
  • Psi Chapter - University of New Mexico
    University of New Mexico
    The University of New Mexico at Albuquerque is a public research university located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. It is the state's flagship research institution...

     http://tnxpsi.tripod.com/ - May 2, 2005
  • Alpha Alpha Chapter - University of Florida
    University of Florida
    The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

     http://www.1225media.com/uftnx/ - June 4, 2005
  • Alpha Beta Chapter- Wayne State University
    Wayne State University
    Wayne State University is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 400 major subject areas to over 32,000 graduate and...

     http://www.thetanuxi-alphabeta.com/ - July 8, 2005
  • Alpha Gamma Chapter - The College of New Jersey
    The College of New Jersey
    The College of New Jersey, abbreviated TCNJ, is a public, coeducational university located in Ewing Township, New Jersey, a suburb of Trenton....

     - Dec 3, 2005
  • Alpha Delta Chapter - East Carolina University
    East Carolina University
    East Carolina University is a public, coeducational, engaged doctoral/research university located in Greenville, North Carolina, United States. Named East Carolina University by statute and commonly known as ECU or East Carolina, the university is the largest institution of higher learning in...

     http://www.thetanualphadelta.org/ - April 14, 2006
  • Alpha Epsilon Chapter - University of Michigan
    University of Michigan
    The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

     http://umich.edu/~tnx/ - December 9, 2006
  • Alpha Zeta Chapter - University of Colorado at Boulder
    University of Colorado at Boulder
    The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...

     http://azthetanuxi.synthasite.com/ - November 8, 2008
  • Alpha Eta Chapter - University of Texas at El Paso
    University of Texas at El Paso
    The University of Texas at El Paso is a four-year state university, and is a component institution of the University of Texas System. Its campus is located on the bank of the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas. The school was founded in 1914 as The Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy,...

     http://www.wix.com/alphaeta/tnx - March 21, 2009
  • Alpha Theta Chapter - Ramapo College
    Ramapo College
    Ramapo College of New Jersey is a public liberal arts and professional studies institution of the New Jersey system of higher education.- Location :...

     http://tnxramapo.com/index2.php1 - April 3, 2009
  • Alpha Iota Chapter - SUNY College at Plattsburgh http://www.wix.com/tnxplattsburgh/alphaiota - April 10, 2010
  • Alpha Kappa Chapter - Virginia Commonwealth University
    Virginia Commonwealth University
    Virginia Commonwealth University is a public university located in Richmond, Virginia. It comprises two campuses in the Downtown Richmond area, the product of a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968...

     http://www.wix.com/ONELoveVCU/AK - May 2, 2010
  • Alpha Lambda Chapter - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a private university located in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States.Founded in 1865 in Worcester, WPI was one of the United States' first engineering and technology universities...

    - December 2, 2010

Graduate, Alumnae, and Professional (GAP) Chapters


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