Professional Fraternity Association
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The Professional Fraternity Association (or PFA), is an association of collegiate professional fraternities that was formed 1978. Membership requirements of the PFA are broad enough to include groups that are not strictly professional fraternities. At least one social sorority is included in membership because of its specific focus: Sigma Alpha Iota. At least one honor society is also a member: Delta Epsilon Iota.
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[edit] History
The Professional Pan Hellenic Association, for women's groups, was founded in 1925, and the Professional Interfraternity Conference (PIC), for men's groups, was founded in 1928. These groups came about due to rapid growth among all types of fraternities during the late 1920s. On March 2-3, 1928, delegates from 27 professional fraternities came together in Washington, DC to organize the PIC. Jarvis Butler of Sigma Nu Phi was elected as the first president, and Stroud Jordan of Alpha Chi Sigma was elected as the first Secretary-treasurer.
The PFA resulted from the merger of the Professional Interfraternity Conference and the Professional Panhellenic Association in 1978. The merger itself was the result of the effects of Title IX on most fraternity groups with professional affiliations. Professional fraternities and sororities, like service fraternities and sororities and honor societies, must be open to members of both genders since they do not have an exemption from Title IX similar to the one given in section (A)(6)(a) for Social Fraternities and Sororities[1].
[edit] Current Members
| Fraternity | Founded | Focus | Active Collegiate Groups |
Collegiate Charters Granted |
Initiates | Membership |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Gamma Kappa | 1939 | Podiatry | 4 | 4 | 5,200 | Co-ed |
| Alpha Zeta | 1897 | Agriculture | 116,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Alpha Rho Chi | 1914 | Architecture | 21 | 27 | 5,500 | Co-ed |
| Alpha Tau Delta | 1921 | Nursing | 10,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Alpha Phi Omega | 1925 | Service | 361 | 733 | 350,000 | Co-ed |
| Alpha Chi Sigma | 1902 | Chemistry | 50 | 92 | 59,300 | Co-ed |
| Alpha Omega | 1907 | Dentistry | 15,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Alpha Omega Epsilon | 1983 | Engineering | 1,000 | Women (See above for Issues with Title IX) | ||
| Gamma Iota Sigma | 1965 | Insurance | 13,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Delta Epsilon Iota | 1994 | Career Development | Co-ed | |||
| Delta Theta Phi | 1900 | Law | 125,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Delta Omicron | 1909 | Music | 27,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Delta Sigma Pi | 1907 | Business | 230 | 299 | 215,000 | Co-ed |
| Zeta Phi Eta | 1893 | Communication Arts | 20,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Theta Tau | 1904 | Engineering | 50 | 58 | 30,000 | Co-ed |
| Kappa Delta Epsilon | 1933 | Education | 44,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Kappa Epsilon | 1921 | Pharmaceutical | 24,400 | Co-ed (Primarily Women) | ||
| Kappa Kappa Psi | 1919 | Band | 27,000 | Co-ed (Primarily Men) | ||
| Kappa Psi | 1879 | Pharmaceutical | 70 | 125 | 60,000 | Co-ed |
| Lambda Kappa Sigma | 1913 | Pharmacy | 19,000 | Co-ed (Primarily Women) | ||
| Mu Phi Epsilon | 1903 | Music | 75,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Pi Sigma Epsilon | 1952 | Marketing | 60,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Rho Pi Phi | 1919 | Pharmaceutical | 10,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Sigma Alpha | 1978 | Agriculture | 4,000 | Co-ed (Primarily Women) | ||
| Sigma Alpha Iota | 1903 | Music | 105,376 | Women (Social Sorority) | ||
| Sigma Phi Delta | 1924 | Engineering | 8,000 | Men (See above for Issues with Title IX) | ||
| Tau Beta Sigma | 1946 | Band | 21,000 | Co-ed (Primarily Women) | ||
| Phi Alpha Delta | 1902 | Law | 260,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Phi Beta | 1912 | Performing Arts | 30,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Phi Delta Epsilon | 1904 | Medicine | 33,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Phi Delta Phi | 1869 | Law | 200,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Phi Delta Chi | 1883 | Pharmacy | 43,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Phi Rho Sigma | 1890 | Medicine | 33,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Phi Sigma Pi | 1916 | Honors | 31,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Phi Chi Theta | 1924 | Business | 47,000 | Co-ed | ||
| Omega Tau Sigma | 1906 | Veterinary | 8,000 | Co-ed |
[edit] Former Members
This includes the member organizations of the two former groups that merged to form the PFA.
| Fraternity | Founded | Focus | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Kappa Psi | 1904 | Business | |
| Beta Alpha Psi | 1919 | Accounting | now an honorary organization |
| Omicron Delta Kappa | 1914 | Leadership | originally a men's leadership fraternity; now a co-ed honorary organization |
| Phi Mu Alpha | 1898 | Music | left the PFA in 2007 because of it's official status as a "Social" Fraternity |
| Sigma Nu Phi | 1903 | Law | merged with Delta Theta Phi in 1989 |
| Scabbard and Blade | 1904 | Military | |
| Scarab | 1909 | Architecture |
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